Month: February 2015
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#CardboardConstable Origins
In case you didn’t know, #CardboardConstable was commissioned in November 2013, and mrbrown and myself started Instagramming his deployment locations last year. If you, like us, find the recent crime prevention video with the mass dance damn jialat, here’s a list of #CardboardConstable sightings on Instagram for you to enjoy instead. This picture’s my favourite so far: My heart…
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Adding To Our Melting Pot
It is part of Singapore life to have foreigners in our midst, and that there are people grumbling about how there are too many of them. There are also terms first used by the Government – such as “Foreign Talent”, that have taken a derisory and derogatory tone when used by the same grumblers. You…
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Far Cough
Yesterday Kai asked me if I knew what a fart and cough at the same time was called. I said, “No, do you?” He said yes and then took out the last consonant of “fart” and joined it with “cough” to make one word. I told him never to say it again.