State of the nation

Almost every other blog post this month has been about the baby, so Naomi and I have endeav­oured to keep abreast (breast­feed­ing pun not intended) of cur­rent news and hap­pen­ings here:

1) It is heart­en­ing to note that home grown brand Cedele is spelling things as they pro­nounce them:

2) Just as heart­en­ing that the “Home Team” is very con­fi­dent that none of these vehi­cles pose any secu­rity threat to the SGX build­ing as they stop right on the No Stop­ping mul­ti­ple zigzag lines on the lane behind it. (Makes sense — no need to sab­o­tage a weak stock exchange):

3) There are monks earn­ing $20K a month!

4) That some nom­i­nated MPs aren’t seek­ing another term.

And I have Naomi to thank for telling me that the Straits Times arti­cle talk­ing about this was accu­rate in call­ing Eunice Olsen a musi­cian. I was about to make a mon­key of myself mak­ing lewd remarks about the instru­ments Miss Olsen might play. Appar­ently she plays the key­boards and is in a band.

Quite a cool band it looks like too, although I really do have a bone to pick with biogra­phies that go, “Shahn first picked up a gui­tar when he was 16″, because the next log­i­cal line should be, “before that, he was only strong enough to pick up smaller objects”.