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Cancel Chinese New Year? Readers write in: ‘Cancel your own Chinese’
Apparently, my last column about cancelling Chinese New Year went a bit viral. Why do I say that? Because three acquaintances who hadn’t contacted me in years (a cousin, a primary school classmate and...
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Pizza Hut's sugary new Bubble Tea Blossom pizza: Not as disgusting as it sounds
Covid, Covid, Covid. That’s all we seem to hear about nowadays. Remember the good old days when the biggest threat to our health was sugar? It was public enemy No. 1 when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...
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Disney+ or Netflix? If I could pick only one...
Remember the circuit breaker last year? Seems like a lifetime ago now. Not being essential, I was mostly stuck at home. We could not eat out. All the cinemas were closed. Like many, I turned to Netflix...
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I feel like a fool for believing Joey Mendoza didn't copy Count On Me, Singapore
Dear Mr Joey Mendoza, The Internet, right? Here you are, living your life and making YouTube videos of your jaunty performances of Row Your Boat and other ditties, and out of the blue, some foreign...
View ArticleDurian flavour? Chendol? Indomie? Condoms with local flavours are suddenly a...
First, it was Durex. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Durex Singapore (@durexsingapore)April Fool's joke? Probably, since Durex said the new condoms will be "launching in just 7 days" from...
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No April Fool's joke: After 3 years, Burger King finally makes Chocolate...
No one likes to be played for a fool. Yet, it remains an annual tradition that otherwise veracious people and organisations would lie in the name of April Fool’s. And it is your own fault for being...
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I bought the KFC mask and here's my review
So KFC started selling masks today. View this post on InstagramA post shared by KFC Singapore (@kfc_sg)Instead of Original or Extra Crispy, the choice is Night or Day. I picked Night because it's...
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I got the Moderna vaccine because I didn't know I could choose by vaccination...
Dear Ministry of Health, I am sort of a healthcare professional. Or at least used to be. I was a medic in the navy during my national service and used to vaccinate shiploads of servicemen. That was...
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How Singapore got jinxed by 'gold standard' and 'world’s best place to be...
Dear Bloomberg, Let me first say, I’m not a superstitious person. But I can’t help but notice a pattern – and not the badminton kind. Someone saying something good about our MRT usually results in...
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You've seen the page 1, but what was inside the paper that day? Here's The...
You have probably seen this image of Workers' Party secretary-general Pritam Singh holding up a copy of The New Paper page one in Parliament yesterday. Pritam Singh clash with S Iswaran over funding,...
View ArticleHey, NEA, how do we return our trays when we are not even allowed to eat out...
Dear National Environment Agency, It was one of the most humiliating experiences in my life. And I wrote Phua Chu Kang The Movie, so I am very familiar with public humiliation. I was having lunch at a...
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Oh no, am I part of the Jem-Westgate cluster?
Dear Ministry of Health, I thought I could get away with it. The pandemic had been going on for more than a year, and I had managed not to get swabbed for a Covid-19 test. No sticks up my nose, thank...
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No, Gurmit Singh wasn't driving his Lambo when he was caught speeding at 131kmh
Well, in the Get Your Shot, Steady Pom Pi Pi video, he did say “faster go and vaccinate”. But perhaps not 131kmh fast. Yes, that was the speed Gurmit Singh was caught driving at on that fateful April...
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Should you get the McDonald's BTS Meal even if you're not a fan of BTS?
Dear non-BTS fans, How do you even exist? How do you live in this world and not be a BTS fan? I mean, I can understand if you are a non-MBS fan who does not know Marina Bay Sands is not in downtown...
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TIL Gurmit Singh's daughter Gabbi Wenyi Ayane Virk is 'an ícon in Singapore's...
You may have read about kids of local celebrities following their parents' footsteps into showbiz. But you probably haven't read about Gurmit Singh's daughter, Gabrielle. She did make the news in 2014...
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Abnormal new normal: Wait, people actually like the new NDP 2021 song The...
Dear Linying, Congratulations on the positive response to your National Day Parade (NDP) 2021 theme song, The Road Ahead, you composed with producer Evan Low. I am not going to report you for not...
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From flow chart to no dine-in apocalypse: Table for one, please?
Remember just over a week ago when the Government announced that for dining in, the maximum group size would be reduced from five to two because of the resurgence of coronavirus cases in Singapore....
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Strong arm of the law minister: Shanmugam does some heavy lifting
Last week, we were finally allowed back in the gym for no-mask high-intensity workouts with the easing of Covid-19 measures. And probably none too soon for Singapore’s overnight gym bro sensation,...
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Mediacorp Channel 5 once rejected my idea for sitcom about a Malay family
Oh no, she didn’t! But she did. I think someone just called Mediacorp racist. Or did she? That someone is broadcast journalist Sharanjit Leyl. In a BBC radio programme that aired two days before...
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Guide to Netflix's Best of Phua Chu Kang Season 2 and watch for free
Netflix started streamimg its second season of Best Of Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd on Sunday. Whereas the first Netflix season is just the original third season in its entirety, the second Netflix season is...
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