Please be careful of your fingers
Because they might tickle you or something… This is arguably more effective a phrasing than ‘Beware of lift door’, or “Do Not Put Fingers Into Gap Between Lift Door and Lift Door Recess” because when you’re asked to ‘Be Careful of Your Fingers’, you are more likely to look at your fingers by holding your […]
Why do you want to know?
I’m attending the International Sex Video Forum 2006 at Suntec And to answer today’s search engine query: ‘How do you make brown rice tea?’ I think it involves some brown rice and some boiling water. And a pot. And some cups to serve them in. Yah. Technorati Tags: search engine requests, Singapore
I should hope so
Interpreters help bridge language barrier at IMF/WB meetings, among other revelations heard first, and only, on Channelnewsasia.com! Dang! I thought interpreters were people who built houses! Whaddya know?!
9/11
It’s been five years since I watched in astonishment on my mother’s television set the destruction of the twin towers. That night, on the 11th of September 2001, I had just come home from I can’t remember what (this blog didn’t exist yet), and my mum’s study door was ajar, and she was sitting and […]
Keretapi
Once, when I was about four, I arrived back in Singapore from Seremban on the KTM Ekspres Rakyat to be greeted by members of my family at Tanjung Pagar Railway Station. Only thing was, I didn’t recognise the people who were talking to me. Only when I heard, in English, “Oi, come back already don’t […]