Month: January 2008

  • Beyond Words

    Spain should be the country with the tourist board tagline we wear so proudly. OK, not so proudly, but with a befuddled expression and lips mouthing a “har?” (Only joking, don’t take my link off your page) As I was saying, Spain. She doesn’t have words to her national anthem. How bizarre. Imagine if we…

  • Twinkle, twinkle little star, turn on the lights of your car

    Naomi and I are pleased to announce that it works! The signal works. Earlier tonight, an MPV driver was barrelling down the ECP, along with his MPV of course, but without the MPV’s headlights on. Fortuitously, I was barrelling down the ECP on the outside lane close enough to him to pull alongside safely and…

  • Well done mates

    Picture: New Zealand Herald Sometime in August 1991, my kayaking partner and I tried to keep a watch out on the horizon for any sign of landfall as we sought to reach Tioman Island in Pahang State by kayak. It was the twelfth day of our trip, and we’d just endured what we felt was…

  • Another world first

    Now, where did we keep the parking coupons? Cos we’re gonna be here for awhile… – Photo by Telstar Logistics Singapore Airlines now holds the record for the first Airbus A380 to be stuck on a grass verge. None were hurt, except for Singapore Airlines, who also suffered the ignominy of having this piece of…

  • Less useless

    Now you can paralyze would-be assailants to your own beat! The Taser C2 now comes with a built-in MP3 player and leopard print design and leather case! Via smh.com.au: The 12 Taser guns recently bought for the Public Order and Riot Squad cost $30,000. For an extra $US80 ($90) apiece, officers could have an MP3…