Category: The Ingterneck
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Toys
Once you’re done poking yourself or your friends on Facebook, you can try buggerising around with the following toys this weekend: Muxtape As blogged about by mrbrown, but it seems to be a bit slow given the attention it’s gotten in the last two days. And I haven’t uploaded anything because I can’t find anything…
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I’m f***ing Matt Damon / Ben Affleck
Truth be told, I fell asleep watching the Oscars on Oscar Night (known in Singapore as “Why Does It Have To Be On A Monday Morning”) before a single award was presented. Also not present at the party was Jimmy Kimmel of Jimmy Kimmel Live! But if star watching’s your cup of tea, then what…
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The librarian tried his darndest
The Ask The Librarian service emailed me with his team’s findings, and found the most likely site of Tan Seng Poh’s mansion: You might find this useful. Excerpt from: Title: One hundred years’ history of the Chinese in Singapore / Song Ong Siang ; introduction by Edwin Lee. Author: Song, Ong Siang, Sir, 1871-1941. Publisher:…
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The librarian’s on it
I wrote earlier about the ‘drug lord’ turned philantropist Tan Seng Poh and his mansion near the Armenian Church, and about how I asked the National Library’s “Ask a librarian” librarian to locate the site of Seng Poh’s house. He’s (the librarian, not Tan Seng Poh) emailed to tell me that he and his colleagues…
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Free Rice
After gorging on Cha Kua Teow (sic) yesterday, sick it so happened that we stumbled upon freerice.com, where we spent a couple of hours sparing a thought, several hundred words and grains of rice for the needy: Frequently Asked Questions How does playing the vocabulary game at FreeRice help me? Learning new vocabulary has tremendous…