Category: Living

  • Who wants to be a superhero?

    Captain Obvious We’ve had Survivor (1997 – yes, that old!), Big Brother (1999), Fear Factor (2001), American Idol (2002), America’s Next Top Model (2003), Beauty and the Geek (2005 – a favourite), amongst many, many others. Granted, the format’s nowhere near new, but there are now so many “reality” tv shows that the makers of…

  • In My Time

    I’ve never been to an Army Open House because I don’t have kids to bring them to, and my family would scream if I asked them “hey you wanna go to the Army Open House and see Army gear and stuff?” and they’d scream, “We wash your Army gear every time you come back from…

  • Singapore Flyers

    I read in the Sunday Times that tickets for a ride on the yet to be completed Singapore Flyer… ok, let me rephrase that, because that sounds like you can ride on an incomplete Singapore Flyer, and your guide for the day might say something like, “Sorry sir, as you can see, the Singapore Flyer…

  • Irene Ang in the V-Conference

    Not every press conference gives out a swag that contains panties, and I’m happy to be associated with one that is. Thank you Triumph. OK, now that you’ve closed the bra company’s window, read on… That’s a picture of Mr Y K Foo, freelance photographer snapping for Women’s Weekly, holding up one such panty with…

  • Be right back

    Be right back. Incommunicado for good reason.