Food Fight!
One of the funniest news items to hit the newspapers yesterday came out loud and screaming in all the national dailies. The Straits Times reported: Sep 18, 2009 Truly Malaysian? Tourism Minister wants to stake claim on popular dishes By
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Thinking Aloud
I did the post on the Miss Singapore – World 2009 contestant not speaking terrifically good English in a bit of a rush the other day, but wasn’t intending to add to it. But there’s been a couple of news
I Speake English!
The last Beauty Pageant I watched was in 1987. That was the one time Singapore played host to the Miss Universe pageant, with our very own Marion Nicole Teo placed 8th in the overall competition eventually. Fast forward 22 years
Uncommon bravery
I haven’t been a follower of local / Hong Kong / Taiwan / Japan / South-Korean TV drama serials for the last 20+ years now. In fact, my vaguest recollection of watching an Asian drama series comes from my lower
Danger of SMSing while driving
It constantly amazes me when I drive to see the occasional motorist texting while driving on the road. I was forwarded this Youtube video that illustrates the dangers of SMSing while driving. Be warned: it’s very graphic.
“Welcome to (whichever)…”
Over the last day or two, there’s been a couple of letters published in TODAY on Singapore immigration. The first two are below, and two more on the paper’s web site: Our unpleasant return to Singapore Letter from Randy K
!@#!@#!#%%!
One of the weirdest letters to have been published in The Straits Times in recent memory was in last Tuesday’s paper. Here’s what it read (source here): July 14, 2009 Horrified by many profanities in matinee show on NS life
iPhone Suicide
Here’s a sad bit of Tech. news that’s now rapidly being broadcast around: China iPhone man commits suicide By Chris Hogg BBC News, Beijing A young Chinese worker suspected of stealing a prototype for the fourth generation iPhone has committed
The Worse Tourists
The Straits Times had an interesting if brief article today about who were world’s worst tourists are. I was half-expecting Singaporeans to be named as somewhere near the top of the list, but surprisingly, it was the French LOL. French
Living in Interesting Days
Who would have thought: viruses mutated with pigs thrown somewhere into the mixture. These couple of days have been, well, interesting. 6 years ago in 2003 there was the SARS scare. I missed on all that though: I’d just arrived
I’m Not Sorry
Newspapers for me elicit quite a range of reactions and emotions. You get the funny stories (like the three Somali pirates), tragic stories (like the three Somali pirates if you believe that those Somalis didn’t have a choice in making
“I am going to make that audience rock.”
There was an interesting if very short news article in this morning’s The Straits Times; where an amateur singer took to the stage in Britain’s Got Talent 2009 – I’m guessing the UK version of American Idol – and received
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