Author: Mr Miyagi
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Incentives To Wean You Off Cheapsourcing
At the last management council meeting of the last year at my condo, we were presented with a request by the cleaning company for a 20% contract fee hike. The managing agent then presented us with three other quotes that hovered around the old fee mark. We opted to terminate the incumbent and go with…
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Don’t Eat Cheese And Don’t Drive
That’s the message I got out of the response to the EIU’s ranking of Singapore as the most expensive city in the world for expats. I’m a local, and so I shouldn’t be eating cheese (we’re mostly lactose intolerant anyway), watching movies from Gold Class cinema seats, buying Cat A theatre tickets, taking a taxi,…
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Two Kumars
I’m spending a lot of time writing Kumar’s (and several others’) script for Happy Ever Laughter 2014, and I’ve been explaining to Kai what I’ve been doing at work as well. Then we came home one day, and as we were driving past the guard house, our night guard, whose name is also Kumar, waved…
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Making Sure People #WORKRIGHT
A couple of Saturdays ago, mrbrown and I were invited to watch the community theatre group theVoice perform a song and dance skit at Tiong Bahru market’s food centre. It was a little bit cheesy, but the enthusiasm of the troupe made up for that. Besides, the idea was to raise awareness of workers’ rights,…
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What To Do With Your Ang Pow Money #1: The Last Five Years
My friend and collaborator Jasmine Teo’s directoral debut is also the first musical to be staged at a brand new venue – The Henderson Project – which is actually the office and rehearsal space for Dream Academy Productions, the company behind The Dim Sum Dollies and Kumar’s Amazing Race. It stars the amazingly talented duo…