Our Army

Photograph of Selarang Barracks during the ‘Selarang Barracks Incident’- from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Things are moving pretty quickly with the Singapore Armed Forces. They’ve caught up with YouTube (whom Google has caught up with) by banning camera phones in military installations. No more pictures or videos from training. That also means no more unofficial […]

Quality air

From “Bounce Back To Life” iTunes is playing an illegal copy of Smoke from the album “Whatever And Ever Amen” by Ben Folds Five of which I have the original CD. Technorati Tags: Haze, Singapore

Why not the men?

For large people, indicate L, XL or XXL. For women, indicate Miss, Mrs, Mdm or Ms. I’ve only just noticed that if you were so inclined to write letters to the Straits Times Forum page, they request that you indicate your preferred way of being addressed, but only if you’re a woman, and only from […]

No, they’re not instant miniature buffalo

Instant buffalo – just add water These strange-looking things are called caltrops, and can be found in most supermarkets here, and in the case of the Cold Storage at Chancery Court, in a bin next to the pumpkin bin. They are called caltrops because they look like a medieval weapon called a caltrop, which… …was […]

Unhealthy readings

Not a picture of the Haze, but anti-mosquito fogging that made me panic and think it was the Haze How bad can the Haze get? Not half as bad as in Kuala Lumpur apparently, but then, things are always worse in Malaysia. The good thing about the Haze, the worst since 1997-98, is that you […]