When time slows down
One of the very large dents. I would have submitted this to STomp! but they’re full of photos of cars with dents already. It’s funny how smooth the roads are these days, just because the IMF and World Bank circus was in town recently. But that didn’t prevent some very large debris from littering the […]
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 […]
Village People: Hainan, Part Four
Uncle Y Y Lee outside the house he was born in A couple of things precipitated this blog post. First, I found a link from this Hainan Island related site. Then I remembered that my uncle (father’s brother) didn’t attend my wedding because, as my cousin informed me a day before that, that he ‘couldn’t […]
Your English also temporary out of service lah!
The Speak Good English Campaign may be working. But the Write English Just As Good one hasn’t been launched yet, which explains this sign at Changi Airport Terminal One: COMPUTER SYSTEM IS TEMPORARY OUT OF SERVICE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCED CAUSED I’m not even going to ask why there’s a semi-permanent placard that announces computer […]
Nearly driving into the sea
South Stack, North Wales About ten years ago, I got lost trying to get to my cousins’ farmhouse in North Wales and nearly drove all the way into the sea. ‘It’s called Fferam Bailey, Benny, you can’t miss it’, said my uncle who was trying to give me directions as I drove northwest from London. […]