Year: 2010
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Overheard at SMU
Someone alerted me to a Facebook page called “Overheard at SMU“, and apparently, there are similar pages for NUS and NTU. Among the entries posted on that page are gems such as this: If this is true, Student 1 should be tried for sedition.
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Singapore’s last resort island
So Resorts World Sentosa opened its many doors to 75,000 people over the CNY holidays, and judging from the things I’ve heard, it hasn’t been pretty. They’ve been charging Singaporeans and PRs $100 a day to get in, so that they’ll only get the right kind of people at the 500 tables. And I heard…
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Singapore’s more like China than China
It’s been as busy as we’ve expected this Chinese New Year, and with Kai nursing a new cold (how many do babies get in their first year?), we were expecting even less sleep than usual, and we were right. That’s not to say we haven’t been enjoying time with our families and relatives jetting in…
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The other WTO
I imagined a joke about someone telling another person that he works at the WTO, and the other person asks, “Wow, how long have you been in Geneva?”, and the first person asks back, “What do you mean, Geneva? I work in Toa Payoh.” People laugh at our obsession with toilets – and how as…
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Our Ang Pow Collector is ready. Is yours?
Kai, Naomi and me wish everyone a New Year of peace, joy and happiness. To help yourself along the way, don’t drink and drive, don’t overeat, and don’t gamble away your Ang Pows at the 500 tables open tomorrow at the RWS casino.