Videos of Chee Siok Chin and John Tan trying to walk towards Shangri-La recently. Basically the video goes something like this ( Read more... )

CNA reports that:
Over 70% of shoppers support Bring Your Own Bag Day


I'm not sure which part of the article explains that though.

The article mentions there are 215 retail outlets supporting BYOB. Sounds like alot of support, but I wonder how is the figure calculated. According to Wikipedia, NTUC has about 100 Fairprice outlets. Are each of ( Read more... )

I remember the good old days when one could bring knitting needles of the longish metallic sort through airport customs and the only admonishment one got was for that missed stich at the bottom. As I [re]write this, I'm not sure anymore what we can or cannot bring. Tomorrow, I suppose bladders full of pee will be banned. I look forward to the day ( Read more... )

On the penal code amendment ( Read more... )

Yesterday in the Straits Times, there was an article about warning letters [so scary] being sent to charities about having key personnel who are related to each other, causing at least one person [the wife] in the husband-wife founding team of Food from the Heart to resign [but she still helps out as a volunteer though ( Read more... )