Category: Living

  • Watching TV. Be right back.

    Thank you Starhub Cable Vision for so many free preview channels while the country is hunkered down indoors sheltering from the Haze. iTunes is playing an illegal copy of Television from the album “Labour Of Love – The Music of Nick Lowe” by Marshall Crenshaw of which I have the original CD. Technorati Tags: Haze,…

  • Even the vegetables are complaining

    Spongebob gone bad I’ve been getting headaches from the Haze, which, this afternoon, was measured at a PSI of 106. That’s bad enough for you not to want to do anything. Some parts of Indonesia can’t do anything. In fact, I’m pretty sure they’d put out the fires if they could see them. The Haze…

  • Misreadings

    “Rebecca Koh” writes on Channelnewsasia.com’s special haze page that: The view from my office which is located at Gateway East along Beach Road was worse than yesterday or few hours earlier. But the PSI Index shows only slight difference. Are the PSI index reported by the respective department in charge accurate? It’d be great if…

  • Street directories are doggy

    If you need directions, Google Maps are great, and in the U.S. you can even download them onto your phone. This is really useful considering we know how detailed some of the Google Maps and Google Earth stuff can be. In Singapore, presumably because it’s not 2015 yet, we’re stuck with using streetdirectory.com, which is…

  • 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…