Year: 2007
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Men’s Health: Man2Man: I Quit!
Originally published in Men’s Health (July 2007) A few weeks ago I had a very bad dream. I was walking back home from Holland Village, just a stone’s throw from where I live. It was getting dark, and it was a bit drizzly, and between the knuckles of my index and middle fingers of my…
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Uncommon courtesy
Escalator – by Mr Wabu This evening, Naomi and I went to the airport with her Mum so that we could dine at the only Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits Famous Fried Chicken Restaurant in Singapore. Oh, and for Naomi’s Mum to catch a flight. On the way up the escalator to the restaurant and observation…
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It’s good to be a kaypoh nation
Asleep in car – by Andwar Earlier tonight we went out to Holland Village for a bite and to take a short break from work. At 11:45 p.m., parking wasn’t hard to find. We parked next to a car that had its engine running and its sole occupant motionless in the driver’s seat. We didn’t…
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Connected cleaners
If you’ve ever wondered if Singapore was really such a hi-tech connected country with hi-tech connected people, wonder no further. On the Emerald Hill Group’s website’s “Work for us” section, there are openings for ‘Cleaners’ to work at their various outlets on Emerald Hill. So confident are they that people who usually seek employment as…
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Lining the queue
Photo by Luangmai Tonight after a work meeting, Naomi and I popped by the Holland Village Cold Storage because our fridge was bordering on empty. Because she was still suffering from the pain of two prolapsed discs in her lower back, we were hoping to make this a quick grocery run, but for some strange…