Tag: Singapore
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Article: 44 things you may not know about Singapore
The nation turns 44 this week. That’s an inauspicious number to some, but there’s always a way to turn that around and make it a little more positive. My mother-in-law tells me you could say it’s 4 + 4 = 8, and that, to the superstitious optimist, says something to the effect of “die die…
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Rolls Royce for the disabled
We were really lucky to find a parking lot at The Central nottobeconfusedwithcentralmallandcentralsquare the other night, right next to the disabled parking lot, where we saw a magnificent cabriolet in baby blue. Rolls Royce calls it the Phantom Drophead Coupé, but for the Singapore market it’s called the Phantom Disabled Car Parking Lot Hogger. These…
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State of the nation
Almost every other blog post this month has been about the baby, so Naomi and I have endeavoured to keep abreast (breastfeeding pun not intended) of current news and happenings here: 1) It is heartening to note that home grown brand Cedele is spelling things as they pronounce them: 2) Just as heartening that the…
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Keep away
You do not want to be standing close to the customer at the bookshop thumbing through the pages of this book. Or more accurately, in the case of our city’s fine bookshops, the customer asking the cashier to kindly unwrap the shrinkwrap so that he/she can thumb through the pages of this book: