Category: People

  • Cross-Strait (not bi) relations: Kenny steals our thunder

    The hirsute Kenny Sia took a bus here from KL, wanting to meet mrbrown and me, because anyone who comes to town would want to meet us. But being the prima donnas that we are, we were terrible hosts. I had work till 8, mrbrown had to make sure his kids were tucked in, and…

  • Press the Face: Interview I: Janice Wong

    You know how the newspapers have been full of stories about blogs and bloggers and this thing about blogs being online diaries? Well, it’s time the tables were turned, said a friend of mine. So, I turned the table and nothing happened and everything looked the same. So my friend told me, no dude, I…

  • Deejay Slapdash is da bomb

    Or however we’re supposed to say it in this day and age of Music Television. There’s this extremely nice place on Circular Road (which we’re told, is like the new Mohammed Sultan Road, only for older people, so we have to go there now) called The Hideout, which we managed to find after discovering that…

  • A bit late, like Channel NewsAsia, but Happy 21st, Wendy Cheng!

    We wuz honoured to be invited to Xiaxue’s 21st birthday party at Changi last last week, and I even got to wear her tiara. Queen for the night. Doesn’t get any better than this, this blogging life. By the time we got there, the birthday girl had turned 21, washed her makeup off with tears…

  • My mother is meaner than yours

    My mother was expecting us to take her out to a good meal. And though she didn’t articulate that expectation, her children had to meet it. Nothing less. Nothing less is what my mother expects. And it has been that way all her life. From jostling for the littlest bit of attention in her childhood,…