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TODAY: When bloggers go to the movies

The word-of-mouth effect – only far more effective When Tan Pin Pin’s documentary, Singapore Gaga (singaporegaga.com), was shown at a “press screening” for a select few in the media, several of us bloggers were a little surprised we were on the invite list. We didn’t ask too many questions at the Q&A that followed, and […]

Reeling

Funny how a day after I blog about the house I used to live in, my mother calls and tells me that the house we’re living in right now, well, she’s just sold it. Twenty-five years I’ve lived here (excepting eight in Australia), and I’ve got a couple of months to decide where to move […]

Podcast: Singapore GaGa

I already enjoy documentaries, but Singapore Gaga is something I’d watch more than once, and in fact, already have. Maybe because it’s a film that makes you go, ‘hey, I also can make a film liddat’. Film maker Tan Pin Pin brought along one of her subjects in the film, Margaret Leng Tan, and the […]

Bungalow by the sea

Pasir Panjang Days: One of the concepts that never made it off the Tourism Board’s drawing board of national symbols? (See Cory Doctorow’s Flickr Set of Haw Par Villa). “412 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 5.” That was how I used to recite my address to anyone who’d ask me where I lived. I must’ve been […]