Very very slow news day?
Eh, Mun Wai, scoop! You do this story lah! Dowan! Anything else? Disaster? Accidents? Injuries? Riots? Nope. Nada. That’s the best you’ve got. OK then. And we won’t be sending a photographer with you. OK then. Technorati Tags: channelnewsasia, news, Singapore
Greens are good for you
It’s confirmed. They’re good for you. Because “women all over the world live healthier and longer lives”, The Straits Times tells us we should “take a leaf” from our wives. So I told my wife and she said, “Can you be more specific? What kind of leaf? Lettuce? Cabbage? Basil? Banana? Palm?” Maybe there’s a […]
The librarian tried his darndest
The Ask The Librarian service emailed me with his team’s findings, and found the most likely site of Tan Seng Poh’s mansion: You might find this useful. Excerpt from: Title: One hundred years’ history of the Chinese in Singapore / Song Ong Siang ; introduction by Edwin Lee. Author: Song, Ong Siang, Sir, 1871-1941. Publisher: […]
The librarian’s on it
I wrote earlier about the ‘drug lord’ turned philantropist Tan Seng Poh and his mansion near the Armenian Church, and about how I asked the National Library’s “Ask a librarian” librarian to locate the site of Seng Poh’s house. He’s (the librarian, not Tan Seng Poh) emailed to tell me that he and his colleagues […]
Free Rice
After gorging on Cha Kua Teow (sic) yesterday, sick it so happened that we stumbled upon freerice.com, where we spent a couple of hours sparing a thought, several hundred words and grains of rice for the needy: Frequently Asked Questions How does playing the vocabulary game at FreeRice help me? Learning new vocabulary has tremendous […]