Month: January 2010
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In perspective
“Spanish mobs firebomb National Stadium in protest against ICJ ruling allowing the use of the word “Ole” in Singaporean football supporters’ chants.” Actually, it’d be a good way to get rid of the National Stadium. And one other thing about the word “Olé”: From Wikipedia: olé: The most famous expression of approval, support or encouragement,…
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Sunday raclette
Thanks to our Double-Barrelled-Race Swiss-Vietnamese friend, we had raclette last night and stank up the house full of grilled bacon ham and cheese. Mac the Dog went berserk as well. It is all the more amazing we had friends over for dinner because the inevitable has finally happened – we took delivery of Kai’s plastic…
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The shopping’s virtual but the money’s real
Many young parents would agree with us that the prices of baby products in Singapore are simply ridiculous. We’re paying through our noses for things like swaddling blankets – my mom visited my sister’s family in Toronto and came back with a whole stack, at C$2 per blanket. Guess how much they were selling the…
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Brad and Angelina donate $950,000 more than our Government
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are donating $1 million to help the rescue and recovery efforts in Haiti, while our government is pledging $50,000. Our NGOs aren’t doing that much better either. The Singapore Red Cross is not launching any public appeals because of “donor fatigue”, which is a malady probably unique to Singapore. Anyway,…
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Mosquito Raiders
For all the bad press the NEA has been receiving, they’ve been pretty prompt about addressing my concerns about mosquito-breeding in my neighbourhood. I emailed them recently about the increase in mozzies due to the many condo construction sites that’ve suddenly appeared, and also about the lack of recycle bins in our apartment block. They…