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Dark armpits, average penis size and equal-opportunity body-shaming
I have a quick movie trivia quiz for you.If you know the answer, raise your hand (and show your armpit).What recent Oscar-nominated movie about Nivea deodorant did Bradley Cooper star in?Answer:...
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Recapping the Green Corridor Run — or is it blue?
Is this #GreenCorridorRun vest blue and white or just blue and ugly?A photo posted by SM Ong (@sm_ong) on Mar 1, 2015 at 11:14pm PSTThe Green Corridor Run was yesterday morningIt has the latest...
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Risky business: Winning award leads to losing streak on the tracks forSMRT
Absolutely fabulous.On Feb 19, SMRT received the award for Delivering Value Through Risk Management at the Institute of Risk Management’s Global Risk Awards ceremony in London.And you thought the...
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My apologies to Vincent Ha and Goliath... I mean, Xiaxue
I want to ask, how did I get dragged into this?But the thing is, I sorta dragged myself into this.And what is "this"? The continuing Xiaxue-Gushcloud saga, of course.On Saturday, Xiaxue (or Wendy...
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The IT Show 2015: Everything also SG50
IT Show photos from my Narrative Clip yesterday.It wouldn't be an IT show without someone shoving a flyer into your hand.I was there mostly to check out the earphones.Testing some earphones with...
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Xiaxue gets Singtel & Gushcloud to apologise: 'More harm than good'?
Oh my Gush.I received an e-mail notification from Twitter that I had a new follower last week.While that alone is unusual since it happens about as rarely as my haircuts, it was the identity of my new...
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Remembering LKY: Selected photos
From Salleh's collection:LKY the meme:The final images of Lee Kuan Yew:Weird that during his announcement about LKY's death, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong never acknowledged that LKY was his father....
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Unfounded? I found the use of the word 'founding' floundering
In his message on the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, President Tony Tan said: "Yesterday, we lost the founding father of Singapore."In Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's address to the nation, he said: "The...
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Is there a wrong way to pay tribute to Lee Kuan Yew?
After Mr Lee Kuan Yew's death on Monday, the organisers of the 2XU Compression Run posted this on Facebook:In light of the passing of the founding Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, an...
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Umbrellas & tents: 3 hours 10 minutes in The Queue for Lee Kuan Yew
Unlike many Singaporeans it seems, I'm not a big queuer. No queueing for multiple hours for Hello Kitty or iPhones for me.So early yesterday morning, when I read that the queue starting at the Padang...
View ArticleIt's black, it's white, it's tough to get by
White? Black? What's in a colour?Just wear your heart on your sleeve.I for one believe that even as we mourn and...Posted by Tan Chuan-Jin on Wednesday, March 25, 2015Pro-black:Pro-white:Not sure:
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A lot of sky crying on Twitter for LKY
Cliche of the day:The sky cried with us pic.twitter.com/dqgXlXzucg— Seogeneration (@Seogeneration11) March 29, 2015The nation and sky cried for Mr Lee Kuan Yew. #ThankYouLKY— Jeff (@dnshrstno) March...
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Amos Yee charged: Well, he WAS warned by LKY meme not to 'chibai'
WATCH: Amos Yee, who made an insensitive YouTube video on Christianity and late Mr #LeeKuanYew, in court with his parents today. http://cna.asia/19D6oWuPosted by Channel NewsAsia Singapore on Monday,...
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Qing Ming: Queueing not the Fast & Furious way to pay tribute to the dead
I queued for more than three hours to pay respects to Mr Lee Kuan Yew at the Parliament House two Thursdays ago.Sure, some reportedly queued up to 11 hours, but this is not a competition, okay?It was...
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This is ME1 Clarie Teo (The navy has changed a lot since my time)
So the whole of Singapore is going crazy over this Navy meimei today. We also. Help Clarie Teo! Help!What do you...Posted by KNN - Kaki News Network on Monday, April 6, 2015Meet the star of Mindef's...
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Subway Avengers movie tie-in versus KFC Avengers movie tie-in: No fight
Never mind its "funny" Avengers commercial, where does Subway get the (meat)balls to simply add bacon to a tuna melt and call it "Earth's mightiest combo"?This is, at best, a hero sandwich. It's no...
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You know that 'chiobu' navy recruitment video? It's not a navy recruitment video
This month is the 28th anniversary of the publication of my one and only letter to the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) monthly magazine, Pioneer.I wrote it during my full-time national service about my...
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How do you pronounce the name of Cassandra Chiu's guide dog, Esme?
Cassandra Chiu, 35, has resigned from her part-time position as the Guide Dogs Association of the Blind's (GDAB) clients...Posted by The New Paper on Thursday, April 16, 2015So a blind woman named...
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Oh, Cheryl! Un-Un-Unbelievable should be official theme song for SEA Games...
Dear SEA Games organisers,So the countdown has begun to the opening of the 28th SEA Games in Singapore on June 5.A long-time fan, I’m old enough to remember when they were called the Seap (for...
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Clarie, Joelle, Graci: Social media-created 'recruitment bait' arms race...
It started with this Cyberpioneer Facebook post:What does Military Expert (ME) 1 Clarie Teo enjoy, when she is not busy keeping ship engines running in tip top...Posted by cyberpioneer on Sunday, April...
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