Tag: Travel

  • The Da Vinci Trail

    I haven’t read Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, and it doesn’t look like I’m gonna. Still, it’s one of those books which you don’t have to actually read to know a lot about, since almost everyone I know seems to have read it, and at one time or another, has talked about it. And, now…

  • War’s over, dude!

    Winner Collection Items, Roxy Square, Katong “Do not forget the unforgettable! Do not forgive the unforgivable!” It’s 1.50pm and ‘Winner Collection Items’ at Roxy Square’s still not open. It’s a shop chock-full of old photo-prints and other collectibles which may not interest everyone – probably why it isn’t open at lunch time. (Or maybe the…

  • We’d trade in slaves if we could

    5-day weeks are for civil servants. Other kinds of servants aren’t so lucky. Technorati Tags: signs, singapore

  • Mmmm donuts…

    I’m still wondering why Singaporean tastebuds never got used to Dunkin’ Donuts, while multi-millionaires have been made out of their (dunkin donuts’, not tastebuds’) franchisees in Indonesia and Malaysia. They are good donuts, you know? And you can get them on several North South Highway (PLUS) pit-stops between here and KL. Technorati Tags: food, kuala…

  • Malaysia Boh, leh…

    In KL over the weekend, I might have been tempted to break the law by buying pirated DVDs from the many pirated DVD stalls in shopping malls. But as providence would have it, I was saved by the quick actions of someone who’d tipped off the vendors about an impending raid by the local constabulary.…