Author: Mr Miyagi

  • #CardboardConstable Origins

    In case you didn’t know, #CardboardConstable was commissioned in November 2013, and  mrbrown and myself started Instagramming his deployment locations last year. If you, like us, find the recent crime prevention video with the mass dance damn jialat, here’s a list of #CardboardConstable sightings on Instagram for you to enjoy instead. This picture’s my favourite so far: My heart…

  • Adding To Our Melting Pot

    It is part of Singapore life to have foreigners in our midst, and that there are people grumbling about how there are too many of them. There are also terms first used by the Government – such as “Foreign Talent”, that have taken a derisory and derogatory tone when used by the same grumblers. You…

  • Far Cough

    Yesterday Kai asked me if I knew what a fart and cough at the same time was called. I said, “No, do you?” He said yes and then took out the last consonant of “fart” and joined it with “cough” to make one word. I told him never to say it again.

  • 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“.…