Month: March 2009

  • Weekly Tweets

    Alt headline: “not just civil servants”: http://ping.fm/rbo6l # at rehearsal with Kumar who’s having a ball. # Kumar tells us about sex education in India. # Back at work lah, what? # Fortylove.tv: http://www.fortylove.tv # Dang! I missed square root day. Figures. I failed Math. # From miyagi.sg: Fortylove.tv http://tinyurl.com/arjr69 # Indian condom song: http://ping.fm/tw57c…

  • Advertorial: POSB Everyday Champions 2009

    The inaugural POSB Everyday Champions awards was held on 26th February 2009 at St Regis. Out of over 3,000 nominees (no, I didn’t nominate Coach Frank because of residency issues), 57 were winners on the night, and among them was Super Soccer Mum Carol Lim, 52, who 10 years ago set up the Elias Park…

  • Free tickets: Kumar strips bare

    I have been at rehearsals for the past week for Kumar’s show, and I speak for everyone when I say we are having damn a lot of fun, can? It’s also been a real privilege to be the writer for this show, because the stuff that Kumar’s been spewing during our workshops has been just…

  • Reason to try to smile

    My father doesn’t smile very often these days. It takes an effort because Parkinson’s makes control of your muscles, including the facial ones, difficult, and the sufferer becomes withdrawn and unsocial because of his inability to interact in the ways we normally do. Conversation is also a strain because of the difficulty in controlling the…

  • Fortylove.tv

    One of my favourite travellers and one of my favourite bloggers happen to be the same person, and she’s got this new “little travel podcast thingie” (yeah, what do we call these things nowsadays?) at fortylove.tv, where she and another traveller record their travels across the Middle East and Europe. You can almost feel the…