Month: September 2006

  • I should hope so

    Interpreters help bridge language barrier at IMF/WB meetings, among other revelations heard first, and only, on Channelnewsasia.com! Dang! I thought interpreters were people who built houses! Whaddya know?!

  • 9/11

    It’s been five years since I watched in astonishment on my mother’s television set the destruction of the twin towers. That night, on the 11th of September 2001, I had just come home from I can’t remember what (this blog didn’t exist yet), and my mum’s study door was ajar, and she was sitting and…

  • Keretapi

    Once, when I was about four, I arrived back in Singapore from Seremban on the KTM Ekspres Rakyat to be greeted by members of my family at Tanjung Pagar Railway Station. Only thing was, I didn’t recognise the people who were talking to me. Only when I heard, in English, “Oi, come back already don’t…

  • iShop good

    Very few other tech problems – only one in front of me in the queue The friendly folk at iShop told me that I could keep my battery while waiting ‘4-6 weeks’ for my replacement battery so I am quite pleased. They told me that I am using the current faulty battery at my own…

  • I understand any language, as long as it’s been translated

    Untranslated Italian is what language ah? What about German? Hang on, that ain’t Italian. Thems are Cyrillic letters. No, wait, hang on, maybe they’ve been translated. No wait, hang on, that means they’re on the wrong shelf! I give up! Let’s dump them all here. No, wait, those ain’t literature. Let’s put them here. Then…