Auntie Lilly and the free gift from hell

My cousin called today to tell me about what happened to Auntie Lilly and Uncle Albert over the weekend. It was a pretty slow Saturday morning, so Auntie Lilly was very happy to have received a phone call that told her she had been selected to receive some branded free gifts. You know where this […]

Sick as

Mr Miyagi has the flu and is on MC today, probably because he was stupid enough to go play touch footy on Sunday even though his body was telling him not to. Anyway, he will leave you with something he wrote a while ago: The Pacific Sports Store, Randwick Yes, Mel Gibson lived around here, […]

Laws of our land Part II: Stateless in Singapore

I like telling my friends about how I wasn’t a Singapore citizen until I was ten. Because they’d ask me, ‘Oh really, so where were you born?’ And I’d say ‘Singapore’. And they’d ask, ‘but how come you weren’t a citizen? What nationality were you then?’ No nationality! Stateless!, I’d say, real proud of my […]

Looking through my coin collection

There are days when being self-employed is not what it’s cut out to be. Your own time – very little; Your own money – very little. Yup, it’s time to dig out coins from under the sofa cushions again (not a very good haul, I might add, because spring cleaning was only recently). But at […]