Year: 2010
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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…
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Now we’re really left behind
There will be murmurs about how Singapore should repeal S377A of the Penal Code now that China has apparently ‘showcased‘ a gay marriage in one of their official news outlets. But they’ll just be murmurs, cos you know how things are. Doesn’t matter if India has repealed their s377A, and China has (sort of) embraced…
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Malaysia, truly crazier
I’ve always said that no matter how bad one thinks Singapore is, there’s always Malaysia to make us thankful we don’t live there. I also think that the whole violence and burning of churches and temples could’ve been avoided if Malaysia had faster broadband connections. The ingterneck is so slow that you’d get really angry…