samedi, décembre 17, 2011 Crisis Communications CorpComms lessons for SMRT from me Before I head into this, I'm prefacing it with: thank you SMRT, for 24 years of generally smooth MRT rides. I'm sorry you're having a quarter-life crisis right now, but rest assured that your customer-base has no one else to turn to for MRT rides, thanks to your monopoly. And we get right into it: Corporate Crisis Communications Lessons for SMRT from me: (1) Get your CEO on social media NOW Then make sure you get someone who knows how to use it to man it for her. Ms SPH's the only one with authority enough to speak for the company, so any utterance from her should carry the weight of the company, and should trump all other rumours etc. This way, people have a focal point for news, and the papers will have something to quote. YES there will be people who will flame, but be a classy girl, ignore the haters for now - you've got a fire to put out! (2) Don't think you can keep office hours during a crisis! http://twitpic.com/7uc0za --> office hours FAIL and http://www.smrt.com.sg/ --> HAPPY WEBSITE FAIL. Get that happy photograph off the front page. When CNN was responding to news updates on 9/11, they wiped their ENTIRE SITE clean of any other news and HTML coded the index page to ensure that they had timely news up online for anyone in the world to view. While train shutdowns aren't on the same scale, for SMRT it was the equivalent, and CorpComms should respond accordingly! (3) Set up trust systems that allow your staff to respond PROMPTLY, even if they don't have full info Many, many people would have been happier had SMRT acknowledged the problem earlier, which could have been managed with a twitter feed along the lines of "we are investigating, we'll have more info soon" - and if SMRT had kept that twitter feed updated every 5 mins with updates, it would have been the PR coup of the year. This is a huge issue for Singaporean firms; we don't trust our people enough (and to be honest, many times there's a reason why). But in order to build a robust, dynamic organisation, you have to start somewhere, and a trusted company spokesperson HAS to be let off the leash to respond promptly; we've seen how brittle SMRT's communication systems is. (4) Say sorry, mean it, show it. Ms. SPH's apology was heartfelt, and calls for her to resign are ridiculous; I'd much rather she fix the issues since she should know them! SMRT does need to apologise for the crazy breakdown in a huge way; I'd say accede to the calls to give one free day of public transport via MRT and buses before the year's out would be a very, very nice gesture of goodwill. Libellés : current affairs, singapore [Crisis Communications CorpComms lessons for SMRT from me] |
dimanche, mars 20, 2011 Singapore Meritocracy vs Foot in the Door  To all the talk recently about how underprivileged children can move up in the social ladder, I say - bullshit. There will always be old boys' networks, and who your parents are (and your parents' parents are) will ALWAYS matter. Ceteris paribus meritocracy means you have your foot in the door thanks to your connections - which will always be an ace up your sleeve after meritocracy has its say. I have intimate experience with this since I am the person who manages our internship programme in my workplace. I've had at least three interns whose parents sort of know my boss in some way, who basically shot a personal email to my boss requesting for internships for their children, and of course my boss subtly/not-so-subtly nudges me to take them. How can I not capitulate under such pressure? Now, are these kids idiots? No, far from it - they're bright young things... with the exceptional exception of one total airhead bimbo who seemed to be very poor - she couldn't seem to buy enough cloth to wear to work. Are these kids particularly exceptional? Nope, not anymore than the next candidate. So meritocracy does demand that I give them a chance (it would be bad to discriminate against these lucky kids who get born with silver spoons in their mouths) - but after all is said and done, and the cards are revealed... it's always the ones with the family connections who win the game. Is it meritocratic? I suppose so, if you want to consider "family connections" as something which should be considered. But is this fair? Not really. The solution is total transparency about who gets what job and why. Enough about meritocracy being alive and well, and look closer into what exactly you're putting on the table when you're interviewing people. People with a familial foot in the door should be declared loudly and clearly, for transparency's sake. This way, we'll always know who's in (figurative) bed with whom. And we'll know who the good guys are. Libellés : personal, singapore, working life [Singapore Meritocracy vs Foot in the Door] |
