Category: Places
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Terror on war: worst disguise award
Either no one told suspected Iraqi insurgent Haider al-Bahadli that Halloween was over, or he was gunning for the World’s Worst Disguise Award. He and his “groom” were picked up at a security checkpoint who suspected something was amiss with the “wedding convoy”, because the convoy carrying the “wedding party” were all men, bar al-Bahadli,…
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Hello, fine snack, please to meet you
We visited a newish mall called The Central, not to be confused with Central Mall, a couple of days ago, because unbeknownst to us, Liang Court was being renovated when we went there to take dinner. It’s absolutely ok if that was the clunkiest sentence you’ve ever read, because at The Central Not To Be…
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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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Bite me!
I’m inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit featured in the Sunday papers last week. There was this really, really interesting story about three outlets in Singapore which offer alternative skin treatment in the form of fish eating your dead skin off your live body. “Get prettier feet by allowing fish to nibble your dead skin”, said…