Year: 2004

  • Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: Don’t Cry For Me Argentina – Various Artists – Evita (Music From The Motion Picture) I’ve been doing too much reminiscing lately. But what the heck, this is a blog. And it is nice to think fondly of people and things and events which, at the time of occurrence, did…

  • Who is Big Bertha?

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: Nutbush City Limits – Ike & Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits Tay Ping Hui! It’s Mediacorp! It’s Singapore the meritocracy! Not Mediocrity! See lah! You go play golf with Tiger Woods then he become No. 2. How, like that? You suck! You are the regional hub for incompetence! It’s…

  • Mrs Malaprop says the green is grassier

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: Oh, Kay!, musical: Overture – George Gershwin – Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Me and my friends grew up mangling words and phrases and enjoyed it. It is as if we needed to so we’d own the language(s) we spoke and wrote. After all, English is a foreign language. As is…

  • I am reminded

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: Keep on Growing – Sheryl Crow – If It Makes You Happy (Single) Today a shiny black BMW pulled up alongside my car at a traffic junction. On the passenger’s window and door was a huge glob of birdshit. Shit-brown and so huge the bird must surely have had a…

  • All creatures great and small

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) – KD Lang/Tony Bennett – A Wonderful World I made it a point to spend Sunday out after doing some work at home during what was left of the morning (about 25 minutes). Otherwise, I might have had lunch, gone…