Month: January 2005

I’ve always told my non-NS or foreign friends that the Singapore Armed Forces are good at organising stuff, and they’re doing a sterling job at the moment at tsunami disaster sites in Thailand and Indonesia. Of course, if you’ve watched the news, so are the armed forces of the US and Australia. The Bronco ATTC…

This is an excellent mantra: “I didn’t come here to think. I came here for you to think, then tell me what to think.” Oh, but there are people who think. Or rather, people who have been taught to think, and think that a blog is all about balanced viewpoints and if it isn’t, it…

This is one proposed regional hub I support, when previously I would’ve backed a push to cap the number of hubs (hubcap, geddit, geddit?): Singapore offers to be UN regional disaster coordination hub SINGAPORE : Singapore has offered to be the United Nations’ regional tsunami disaster coordination centre, extending its offer of not just military…

I tried telling Steve that the New Year isn’t going to be as bleak as he thought it would be, and he went, ‘Oh yeah? That’s what you said last year (2003), and look what happened?’. Then he tells me how miserably stupid he thinks he’s been, because he waited till past midnight to send…

iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: Love Comes Tumbling – U2 – B-Sides 1980-1990, of which I have the original CD and therefore didn’t steal music. My all-time favourite sports journalist has a round-up of the best sporting moments of 2004 in his column ‘The Fitz Files’, in the Sydney Morning Herald, and…