Monthly Archives: September 2008

Vale, Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam

1926 — 2008. Thank you. You shall be missed.

haato ice creams are safe

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! We have it on good author­ity that haato ice-creams are safe from tainted milk. The AVA went and did a check on them and found that their ice creams are com­pletely free of melamine, because their milk comes from Aus­tralia, where they are quite strin­gent about peo­ple putting things used in

The Singapore formula for ethnic harmony

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! It is dia­bol­i­cally sim­ple — just don’t talk about it. When you don’t raise race issues, they won’t sur­face, and every­one is none the wiser, and Con­fu­cius did say some­thing to the effect of doing away with knowl­edge and grief con­se­quen­tially not being known. It makes me really upset to hear about

Got hope lah

If just some of the ill-mannered kids grow up to become self­less heroes, like 2LT Kok Khew Fai, who is just 20, and has done some­thing you think you only read about in books or see it in the movies. If you haven’t already heard, the instructor-officer was accom­pa­ny­ing his recruits at a live grenade

Got milk?

These are things you shouldn’t even have to think about, but now, you have to, because some idiot put melamine in milk. Before you go away think­ing it’s okay because you’re a snob and you don’t drink milk prod­ucts from China and Dutch Lady is not really your kinda brand of straw­berry milk, here’s some dairy

Fair and petite maid allowed bail

That’s what I’d read into it: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

Astonishing

It could be sim­ply a case of Per­anakan hyper­bole. Then again, there are other aston­ish­ing claims these days: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

There is no hope

I was sit­ting down at Wham­poa mar­ket wait­ing for my chye tow kuay to be ready, and next to me was this gan­gly, pim­ply teenage fella sit­ting across from who I assume to be his mother, who was stack­ing up hers and her son’s empty bowls and chop­sticks because they’d just fin­ished her lunch and

I will not stand for my food being censored!

I was at the neigh­bour­hood Cheers con­ve­nience store look­ing to get tempted to buy snack­ies when I picked up a packet of Seneca Apple Chips, turned to see the ingre­di­ents listed, in case they were made with harm­ful stuff like trans fat and fake apples, and saw the blurb describ­ing the prod­uct which was marked

Inflation goes crazy

It’s get­ting worse, this infla­tion — I don’t know how they mea­sure the CPI, but I’m sure it doesn’t take into con­sid­er­a­tion how small your dim sum has been get­ting lately. Check out the radish pas­try from Crys­tal Jade Shang­hai La Mian Xiao Long Bao Which Is In Need Of A Re-Branding Because Name Is