Monthly Archives: April 2011

Make Money & Lose Weight while you Sleep, Eliminate Acne, Grow Hair, Enlarge your Breasts & Get Laid

America has Greg Mortenson. And Singapore – who do we have? Snake-oil peddlers and near-naked docs, that’s who. Isn’t ours such a great cuntry? (No, that’s not a misspelling.) Get this: I am thinking of designing a seminar that will … Continue reading

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Shuddup Already!

Americans! They always try so hard to show the rest of the world that they are civilized, that they are able to rise above issues like race, color, language, religion and sexual orientation, that they are not anachronistic. So they … Continue reading

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A Bit Anxious

I usually switched off my cellular phone just before I go to bed. With my dad turning 80 soon, and Yin’s mother even older, I’m thinking maybe I should leave my cell phone on all night. Both are healthy senior … Continue reading

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World’s Most Hypocritical Country

It was Songkran. Three Thai teenage girls – 13, 14 and 16 – danced topless at the Silom-Narathiwat intersection area one night last week. The Bang Rak district chief Surakiat Limcharoen filed a complaint against them as well as anyone … Continue reading

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Eighteen Long Years

You left 18 years ago. I still miss you. I think of you a lot. Not a day has gone by when I haven’t thought of you. How I wish I could share some of the moments of my life … Continue reading

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Scumbags à la Singapore

First, we saw this: Then a new breed of retards emerges: Are these stupid shitfaces with the sleep masks saying “I can’t see you so don’t expect me to give up my seat”? Young, able-bodied SMRT commuters occupying seats reserved … Continue reading

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Pipe by Bodo Mauk

Bodo Mauk is a member of a pipe smoking forum in Europe of which yours truly is also a member. He is happily retired and carves pipes as a pastime. He does not sell his masterpieces since he does it … Continue reading

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See you in Hell, Mr Preacher and Goodbye, Sarah Pei Ling

Once in a long while, an obscure person in the form of Sarah Pei Ling, er, I mean, Sarah Palin pops up from nowhere and talks rubbish and gets noticed. (“My greatest regret is that I didn’t manage to bring … Continue reading

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Conversations with Mum

Following yesterdays’ post, my daughter provided a list of my wife’s conversational faux pas: Shit My Mum Says When meeting my daughter’s pet puppy for the first time, my wife Yin, said: “Oh, it’s a he? You should make friends … Continue reading

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Malapropism and Spoonerism

In his book What’s It About? Michael Caine wrote that his mum was a “Mrs Malaprop” – she would say things like “Dubonnet plague” when she meant bubonic plague; she called her favorite singer “Mick Jaguar” and said that the … Continue reading

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