A #HealthyRivalry For The Ages
Over the years, Kin Mun (mrbrown) and myself have sort of egged each other on to do stuff. Some good, some dumbass. When he used to work for an agency, he used to drive a car and didn’t get to exercise much. I took him to run at the NIE track twice a week, knocking […]
Cheaper Better Faster
The Labour Movement should not let Lim Swee Say it himself. Not since the 1990s, when Goh Chok Tong spouted all manner of football analogies, has anyone generated so much interest over his own slogans and turns of phrases. It’s been three and a half years since the NTUC’s Secretary-General first exhorted the country’s […]
Stand Up To Pervs
Say you were on the train and some moron started taking pictures of you with his camera/phone. He might be a STOMP content producer so you check yourself to see what it is about you that might be worthy of a salacious headline in that venerable broadsheet. There’s nothing worth talking about, unless the photographer […]
Show Me The Monkey
We love our new home. And after four months, we still love that it takes 30 minutes to walk up from Dunearn Road (although there’s a shuttle service) and we love the lush greenery all round. We didn’t mind that there was a colony of long-tailed macaques roaming the edge of the Bukit Timah Nature […]
Explaining Boston To A Four Year Old
Yesterday morning on waking up, I checked my phone for messages, and read about the Boston Marathon bombing. As Naomi and I headed to our kitchen for breakfast with Kai, I decided to turn on the television for updates. Kai started to ask what we were watching on tv. As has been our policy, we […]