Month: March 2010
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Construction mystery
There is something unusual about the construction site next door, where they are probably trying to squeeze ten houses into a plot that used to house one. At about 8 in the morning, when they are legally allowed to start banging about, they start banging about, hammering things here and there, dropping something that sounds…
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You see? You see Your Singapore?
Driving down Orchard Road recently, I noticed banners for “YourSingapore.Com”, and later found that it was the latest iteration of STB’s attempt to brand Singapore. It looks as if STB took many different ideas from different PR and Ad agencies who pitched to them one form or other of theoretically user-generated content and came up…
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Yesterday was National Good Service Day
Well, it was for us. And well, not quite “national”, but Orchard and Scotts Road make up 90% of Singapore, so can lah. And this is not just to “balance out” the posts about the horrible service we’ve been getting. At Orchard Ion: A security guard held the lift door for Naomi, myself and Kai…
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Remove the “G” from Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus Steakhouse
I wasn’t going to blog about this, but I saw Tuesday’s ST headline about bad service and realised that bad service was a national epidemic, and therefore had to be talked about, the same way we talked about SARS, and swine flu. Because talking about it spreads awareness, and when you’re aware, you’re less likely…