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

I always start my day with the Straits Times Online forum. As depressed, twisty and damaged I am, I always feel alot better after reading the forum. If only life was one big ST forum ( Read more... )

The Chinese consider it bad luck to sleep beneath ceiling beams ( 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... )

The other day, I and a friend boarded bus 197 at Tanjong Katong Road. What was supposed to be a routinely slow journey turned exciting when a disagreement between a young Malay Mother and a Chinese Ah lian escalated into the whole bus being split into three camps: those who cared only for themselves, those with the Malay Mother [all 2 of them] and ( Read more... )