Monthly Archives: November 2008

Look at that muckefucking van!

Accord­ing to Jad­ed­Ju­lia, it’s a brand of cof­fee in Germany.

Breakfast served with the news

We get up in the morn­ings and make break­fast of yogurt and honey, kiwifruit and plum, straw­berry and rasp­berry, a glass of milk and a banana, and then eat while watch­ing the hor­ri­ble, hor­ri­ble things on the news channels.

Advertorial: Unwrapping soon

Reces­sion or not, it is time we made lists for Christ­mas giv­ing. Shop­ping moves the econ­omy, like it or not, so we’ll be doing our bit if we bought some things for friends and loved ones. Plus, it’s always nice to be sur­prised when you unwrap your prezzies on Christ­mas morn­ing — which is prob­a­bly why

Halfway there

One of the fun­nier moments in the last 20 weeks was com­prised of me, sit­ting in the ob-gyn’s office, react­ing to the ob-gyn’s indi­cat­ing on the ultra­sound that Naomi and I would very likely be hav­ing a baby boy instead of a girl which I had so con­fi­dently pre­dicted pre­vi­ously “because I can just feel it”.

We are sorry we lost your money

That’s the sen­tence that is mys­te­ri­ously miss­ing from reports and state­ments from Pasir Ris — Pung­gol Town Coun­cil and its MPs. Instead, we read that “half of S$4m invest­ment not writ­ten off”, and that fixed deposits “will only give you min­i­mal returns. At times, it doesn’t even cover infla­tion”. So los­ing $2m of res­i­dents’ money is

There may be smelly, don’t worry, it’s ok

We’ve been eat­ing at home a lot lately, and when I say I cook up a storm, I’m mostly refer­ring to the debris that has to be cleaned up in the kitchen after­ward. Naomi and I have inher­ited quite a few appli­ances from our par­ents’ kitchens — toast­ers, juicers, steam­ers — some of which have

Keep away

You do not want to be stand­ing close to the cus­tomer at the book­shop thumb­ing through the pages of this book. Or more accu­rately, in the case of our city’s fine book­shops, the cus­tomer ask­ing the cashier to kindly unwrap the shrinkwrap so that he/she can thumb through the pages of this book:

National Petition for Fairer Transportation Fares For Polytechnic / Tertiary Students

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Dear Bernard, My name is Ben­jamin Lee, and I am also known as Mr Miyagi. I must be get­ting old, because I felt a lit­tle peeved that you were so pre­sump­tu­ous, address­ing me as “Friend” when I hardly know you. I have re-read your email sev­eral times and, as I was

Advertorial: SSC POSB Everyday Champions

I’ve been asked to write about either a per­son or an orga­ni­za­tion that inspires or sup­ports or encour­ages par­tic­i­pa­tion in sports. I can think of a hand­ful of peo­ple I know who have been influ­en­tial, although not in the way we’re accus­tomed to see­ing, in pro­mot­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion, and to a cer­tain extent, excel­lence in their

Cross dressing bank robber thwarted

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! It’s a crime wave! I mean, when was the last time we heard about an attempted bank rob­bery? I don’t know why, but this para­graph was espe­cially funny to me: Accord­ing to a CISCO guard who pinned down the sus­pect, he already knew that some­thing was wrong when the sus­pect entered the