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Oct 28, 2011, 11:27 am
The Halloween House of Horrors cancellation is just a lot of hot air. The CEO of Wildlife Reserves is a terribly misunderstood woman. I think she was just trying to bring everything back to a simpler time, when most of the natives in Singapore never even heard of this festive event known as Hallowee... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 11:17 am
So it seems there are men who seriously cannot handle women who take things into their own hands. Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 12:49 pm
Our friend Pam alerted us to this hilarious reading of Adam Mansbach’s “Go The F*** To Sleep”. Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2011, 12:01 pm
So there’s this thing you can buy that can take (some of) the grief out of married life: Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2011, 12:02 pm
Do you tell people “I’m Chinese” or “I’m Malay” or “I’m Indian”? Or do you naturally and proudly say, “I’m Singaporean”?
Whose fault is it if you don’t? Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2011, 9:37 am
My friend Calvin shares a story about his 8 year-old son being marked wrong for an answer that, ordinarily, would’ve garnered plaudits for its insight. Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2011, 9:25 am
I don’t follow motor-racing, and I think I had to ask several people on Sunday night who won this year’s big race, and it was several minutes again before I realized Vettel was a person and not a brand of bottled water.
The taxi driver whose cab I rode in on Sunday night was sheepish at first w... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 9:24 pm
A bit late, but here’s what I wrote about the whole “cyber-bullying” RWS thing:
It was decided a long time ago, that we would have an Asian twist to the attractions afforded by Integrated Resorts like Resorts World Sentosa. Our Asian, twisted types need our fill of beauty pageants, sharksfin ... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2011, 11:16 am
Hasbro’s Let’s Rock Elmo rocked the Toy Fair in New York earlier this year.
I’ll leave it to the video presentation made at the Fair, and leave it to you to decide who is potentially more irritating, Elmo or the presenter:
Hasbro very kindly gave Kai a basic set (without the extra instrument... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 10:01 pm
Last but not least: Hossan Leong Show Cast Member No. 5
Guess all 5 voices correctly and stand a chance to win a pair of tickets to The Hossan Leong Show (Episode 3)! Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 11:22 am
And here’s Cast Member #4: Click to listen: Hossan Leong Show Cast Member No. 4 Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2011, 10:00 pm
This is the 3rd episode in our ownself-made talk show. My friend Calvin’s son walks out as I speak about impatience. We did not script this, I swear. Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2011, 11:54 am
And here is the 3rd cast member. Meanwhile, have you got your tickets yet?
Have a listen and guess: Hossan Leong Show Cast Member 3 Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2011, 12:01 pm
And here’s the second cast member’s sound byte. Should be easy, this one.
Listen here: Hossan Leong Show Cast Member 2 Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2011, 12:27 pm
Every day for the next 5 days we’ll reveal a new sound byte from a character in the Hossan Leong Show 3. All you have to do is guess all five actors, and you’ll stand a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Hossan Leong Show (Ep 3).
Leave your answers in the comment here, or on Dream Academy... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2011, 1:36 pm
Air NZ makes inflight safety video interesting again:
Other inflight videos:
Air New Zealand Bare Essentials of Safety
Cebu Pacific Safety Dance Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2011, 1:08 am
Starhub’s popular TVC character returns in a new series of interactive ads to be screened from 26 August. How do you interact with the ad? You need to download the Hub It! app and fire it up.
I had a chance to try it out at a preview (and crashed the app), and it’s pretty impressive.
But of co... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2011, 10:21 am
This is the password to get 20% off Cat 1 tickets (only for weekdays and matinees). Offer ends 28 August 2011. Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2011, 3:36 pm
For Wednesdays in September 2011 only, show this post (on your mobile device) to iFly Singapore’s ticketing booths and get an Adult First Timer Challenge Package for only S$59 (U.P. S$89).
Thanks iFly for treating me (and a bunch of bloggers) to this fantastic experience. I really like the idea o... Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2011, 5:21 am
There’s a woman who works in my office building who is always downstairs smoking in the atrium. Every time I go out of the building, and I mean every time, she’s there, puffing away, either alone or chatting with other people. I see her smoking at least three times a day. Nobody knows how many o... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2011, 11:03 am
A National Day song by Mas Riddim. You cannot say there are no patriots in our fine country. Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2011, 1:39 pm
Last night Naomi and I took what little time we had and got our tickets to watch Dream Academy’s production of Into The Woods.
It was the best musical I have seen in a long, long time, and I am so thankful that Selena Tan took a punt and decided to stage this wonderful (and devilishly difficult) ... Comment - Like
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Aug 1, 2011, 11:57 am
We were looking through Naomi’s old photos trying to compile a slide show for her brother’s memorial gathering, and naturally spent a lot of time looking at many other family photos.
What struck us, was of course how much Kai looks like his mother. Will you just lookadat!
Mama’s Kai
Kai’s... Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2011, 12:44 am
DBS corporate banking can’t send emails out to ‘email address outside DBS’.
That is what I was told half an hour ago by an officer who seems to have a lot of trouble contacting me by modern means. Maybe in the next hour they might arrive in the 21st century. Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 7:22 am
Getting stuck in traffic can rile one up quite badly. Worse, I saw a truck this evening whose sole purpose was to display an ad for The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Its cab bore a Mediacorp logo.
