Monthly Archives: June 2010

Channel Newsasia makes a meal of a vulnerable species of fish

First pub­lished on greenkampong.com Our very own Chan­nel Newsa­sia ignores the fact that the Giant Garoupa or Queens­land Grouper was put on the IUCN Red List of Threat­ened Species in 2006, and instead cel­e­brates the story of a restau­ra­teur who bought one this week and is sell­ing it to cus­tomers at $20 per 200g. via Chan­nel NewsA­sia: …

June 29, 2010 – 2:03 am | By | Posted in Eating, Media | Tagged , | View Comments

Not good to be in the news the same day as Sumiko Tan’s Hurricane

Oh well. Not that it’s that big a deal being com­pletely over­shad­owed by “Singapore’s Car­rie Brad­shaw”, and the floods.

June 25, 2010 – 3:45 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , | View Comments

MRT train slower than football fan

If an artist can get away with tag­ging an MRT car­riage for two days with­out staff notic­ing any­thing amiss, it shouldn’t be that far fetched that some foot­ball nut can some­how out­run the train and make it to the next sta­tion before it does.

June 25, 2010 – 10:58 am | By | Posted in The Ingterneck | View Comments

For the newcomers to this country

“I hope that all of us are con­vinced that this coun­try is for all races, and will have four offi­cial lan­guages. But Malay will be the National and the com­mon lan­guage. If you don’t learn the National Lan­guage, you will have your­self to blame. With­out knowl­edge of it, it will be dif­fi­cult for you to …

June 18, 2010 – 8:05 am | By | Posted in Laws of our land | View Comments

Our son is iPhone native

I’ve always been led to think that babies start say­ing their first word out of the blue, and start walk­ing unaided all of a sud­den. Kai can walk now, albeit with his arms in the air hold­ing on to invis­i­ble para­chute straps. But that has taken about a fort­night of tak­ing one, then two unaided …

June 8, 2010 – 10:38 am | By | Posted in Parenting | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Who will win the World Cup?

I’m not a soc­cer fan, but I know I’ll get sucked into watch­ing at least a few key matches. Such is the game the whole world plays. So I thought it’d be inter­est­ing, at least for me, to see who peo­ple think will win the Cup.

June 2, 2010 – 1:12 am | By | Posted in Media | View Comments