jeudi, mars 17, 2011  Ronnie looking glum at being kidnapped  and yet strangely happy at turning 31  the new and improved card now can "unstick" to choose locations for dinner, movie and supper  Ronnie choosing carefully  and peeling carefully (cos I used lousy glue)  ... and the winner goes to....  dinner: abalone mushroom noodles movie: nex supper: hans@sembawang  Ron: I hope nobody notices that I'm being forced to take a photo with this signboard  I told them to flip around the card cos it read "HELP ME I'M BEING KIDNAPPED" in my car (like, hello?!)  this is nexxxxxxxxxx where dogs may poop in the lift  uob ladies card means $6 per ticket to watch....  I AM NUMBER FOUR  NUMBER FOUR IS MISSING (Cheryl Koh!!!)  The theatre... we couldn't get a heads-in shot cos it was so dark  we ended up at rochor beancurd eating tauhui cos my battery was going flat at 12mn getting old.... Happy birthday Ronnie! Libellés : birthday, singapore [Year 4: Annual Kidnapping] |
lundi, mars 14, 2011 Stuck between a Rock, surrounded with Water, and a Railway While I'm no pro-LKY lackey (he's definitely a hard-headed son of a gun), I respect the guy for putting in so much effort into the idea of Singapore. Historically, we've definitely got a ways to go, and honestly speaking, most of us are so comfortable and take things for granted that I doubt there will be another strong push for patriotism and the idea of Singapore - unless something comes along to threaten it. Could the other MM be it? His recently published memoirs sound a little ... illogical, to the extent of being incoherent. Let's take the excerpt from the Sunday Times today for a test-drive: On Water: "Why should Malaysia have to subsidise the Singapore Government? And it really is the Government that we are subsidising, not the people of Singapore who are paying $17 (well over RM40) for 1,000 gallons of treated water. "  I say kudos to smart Singaporean patriots who looked ahead to our future, securing a long-term contract for themselves, their children, and their children's children. I'm sorry that Malaysians didn't have good negotiators, but I count myself blessed to have hard-nosed negotiators who are looking out for my welfare when dealing with international negotiations. For national security purposes (in Malaysia's pov), a smart move would be to reduce Malaysia's reliance on imported treated water through R&D. Though honestly I think they'd probably turn around and complain that Hyflux owns all the patents to water treatment/desalination. But I hardly think it's fair that you blame us from investing in R&D - and thus getting ahead of the race. It was always there for you to run, and again, I'm blessed to be living in a country with these thinkers. This is Rail-ly annoying  "The status of the POA is now murky, with Singapore demanding that we move our Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) facilities to Woodlands, which is near the Singapore end of the Causeway. Meanwhile, Singapore began to claim that the land to compensate Malaysia for Tanjong Pagar and the railway line was not to be developed by us alone, but jointly." This just degenerated in to a "he said/she said" situation. Given Singapore's penchant for paperwork, I highly doubt we changed anything. Plus the Pulau Batu Puteh principles (see below), and you have a strong case of suspecting that Malaysia may have shifted the goalposts somewhere. Standing on the Rock
1. Why was it administered from Singapore? (if Msia wanted it so much, why didn't its negotiators insist on administration in Sg?) 2. MM also said that "The decision to go to the ICJ was made while I was still prime minister" - so the decision to move away from "subtleties" to the "books of rule" was overseen by him. 3. Are "books of rule" different from "how the world works"? I thought the world works based on these books of rule. 4. Why is this even linked with an ethnicity issue? Stuck "At one stage, we had agreed that all our unresolved issues be settled together as a package. But because Singapore would never agree to a revision of the price of water, all other issues could not be resolved, making a package solution impossible." Haiz. Another "he said/she said" situation, since we were told by our authorities that the Msians were the one who kept dragging the water issue in. As a patriot, and as someone who looks at the track record of governments and how they function longitudinally, I read this statement, then I take a look at the news caricature in bad taste - ultraman outrunning a tsunami ... and I think - it's a little of "no contest" for logical thought and human decency actually. Libellés : humanitarian, singapore, thinking [Stuck between a Rock, surrounded with Water, and a Railway] |
