Year: 2005

  • Sound of Thunder Tea Rice

    Lunch hours are a drag if you work in the CBD. You have a choice between having really expensive sandwiches in a quiet cafe or reasonably cheap rice and three questionable dishes with 27,542 other CBD workers. So you either spend $15 or $3, depending on whether you brought tissue paper to chope a seat…

  • Excellent choice

    Splashed on the front of the Straits Times, because it’s really important, was the news that MINDEF has agreed to purchase the Boeing F-15 Strike Eagle as their next fighter plane. ST describes the F-15 Strike Eagle: “…twin-engined fighter jet that carries two crew and is designed to knock enemy planes out of the sky…

  • SWF Videoblog Part V

    “Ants are the shapes of opinion” – Q&A session: Download here. (.mov file, story 588Kb, 46 sec). Technorati Tags: corydoctorow, mrbrown, singaporewritersfestival, videoblog

  • TODAY: Is this America or Somalia?

    Bloggers on the hellish scene in New Orleans and whether Singapore would have handled the crisis better than the US AS SINGAPOREANS — like the rest of the world — turned to the news media to know about the destruction wrought on the American city of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina last week, one Singaporean…

  • SWF Videoblog Part IV

    Mr Miyagi does a reading of an anonymous blog post: Download here. (.mov file, and store 3.6Mb, ampoule 5 min 3 sec). Technorati Tags: singaporewritersfestival, videoblog