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  • How to solve the Tin Peiling issue

    An old friend of mine wrote this on Facebook, and it’s too good not to republish: The PAP was for many years jocularly referred to as Pian Ah Pek or Pay and Pay. I remember one afternoon, many years ago, talking to the elderly Toh Chin Chye. He was by then long estranged from the…

  • We will test your water to see if it is wet

    About two months ago, our tap water turned brown, and we got the PUB in to check what was wrong. They had come, turned on the taps, looked at the muddy water, ummed and ahhed a lot without doing anything. We then persuaded them to take a sample of discolored water back to their high…

  • Smelly people

    Kai learned the word “smelly” from Naomi’s mum, and to our delight, applied it when Naomi brought him to the zoo – he applied it on the goats at the kids’ section, where they had a petting zoo or something, I dunno, I din go. Then last week Naomi brought him to the zoo again…

  • I have a friend who’s a knight. You got or not?

    We attended Hossan’s “knighting” ceremony Friday night at the French ambassador’s residence. There was no pomp and very little ceremony, which suited us fine, although the newly minted Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres cut a dash in his Ted Baker suit bought off the rack for the occasion. And when the French…

  • Lib lung and prosper

    This evening we took a break from eating junk food and took Naomi’s visiting cousin out to a chili crab dinner at Long Beach Dempsey. Good thing we got there early, because a little after we got there, a queue formed with several dozen families, tired from visiting and being visited, looking to get a…