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Year: 2011

  • I have a friend who’s a knight. You got or not?

    We attended Hossan’s “knighting” ceremony Friday night at the French ambassador’s residence. There was no pomp and very little ceremony, which suited us fine, although the newly minted Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres cut a dash in his Ted Baker suit bought off the rack for the occasion. And when the French…

  • How bad could a Monday Valentine’s Day be?

    You’re probably all festival’d out since Christmas, and it’s only a couple of days since Chingay, and now, no matter what, there’s this thing called Valentine’s Day hanging over your heads. It’s hanging over this dude’s head, and he gets all worked up and makes a video – and it’s quite apt that VD falls…

  • What are you taking for your “flu” that won’t go away?

    I went to the doctor’s yesterday for the sixth time in 2 months, and he doesn’t seem too concerned that I’ve made so many trips for the same problem. He thinks I’ve been infected by several different strains of flu, and quite possibly, with H1N1 as well. I’ve been on three courses of an antibiotic…

  • This site is not SafeSurf safe

    Someone tweeted yesterday afternoon that Starhub’s SafeSurf apparently blocks this site from curious young eyes. The SafeSurf FAQ goes on to describe the service as “a “filtering” service that blocks out undesirable websites on the Internet.” OK, I can understand why some people dislike this blog, but to block a generation of minors (whose parents…

  • It would be hell if the restaurants weren’t so good

    Naomi and I hadn’t spent enough time looking through what’s on offer at the Marina Bay Sands, so we were very excited to discover that ‘celebrity chefs’ had set up shop in the massive casino complex. There’s Mario Batali, Tetsuya Wakuda, Hide Yamamoto, and Singapore’s own drink-driving Justin Quek amongst several others. And we only…