This evening, on the tube from work to dinner with agaricus, I had a thought. Well, several. Interlinked. It all started with a recollection of something I previously blogged about: how awesome it would be if Opera Estate Primary School had a school song taken from some grand operatic theme, such as the "Overture" or "Le Chanson du Toréador" from Carmen ( Read more... )

[Reproduced from Facebook Note]

And I thought I was an illiterate Philistine. This list is skewed: there's far too much fiction. But everything's on my shelf (or thumbdrive). I'd list the Robotech series, but my shelf is two or three books deep and it's thus buried. The Legacy of the Force and other Star Wars stuff is somehow out of sight. There ( Read more... )

Have watched Star Trek twice now, and I verily do believe I saw two quasi-cameos, in the sense that there were two actresses who were probably selected to look like aged versions of characters from other Star Trek franchises, as follows:

Hoshi SatoThis lookalike was on board the USS Kelvin. She's the Communications officer who informed Richard ( Read more... )

( Gourmet Note: Sophia Hotel, Saigon )

Twitter est un service de microblogging, permettant aux utilisateurs de bloguer grâce à des messages ultra courts, de 140 caractères au maximum (les tweets ou gazouillis, traduction directe de l'anglais), ce qui représente une ou deux phrases. La différence entre Twitter et un blog traditionnel réside dans le fait que Twitter n'appelle pas ( Read more... )

For a long time now, newspapers have had to cope with headlines rendered ambiguous by the need to save space. But the Straits Times Online is such a repeat offender that I managed to grab the following from one page alone (the "Singapore news" section), accessed today:

Teen on probation over sex

Nude couple charged

Wife wins suitSeriously? OK ( Read more... )

This is one of the most amusing website TOUs I've ever come across:

Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions or out of your use of this blawg shall be resolved exclusively by arbitration under ICC Rules in Switzerland or the Bahamas by a quorum of 3 affordably priced human rights activists. Proceedings are to be conducted in ( Read more... )

Some of the more practical rules to live by, IMHO, include the following ( Read more... )

The gall of some people. I'm not sure if I even like this guy, but he was a year my junior in Secondary School and JC, and then in the Armed Forces. He's now a doctor ( Read more... )

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Young student, about to be awarded First Class Honours, will die an excruciating death without expensive treatment.

Fund Raising Period: 10 March 2009 to 10 April 2009

Got this from agaricus who - as I can personally attest - is currently studying at the National University of Singapore:I got an email from the National ( Read more... )