Seriously, guys, WTF are you thinking? You might as well put your mouth on the exhaust pipe and suck on... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2011, 3:44 am
Not content with his specially curated iPad content in the car, Kai yesterday directed a yell at me while we were at a traffic junction. I turned to look and see what it was he wanted.
It took the second repetition for me to realise he was saying, “Green means go, Papa!”
Next he’ll be compla... Comment - Like
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Jun 26, 2011, 1:00 pm
Naomi and I were delighted to discover a new channel on StarhubTV called Setanta Sports, which supposedly shows rugby matches. Perfect timing since there’s going to be all this rugby action in the World Cup in NZ later this year, and I don’t have to rely on YouTube highlights anymore.
YouTube... Comment - Like
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Jun 23, 2011, 12:38 am
I found out this morning on Twitter that Tony Tan had filed his papers for the presidency. If he is elected, he might be the first President to actually know exactly how much there are in the country’s reserves.
Is that a good thing or not? Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2011, 12:50 pm
Pink Dot SG 2011 from Brian McDairmant on Vimeo.
This was shot over an hour at Pink Dot SG 2011 on the 18th of June.
Held at Speaker’s Corner, Hong Lim Park in Singapore.
10,000 people gathered to form a giant dot in support of the right to love, regardless of sexual orientation.
Photographed ... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2011, 1:29 am
Among the gazillion things I have to do this week, I’ll be attending this event tomorrow and Wednesday, where I hope to learn a couple of things about online reputation — and what to do when you stuff up like when you get interns to do your tweeting and they mix up their tweetdeck accounts and s... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2011, 11:59 am
I guess you could say we’ve taught our son a couple of good things.
This was shot at Basement 1 of Paragon. To be fair, if it were at the fifth floor, the money would have gone towards a Barney ride. Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2011, 9:30 pm
This is no ordinary burger. This is the Karma Burger. It was served and eaten at Casa Verde at the Botanic Gardens on Friday morning.
A few weeks before, we had been at Universal Studios Singapore, and had decided to grab dinner before heading back. Kai was already completely exhausted and it took ... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2011, 12:53 pm
There are few things better than to watch Kai, completely impromptu, stretch his arms wide while silently looking at the waves lapping near his feet.
Except maybe building sandcastles for him using a plastic cup. Comment - Like
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Jun 10, 2011, 3:09 pm
We went to a Screen Singapore red carpet screening of ‘Jesus Henry Christ’, and enjoyed it tremendously. It was a cute, zany, interesting film. And you must watch it if you can, not least because it’s produced by my JC mate Sukee Chew.
TTS — Jesus Henry Christ Trailer 1 by virgii_ Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2011, 3:12 pm
The crowds at the PC Show are such that the media are treated to “previews” an hour before the gates open and the hordes start pushing in.
Thank you people at Grayling who’ve invited us for the second year running. We got our stuff, “redeemed” our freebies, and fled unscathed.
By today, ... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2011, 10:22 am
This morning I took my father to his quarterly cardiologist’s check-up, and while waiting our turn, I spoke to him about what I’d been up to at work — about so-and-so that was his client and now mine who called me asking a favour — and he had some difficulty remembering who I was talking abo... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2011, 12:43 am
Like many other parents, we sometimes have difficulty prying our son’s grubby hands off the iPad. Ever since the first version was released, Kai has taken to it like a true iOS native.
He now thinks that every screen is a multi-touch screen, and has been seen trying to swipe shopping malls’ ele... Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2011, 10:11 am
It’s a new Chinese Channel Eight production about the police force, and whose title is an acronym formed from the words Fortitude, Attitude, Integrity, Loyalty — the hallmarks of that Home Team force which is the subject matter of the production, y’know? Comment - Like
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May 10, 2011, 5:23 am
OK, I haven’t come up with something to give away as a prize, but Goh Chok Tong’s latest analogy was too good to just let go after saying “whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?”
For starters, and for your reading pleasure, I give you the Senior Minister’s latest: “The Platoon Leader & The Hopeless Recruit... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2011, 12:28 am
I have never seen the likes of it — people actually caring enough about Singapore politics to talk about it non-stop. I swear if I took a cab today, the driver might just go, “Ok, sir, do you mind if I just take you to your destination and not talk about politics during your ride?”…
Read mo... Comment - Like
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May 7, 2011, 3:53 am
I queued up to vote this afternoon, and it was, for the first time in a long, long time, a queue that comprised only Singaporeans.
I haven’t been this proud to be Singaporean since we sent four swimmers to the Los Angeles Olympiad in 1984. Oh wait, that was when I was proud to be from ACS.
Yup, ... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2011, 12:28 am
Here’s a song by Hossan “Double Confirm” Leong purely for your entertainment:
No Outside Food
We got our laksa and chicken rice
Beef kuay teow very good too
Western food also quite nice
Endorsed by Channel U
So don’t buy your meals from elsewhere
Don’t be so one kind
If you sit dow... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2011, 11:58 pm
It’s been very heartening to see Tan Chuan-Jin (eh, our schoolmate ok, don’t play play — me and mrbrown just ate wrong types of food during recess) trying his darndest to talk, and more importantly, listen to people, even though I knew he would eventually cave in to the onslaught of contributi... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2011, 4:15 am
Update:
From Selena : on the phone, mr ng and mr nazem informed me that it was due to a last minute change in a nominator. whatever the case, mr ng has reiterated to me that he will return everything that was transferred to Ms noraine and himself yesterday. please help to pass the message on. thank... Comment - Like
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