What? There’ve Been 10 JB Arts Festivals Already?
Unbeknownst to many, and especially unbeknownst to me, there is a JB Arts Fest, and they’ve had it for ten years. This is a bit surprising given all the horror stories we read in our papers about JB and crime – where it’s always “Singaporean Shot While Shopping”, or something like that. Although after speaking […]
Malaysia, truly crazier
I’ve always said that no matter how bad one thinks Singapore is, there’s always Malaysia to make us thankful we don’t live there. I also think that the whole violence and burning of churches and temples could’ve been avoided if Malaysia had faster broadband connections. The ingterneck is so slow that you’d get really angry […]
Goodbye Ah Mah
My Ah Mah, my maternal grandmother, used to sew pyjamas and quilts for every single one of her twenty odd (or is it thirty odd) grandchildren. She’d buy yards and yards of fabric every year, and when we’d go visit her in Seremban, we’d come home with a new pair of jammies, knowing that every […]
Malaysia Boh Leh
I love reading news about Malaysia in the Singapore papers. The headlines alone are often entertaining: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I suppose that’s why some of them even thought of restricting women from travelling alone.
Backwater
Manneken Pis – Photo by (oranje) If there’s anything that reminds us that we live in a backward part of the world, it’s headlines like these: Malaysia drops idea of travel restriction for women More CCTVs to be installed to rid problem of urine in lifts in Aljunied GRC What happened to the “Swiss Standard […]