Year: 2012
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Three More Interesting Facts About Singapore
1. Singapore is home to 3,971 species of vascular plants, 364 species of birds, 295 species of butterflies, 98 species of reptiles, 52 species of mammals, 28 species of amphibians, and 255 species of hard corals. 2. A two-part episode of Hawaii Five-O was filmed in Singapore, featuring a thrilling scene on the Sentosa Cable…
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Rehearsal Start Liao! (Not NDP)
Today’s the first day of rehearsals for the Hossan Leong Show: Flying Solo. Hilarity should ensue, given the FB exchange that’s just taken place:
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But Singapore Doesn’t Have A Mouth
With the impeccable logic of a three year old, Kai questioned me over my explanation of National Day. I had said that National Day was Singapore’s birthday, and so everyone in Singapore got to celebrate. He said, “Papa, but Singapore doesn’t have a mouth”. Took a while before I said, “But everyone in Singapore has,…
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For All Singaporean Taxi Drivers: A Special Warning
Chris Reed, who has “25 years of senior marketing experience on both the client and agency side in the UK and now in Asia Pacific” published a badly written rant about our country’s taxi drivers and tried to disguise it as an opinion piece on the website Singapore Business Review. Everyone is entitled to an…
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My Sec One Classmates
From my Secondary One class (1982): I’m kinda known as a writer of nonsense, my classmate Chuan-Jin is now Senior Minister of State for National Development and Acting Manpower Minister, and one other classmate became known as VR Man. I guess you could say we took home different lessons from our teachers.