Walking and talking

On March 28, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Media

Apart from Jake the Cat and Mac the Dog, we have a pet peeve.

It’s when people-especially-Singaporeans say, “you can talk the talk, but can you walk the talk?”

Can some­one please tell peo­ple who say that that the correct/original/true say­ing is “you can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk”? WTF does […]

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Earth Hour 2010

On March 27, 2010 · 1 Comment · In The Ingterneck

Kai’s first Earth Hour was spent in his playpen, with a night light for him to play with while we bided the hour before Grandma arrived and asked why the hell we turned off everything. […]

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Water conservation FAIL

On March 26, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Laws of our land

It has come to someone’s notice that the recent dry spell must be over, because a grass­roots com­mu­nity group has organ­ised a ‘water-splashing’ fes­ti­val to make the for­eign­ers in their midst wel­come in their estate.

BTW, Earth Hour is tomor­row.

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Save the World FAIL

On March 24, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Living, Media

I received this book­let titled “The Sur­vival of the World is in Your Hands” in the mail today. Dammit. As if I didn’t have enough on my plate, now I have to save the world because the peo­ple who printed thou­sands of these book­lets and stuffed them in mail­boxes hop­ing peo­ple will […]

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Why we only have rude kids who know how to pass exams

On March 21, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Parenting

The things I remem­ber from kinder­garten (oh yes I do) are nap time and snack time, and the num­ber of other kids’ birth­days we used to cel­e­brate with songs and games and cake. There was very lit­tle math, spelling or read­ing, though there was also storytime.

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Construction mystery

On March 18, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Living

There is some­thing unusual about the con­struc­tion site next door, where they are prob­a­bly try­ing to squeeze ten houses into a plot that used to house one.

At about 8 in the morn­ing, when they are legally allowed to start bang­ing about, they start bang­ing about, ham­mer­ing things here and there, drop­ping some­thing that sounds like […]

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You see? You see Your Singapore?

On March 16, 2010 · 4 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Dri­ving down Orchard Road recently, I noticed ban­ners for “YourSingapore.Com”, and later found that it was the lat­est iter­a­tion of STB’s attempt to brand Singapore.

It looks as if STB took many dif­fer­ent ideas from dif­fer­ent PR and Ad agen­cies who pitched to them one form or other of theoretically […]

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Yesterday was National Good Service Day

On March 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Living

Well, it was for us. And well, not quite “national”, but Orchard and Scotts Road make up 90% of Sin­ga­pore, so can lah. And this is not just to “bal­ance out” the posts about the hor­ri­ble ser­vice we’ve been getting.

At Orchard Ion:

A secu­rity guard held the lift door for Naomi, myself […]

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Remove the “G” from Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus Steakhouse

On March 4, 2010 · 11 Comments · In Eating

I wasn’t going to blog about this, but I saw Tuesday’s ST head­line about bad ser­vice and realised that bad ser­vice was a national epi­demic, and there­fore had to be talked about, the same way we talked about SARS, and swine flu. Because talk­ing about it spreads aware­ness, and when […]

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