If only Michael Faye did this instead…

I don’t keep my car well. I don’t like washing it, and it’s not a good thing that it’s a black car, because it’s usually so dusty it’s more like a shade of dark grey. I’ve had people finger paint on my car the usual epithets – “wash me”, “dirty fellow”, and “www.washme.com”. But a […]

iPhoney Christmas

Christmas is nigh, and if you’re wondering what to get your loved ones for Christmas, keep thinking. There are too many things to buy, and very little money to go around. The iPhone’s been launched in Europe, but because the rest of Asia’s the backwater of the world, it’s not here yet. It’s the very […]

Bite me!

I’m inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit featured in the Sunday papers last week. There was this really, really interesting story about three outlets in Singapore which offer alternative skin treatment in the form of fish eating your dead skin off your live body. “Get prettier feet by allowing fish to nibble your dead skin”, said […]

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 […]

Saturday

You know it’s a good plate of greasy, lardy goodness when the queue’s already twenty long when you get there, and there are people in line in front of you who know how long it’s gonna take, and have taken the trouble of bringing a book along to read. It’s not that long, really, the […]