Year: 2011

  • CNA marketing VP, please rot

    For sending out this email, the Channelnews Asia marketing and communications vice-president should rot – on earth first, alive, then reconstitute herself and rot in hell again, over and over. The same goes for any company or person who even contemplates her offer.

  • Mobile roaming

    Some of my late mother’s friends, on hearing of her passing, took to texting her on her mobile with tributes and messages of how shocked they were and how much they would miss her. I kept her mobile, an Phone4, for a few days before I passed it to my sister, who’ll be keeping it…

  • A Tribute to Our Mother

    She was a woman of exceptional courage. She faced all of life’s challenges head on, fielding everything thrown at her with great tenacity, determination and always well-dressed and immaculately groomed while doing it. She lived life with a passion, always willing to try new experiences and learn new things. “If life hands you lemons, make…

  • Smelly people

    Kai learned the word “smelly” from Naomi’s mum, and to our delight, applied it when Naomi brought him to the zoo – he applied it on the goats at the kids’ section, where they had a petting zoo or something, I dunno, I din go. Then last week Naomi brought him to the zoo again…

  • It’s Chap Goh Meh, but here’s a Christmas story

    While workshopping Kumar’s show last week, Selena Tan brought up this gem of information on how the Japanese celebrate Christmas. I would’ve teased Naomi for not knowing this Japanese tradition but a) she doesn’t take too kindly to criticism about her lack of Japanese knowledge, b) it is a rather offbeat kind of tradition. Before…