mercredi, mars 09, 2011 Nasi Lemak Kukus is a nice little place which opens from 6pm-3am each day, except Mondays.It serves awesome Vietnamese drip coffee (hot or cold)...  ... and is a nice place to play Angry Birds.  Libellés : singapore [Nasi Lemak Kukus] |
mercredi, février 02, 2011 Not many people know this, but I head to Chinatown every year on New year's eve/day (AM). I've been heading there alone or with a group of friends for many years now, and this year, the new year traipse was after watching Jack Neo's latest cinematographic offering, Homecoming. (It was a little too sentimentally schmaltzy for my tastes, but I was very impressed with 1. his acting, 2. the cinematography, and 3. the cross-border casting.)As always, Chinatown's decked out in all its bunnyfied glory:  I have to admit that in the camera's lenses, the bunny looked like the zao cai mao at first... but do note that these pics were taken at 1.30am!  My two hapless passengers kidnapped for the visit. All they wanted was a ride home.  The rain caused business to be a little less then robust, but I think it all worked out in the end.  This is the most fun I've had buying chopsticks. Ben: *rolls eyes at YM and me*  Time to go home! Libellés : singapore [Chinatown 2011] |
samedi, août 28, 2010 Free Speech: Whose Right Is It? When is free speech not free speech? When one side is perceived as the underdog, poor and persecuted. With all the brouhaha surrounding the death penalty in Singapore, I am fairly certain that anyone who stands up and speak out in support of the death penalty on principle, would be condemned by these vocal public (they are not the "general public"). Why is our right to living in a drug-free and crime-free country less than someone else's life - someone who willingly and wilfully committed a crime, as defined by Singapore law? We are famous/notorious for a reason - and yet drug runners persist in breaking our law. I do not dispute that it is a hard law. It is a cold law. It is a law which brooks no argument, and which has no wiggle room. It doesn't matter if you're a drug lord or if you're "just" a runner - you were caught, and Lady Justice is blind. I treasure life. I love living and breathing and enjoying the earth God gave. I love my family too. I love my future family, my children unborn, my nephews and nieces, my friends and loved ones. For their sake, may I support this absolute zero-tolerance deterrent? It's really simple - you break the rules, and you get punished. Conceptually, how is that so hard to understand? Why should we bow to international pressure when I live in a democratic country, and my country is exercising its sovereign right to choose how we punish crimes as defined by us? We are hardly North Korea (don't confuse the issues). Libellés : current affairs, singapore [Free Speech: Whose Right Is It?] |
mardi, février 23, 2010 Images of Singapore: 2010 year to date  Jan 2010 - Remote-control shopping by brothers, Bugis G2000 sale Occasion: B&Y's wedding  Jan 2010: Celebrating success with old friends Occasion: Fuschia Lane's Vivienne's solo showcase at Ion, "Eternity" http://www.fuchsialane.com  Occasion: finishing up paper at Fatboys.sg; fried mushrooms are yum Occasion: found a coatrack for the office; $38 bargained to $26, not a bad deal  .jpg) Occasion: kayohing around the customised candy shop at United Square, B1  Feb 2010: Gai-gai Chinatown at 2am = fairly fun still Occasion: getting mom's willows for her at $5 a bunch = satisfaction and good start to the new year Libellés : photography, singapore [Images of Singapore: 2010 year to date] |
