Category: News & Letters
CB Living: Part 1 – Singapore and the World
Royal Wedding Music
On FRI evening, I received an SMS from Ling: Am watching the Royal Wedding on Channel 5 now. =) Ugh. And I was still in school for an event! I did catch the ceremony the next morning though, courtesy of
Disasters and Society
The last week hasn’t been an easy one for those of us who follow the daily news. There was the triple whammy of nuclear disaster, tsunami and earthquake in Japan. I watched the numerous Youtube videos of the oncoming monster
Japan, 2010
As soon as I left for Boston and started posting all those pictures of places I was visiting, Ling began dropping big hints about our upcoming opportunity at the end of this year for a holiday to makeup for the
Parental Responsibilities
There was an article in news pages of The Straits Times today about a secondary school student having an accident while climbing Mt. Kinabalu – yep, that mountain that Ling has scaled 2-3 times now. The 13 year old boy
A Very Brave Maid
Many of the news regarding home helpers in Singapore these days aren’t flattering. On too many occasions, they’ve been on misdemeanors either on the part of the home helpers, or of their employers abusing their helpers. So, when the below
No World Cup?!
There are two really bizarre incidents covered in the newspapers these days. One of them is the still unfolding Apple vs Gizmodo drama over a misplaced iPhone prototype, and the other is a more localized issue. Thanks to messed-up competitive
Judge Fancy Pants
While reading up on some legal precedents in defamation suits, I came across a story that’s in equal parts both hilarious and also just plain bizarre. A family of South-Korean immigrants, the Chungs, were running a Pop-Mom laundry shop ‘Custom
Samantha Smith
I have a vague recollection of a news incident that I remembered reading about as a young Primary Six boy 27 years ago in 1983. I never quite remembered the names and actual circumstances of the story over the years,
Opportunities, Indiscretions and Scandals
There’re just three extended news issues running in the last week or so now. Firstly, the inquiries made to a certain Romanian DIplomat’s actions that resulted in a poor guy’s death; secondly, the extremely dry weather here that finally saw
Travel for the Brave (or Foolhardy)
One of the most useful sites that I look at is Wikitravel, the Wikipedia equivalent for travelers. The information there is peer-contributed and edited, and it serves as a useful amalgamation or as a start point to get key pointers


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