Month: October 2007

  • $1b plant made using living cells?

    I bought the papers this morning and saw on the front page that some pharmaceutical company was going to build a $1b “plant in Tuas using living cells”, and I thought, oh wow, and opened the paper in a hurry to read about the amazing biotechnological-construction-breakthrough thingie that would finally allow us to thumb our…

  • The good oil on bad fats

    I said, ‘get me a pic to do with “Trans Fat”, not “Fat Trans”‘ Photo by FredArmitage I now think that people who are easily confused (like myself) are less likely to eat healthily given the amount of information now available to us about saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated fats and four-room HDB…

  • The middle sexes

    So, there’s this debate that went on in Parliament where the outcome was never going to be surprising, even if it took even the Prime Minister’s take on the matter to settle the issue and put us all on the straight and narrow. Most unfortunately though, some of my closest friends will remain law-breakers and…

  • Quake again

    Something’s not quite right if we keep experiencing tremors, right? Right? Earthquake details here. Technorati Tags: Indonesia, earthquake, singapore

  • Harmonious balance

    “Matilda’s Acupuncture Session” – Photo by Mark Hillary I learned a few things over the past few days, which by the way, have been great. For those of you who’ve been asking after Naomi, she’s doing very, very well at home, but more about that later. One of Naomi’s cousins who she doesn’t get to…