Tag: The Banned Wagon

  • Saint Jack

    I read Paul Theroux’s Saint Jack years ago when I was in junior college, and enjoyed it partly because I thought it was banned. I only found out this morning that it was never on the MDA’s banned wagon. (Thank you Rambling Librarian for setting me straight) But if I were to re-read the book,…

  • More on poppy

    More on poppy seeds and the baked items they’re sometimes on. Because I’m still disturbed by the discovery that it is (or is it ‘they are’) a controlled item. So, it was fun looking at some articles on the matter – that being that you could fail a routine drug test if you ate a…

  • Poppy seeds are banned?

    ‘There’s no more poppy seeds in any bakery in Singapore because the police will investigate… you know? You know what poppy is used for?’ So the fella behind the counter at the Orchard Towers’ Jason’s Supermarket’s Hiestand Swiss Bakery’s (hooray for Apostrophy Man!) kiosk told me when I asked for buns with poppy seeds on…

  • Anything/Everything/Nothing Prohibited

    Depending on how you look at it – think of the half-full/half-empty perspective, this signboard I saw in a toilet at Dover Road was too good to pass up. Out came the phone cam (while I stood at the urinal – a little bit of maneuvering required) and so now I give you this photo:…