The lengths some go to get their ang pow
Photo by @Dmateur Chinese New Year must be near if “Boy falls while performing lion dance on poles“. I laughed out loud, and kept laughing until I stopped. OK, I know it’s bad to laugh at the misfortune of others, but a headline like that is funny in so many ways. Not least, because it’s […]
Battling the news
I don’t know what a “laissez-faire attitude towards weight” means. Does it mean the government doesn’t care whether you’re fat or not? Or does it mean that you shouldn’t interfere with the weight of others? These are the first of the difficult issues of the new year one finds in one’s nation’s premier news media […]
With a bang (and a slight dent)
I wished a total stranger Happy New Year in Mandarin, even though he had just crashed into the front passenger door of my car right after he rode his bicycle on the pavement against the flow of traffic that was on the road outside the entrance to my apartment blocks. In response, he said, “対ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·æ–°å¹´å¿«ä¹å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·“ […]
A Bird Park of biblical promotions
I was walking Mac this afternoon on the pavement outside our apartment blocks, and at the bus stop I saw a poster for the Jurong Bird Park with a verse from Isaiah – “They will soar on wings like eagles”, and I thought it slightly disturbing that in a secular and multi-racial city state, there’d […]
Why golf is as good as tennis
It’s time to take the clubs out of the closet. Because golf’s Anna is as hot as tennis’ Maria. And I haven’t even seen her tee off, much less birdie a hole, but I’ll definitely (with the wife’s blessing) be keeping an eagle eye out for her, regardless of how many bogeys she makes or […]