Month: October 2006
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Dawn of realisation
For more than four years, I’ve been buying my takeaway coffees from the Imperial Cafe & Pub on McCallum Street, and it’s only just now that I realised why the tables and chairs are placed so that patrons who dine in get to face McCallum Street and the silver-grey office block across it. When a…
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Lye, Jake Lye
Congratulations are in order to Diana “Get Real” Ser and James “Virtual Reality Man” Lye on the birth of their son, doctor Jake.
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Viva Vivo City
I have seen the future of retail in Singapore and it is big. And looks like any other mall in the U.S. or Australia. Or Malaysia. Or Taiwan. Or Thailand. Or every other country in the world I’ve been to. But no, just because it’s big doesn’t mean Vivo City is soulless. It’s got a…
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As regards the mrbrown show
To Terry, Kormmandos, Annibrow, James and everyone else who’ve noticed and emailed me lately asking why I haven’t been heard on the mrbrown show. Thanks for asking. Well, I haven’t been on the mrbrown show for a few weeks now because it’s time to move on to other things. But it’s been a great year…
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In case of emergency, break glass, take key, unlock cabinet, take out fire extinguisher, and, hey, where da fire go?
Because our friendly bank tells us to look out for, among other things, suspicious objects attached to the card slot of their ATMs which may be used to ‘skim’ your ATM card details, me and my wife noticed this cabinet attached (or merely adjacent) to the ATM I was withdrawing our dinner money from. Above…