Tag: singaporean
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School of love
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! And now, when you find it difficult to get hitched, they won’t say you’ve been “left on the shelf”, they’ll say, it’s time you got “institutionalised“.
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My forefathers ate bowls of chicken droppings
Photo by Lee Xian Jie “My family is descended from Confucius”, said the chubby Year 12 Boy to me when I didn’t ask about his pedigree. I must have doubted him or given him some dismissive look prior to that statement that prompted him to reveal that fact. This was some years ago in Sydney,…
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LTA reveals Christmas decorations for 2008
Five more ERP gantries go up this morning on Upper Bukit Timah Road, Upper Boon Keng Road, Geylang Bahru, Toa Payoh and Kallang Bahru, and motorists will be cheerfully counting how much money they spend as they commute to work. Buoyed by the success of it’s ERP gantry planting scheme, the LTA has teamed up…
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Rednano’s shepherd’s pie vs Google’s shepherd’s pie
Free photo of Shepherd’s Pie, courtesy of Creative Commons search on Flickr – photo by Andy Ciordia I thought I might join the fray, notwithstanding that rednano is this week an advertiser right on top of this webpage. So SPH launches rednano with the intention of localising search results when I would have thought the…
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Prosperity first, life second
We saw this sign at a construction site. I think it was an MRT excavation site. It all makes sense now – “Safety first for our prosperity”. Safety’s good for business. Doesn’t slow things down. Like when the highway caves in, or when cranes collapse. Nothing to do with the lives of the workers, who…