Monthly Archives: January 2009

So which is it?

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Wanted: For stupid pose

If you were an Interpol-wanted fugi­tive, you’d want to have a cooler mugshot. But then, you’re from Sin­ga­pore and you work for an employer who doesn’t have any other photo to give to the author­i­ties: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! … … … … … So, I give you, Singapore’s two most wanted men: Uploaded with

Sunday parker

Blogging-wise, the new year hasn’t got­ten off to a good start. But I’ve found a lit­tle bit of time to do the time-honoured thing of blog­ging about ass­holes. You know if you’ve ever dri­ven into the car park at Shaw Cen­tre, that the place was designed by archi­tects who either don’t drive, or when they

Day at the vet’s

I spent the morn­ing at the vet’s with Mac Our Dog, and it was a par­tic­u­larly busy morn­ing there, with the recep­tion­ist at sixes and sev­ens, and though she was try­ing her humanly (and doggedly and cat­tedly) best to cope, Mac and I had to wait about an hour before we saw the vet, and

Handling crime

We’ll han­dle it, no worries!

What Chinese herbs are you smoking today?

The story about a cig­a­rette butt being found in a packet of Eu Yan Sang herbs known as Xia Ku Cao is quite funny if not alarm­ing. Maybe there were sup­posed to be just plain tobacco in the prod­uct called “Sio Hoon Kee”.

The Little Drummer Boy goes Tong Tong Chiang

Chi­nese New Year songs played in the malls and super­mar­kets make you wish Christ­mas was still around. They’ve moved CNY stuff into the shops so quickly that some peo­ple are a bit con­fused. Mys­te­ri­ous boxes turn up and no one knows what they are: At Cold Stor­age Cluny Court

Ten ten ten ten ten ten…

While wait­ing at the Ob-Gyn’s office, I spied a head­line in our Straits Times — “Japan acts to raise flu­ency in Eng­lish” — and was reminded of a YouTube video we saw ages ago of a Japan­ese game show game where par­tic­i­pants were smacked (on their bot­toms, no less) when­ever they lost con­trol and laughed

A good start

For New Year’s this year we decided that it would be nice to observe a lit­tle fam­ily tra­di­tion. From Naomi’s side of the fam­ily, that is. From Naomi’s father’s side of the fam­ily, that is. Mixed mar­riages are so much fun. We decided to do this tra­di­tional New Year’s Eve and Day thing so that when