Category: Everything Else

I caught a whole ton of movies both on the big screen and on disc in 2007, but the bulk of it were those mass-appeal shows. Many were great fun of course, e.g. Borat, Ratatouille, Transformers. But the show that

There’re actually both upsides and downsides of getting older by the years. On the downside, there was that time round outside Hougang Mall when a flag-seller referred me to as “Uncle”. On the upside, I get to start counting down

It’s funny to think of it sometimes, how as one grows older, one’s label changes. Specifically, over here in Singapore at least, when you’re young (sort of), people around you call you “Ah di”, or little brother. When you’re older,

We’d stopped by Ang Mo Kio Central for brunch after Sunday service just now, and guess what was on offer? Yep – the Bee Chee Hiang bakkwa was going for just $31.50 a kg – which Ling remarks is the

…a sign of preoccupation with our Lord Jesus Christ – something I read from today’s (27th Jun) devotion passage from ‘My Utmost for His Highest’ (http://www.studylight.org/devos/utm/) by Oswald Chambers. Just the third day of school and I’m feeling great anxiety

“Wade out when the tide is low…” An Australian song my choir sang as part of her repertoire long time ago rang in my head tonight as I blog about a recent field trip to the Labrador Park rocky shore.

Ya Kun Kaya Toast @ Thomson Plaza Both of us got our brunch obsessions. For myself, it’s Hotcakes with sausage at MacDonald’s, and we’ve had this so much over the last couple of months that Ling has grown paranoid over

A short story on the Battle of Britain that was originally posted here on the 18 Feb 2001. The Battle of Britain is frequently also regarded as the first major turning point of the war, when the allied forces finally

This was posted up here on the 14 Feb 2001, shortly before the release of Michael Bay’s turkey of a mess Pearl Harbor movie. Another commonly made observation of the Pearl Harbor attack was that most pundits believe it was

Another short entry I wrote, which was originally posted up here on 6 Oct 2000. The source of the story in Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s tour-de-force motion picture on the second world war, was in reality based on a

The recent movie by Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima, makes a passing reference to the death of General Yamamoto during the war. Here’s a short but well-known story about him that I originally posted up on the 13 Feb