Monthly Archives: August 2008

Elvis goes to IKEA

Qik is sim­ply awe­some. PM Lee used it, and so must I. Actu­ally, like mrbrown, I was alerted to Qik by an email from a Sin­ga­porean who works at Qik in Sil­i­con Val­ley. My chan­nel is http://qik.com/miyagi, and I’m think­ing of ways to use this damn thing. So fun. Elvis goes to IKEA My Live Channel

August 27, 2008 – 3:55 pm | By | Posted in Media, Podcast, The Ingterneck, Toys | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Be right back

Reg­u­lar pro­gram­ming will resume shortly. I’m busy with stuff. No I didn’t queue for the iPhone. Siao!

August 22, 2008 – 1:17 pm | By | Posted in At home | View Comments

In defence of Sim Lim Square

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Geek Cen­tral isn’t so bad, at least not when I was there last week to get some stuff for my brother in law in China (because it’s worse over there — you can hardly get any non-pirated stuff for a rea­son­able retail price, appar­ently). At sev­eral shops on the fourth and …

August 16, 2008 – 11:48 am | By | Posted in Living, Toys | Tagged , | View Comments

Advertorial: born again adidas

So, adi­das thought up this idea, called born again adi­das, of get­ting peo­ple to trade-in their old sports shoes for a pair of new ones, and I was told that they’d have col­lec­tion points at var­i­ous adi­das retail­ers across the island, and I was curi­ous enough to agree to bring in one of my old …

August 15, 2008 – 4:07 pm | By | Posted in Advertorial | Tagged , | View Comments

Tropic Thunder boot camp

Army of One More at rainofmadness.com

August 13, 2008 – 11:44 am | By | Posted in Media | Tagged | View Comments

For independent um… working individuals

Do away with your pimp. Clean your­self your own way.

August 11, 2008 – 5:42 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Congratulations, Tao Li

On being the first Sin­ga­porean ever to make an Olympic swim­ming final, and fin­ish­ing fifth. No medal, never mind.

August 11, 2008 – 4:22 pm | By | Posted in Tweets | Tagged , | View Comments

Damn, he’s got big hands

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Though not that many peo­ple know what a cool dude S.R. Nathan was back in the day, exchang­ing him­self with hostages while deal­ing with a bunch of ter­ror­ists. Happy National Day, Mr President.

August 10, 2008 – 2:45 pm | By | Posted in People | Tagged , , | View Comments

I’d be lost without the mobile ingterneck

When mem­bers of my fam­ily visit from far flung places, they under­stand­ably want to sam­ple foods from far flung places within Sin­ga­pore — like the best Hokkien Mee I know of. So I went and drove to Beach Road, to the last place I bought Hokkien Mee from, and to my shock and hor­ror after bat­tling …

August 7, 2008 – 11:41 am | By | Posted in Eating, People, Places, The Ingterneck, Toys | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

How many medals?

Our last medal haul looked like this, only silver

August 6, 2008 – 10:19 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , , , | View Comments