Year: 2007
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National Days
I was just wondering the other day that there were lots of independence days in August. We had ours, they had theirs, and they shouted Merdeka till they were hoarse. Then a couple of days passed and I thought it was a little late to talk about things happening in August. But then, fortuitously, I…
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In My Time
I’ve never been to an Army Open House because I don’t have kids to bring them to, and my family would scream if I asked them “hey you wanna go to the Army Open House and see Army gear and stuff?” and they’d scream, “We wash your Army gear every time you come back from…
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Icee
In space, no one can hear your brain freeze Does anyone know where Icee can be bought in Singapore? 7-11 used to sell them, and I thought I blogged about it, but Naomi reminded me I had merely talked about Slurpee, which is like a poorer cousin that Taufik sells. What happened? Has the Inconvenient…
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Singapore Flyers
I read in the Sunday Times that tickets for a ride on the yet to be completed Singapore Flyer… ok, let me rephrase that, because that sounds like you can ride on an incomplete Singapore Flyer, and your guide for the day might say something like, “Sorry sir, as you can see, the Singapore Flyer…
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B’ERP
Photo by Peeb1 That’s the sound the gantries make after they’ve automagically deducted your cash money from your cash card. B’ERP. And there’re more of them, these hungry gates of automagic cash money deductioningering, announced the LTA, makers of these gantries, today. This comes a day after the nation’s gantry makers announced that COEs (automagic…