Year: 2007
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Free Rice
After gorging on Cha Kua Teow (sic) yesterday, sick it so happened that we stumbled upon freerice.com, where we spent a couple of hours sparing a thought, several hundred words and grains of rice for the needy: Frequently Asked Questions How does playing the vocabulary game at FreeRice help me? Learning new vocabulary has tremendous…
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Saturday
You know it’s a good plate of greasy, lardy goodness when the queue’s already twenty long when you get there, and there are people in line in front of you who know how long it’s gonna take, and have taken the trouble of bringing a book along to read. It’s not that long, really, the…
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The law is an ass* that is not permitted to sleep in a bathtub^
The alternative to ERP. Photo by NutsyFagan Yes, I am trivialising important matters. But there are things that are so trivial they can’t be ignored further. I read in the Sydney Morning Herald about a British tv station that claims to have done a survey about absurd laws in the UK that have never been…
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Horsburgh Lighthouse and other significant old buildings
Horsburgh Lighthouse was erected in 1851, and is probably one of the oldest structures (or the oldest) in Singapore that hasn’t been demolished, or converted for a purpose other than that for which it was built. That is, to house an Ah Beng who likes to high beam passing ships. Oops. Did I say “in…
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Security guards targeted because they cost too much?
If you want to speak good english, then don’t read some Straits Times headlines aloud. If not for the little whatsitcalled before the headline, I’d have been a little more curious about why ‘carrying cash without escorts’ was a consequence of a risk taken. You risk being robbed. You don’t risk carrying cash without escorts.…