Year: 2006

  • I got my battery

    Finally, pharmacy after more than six weeks, sovaldi the iShop gives me my replacement Powerbook battery. Yay. Technorati Tags: apple, clinic battery replacement program, Singapore

  • Bless the squire and his relations

    Once, when I was in junior college, the discipline master reprimanded a schoolmate for having his shirt tucked out while school was still in session. He said to the errant boy, “How dare you walk around with your shirt tucked out like that? What do you think this is? Your grandfather’s school?” My schoolmate thought…

  • Kids say the darndest things

    On one of the obscure TODAY articles I wrote about blogging in the classroom, there was a comment left today referring to the Wee Shu Min debacle, which alerted me to the Wee Shu Min debacle, which would have gone completely unnoticed because I am such a blurblock when it comes to matters of national…

  • Thanks to lifts, my face is planted

    Maybe, just maybe, Clarins Singapore‘s marketing people have gotten it wrong by getting Fiona Xie to be their new face. A friend of ours was shopping for facial products, and Clarins was on of the options she was considering before she stepped out to shop, but when she saw the new face of Clarins adorning…

  • Hearty Halloween

    There are many Singaporeans who cannot pronounce the word ‘pumpkin’. But Naomi and I love a good pumpkin soup, and there are several restaurants here that serve a really good bowl, even if the waiting staff repeats your order, telling you that you’ve ordered two ‘Pungkim Shoop’ Picture via Bits and Pieces iTunes is playing…