Month: February 2006

  • Poppy seeds are banned?

    ‘There’s no more poppy seeds in any bakery in Singapore because the police will investigate… you know? You know what poppy is used for?’ So the fella behind the counter at the Orchard Towers’ Jason’s Supermarket’s Hiestand Swiss Bakery’s (hooray for Apostrophy Man!) kiosk told me when I asked for buns with poppy seeds on…

  • Mr Miyagi puts it rather squarely

    Bloggers are self-serving, unless of course there’s a greater community need where it will serve the blogger himself to actually help out, I don’t think bloggers will go out of their way unless they have a real altruistic nature about them lah. Yes, I said that to Jermyn Chow, the Straits Times Interactive reporter who…

  • Bursting at the seams

    If you were to check the statistics for your own blog or website, and depending on whether you had written about the latest thing on the internet, you might find something like this: Which may lead to your hosting provider writing you something like this: Hello I am writing to let you know that I…

  • Rainbow Connection

    Secret Video taken near NYP I really don’t mind buskers. But in a country where you have to audition before some National Arts Council panel in order to get a licence to busk, you’d sometimes wonder who sits on that panel, and whether, as part of the National Environmental Agency’s charter, if the use of…

  • Vale, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam

    1915 – 2006