Month: June 2008

  • Weekend breakfast

    We live in such times as that where we don’t have time for a good meal to kick start the day because the day has already been kick-started and we’ve been dragged along, hanging on to the handlebars for dear life. Oh, and the price of food and other household items suck too. But if…

  • Meet the Karen Cheng

    I’ve been following Karen Cheng’s blog on and off since blogs were invented way back in 1976. If you’re not already a fan, she’s a hot Perth mother of two lovely kids who blogs about her family, shopping et cetera on a very pretty self-designed website at www.karencheng.com.au. On occasion, she takes self-portraits in a…

  • Joe Augustin got what?

    It was with shock and horror that I logged in to Facebook for the first time in yonks, to read amongst the hundreds of superpokes and superclittickles that Joe Augustin got fired. I haven’t listened to radio for so long that I’ve never listened to 91.3FM (the station that fired Joe), much less known about…

  • Green neighbourhood. Not.

    Here in Singapore, we send our trash overseas – Photo by Where is Clifford The Big Red Dog? I asked our apartment block’s cleaner where the recycle bins were and he said there weren’t any. Just chuck everything into the big wheelie bin, he said. What made me sicker was a friend of ours telling…

  • When policemen still wore shorts

    “Wah, you must have bought this when policemen still wore shorts”, said the lady at the lighting shop as she asked for my permission to dismantle some more of the tiffany lamp I brought in for her to fix. As took the base off, the debris from inside the lamp fell out and dirtied her…