For two successive days this weekend, I wandered around Kinokuniya determined and a little anxious to make a purchase; not just any purchase, of course, but a “something” that will restore some semblance of balance between the forces of light and darkness, wisdom and ignorance. A tall order, and no doubt a reflection of recent [...]
There is usually little reward to accompany the swelling of one’s throat; perhaps a hidden blessing, the littlest joy, is the lowering of expectations, in not being expected to speak; or, conversely, in the discretionary powers of being able to forestall conversation. Such soreness eventually requires a visit to the doctor’s, however much [...]
By tom | December 27, 2005
The clinical early morning shuttle from Singapore’s Changi to Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta could never match the charm of the Berlin to Frankfurt run; Tegel with it’s unique architecture, design and history, on par with the city it deserves, with the greatest number of pickpockets per capita in the world (bar Riga) while the flughafen at Frankfurt, [...]
By tom | December 22, 2005
With such a maddening gap between posts, I had better be prepared with a legitimate reason; perhaps a catastrophe of some sort, or a bankruptcy, or the onset of the Saviour’s Season. Or a simple affliction perhaps. Thereby hangs a tale. The annual metamorphosis of digits into its sequential sibling, in an entirely predictable orderly [...]
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By tom | September 14, 2005
$ingapore is … I had given up on this place – the passivity of its people, the disabling environment filled with muted veracity, stunted copy-cat beauty, Compliance. There is nothing here. I can go.
Until 8 white elephants were discovered in the heart of this concrete cage.
Punggol South residents have tried again to get Buangkok MRT [...]
A startling incident prescient of the Oh-So-Supreme Court’s ruling (File-sharing suffers major defeat) occured last week as one was waiting for Batman to begin at the local cineplex.
We were prevented by the Anal Manager from taking photos of a poster as it violated copyright law. And he warned us against taking a picture of [...]
By tom | February 9, 2005
Five S-words to describe “World Class” Singapore: sterile, superficial, shambolic … ?
An anonymous blogger summed it such: Singapore is “not a real city; it is a lie”. That captures much of what this city-state is about.
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By tom | October 26, 2004
10th August 2004:
Regretfully, one was unable to enjoy the eulogies for the out-going Senior Minister over the National Day weekend. Luckily we have not seen the last of him. A new imprimatur rises from the ashes, more senior than “Senior Minister”: he remains as “Minister Mentor“, the final battle against senescence.
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