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Month: November 2006

  • Poot, kerbaboom!*

    Sometimes when you travel somewhere often enough, you don’t notice or appreciate the things you see or hear. The latter being more so. Cars and motorcycles sound different in Malaysia, as the poster I saw attests. Car horns go ‘Pon’; motorcyles go a variety of ways, like ‘Prengg’, ‘Brengg’ (depending on the model and make,…

  • Human spirit abundant guest writer

    I was desperate to know what the Zaobao Now section of Zaobao was saying because there was a mention of ‘Mr Miyagi’, so I ran the paragraph over with my computer’s nifty translator widget, and this is what it said: Human spirit abundant guest writer Mr.Miyagi had even said perhaps, Lin Zhen thinks is the…

  • Representing Singapore

    A big thank you to Drs Edna Lim and Philip Holden for having Agagooga and myself at 10am in the morning, guest lecturing at NUS as part of the English Language & Literature Department’s ‘Representing Singapore‘ module. It was fun. (Thanks are in order to Agagooga and his fabulous Powerpoint skills too, or else I’d…

  • Lesbian footage and other disturbing scenes

    I read with consternation that Starhub Cable Vision was fined $10,000.00 by the MDA for screening lesbian footage when the ‘reality‘ show ‘Cheaters‘ was screened. How could I have missed that episode? For those not familiar with Cheaters, it’s a program that is so bad, it’s good. The last time I watched it, they featured…

  • Press for information

    It’s been a while since I’ve been treated (or tortured) to a foot reflexology session, and though this evening’s wasn’t as painful as I expected it to be, the burly foot reflexologist at this place called Jo Place Foot Therapy Centre knuckled a couple of spots on my feet which caused a lot of wincing.…