Category: People
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Thank you, Lion Cubs
I must have been one of the biggest skeptics of the inaugural Games, but over the last 12 days, I’ve been treated to some of the best things it has brought to our shores. I’m just hoping we’ll forget trying to show the world how we can do this and do that – it may…
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My friend becomes a knight
Hossan is awesome, and he makes things look so easy if you don’t see him panicking, trying to memorise scripts because they’ve been given to him at the last minute. He speaks French so well that if you were stranded on a desert island that was a French colony, you’d want him to be in…
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Schools rugby back on the front page
So it seems the Great Padang Riot of 1984 has been matched by an incident of thuggery at the schools’ rugby final. According to the ST report, a Saint Andrew’s School player punched an ACS (I) player after the final whistle had gone, sparking a melée at the Police Academy (wah, daring ah?) field that…
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Win a pair of tickets to Kumar: Stripped Bare & Standing Up (Re-run)
Update: The contest is now closed It was some time in the 90s, when I came back to Singapore for uni holidays and my friends told me there was an act I had to catch at this place in Bugis. It was rude, raunchy and it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. I loved…
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Singapore’s Oskar Schindler
They either never taught us this in history lessons, or I just wasn’t paying attention. Thanks to a contributor on sammyboy.com, I found out that one of the heroes of the Japanese Occupation in Singapore was Japanese. Shinozaki Mamoru was a press attache with the Imperial Foreign Service and was assigned to Singapore before the…