Category: Living
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Construction mystery
There is something unusual about the construction site next door, where they are probably trying to squeeze ten houses into a plot that used to house one. At about 8 in the morning, when they are legally allowed to start banging about, they start banging about, hammering things here and there, dropping something that sounds…
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Yesterday was National Good Service Day
Well, it was for us. And well, not quite “national”, but Orchard and Scotts Road make up 90% of Singapore, so can lah. And this is not just to “balance out” the posts about the horrible service we’ve been getting. At Orchard Ion: A security guard held the lift door for Naomi, myself and Kai…
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Singapore’s more like China than China
It’s been as busy as we’ve expected this Chinese New Year, and with Kai nursing a new cold (how many do babies get in their first year?), we were expecting even less sleep than usual, and we were right. That’s not to say we haven’t been enjoying time with our families and relatives jetting in…
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The other WTO
I imagined a joke about someone telling another person that he works at the WTO, and the other person asks, “Wow, how long have you been in Geneva?”, and the first person asks back, “What do you mean, Geneva? I work in Toa Payoh.” People laugh at our obsession with toilets – and how as…
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Our Ang Pow Collector is ready. Is yours?
Kai, Naomi and me wish everyone a New Year of peace, joy and happiness. To help yourself along the way, don’t drink and drive, don’t overeat, and don’t gamble away your Ang Pows at the 500 tables open tomorrow at the RWS casino.