TODAY: Where history can repeat itself…
Snippets of Singapore’s past are being preserved in audio, video clips online A LOCAL daily on Saturday said Singaporeans had what it termed “collective amnesia”, highlighted by the passing of former Second Deputy Prime Minister S Rajaratnam. Last week, I wrote about bloggers who admitted it was the first time they learnt that it was […]
Thumbs up for the local brand
So I received an email from the operations director of Cedele, because he had read about my visit to their Great World City branch. He wrote that he had since conducted several ‘action items’, which, while I won’t list here, would have satisfied the most finicky of complaining customers. I am seriously impressed, given the […]
Podcast: Return of the condom heroes
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is the first time someone in Singapore has put money into a podcast apart from Mediacorp & SPH ones, which are like, you know, got a lot of money one? As mrbrown would explain similarly, we were very happy to take on our sponsors because their products made […]
Keong Saik afternoon
Keong Saik Road in Chinatown’s a collection of nice little eateries and boutique hotels. The URA calls it a conservation area, and in recent years, has stepped up the conservation efforts – by giving out awards – and of course, by letting the last licensed brothels remain in operation in between the new swanky businesses […]
Walking it on
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains, I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways, I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests, I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans, No lah, but going for a walk on the weekend, you get to see more things than, er, […]