Category: Living
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Some mothers are quite happy
On Mothers’ Day, we bought mum a lunch at a Teochew restaurant and a watch, which she liked enough to put on immediately, and I was so thrilled she liked it that I blurted out, “we bought it at a warehouse sale”! It doesn’t mean I love my mother any less, you know? You know,…
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Blog by Jake: Pet Valley
Sian 1/2 My stupid owner wants me to tell you that PetValley.Sg is offering all of youse pet owners free membership to their one-stop pet portal. As if pets know how to go online like that. In return I’ve been given a bag of cat food, a couple of candles, some scents, and two t-shirts…
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Bak Chor Mee Tur Kwa Wallpaper
In honour of the hugely popular episode of the mrbrown show podcast the persistently non-political podcast no. 6, sales aka Bak Chor Mee episode, recipe we got our good friend Artgerm to do us a little desktop wallpaper. Enjoy! 1280 by 960 size 1280 by 800 size 1024 by 768 size 800 by 600 size…
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Polling Day
I was part of the 3/4 of the population of this fair country not required to vote today. You’d imagine I’d be ambivalent about the whole thing, and you’d mostly be right. Whatever the outcome, I’m not gonna say things like, ‘You deserve the representatives you vote for’. Instead of mulling over whose gonna lose…
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The Da Vinci Trail: HMS Dreadnought
Now that it’s three weeks out from the release of the movie, the buzz surrounding the Code has been understandably high. (I don’t care – I’m adding to it). I read today that some English judge recently inserted his own secret code (I don’t care if that doesn’t sound right) into one of his judgements,…