Enjoy your Coffee!

I’m enjoying every single page of this book I’m reading, “The 5 Minute Miracle”, by Dr Ed Delph, and so I’d like to share this chapter with you:
I am a coffee lover. The stronger  the better, especially in the morning. Recently, I was in downtown Seattle, standing in front of the original Starbucks at Pike [...]

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SMS phone scam: Vent your frus thru newspaper

Do look at my original post which generated 32 comments sharing similiar experiences and individuals who took the effort to make police reports and report it to CASE (Consumer’s Association of Singapore) and the subsequent post.
Apparently a journalist with a newspaper is writing a story about it.
Anyone with who wants to share their woes should [...]

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Best way to increase prices

I found out the best way to answer to your customers when they complain about price increase at your food stall. Paste a newspaper article right below the new prices.
Blame it on the economy, inflation, and everything else.
All grouses will be nipped in the bud.
‘Nuff said.

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Singaporean Comic book

Drop by http://www.drearyweary.com/stories.php and check out Troy Chin’s autobiographical story about him being a Resident Tourist in Singapore after a spell working as a music exec in NY.
It’s pretty darn good.
Probably strikes a chord with Gen-Y like me who grew up in the 80s, and feel displaced in the greater stratosphere.

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Mr BrownShow: Coffeeshop talk (5/5 stars)

Click to listen to some funny parodies about conspiracy theories and, speedy clearance and fare games

…and one borderline heretic “bread and butter sermon“
Chio Gao Peng (laugh until cannot stand).
I tell you, I was a fan of Mr Brown ever since his earliest days of blogging. I think he was one of the earliest pioneers of [...]

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Overcoming doubts and stepping forth

The Straits Times recently ran the following excerpt of Catherine Lim’s speech given in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Studies, on 2 July. I always find wit, humour and logic in Catherine’s exhortations. Click on this link to see the video.

By Catherine Lim
Whatever strategies of communication I may use as a political [...]

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Honda City sucks

Today I sent my City to the workshop again.
Apparently it’s a problem which makes a crackling sound near my tires whenever I execute turns.
Let’s see, just about a month ago I had to change my air-con filter.
One month prior to that, it was my front suspension.
One month before that, it was my frontal drive shaft.
The [...]

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Singapore 3, Uzbekistan 7

My dad went to his buddy’s place to watch this World Cup qualifier after not being able to get the tickets at the National Stadium.
I had work to do at home, so I just left the TV on and looked up whenever a goal was scored.
The first observation was the presence of foreign-born players in [...]

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The $4 sms Saga

Part two of the saga.
I’m relieved that I was only charged $4, as I immediately smsed STOP to halt the service.
Two actions that can be done: write in to complain or spread the warning.
Based on a computation of financial loss suffered vs time spent, I decided to just spread the warning instead of pursuing the [...]

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Email Hoaxes and Misinformation

Today I received a comment from a reader called Mary regarding my blog entry reproducing a forwarded email from my aunt regarding Cancer (supposedly from John Hopkins).
Thanks Mary for pointing out that the information is not true.
Well, it’s an email hoax. See John Hopkins reply here and here.
Most of the time, we receive well meaning [...]

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