Category: Living
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Tet a Tet
After the Kitchen God has gone to the Heaven, preparations for the New Year festivities begin in enthusiasm. I’m all for the Vietnamese community celebrating Tet. But when the Vietnamese community descends upon my neighbourhood, and has a huge ass garden party within earshot till the wee hours, I’m not so enthusiastic anymore. There’s only…
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Reservist hangover
During my ICT in Queensland, we wore uniforms which were treated with permethrin, a vial of which was given to us by the Army before the trip for to soak our uniforms ourselves. I soaked the combat fatigues (No. 4s), but not our grey vests, shorts and socks. Permethrin is a nerve agent which is…
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The Suns: Rock never die!
Update: The Suns play at the Sembawang Festival on Friday, 20 Jan from 8pm …Even if you slapped a fine and banned them from performing locally. I’d have described them as ‘one of Melbourne’s finest rock bands’ of recent times, thinking that Singapore has not been kind to The Suns, much less contributed to any…
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New shoes
Working Saturdays can be a bitch, as can working Sundays. But I’m not working Sunday. But I went and bought a nice pair of shoes. And I was so happy with them I wore them straightaway, chucking my old pair in the box the new ones came in. Then I chucked the box with the…
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It’s getting old
I’m talking about the weather. Enough already! I’m not water proof! Plus I’ve been having tummy aches so bad, a band named themselves after my condition. iTunes is playing an illegal copy of East St. Louis Toodle-O from the album “This Is Jazz (Volume 7)” by Duke Ellington of which I have the original CD.…