In perspective

On January 18, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Places

“Span­ish mobs fire­bomb National Sta­dium in protest against ICJ rul­ing allow­ing the use of the word “Ole” in Sin­ga­porean foot­ball sup­port­ers’ chants.“

Actu­ally, it’d be a good way to get rid of the National Sta­dium. And one other thing […]

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Sunday raclette

On January 18, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Eating, Parenting

Thanks to our Double-Barrelled-Race Swiss-Vietnamese friend, we had raclette last night and stank up the house full of grilled bacon ham and cheese. Mac the Dog went berserk as well.

It is all the more amaz­ing we had friends over for din­ner because the inevitable has finally hap­pened — we took deliv­ery of Kai’s plas­tic playpen […]

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The shopping’s virtual but the money’s real

On January 17, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Advertorial

Many young par­ents would agree with us that the prices of baby prod­ucts in Sin­ga­pore are sim­ply ridicu­lous. We’re pay­ing through our noses for things like swad­dling blan­kets — my mom vis­ited my sister’s fam­ily in Toronto and came back with a whole stack, at C$2 per blan­ket. Guess how much they were sell­ing the […]

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Brad and Angelina donate $950,000 more than our Government

On January 16, 2010 · 12 Comments · In People, Places

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are donat­ing $1 mil­lion to help the res­cue and recov­ery efforts in Haiti, while our gov­ern­ment is pledg­ing $50,000.

Our NGOs aren’t doing that much bet­ter either. The Sin­ga­pore Red Cross is not launch­ing any pub­lic appeals because of “donor fatigue”, which is a […]

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Mosquito Raiders

On January 16, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Laws of our land

For all the bad press the NEA has been receiv­ing, they’ve been pretty prompt about address­ing my con­cerns about mosquito-breeding in my neighbourhood.

I emailed them recently about the increase in mozzies due to the many condo con­struc­tion sites that’ve sud­denly appeared, and also about […]

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Now we’re really left behind

On January 15, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Laws of our land

There will be mur­murs about how Sin­ga­pore should repeal S377A of the Penal Code now that China has appar­ently ‘show­cased’ a gay mar­riage in one of their offi­cial news outlets.

But they’ll just be mur­murs, cos you know how things are.

Doesn’t mat­ter if India […]

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Malaysia, truly crazier

On January 14, 2010 · 15 Comments · In Places

I’ve always said that no mat­ter how bad one thinks Sin­ga­pore is, there’s always Malaysia to make us thank­ful we don’t live there.

I also think that the whole vio­lence and burn­ing of churches and tem­ples could’ve been avoided if Malaysia had faster broad­band con­nec­tions. The […]

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Happy hour

On January 9, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Living

After my hair­cut, I bumped into a Sec­ondary Four class­mate at Hol­land Vil­lage. It’s amaz­ing how we still rec­og­nized each other instantly (maybe it’s the hair­cut) after more than 20 years.

So he asks me, “Where you heading, man?”

“To buy some bread and then go home”.

He laughs and says, “Aiyah, I thought you were going […]

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The fight to finish holiday leftovers

On January 8, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Eating

We’ve had all man­ner of turkey and ham sand­wiches in the last cou­ple of weeks, and I’m proud to announce that we’ve fin­ished the tasty stock we made from the huge turkey carcass.

Try­ing to clear our fridge by eat­ing the stuff that’s in […]

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Extending race

On January 7, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Laws of our land

More on the country’s obses­sion with “race”, Yu-Mei Bal­asingam­chow writes:

as far as this racial labelling in Sin­ga­pore offi­cial­dom is con­cerned, we should all just tick the ‘Oth­ers’ box — and carry on

From her post, I went on to read Alex Au’s (Yawn­ing Bread) study on the mat­ter, and as […]

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