Category: Living
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Ownself Declare Long Weekend
We’re in Bali to celebrate with friends (wedding/wedding anniversary). It’s nice to get away, though unfortunately, bits of Bali are so built up, and traffic snarls every hour of the day and night that it takes a bit off the tranquility that it’s supposed to promise. Plus, it is very, very hard to watch one’s…
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Everyone Is Responsible For Fighting Dengue
This year’s dengue outbreak is scary. So far this year, there’ve been 4,756 (1 Jan – 19 Apr) cases, and it looks like it might increase some more. I’ve previously tweeted and posted on Facebook about this, and the reflex response from readers have been the same: “too much construction lah, it’s all in the…
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A #HealthyRivalry For The Ages
Over the years, Kin Mun (mrbrown) and myself have sort of egged each other on to do stuff. Some good, some dumbass. When he used to work for an agency, he used to drive a car and didn’t get to exercise much. I took him to run at the NIE track twice a week, knocking…
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Stand Up To Pervs
Say you were on the train and some moron started taking pictures of you with his camera/phone. He might be a STOMP content producer so you check yourself to see what it is about you that might be worthy of a salacious headline in that venerable broadsheet. There’s nothing worth talking about, unless the photographer…
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Show Me The Monkey
We love our new home. And after four months, we still love that it takes 30 minutes to walk up from Dunearn Road (although there’s a shuttle service) and we love the lush greenery all round. We didn’t mind that there was a colony of long-tailed macaques roaming the edge of the Bukit Timah Nature…