Month: September 2005

  • Eat until become Michelin Man

    I used to think Michelin-rated chefs were cooks who worked for racing teams. If you were to dine at The French Stall, you might still think so. Not that the food’s bad, but the cars along Serangoon Road compete with the nearby condo construction site for noise. Actually, Edith Piaf playing on the restaurant’s stereo…

  • SWF Videoblog Part VI

    Cory Doctorow on deciding what to blog: Download here. (.mov file, doctor 1Mb, for sale 1 min 19 sec). Technorati Tags: corydoctorow, singaporewritersfestival, videoblog

  • Sound of Thunder Tea Rice

    Lunch hours are a drag if you work in the CBD. You have a choice between having really expensive sandwiches in a quiet cafe or reasonably cheap rice and three questionable dishes with 27,542 other CBD workers. So you either spend $15 or $3, depending on whether you brought tissue paper to chope a seat…

  • Excellent choice

    Splashed on the front of the Straits Times, because it’s really important, was the news that MINDEF has agreed to purchase the Boeing F-15 Strike Eagle as their next fighter plane. ST describes the F-15 Strike Eagle: “…twin-engined fighter jet that carries two crew and is designed to knock enemy planes out of the sky…

  • SWF Videoblog Part V

    “Ants are the shapes of opinion” – Q&A session: Download here. (.mov file, story 588Kb, 46 sec). Technorati Tags: corydoctorow, mrbrown, singaporewritersfestival, videoblog