It was CGed…?!
The two of us have been watching more TV in the last couple of evenings than the whole of a typical month put together. Yep you’ve guessed it; it’s been the Beijing Olympics and just prior to that, we both
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A Choice, A Life
There’s been no shortage of hot debates on issues at The Straits Times discussion forum. There was the en-bloc debate I blogged about recently, and there’s another current one on an age-old debate: abortion in Singapore. Yep, it’s a tough
Citius, Altius, Fortius
Faster, higher, stronger—or so the Olympic Games motto goes. It doesn’t feel so long ago when I wrote an entry here about the 2004 Summer Olympic games in Athens. This was during my doctoral program in Perth, and I followed
For the love of coin
One of the comic books I read as a child and I still do occasionally is Conan the Barbarian, a fantasy character created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. This character has appeared in a lot of mediums outside
Catfight! Mrrreeeoooww…!!!
The two of us usually get back home at about 6:30 pm every evening. If either one of us is cooking, dinner will typically be at around 7:15 pm and we’ll usually dine with a couple of Seinfeld or Everybody
The Island
I follow The Straits Times forum and discussion threads quite a bit, though I almost always operate in lurk rather than participant mode. The posts run the spectrum of quality; some witty, some informative, some pointless, some just plain rude.
Table clearage
Here’s something that mildly peeves me about Singaporeans; that so many people just won’t return their trays. When Ling and I started going out years ago, I made it a point to get both of us to return our trays
7.9
I was talking to Matt yesterday and somewhere along our on/off conversation the topic got into the state of toilets in Singapore. He said Singapore rocks, and I said Singapore is probably the only country in the world that regularly
Car parking
Here’s another letter that was written to the forum page at The Straits Times just a couple days ago. Sections of the letter are below (edited to save space, but full letter in the link). May 14, 2008 Insert graciousness
Paid by the hour
There was an interesting letter by a Huang Qiao Ying to The Straits Times recently about property agent commissions. Truth to tell, it’s one of the best forum letters I’ve read in the last year. Here’re some snippets of it:
For the price of coffee
The local news has been reporting on Singapore’s happiest person, and in the spirit of things, here’s a letter written to The Straits Times that’d be guaranteed to bring a smile – though at the expense of someone else (maybe).
Sardines
Here’s an excerpt from a letter that showed up on the 2nd April’s edition of Today Online. Quite an issue that strikes a chord in many Singaporeans: Where’s the space? Don’t convert motorists; solve train crush first (picture here from
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