Month: April 2004

  • Getting my ears lowered

    I went to the barber’s at Holland Village last night and paid $12 for a haircut that has taken a substantial weight off my head. The barber seemed to enjoy the experience more than I did as he took to the electric clippers and sculpted my hair with it. And gave me a G.I. George…

  • A most familiar meeting

    There must be a blog-writers’ manual that says, “Never say ‘Just when you think…’ and fill in the rest with some tired cliche/coincidence/cliched coincidence (July 14th)“…. But it’s time to buck anti-convention convention. Another woman in my life has a(nother) doppelganger. I did not get her name, as I was pretty much content with having…

  • You’d be mad to test the Singapore fortress

    You’d be mad to test the Singapore fortress, so says this columnist. I also say. 700 soldiers to your 3 bandits. You send one thousand soldiers, we send 233,333. You mad, we madder. Your crack troops may survive on coconut water and little jungle critters, our soldiers have mastered the art and science of the…

  • The beer and chicken wings have got to stop

    It’s not often a long day is also a good day. But today is one of the rare ones. We put in a good 9 hours at work, and rewarded ourselves with beer and junk food for the next 5 hours. We also got invited to my ex-colleague’s ‘event’, as they like to call these…

  • Japlish

    This TVC is stuck good and fast in my head, thanks to its being given ample air time on a lot of channels. It’s one of those things I hate liking. And I like. Maybe it’s the cute Jap thing – I have no fucking idea what the cute girly voice is singing, but it’s…