Category: Living

  • BRB, setting this up…

    Hang on… setting up birthday present from Naomi.

  • Happiness is not meant to be contained

    Try to suppress a smile and you’ll get a screwed up face like the ones my brother and I are displaying. Try to suppress laughter and you’ll risk busting a gut. There is no such thing as being overjoyed or being overwhelmed with happiness. So often we forget we can never have too much joy…

  • What? People steal cars here?

    I had the impression that car thefts were so uncommon in Singapore that people hardly ever bother to install car alarms and other anti-theft systems. But the scintillating New Paper reports that there’s been a spate of SUV thefts – 12 in 2 weeks! The cars are all in Johor or further up north by…

  • Lovingly restored

    Isn’t she pretty? It’s a sad thing that we’re so used to sub-standard customer service here that when sales and service staff actually display any bit of pride and love in their work, we’re impressed to the point of wanting to blog about them. That’s not to say that Jenny of Silic Lighting Centre merely…

  • Noisy no coffee come out

    While the rest of the world were queueing up for an iPhone 3G, I went and took our Krups fully automated espresso machine to Changi to get it fixed. The receptionist was friendly and made small talk about coffee when she recognised me from less than a month ago when I took the thing in…