Tag: Toys

  • Minejima & Co. Hits The Road

    I’m very happy to announce that Naomi’s new business ‘Minejima & Co.’ will be ensconced at Block 71, Loewen Road, Dempsey Hill, from now till 16th December. Please come by to say hi, and do some of your Christmas shopping here. It’s a great Christmas Market that the folks at Dempsey Hill have put up.…

  • More than half of toys tested unsafe

    The Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) tested a basket of 50 toys sold in Singapore, and more than half were found to be unsafe. Naomi and I are not surprised. But what I’d like to know is, what kind of crap toy is this? The pictorial list of toys is here, and I kinda agree…

  • Elvis goes to IKEA

    Qik is simply awesome. PM Lee used it, and so must I. Actually, like mrbrown, I was alerted to Qik by an email from a Singaporean who works at Qik in Silicon Valley. My channel is http://qik.com/miyagi, and I’m thinking of ways to use this damn thing. So fun. Elvis goes to IKEA My Live…

  • In defence of Sim Lim Square

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Geek Central isn’t so bad, at least not when I was there last week to get some stuff for my brother in law in China (because it’s worse over there – you can hardly get any non-pirated stuff for a reasonable retail price, apparently). At several shops on the fourth and…

  • I’d be lost without the mobile ingterneck

    When members of my family visit from far flung places, they understandably want to sample foods from far flung places within Singapore – like the best Hokkien Mee I know of. So I went and drove to Beach Road, to the last place I bought Hokkien Mee from, and to my shock and horror after…