Category: Living

  • Let’s do it

    What was going through my mind when my wife and I exchanged vows? A lot. I was wracked with nerves. So much that I stumbled on my words, as did the beautiful bride before me as we clutched each other’s hands so tightly we left nail marks on each other’s knuckles. It was only two…

  • Weekend gone to the dogs

    Doggy takes a cat nap Battling to stay awake and alert because of a flu is not a good way to spend a weekend. So it was good that there was something to do to ameliorate the mugginess. There’s this society called ‘Action for Singapore Dogs‘ that takes in stray and abandoned dogs and fosters…

  • No shit, Sherlock!

    How about the relentless barrage of information in our local papers about how important foreign talents are, and how happy the ones who are already here are? No? Doesn’t get your goat? Then read about how our Apache pilots find training in Singapore so different from the Arizona desert: Geophogry nosso good also can be…

  • The biggest day of our lives so far

    Thanks for your well-wishes and congratulations, if you’ve made any. Me and my wife, wife! Yes, wife! … …me and my wife are recovering from the wedding, and we’ll be returning to work in the morning. But oh what a Sunday, and oh, what a wedding! Friends and family alike know that this was a…

  • Upstairs downstairs

    My uni mate, when he returned from Australia, pointed at this and said, “hey look, ‘Upstairs Bank of Singapore and Downstairs Bank of Singapore’!” Technorati Tags: dbs, ubs, singapore