Month: August 2005
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When salespeople take the window out of window shopping
Bad day, bad coffee, bad mood When you don’t have much money, like me, you’d sometimes like to do a spot of window shopping, which I tried to do today. It wasn’t a very good spot of window shopping, given the Sunday crowds and the rain which forced the Sunday crowds into the malls. Still,…
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Hallo, macam moving new house
Not bad ah, this new address for my very own glob. We’ll be migrating everything here soon.
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Please don’t flambée my backside, the food’s quite good
I am thankful for a lot of things, really. Like having enough money to give myself a treat after a reasonably crappy day at work. And what treat did I have enough money to give myself, you may well ask? Well, I went and had dinner at that venerable Russo-Hainanese institution that serves the best…
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It is Wednesday and the weather is gana sai
So my blains been boiling the past two days on account of the weather. It was also good to know I wasn’t the only one. Overheard in the lift of my office building was this exchange: “Gana sai” “Simi gana sai?” “Wedder lah” “Orh. The heat” “The heat is sibeh hot” “This morning got haze…
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TODAY: All abuzz over no poll or no holiday?
Excerpt: This week opinions and impressions of the Singapore Presidential candidates made up quite a few blog posts, with sites such as Newsintercom (www.newsin tercom.org) even creating a mock-up online polling system, complete with buttons and live results — albeit with only one candidate for readers to “vote” for. Read more here. Technorati Tags: TODAY,…