I've discovered - belatedly - that there is a real-life Jedi Masters programme on this planet. And it's being conducted right here in Singapore ( Read more... )

Seldom do you read judgments referring to "one of the great legal mysteries which nobody ever talked about". On the point of whether a judge should cite his own previous academic writings, here is an amusing and intrinsically valuable passage from Andrew Phang's judgment in Sunny Metal & Engineering v Ng [2006] SGHC 222 -

38      ... I have ( Read more... )

This is a rather humourous letter of complaint to Richard Branson about the quality of food served on his airline.

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So it's the Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner and my mother was telling a couple of foreign students from the PRC (my Dad's friends' children) to dump the shabu-shabu beef into the steamboat (hotpot). Because it's the year of the Ox. 牛年吃牛肉, she says. To which my immediate reaction was ... this doesn't work for *all* the 12 animals of the ( Read more... )

Some of my cousins have first names starting with the same letter, so that the entire set of siblings have the same First Name and Surname initials. Through a combination of Facebook status updates and Wall scribblings, I got embroiled in the following with two of them:

CQ1: CQ1 wants a fascinator.

steakfrite: haha i was looking for a fascinator a while ( Read more... )

Some recent legal musings that have been broiling for a while ( Read more... )

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Of the many judgments recently issued by the Supreme Court of Singapore, this one struck me particularly. It has been redacted (and the legalese has also been laicised) somewhat for LJ.

1 The defendants own #70 ABC Road. The plaintiff owns #72 ABC Road. ( Read more... )

Maybe it's the suit, maybe it's the face. Do I look like some free public service on legs ( Read more... )