mercredi, janvier 27, 2010  Maybe it's time to be humble, and recognise in a holistic manner, that we can't have our cake and eat it too. A man reaps what he sows, and old policies to limit population growth - implemented at a time when such a policy was needed - continue to take their toll on mindsets and paradigms that people hold. Less marriages, more divorce, less children, more immigrants. Three are fact, one is policy. But reality doesn't mean we give up the fight against the earlier; doesn't mean that we open the floodgates to the latter. We just need to come to the problem with humility, and recognise that as a country, we can't do everything. Support marriage and help families have children, and you'll lose productivity as more women leave the workforce - but family-friendly practices are an investment in our country for the long run. More needs to be done yesterday, or we will continue to live in the shadow of the stop-at-two legacy that was left to us. One key thing which stands out to me as I chat with my friends, especially newly-married friends about marriage and children, is that they want children - definitely, the majority of married Singaporeans want children. But money is an issue - houses, cars, help - these all come at some kind of cost, be it time, energy, sacrifice, career advancement. And for the moment, with opportunity costs abounding at every turn (missing out on that promotion, on that work trip, on the savings from living with your parents, on the freedom of flying off on holiday with your partner hassle-free) - these non-monetary costs are far, far too high to put off for the sake of children. The central problem facing the government is its too-pragmatic approach towards children. Perhaps because the policy is informed by the Singaporean technocrat drive towards efficiency, efficacy, and economics, any child-family plan is always underpinned with the mentality that this is economically good for you, so why don't you do this? This is why the baby bonus failed. This is why paternal benefits are still crap. This is why women still continue to be laid off once they're pregnant. This is why the SDU continues to be known as the single, desperate and ugly club - despite its rebranding exercise. I once asked an older friend why he had his kids, knowing that he wasn't in a financially great position. He said - well, at the core of it, you've got to see that having children isn't about economics and finances at all - it's about God's command in the bible to "be fruitful and multiply." Other friends who are not religious also echoed similar imperatives which were divorced from any economic/pragmatic approach. Biological imperative, spreading one's DNA, "because kids are so cute!", "who is going to take care of me when I am older?" were some other reasons - all not particularly economic, some more self-serving than others - but not once did I hear anything about "$10,000 education fund leh" or "baby bonus!" If anything, the puny baby bonus is continually scoffed at for its miniscule amount - "not enough to even pay for diapers leh!" one friend laughed. So how now? I'd say that we have to drop the pragmatic impulse, and push the balanced-family-life agenda. At the moment, far too many people see - only too clearly - the cost of having children, and not the intangible social benefits. Only a forward looking policy, which forgoes the short-term economic gains for the long-term social reward of having a committed populace, will bring Singapore's population policy into the future. If not, we'll continue to miss the forest for the trees. Libellés : current affairs, singapore, writing [Birth rate still dipping] |
samedi, décembre 05, 2009 Tissue paper in Singapore hawker centres  Many things have been said about how we "chope" or save seats using tissue paper, especially in the Singapore CBD. Much has also been written about the plight of poor Singaporeans hawking tissue papers at food courts.I don't think anyone has written about these completely adorable tissue papers with modified movie titles on them, and with animals substituting the protagonists. From top left, clockwise: ANIMAL STORY (Toy Story), THE RING OF THE KING (Lord of the Rings), A FROG'S LIFE (A Bug's Life), MOVIES INC (Monsters Inc), M:i-3 (MI:3), and FINALE FANTASY (Final Fantasy.) I think this is the best $1 I've ever spent. [Tissue paper in Singapore hawker centres] |
