Quick someone give them a bone

On February 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Media

Because lately the Min­istry of For­eign Affairs has been sound­ing a like it needs a pat on the head and assur­ance that all is well:

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Min­istry of For­eign Affairs (MFA) has said it is puz­zled by com­ments made to the media by the for­mer Roman­ian Chargé d’Affaires linked to a […]

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Huat your head ah!

On February 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Places

That’s the name of the Face­book group ded­i­cated to doc­u­ment­ing all the ugly things hap­pen­ing at RWS.

It’s kinda new, so maybe you might want to join and con­tribute.

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Win a pair of tickets to Kumar: Stripped Bare & Standing Up (Re-run)

On February 23, 2010 · 49 Comments · In People

Update: The con­test is now closed

It was some time in the 90s, when I came back to Sin­ga­pore for uni hol­i­days and my friends told me there was an act I had to catch at this place in Bugis.

It was rude, raunchy and it was like noth­ing I’d ever seen before. I […]

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Overheard at SMU

On February 19, 2010 · 8 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Some­one alerted me to a Face­book page called “Over­heard at SMU”, and appar­ently, there are sim­i­lar pages for NUS and NTU. Among the entries posted on that page are gems such as this:

If this is true, Stu­dent 1 should be tried for sedi­tion.

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Singapore’s last resort island

On February 16, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Places

So Resorts World Sen­tosa opened its many doors to 75,000 peo­ple over the CNY hol­i­days, and judg­ing from the things I’ve heard, it hasn’t been pretty.

They’ve been charg­ing Sin­ga­pore­ans and PRs $100 a day to get in, so that they’ll only get the […]

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Singapore’s more like China than China

On February 15, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Living

It’s been as busy as we’ve expected this Chi­nese New Year, and with Kai nurs­ing a new cold (how many do babies get in their first year?), we were expect­ing even less sleep than usual, and we were right.

That’s not to say […]

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The other WTO

On February 14, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Living

I imag­ined a joke about some­one telling another per­son that he works at the WTO, and the other per­son asks, “Wow, how long have you been in Geneva?”, and the first per­son asks back, “What do you mean, Geneva? I work in

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Our Ang Pow Collector is ready. Is yours?

On February 13, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Living

Kai, Naomi and me wish every­one a New Year of peace, joy and hap­pi­ness. To help your­self along the way, don’t drink and drive, don’t overeat, and don’t gam­ble away your Ang Pows at the 500 tables open tomor­row at the […]

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There’s that R-word again

On February 11, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Laws of our land

No, the other R-word. I don’t really care about Pas­tor Rony Tan and his idiocy — he’s of the same cloth, as far as I’m con­cerned, as the evan­gel­i­cal pas­tor in the U.S. who once made his point against migrants from non-English speak­ing back­grounds by famously declar­ing that “if Eng­lish was good enough for Jesus, […]

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Singapore’s Oskar Schindler

On February 8, 2010 · 11 Comments · In People

They either never taught us this in his­tory lessons, or I just wasn’t pay­ing attention.

Thanks to a con­trib­u­tor on sammyboy.com, I found out that one of the heroes of the Japan­ese Occu­pa­tion in Sin­ga­pore was Japan­ese. Shi­nozaki Mamoru was a press attache with the Impe­r­ial For­eign Ser­vice and was […]

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