Category: Living
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Know where the gantries are before you drive out and go broke
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Motoring magazine oneshift.com has a nifty ERP/GoogleMaps mash-up which should prove useful for people who need to know where the gantries are before driving out. Check it out and get angry.
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Weekend breakfast
We live in such times as that where we don’t have time for a good meal to kick start the day because the day has already been kick-started and we’ve been dragged along, hanging on to the handlebars for dear life. Oh, and the price of food and other household items suck too. But if…
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Green neighbourhood. Not.
Here in Singapore, we send our trash overseas – Photo by Where is Clifford The Big Red Dog? I asked our apartment block’s cleaner where the recycle bins were and he said there weren’t any. Just chuck everything into the big wheelie bin, he said. What made me sicker was a friend of ours telling…
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When policemen still wore shorts
“Wah, you must have bought this when policemen still wore shorts”, said the lady at the lighting shop as she asked for my permission to dismantle some more of the tiffany lamp I brought in for her to fix. As took the base off, the debris from inside the lamp fell out and dirtied her…
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Settling
It takes a couple of weeks to unpack, say some of our friends who’ve also had the good fortune to change their surroundings once every couple of years. And we’re still settling in, moving things around the house because Jake the Cat has been displaying his acrobatic prowess by leaping from shelf top to fridge…