Month: March 2006
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Podcast: Singapore GaGa
I already enjoy documentaries, but Singapore Gaga is something I’d watch more than once, and in fact, already have. Maybe because it’s a film that makes you go, ‘hey, I also can make a film liddat’. Film maker Tan Pin Pin brought along one of her subjects in the film, Margaret Leng Tan, and the…
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Bungalow by the sea
Pasir Panjang Days: One of the concepts that never made it off the Tourism Board’s drawing board of national symbols? (See Cory Doctorow’s Flickr Set of Haw Par Villa). “412 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 5.” That was how I used to recite my address to anyone who’d ask me where I lived. I must’ve been…
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How can a poor man stand such times and live?
Hard times at the Tian Ee Coffee Stall at Margaret Road Food Centre. Technorati Tags: singapore
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TODAY: Where history can repeat itself…
Snippets of Singapore’s past are being preserved in audio, video clips online A LOCAL daily on Saturday said Singaporeans had what it termed “collective amnesia”, highlighted by the passing of former Second Deputy Prime Minister S Rajaratnam. Last week, I wrote about bloggers who admitted it was the first time they learnt that it was…
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Thumbs up for the local brand
So I received an email from the operations director of Cedele, because he had read about my visit to their Great World City branch. He wrote that he had since conducted several ‘action items’, which, while I won’t list here, would have satisfied the most finicky of complaining customers. I am seriously impressed, given the…