Author: Mr Miyagi

  • Throwback Tuesday: Once A Young Entrepreneur

    I loved reservist, and I never lied about that. I looked forward to buying stuff from Beach Road, packing my gear and heading to camp for however long training took. The other thing about in-camp training stints is that it is the best extended networking session government funds can buy. My mates from the 433rd…

  • Mediacorp’s Shameful Advertising Lorry

    In this day and age! Seriously, the LTA should ban Mediacorp, or more precisely, Mediacorp’s subsidiary, OOH, (another forced acronym) from owning vehicles. I get that you can use ad space on buses, MRT trains and taxis. But to use a lorry just to carry a billboard around our already jam-packed roads during f**king peak…

  • Mess With Their Minds While You Still Can

    This morning Kai charged into our bedroom all excited and proceeded to tell us in detail what his toy dinosaurs had been up to. He is now convinced the week’s incidents were not isolated. The toys who come alive in the middle of the night when no one’s looking, are organised and capable of complex…

  • What I Got For PSLE

    The grading system was different then, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Primary Six, like it is now, was the most stressful time of my primary school years – for my parents. I was in a SAP primary school, mainly because my parents thought it’d give me a grounding in my adopted mother…

  • S.U.R.E. Or Not?

    Last Thursday was S.U.R.E. Day, an event held at the NLB to highlight a campaign for information literacy. The key speaker, Dr Carl Schoonover (author of ‘Portraits of the Mind’), gave an enlightening talk about neuroscience, perception and evaluation. There was also sambal fishball, mee goreng, curry puffs catered. What mrbrown and myself were quite…