Two kinds of horror

On January 31, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Parenting

I got dia­per duty Sun­day after­noon when we were at Paragon because Naomi was busy at some shop — so Kai and I made our way to the dia­per change room at level 5 to get him cleaned up.

He knows the drill, and he’s famil­iar with the change room, which is small, […]

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A merlion in your room

On January 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Media, Places

They’re build­ing a kelong-like struc­ture around the Mer­lion and (wtf) turn­ing it into a hotel suite, and this is what it’s going to look like.

No word on whether they’ll keep the water run­ning, so it’s like a spa or some­thing. No, wait! A bidet! Japan­ese guests would like that! Just […]

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The day someone said Cheebye on radio

On January 28, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Media

I only ever lis­ten to the radio while dri­ving, or when one of our friends is host­ing a radio show. But this year, the sta­tions (except the lonely non-Mediacorp ones) have been con­stantly remind­ing lis­ten­ers that radio in Sin­ga­pore is 75 years old.

They’ve been air­ing radio DJs talk­ing about their favourite radio moments, and one […]

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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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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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A really bad restaurant

On December 11, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Eating

I sel­dom find a restau­rant or food ven­dor that riles me up so much that I want to blog and say bad things about them.

But it looks like we found one last night — it’s called ‘Grill-Out’, and it’s on the 7th floor of the con­fus­ingly laid-out Orchard Cen­tral. But before I […]

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Tyrepac — tyres delivered to your doorstep (and fixed on your car)

On October 22, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Advertorial

Dis­clo­sure:
Tyrepac spon­sored a set of tyres for the pur­poses of this blog post.


I love dri­ving, but car maintenance […]

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Water displacement formula, 40th attempt

On September 23, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Army / National Service

Back when I was in full time NS, the clean­ing of weapons was a mun­dane, time-consuming, daily chore. Between the 7 troop­ers in a com­bat sec­tion, we’d have around seven small arms (M16S1), cou­ple of grenade launch­ers (M203), cou­ple of light auto­mat­ics (Ultimax100), two GPMGs, and a heavy machine gun (Brown­ing .5 HMG).

Car­bon residue would […]

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When once the flag flew me

On August 9, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Army / National Service

Once, dur­ing NS, me and two other guys were made the battalion’s flag rais­ing party for one of many early morn­ing parades.

This task entailed pick­ing up the flags from the Reg­i­men­tal Sergeant Major’s office, check­ing the cords to make sure noth­ing was frayed, […]

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Article: 44 things you may not know about Singapore

On August 7, 2009 · 18 Comments · In Places

The nation turns 44 this week. That’s an inaus­pi­cious num­ber to some, but there’s always a way to turn that around and make it a lit­tle more pos­i­tive. My mother-in-law tells me you could say it’s 4 + 4 = 8, and that, to the super­sti­tious opti­mist, says some­thing to the effect of “die die […]

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