Birthday parade

On July 31, 2007 · 6 Comments · In Living

Just when I thought it was a fan­tas­tic enough week with birth­day gifts galore from Naomi, she went and organ­ised a huge parade on the bay which con­cluded with a fire­works dis­play over the water.

There were march­ing con­tin­gents, heli­copters, speed­boats and para­chutists, and we saw all this from the com­fort of a nice dining […]

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More time plumbing

On July 31, 2007 · 3 Comments · In Places

If you’re not hav­ing a good day, or even if you’re hav­ing a good day, this file is dou­ble guar­an­teed to put a smile on your dial. Try not to lis­ten to it while you’re dri­ving or oper­at­ing machin­ery that might take your fin­gers off if you didn’t pay attention.

Then again, ‘there’s noth­ing that […]

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Men’s Health: Man2Man: I Quit!

On July 28, 2007 · 36 Comments · In Living

Orig­i­nally pub­lished in Men’s Health (July 2007)


A few weeks ago I had a very bad dream. I was walk­ing back home from Hol­land Vil­lage, just a stone’s throw from where I live. It was get­ting dark, and it was a bit driz­zly, and between the knuck­les of my […]

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Uncommon courtesy

On July 25, 2007 · 30 Comments · In Living


Esca­la­tor — by Mr Wabu

This evening, Naomi and I went to the air­port with her Mum so that we could dine at the only Popeye’s Chicken & Bis­cuits Famous Fried Chicken Restau­rant in Sin­ga­pore. Oh, and for Naomi’s Mum to catch a flight.

On the […]

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It’s good to be a kaypoh nation

On July 21, 2007 · 25 Comments · In Eating, Living


Asleep in car — by And­war

Ear­lier tonight we went out to Hol­land Vil­lage for a bite and to take a short break from work. At 11:45 p.m., park­ing wasn’t hard to find.

We parked next to a car that had its engine run­ning and its sole occu­pant motion­less in […]

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Connected cleaners

On July 20, 2007 · 8 Comments · In Living, The Ingterneck

If you’ve ever won­dered if Sin­ga­pore was really such a hi-tech con­nected coun­try with hi-tech con­nected peo­ple, won­der no further.

On the Emer­ald Hill Group’s website’s “Work for us” sec­tion, there are open­ings for ‘Clean­ers’ to work at their var­i­ous out­lets on Emer­ald Hill. So con­fi­dent are they that […]

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Lining the queue

On July 19, 2007 · 10 Comments · In Living


Photo by Luang­mai

Tonight after a work meet­ing, Naomi and I popped by the Hol­land Vil­lage Cold Stor­age because our fridge was bor­der­ing on empty. Because she was still suf­fer­ing from the pain of two pro­lapsed discs in her lower back, we were hop­ing to make this a quick […]

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MacBook Pro

On July 17, 2007 · 43 Comments · In Toys

I know my wife loves me very much because she notices every lit­tle thing about me. Things that I some­times keep to myself. Like eye­ing and secretly yearn­ing for a new com­puter to replace my Power­book G4 12″.

Tak­ing the trou­ble of craft­ing care­fully placed ques­tions like in a […]

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The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Nine

On July 11, 2007 · 8 Comments · In Toys

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Some more mocking names

On July 10, 2007 · 6 Comments · In Living

A Catholic school in Aus­tralia has refused entry to a five year old boy because his sur­name is ‘Hell’.

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More mock­ing names

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