Hubbing it for an essential cause
This is one proposed regional hub I support, when previously I would’ve backed a push to cap the number of hubs (hubcap, geddit, geddit?): Singapore offers to be UN regional disaster coordination hub SINGAPORE : Singapore has offered to be the United Nations’ regional tsunami disaster coordination centre, extending its offer of not just military […]
Leftovers
I tried telling Steve that the New Year isn’t going to be as bleak as he thought it would be, and he went, ‘Oh yeah? That’s what you said last year (2003), and look what happened?’. Then he tells me how miserably stupid he thinks he’s been, because he waited till past midnight to send […]
Warm and fuzzy post for the new year
iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: Love Comes Tumbling – U2 – B-Sides 1980-1990, of which I have the original CD and therefore didn’t steal music. My all-time favourite sports journalist has a round-up of the best sporting moments of 2004 in his column ‘The Fitz Files’, in the Sydney Morning Herald, and […]
Resolve
iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? – Harry Connick Jr. – When My Heart Finds Christmas, of which I have the original CD and therefore didn’t steal music. You’re meant to make resolutions on New Year’s Eve for the new year. Last New Year’s Eve, I […]
Over and above S$2 million: NTUC offers condolences
Some corporations, really big ones, like Pfizer, Amazon.com, Citigroup, Cisco Systems, Bristol-Myers Squibb, have rallied in response to the tsunami disaster by donating generously. Over here, our very own very big quasi-corporation, NTUC, ‘expresses her deepest heartfelt condolences to the families of victims affected by last Sunday’s tsunami that struck many parts of Asia, following […]