It’s getting old
I’m talking about the weather. Enough already! I’m not water proof! Plus I’ve been having tummy aches so bad, a band named themselves after my condition. iTunes is playing an illegal copy of East St. Louis Toodle-O from the album “This Is Jazz (Volume 7)” by Duke Ellington of which I have the original CD. […]
TODAY: Financial tips you can trust?
Turning stock market pundits, bloggers cry kelong on unscrupulous companies YOU could say controversy and scandal accompanied the rise of blogs last year, what with extensive media coverage of sedition charges and threats of defamation action. Could the new year see a boom in blogs as legitimate sources of business and financial information? The disclaimer […]
Please allow to use my photo
Russian Restaurants Around The World Update: Alex from Restoran.us wasn’t very happy I posted our email exchange wherein he asked to use my Flickr photo of Shashlik restaurant and wherein I agreed. So he wrote to ask me nicely to remove the email exchange, which I now have: From: restoran.us Subject: Re: Please allow to […]
This is Singapore, you have to queue
I swear this is what the door-bitch at MOS told a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a business associate of mine who tried an excuse that went “I am wanting to entertain my business client from Hong Kong, and he’s leaving tomorrow so can you let us in?”: This […]
Sloshy Sunday
The last time it rained so hard for so long, someone was commissioned to build a flood-worthy craft carrying winners of the world’s first beauty contest. So there wasn’t much else to do (work commitments were cancelled as well) except have a really big brunch and think of a reasonable excuse for not attending Cowboy […]