vendredi, juillet 03, 2009 Heartlander is where the Heart is (Part II)  In my last post about how I'm a heartlander, I posited that I am a heartlander because it's about how comfortable you are in your own skin within that HDB-dweller sphere. I refuted claims that I had to be excluded from the heartlander category because of my zip code, or because of my proximity towards certain "gourmet" supermarkets, or because I am able to stand apart from the scene, and appraise/analyse, as objectively as I can, the entire situation.In this next post (I have a feeling this might become a series of posts!) I want to deal with the flip side of the coin - people who CLAIM to be heartlanders, but are really high-society debutantes masquerading as heartlanders. I picked up the SkinnyDrummer two nights ago, as I wanted to make a run to AMK Central to explore wiring possibilities (long explanation, has to do with my birthday party.) She got into the car, and asked me why I wanted to go to AMK when she was the one who was the "true heartlander". This of course sparked off a massive argument (I AM A HEARTLANDER!) which continued through the drive, the parking, the coupon-tearing, and the walking into AMK Central. The first sign that supports my theory that she's no heartlander was when we got to the big square outside ValueDollar/This Fashion - there was a pasar malam (PM) in action! (Sorry about the unfortunate acronym.) Not that the PM was trouble - rather, it was our reactions to them. I was pretty pleased to see the PM because it was a break from the monotony of the regular stores in AMK Central, and because, well, PMs are always carnival-esque, which is cheap welcome relief and entertainment, especially in this dreary economic climate. SkinnyDrummer, on the other hand, was all blase about it. "Please don't stop, please don't stop, please don't stop," was all she could say when we walked past the garishly flashing lights of the game stalls. Aren't heartlanders supposed to fall for this sort of gimmick? I'm not saying that PMs sell snake-oil (some, quite literally, do), but the carnival is a global phenomenon, meant for the peasants, or in the modern context, the heartlanders. The spoilsport pseudo-heartlander was very reluctant to look around the place, grumbling when I picked up a S$1.80 clear folder for my song worship leading that "You just HAVE to buy something right?" Not really, was my reply. I have been waiting for a PM so that I can get cheaper clear folders, which are often hideously expensive at Popular. I delay my gratification for a super duper cheap deal; how is that not a heartlander-ish trait? If I were really atas, I would drive to Takashimaya the instant I wanted a clear music folder, and buy a branded one. So that was strike 2 against the so-called self-proclaimed heartlander. .jpg) But she got one back at me though - when I was paying, she stood beside me, but a lady approached her and tapped her on the shoulder to ask her "Got sell scotchtape or not?" SX was all like "DUUDE, I DON'T WORK HERE." Then she turns around and claims that she's a heartlander because she was mistaken for a PM stall helper.I think I'll give this one for her; the incident afforded many, many minutes of gut-busting laughter. We next move over to the clothes, where I tried bargaining in Bahasa (fail fail fail) for an embroidered top, then got fed up and went to buy food instead. The pseudo-heartlander then starts to moan about the heat and no aircon. Lest you tell me that heartlanders should be complaining since it's a national pastime, it really wasn't a very hot day - it had just rained, and this was past 8pm at night, when it's cooler. So why was this so-called "heartlander" bitching about the heat and running to any place which had the bare minimum of air-conditioning - like, say, the entrance of a store - and stand there flapping her arms and her t-shirt to let the cool air in? Then we walk to the food. And this girl does NOT like 茶叶蛋. And she's never eaten muah chee. And a lot of other stuff at the PM. Now, if I'm not a foodie, and she's a heartlander, how is it possible that I have eaten and love 茶叶蛋 and muah chee while she doesn't like and has never tried all these quinessential "heartland foods"? So my friends, if you won't let it go that I am an "atas-face", then at the very least, please disabuse SkinnyDrummer of the delusion that she is a heartlander. Let her know, NOW. Libellés : humour, singapore, thinking [Heartlander is where the Heart is (Part II)] |
mardi, mai 12, 2009  (Warning: highly inflammatory)The AWARE issue just made me so angry that I shouted at someone in the office for trying to pin conservative values on all christians. Just because an anti-abortion, anti-gay message is coming from someone, does NOT necc. make it a Christian value - I was very angry at this conflation made because these bunch of idiotic women from COOS decided to take matters into their own hands. The church ALREADY has a platform - legal, moral, and God-driven - to preach our message of hope - it is the church. The fact of the matter is that the church in Singapore has generally FAILED to preach these hard messages - that life is sacred and begins at conception, that homosexuality is NOT supported