Year: 2009

  • Rolls Royce for the disabled

    We were really lucky to find a parking lot at The Central nottobeconfusedwithcentralmallandcentralsquare the other night, right next to the disabled parking lot, where we saw a magnificent cabriolet in baby blue. Rolls Royce calls it the Phantom Drophead Coupé, but for the Singapore market it’s called the Phantom Disabled Car Parking Lot Hogger. These…

  • Cyclops can now fight Godzirra!

    “Ultraman + Mt. Fuji = JAPAN” – Photo by emrank I am not arroud to make fun of Japanese-accented English, so sitting through two hours with an embassy official who was helping us fill up deceptively difficult forms was quite a task yesterday afternoon. But it’s almost all done. Naomi’s and my marriage has been…

  • Plus one room for scale model maid

    Photo by fullres Real estate agents can be arseholes sometimes. A few years ago, being first time home renters, Naomi and I were conned into paying double commission by this chow ah beng of an agent, and last year, we were treated to a siao char bor show by this independent agent who got her…

  • Weekly Tweets

    From miyagi.sg: Weekly Tweets http://tinyurl.com/mw7g8t # From miyagi.sg: Weekly Tweets http://tinyurl.com/llxj9c # Doing 8Days a favour. RT @patlaw: RT @betshopboy: @patlaw with all due respect, I don't think @mrbrown needs 8Days to affirm his celebri … # Only in a men's toilet in Thailand: http://ping.fm/VYveX # RE: That be true. What eagle-eyed alertness, Wayne! http://disq.us/exl…

  • The Taiwanese food’s better here

    There is an upside to taking your Taiwanese mother-in-law to a Taiwanese restaurant, and it is that she will prove beyond all doubt that that restaurant is not authentic, by transporting her entire kitchen to your apartment built for two people, staff it with her domestic helpers and enlist yours to the same cause, and…