Month: July 2008

  • Lovingly restored

    Isn’t she pretty? It’s a sad thing that we’re so used to sub-standard customer service here that when sales and service staff actually display any bit of pride and love in their work, we’re impressed to the point of wanting to blog about them. That’s not to say that Jenny of Silic Lighting Centre merely…

  • Noisy no coffee come out

    While the rest of the world were queueing up for an iPhone 3G, I went and took our Krups fully automated espresso machine to Changi to get it fixed. The receptionist was friendly and made small talk about coffee when she recognised me from less than a month ago when I took the thing in…

  • Al-Fresco is not a terrorist organisation that operates outdoors

    Best quesadillas we’ve had in the dark We had the pleasure of dining with Loyal Reader Lincoln last night, finally getting ourselves to Rochester Park something like 10 years after they redeveloped it into a unique dining and recreation enclave with no parking. It is Wagyu Month at North Border, and while we’re normally quite…

  • Renewable entitlement

    I have to admit to enjoying watching Top Gear even though in this day and age, it really is wrong to enjoy fossil-fuel burning and carbon emitting activity but I suppose just watching is ok and if the world ends just blame the organisers. Having said that, I boldly propose that the organisers of all…

  • Leave a video comment

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I’ve been using Disqus for the commenting system on this blog for several months now, and they’ve recently added two new features – trackbacks and video commenting. Yes, video commenting. Go play with it!