Month: January 2015

  • So When’s The General Election?

    PM Lee already hints that “the next General Election may not be when everybody’s expecting it to be”. So when do you think it’s going to be? Cast your vote below: [socialpoll id=”2250067″]

  • For Cartophiles – Map Mania at the NLB

    I love maps, and I was pleasantly surprised when I made my way up to rehearsals at the Drama Centre Theatre yesterday, because there was this display in the lobby of the National Library (Central) featuring the first topographical map of Singapore. That is part of an exhibition on maps called “Geo|Graphic: Celebrating Maps and their Stories“.…

  • The Boy From Oz, Sung By The Singapore Boy

    It’s Australia Day, and what better way to celebrate it than to help Hossan rehearse for his show – a song from which is written by our favourite Australian songwriter, Peter Allen. Hossan and I watched the original The Boy From Oz musical staged in Sydney in 1998, before it was tweaked for Broadway with Allen…

  • Je Suis Singapourien

    As with many others in Singapore, I wouldn’t have noticed what was lacking in the local rags’ reporting of the Charlie Hedbo massacre. Once I was alerted to it, I got really upset. You had to scroll down at least three-quarters of any of the papers’ stories before you saw any mention of the murderers’/terrorists’…

  • Before We Got Kai Kai & Jia Jia

    With so many new attractions every year, it’s easy to forget we have an awesome theme park in Pasir Panjang that’s been around since the 1950s. I last visited in 1974, and I think it’s got something to do with the theme of the theme park. It’s NSFW. Actually, it’s pretty much NSFAnything. Here’s what…