Year: 2006

  • Why do you want to know?

    I’m attending the International Sex Video Forum 2006 at Suntec And to answer today’s search engine query: ‘How do you make brown rice tea?’ I think it involves some brown rice and some boiling water. And a pot. And some cups to serve them in. Yah. Technorati Tags: search engine requests, Singapore

  • 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…