Calling off the hunt

So we found a place that’s really nice – an apartment which is old enough not to be the usual low-ceiling small bedroom type of apartment. It’s got greenery, lots of it, and a dusty old lift lobby that’s seen better days. But oh, the stress of having my mother, and my friends scream over […]

Expensive mall alert

I can understand ‘no-smoking while waiting for your passenger’, but to ask your chauffeur not to have a burger and a small coke is kinda harsh. Technorati Tags: singapore Facebook Comments Box

Magic Hay Mee Fundoshi

So mrbrown is on a road trip to bring you new and exciting stories about the Land-of-the-Crooked-Bridge-Builder-Wannabe-Then-Change-Mind (Malaysia), and I’m stuck here in Singapore covering new and exciting developments, three at a time, about the elections. One more week to try the moody Hay Mee Man’s noodles! Hurry! And I can tell you now, the […]

Singapore Armed Forces Veterans’ League, you suck!

OK, so I’m saying that only because I nearly made a monkey of myself. Last night, my mother called me and asked, ‘hey, what is this Singapore Armed Forces Veterans’ League?’, to which I replied with my usual confident bluster, “No such thing!”, which got Mum all worked up: “Har? No such thing? But they […]

Good house hunting

For the last month, I’ve had a friend who’s a housing agent helping us look for a place to rent. She’s having it tough, making appointments only for me to break them because ‘something’s come up’, and because ‘yeee, I don’t like the place’. But like buying a car, renting an apartment is rocket science […]