by the church - so these sincerely wrong women decided to take matters into their own hands. These women should have done something other than to circumvent and take over something which is in the world - it's just engaging Satan on his own turf. If they are truly watchers of the Women's movement in Singapore - of which I have been an active observer of - they would have known that there are other things going on in AWARE - not just gay issues. If they were more involved with civil society in Singapore, as I am, then they would realise the metatexual issue at stake here, which is a statement on Singapore's civil society - the gay community (or GLBT/LGBT community) is very hard pressed to find a space to rally in Singapore, and therefore has to squeeze itself into the dialogue through spaces such as those provided by AWARE. Technically, because AWARE is a women's organisation, it should only champion lesbians - if it champions them at all. However, because lesbians and gays are related, there is issue-affinity there - then come along the bisexuals and the transexuals. GBLT is not a single-issue button - you press one, you get four minorities in with your cause. It is AWARE's fault for NOT realising that they should have refused to engage so much with lesbians because it would have meant taking on the collective baggage of ALL minority groups. We cannot delude ourselves into thinking that Christians are "neutral". This is the kind of thinking that confuses us. The ground that we stand on is never neutral. If we think it's neutral, we get sucked into this idea that our "conservative" stance is one which is held by most of society. While this is true in conservative Singapore, "most of society" is changing/degenerating fast. John 15: 18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.'[b] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. To think of ourselves as neutral is to take away the warning that Christ gave us: Matthew 10:16 "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." --> Jesus to the disciples as he sent them out into the world. I find it irritating that Christians go out into the world, profess a Christian belief, and then get surprised and act so hurt when the world jumps on them for their beliefs. Have we been lulled so much into this myth of "tolerance" that we think that the "liberal left" doesn't have an agenda to push? That the "liberals" are really, all that liberal in the first place? Anyone who doesn't accept homosexuality and "liberal" values are persecuted by the sword! And they want to point a finger at us for the crusades? It's human nature to fear the thing we do not understand, and by extension, destroy it. Look at poor Miss USA (or whatever it was; Carrie Prejean?) She said she didn't support gay marriage, and now her whole family is receiving death threats. See these women who stood up (however wrongly) for "conservative family values"? Got publicly crucified by 3000 women at Suntec. Standing on the side of Christianity is NOT neutral ground. I wish Christians would stop looking so surprised when the world doesn't understand. In the wake of the AWARE saga, how should the church and Christians respond? My goodness, is that even a question? Study the bible, study WHY you're a Christian, and then get more involved with Christ and His work on earth - increase your bible literacy, work harder at Matt 28! Engagement with the world is through our lives, and unless your lives point to Christ, it's just (as Eccl says) meaningless stuff. I really didn't mean to go into a ten-paragraph rant on this issue, but everytime I think/talk about this AWARE issue, it makes me very (1) annoyed at COOS and (2) at these women, (3) and by extension, the church, for not giving women like these a platform to use their energy for Godly work instead of creating a mess. If COOS is patting these women on their back and congratulating them for changing Singapore MOE/AWARE history, I don't know what kind of church they are. Libellés : christian, church, current affairs, singapore [Christians and AWARE] |
jeudi, avril 30, 2009 Endorsement Nostalgia: Beat That Duck! Because I've been taking some courses at the Baptist Theological Seminary, I've been eating some meals at this dingy hawker centre on Margaret Drive which serves so-so noodles, but awesome fishballs. I really like the header of the stall - it's one of those old header boards that aren't backlit; they're lit from external bulbs.Before endorsements from Makansutra or KF Seetoh were all the rage, there was another, much mightier endorsement that everyone could recognize:  This is the actual stall name board:  C'mon, what are you waiting for? The duck nevwer wies! [Endorsement Nostalgia: Beat That Duck!] |
