Monthly Archives: October 2008

Inappropriate place for a nap

When your kids sur­vive school buses with­out seat belts, they can then grow up to sit at the back of trucks, unse­cured, and be lulled by the sounds of ERP reg­u­lated traf­fic into a nice nap: @ Jcn of Bukit Timah & Cavanagh Roads.

October 31, 2008 – 11:51 am | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged , , | View Comments

Images of technical recession: “Thank God we sold before recession hit”

October 31, 2008 – 12:01 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , , | View Comments

Images of technical recession: Uncertain Times

October 30, 2008 – 1:29 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Shrinking Singapore

The econ­omy is shrink­ing, so what bet­ter time than now to muck around and shrink every­thing else with some spe­cial photo effects. I recently learned about some­thing called ’tilt-shifting’, which is a pho­to­graphic tech­nique I haven’t been able to wrap my brain around, but which allows you to ‘fake’ mini­tur­iza­tions. Pho­tog­ra­pher Keith Loutit man­ages to …

October 29, 2008 – 12:22 pm | By | Posted in Toys | Tagged , | View Comments

Who is keeping us safe

Our secu­rity guard comes to work at around 7am and knocks off at 6pm, and one of his respon­si­bil­i­ties is to wave — to me / at me / vaguely in my direc­tion, when I’m dri­ving out or dri­ving home. When I’m walk­ing the dog out of the condo com­pound, his waves linger just a lit­tle …

October 22, 2008 – 1:16 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Young people nowadays

I love it — the phrase “young peo­ple nowa­days”. And although I’m sure I’d have been able to find it in a few news arti­cles, it still made me chuckle when I did in one today. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

October 17, 2008 – 5:08 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , , | View Comments

Tru Loved

Just won­der­ing if this film will be released here.

October 12, 2008 – 3:08 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , , | View Comments

An early Christmas wish

Please Santa, if you will come by this Christ­mas, bring for our neigh­bour down­stairs of us: A cooker hood extrac­tor fan that is really pow­er­ful and that is ducted to dis­charge the smell from their kitchen out through the other side of the build­ing instead of the stair­well because they always leave their front door open …

October 12, 2008 – 12:10 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

It’s not so bad if it’s between quotation marks

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Don’t worry, it’s not really a reces­sion. It’s just a “reces­sion”. Tech­ni­cal reces­sion. Not a full-blown one, which will come next year. When you put things between quo­ta­tion marks, it means it’s not real. Which is prob­a­bly why it’s ok to raise elec­tric­ity tar­iffs by 22%. It’s actu­ally quite fun putting quo­ta­tion …

October 11, 2008 – 10:00 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged | View Comments

Bloody Miyagi

Hos­san, hav­ing drinks at the St Regis, called to chuckle about a drink called a Miyagi Mary, con­cocted at the San Fran­cisco St Regis, com­pris­ing a Bloody Mary accom­pa­nied by three oys­ter shoot­ers. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

October 10, 2008 – 6:30 pm | By | Posted in Eating | Tagged , , | View Comments