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Author: Mr Miyagi

  • To Every Teacher That Taught Me

    To every teacher who taught me, including: The one who said the school’s chemistry lab was so old, the pipette was donated by Sir Stamford Raffles; The principal who asked if the Head Prefect enjoyed his trip after the latter tripped and fell while walking to the microphone during morning assembly; The economics teacher who…

  • In All Seriousness, The National Day Rally

    There will always be things to poke a fishball stick at, and it’s become a tradition for mrbrown and myself to watch the National Day Rally speech with intent. For those who haven’t, here’s what you should take note of: Honoring Yusof bin Ishak Not least because he was the country’s first Yang di Pertuan…

  • One Shy Of Fifty: 49th National Day

    It’s National Day, not quite the big one, which is next year (good luck Dick Lee). But knowing us, this year’s NDP will be a spoil market spectacle. If there’s a lesser known Singaporean trait, it is this: We are good at shooting ourselves in the foot. Just look at our Singapore Airlines – ever…

  • Don’t Be A WTF Wendy

    So I saw this poster at Orchard MRT station: And I thought it was a great campaign to make people more aware of their behaviour on public transport. There’s even a “Stand-Up Stacey”, exhorting people to er… stand up when they’re supposed to, I suppose. But then, this LTA campaign should also include negatives, and…

  • Robo-cutter To Change Landscaping Landscape

    I was invited to check out a demonstration of this machine called the “Robo-Cutter” and I got really excited because, WTF, it’s a robot that cuts grass, right? No it wasn’t what I expected – there wasn’t any artificial intelligence about it, and it couldn’t deploy itself automatically where it sensed the grass was tall.…