Category: Places
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Why Tanglin has a Halt
Yesterday, someone tweeted something quite innocuous – about food and about how she was about to eat food – but the locality she tweeted about – “Tanglin Halt” – piqued my interest. I’ve always wondered who Tanglin was named for, and why there is (or was) a “Halt” in Tanglin. It isn’t exactly a burning…
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In perspective
“Spanish mobs firebomb National Stadium in protest against ICJ ruling allowing the use of the word “Ole” in Singaporean football supporters’ chants.” Actually, it’d be a good way to get rid of the National Stadium. And one other thing about the word “Olé”: From Wikipedia: olé: The most famous expression of approval, support or encouragement,…
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Brad and Angelina donate $950,000 more than our Government
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are donating $1 million to help the rescue and recovery efforts in Haiti, while our government is pledging $50,000. Our NGOs aren’t doing that much better either. The Singapore Red Cross is not launching any public appeals because of “donor fatigue”, which is a malady probably unique to Singapore. Anyway,…
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Malaysia, truly crazier
I’ve always said that no matter how bad one thinks Singapore is, there’s always Malaysia to make us thankful we don’t live there. I also think that the whole violence and burning of churches and temples could’ve been avoided if Malaysia had faster broadband connections. The ingterneck is so slow that you’d get really angry…
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412 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 5
View Larger Map The house where I lived immediately after I was born (it’s not as romantic as saying “the house where I was born in”, but oh well…) still stands, albeit renovated extensively. I wrote about growing up there a few years ago, but thanks to Google Street View, I was able to check…