mercredi, avril 15, 2009 Filing taxes this year is just like finding a good date  Filing taxes online this year is like finding a good date in Singapore: hard to get started, getting ditched halfway through the process, and ultimately, an exercise in futility. Libellés : current affairs, humour, singapore [Filing taxes this year is just like finding a good date] |
vendredi, janvier 30, 2009 Singapore's Monetary Policy and a Chicken McSpicy  me.me.me. says:cos sg exports are too expensive for the rest of the region so we HAVE to depreciate a little mcspicy.lover says: i never tot they would dare to do it me.me.me. says: actually i think they do it all the time a little push here a little nudge there balance the sheet exports cheaper imports more expensive cost of living increases populace complains let the dollar appreciate COE goes for $2 people happy exports down, profits down, let dollar depreciate wash, rinse, repeat as necessary mcspicy.lover says: hahaha me.me.me. says: (i sincerely hope that i did NOT just acurately describe the econ policy of sg) (need someone in MAS to verify this... haha) mcspicy.lover says: the only thing i know is that my Mc Spicy meal has increased from $4.90 a few years back to $7.15 me.me.me. says: did they add more ingredients mcspicy.lover says: less me.me.me. says: did they upsize it for you without asking mcspicy.lover says: took out one level of chicken haha that happens sometimes but that's coz the auntie knows me she knows i'll upsize it no matter what me.me.me. says: so was it an increase with ceteris paribus or are you skewing it to your argument mcspicy.lover says: haha it's an increase in price without an increase in the size or ingredients of the burger me.me.me. says: maybe the increase was due to all those scientists who studied hard and who advised McD to make their meals healthier healthier always costs more. mcspicy.lover says: yea the oil doesn't ooze out anymore there was a time when it was flowing gushing out when u pressed down on the chicken me.me.me. says: okay... TMI. Libellés : humour, quotes, singapore [Singapore's Monetary Policy and a Chicken McSpicy] |
vendredi, août 15, 2008 Interesting sights around Singapore These two photos were taken from the same van... .jpg) A very boring company...  Double Wong, Double Wrong Double Double Toil and and Trouble...   Nassim Park, a secret garden in the midst of Singapore... with a locked magnetic card reader key. Talk about modern fairytales! Libellés : photography, singapore [Interesting sights around Singapore] |
mercredi, novembre 07, 2007 Hasn't stopped raining for days  Overfloweth from the banks Did you know that "40 days and 40 nights" is merely a biblical euphemism for "a really, really long time"? Libellés : random, singapore, thinking [Hasn't stopped raining for days] |
dimanche, octobre 14, 2007 Photography exhibition at the Esplanade's Singapore Art Cafe   The blog front's been a bit quiet lately because I'm working on three research projects simultaneously, not to mention my thesis (hurhur), so time's a little bit scarce here.It's all good though - and made even better because of the insane number of new people I'm meeting, like Jon, who owns the Singapore Arts Cafe, and who is allowing me to exhibit some photos there for a glorious, heavenly two weeks! So if you're free, do pop by the Esplanade between 1-14th October at the Esplanade's 3rd floor, Singapore Art Cafe, which is located in the library@esplanade. Am I excited? You betcha. (ETA - this post is post-dated till 14th Oct, so my newer entries will appear below this post until the 14th.) ETA II - so those are my completed photos with their mounts on my (lime green) bed. I'm happy with how the mounts look, although some of the photo printing disappointed me. Ah well, we live and we learn. Libellés : photography, singapore [Photography exhibition at the Esplanade's Singapore Art Cafe] |
mardi, octobre 09, 2007 .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) .jpg) .jpg)  He fixes high heels for approx $3 per pair, and fixed my boots for $9 - and it was hard work! Remember - not Wang Fei Hong, it's TAN FEI HUNG! Plumber by day, cobbler by night. I love these little bits of Singapore very much. Its what I'll miss the most if I ever move away. Libellés : photography, singapore [Cobbler, cobbler mend my shoe] |
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