Category: News & Letters

One of the comic books I read as a child and I still do occasionally is Conan the Barbarian, a fantasy character created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. This character has appeared in a lot of mediums outside

The two of us usually get back home at about 6:30 pm every evening. If either one of us is cooking, dinner will typically be at around 7:15 pm and we’ll usually dine with a couple of Seinfeld or Everybody

I follow The Straits Times forum and discussion threads quite a bit, though I almost always operate in lurk rather than participant mode. The posts run the spectrum of quality; some witty, some informative, some pointless, some just plain rude.

I was talking to Matt yesterday and somewhere along our on/off conversation the topic got into the state of toilets in Singapore. He said Singapore rocks, and I said Singapore is probably the only country in the world that regularly

Here’s another letter that was written to the forum page at The Straits Times just a couple days ago. Sections of the letter are below (edited to save space, but full letter in the link). May 14, 2008 Insert graciousness

Here’s an excerpt from a letter that showed up on the 2nd April’s edition of Today Online. Quite an issue that strikes a chord in many Singaporeans: Where’s the space? Don’t convert motorists; solve train crush first (picture here from

Here’s an interesting article that was circulated on Clubsnap. It concerns the attempts by a photographer to claim damages against a company who lifted and used his works, then attempt to hide that fact. His web page here contains the

Here’s an interesting news article in the papers over the last few days: Stewardess suing Venture Corp CEO’s wife for allegedly slapping her By Teo Xuanwei, TODAY, 12 February 2008 SINGAPORE: A Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight attendant is taking the

A student of mine was asking me on her blog how is it that my comments on her tagboard are usually made so early in the morning. Well, my day actually begins very early. I’m usually up by 5:20 a.m.