Year: 2009
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Sunday parker
Blogging-wise, the new year hasn’t gotten off to a good start. But I’ve found a little bit of time to do the time-honoured thing of blogging about assholes. You know if you’ve ever driven into the car park at Shaw Centre, that the place was designed by architects who either don’t drive, or when they…
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Day at the vet’s
I spent the morning at the vet’s with Mac Our Dog, and it was a particularly busy morning there, with the receptionist at sixes and sevens, and though she was trying her humanly (and doggedly and cattedly) best to cope, Mac and I had to wait about an hour before we saw the vet, and…
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Handling crime
We’ll handle it, no worries!
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What Chinese herbs are you smoking today?
The story about a cigarette butt being found in a packet of Eu Yan Sang herbs known as Xia Ku Cao is quite funny if not alarming. Maybe there were supposed to be just plain tobacco in the product called “Sio Hoon Kee”.
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The Little Drummer Boy goes Tong Tong Chiang
Chinese New Year songs played in the malls and supermarkets make you wish Christmas was still around. They’ve moved CNY stuff into the shops so quickly that some people are a bit confused. Mysterious boxes turn up and no one knows what they are: