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Monday Apps Silliness
Check Your Battery Status Coconut Battery is an app that gives you in depth information regarding the status of your portable Mac’s battery. I ran it and it gave me – First read about here – 4096 mAH out of 4400, after 332 battery load cycles and 14 months, is not too shabby at all. Always calibrate, [...]
SMU Firsts
Tomorrow (22 Aug ‘05) is officially the first day of the school year, and what makes this different from every other day is that it will also be the first day on the new campus. To commemorate, I am starting a little Flickr exercise, with the theme “SMU Firsts” – first day, first week, first class, [...]
Musical Habits
My six year old cousin doesn’t like Good Charlotte. According to him, the “first song” in the McDonald’s compilation CD he possesses, is “disgusting” – it’s a Good Charlotte song. But “second song”, by Switchfoot, is somewhat better. There is hope for mankind, just as I was worrying about it. I trust the musical taste of [...]
Rubber Ducky Edition
You’re looking at it now. A few more things have to be done, but for now, it’s gone without a glitch. Over the next couple of days, I will be adding links, organizing old content, adding certain ‘best of’ entries from previous versions of this site. And looking for a better duck to be on [...]
Where Queens Ruled
A Double Bill Date: Tuesday, 16 August 2005 Time: 1930 Location: Mox A History of Gay Venues in Singapore By Russell Heng Today we head to the internet and a cluster of clubs, saunas and Maxwell Market to be with one another. But where did gay men and lesbians go before? What was gay life like 40 years ago? Where exactly [...]
Travelling Without Lonely Planet
the guide for people who have a lot of time I don’t plan for any trip with a guidebook. I find them to be full of drivel, usually outdated, and well, you can’t do a ctrl-F or cmd+F to skip to the necessary bits. Guidebooks are expensive, the ones you find going for cheap are a [...]
Favourite L Word Girls
It is always important to share the list of people you find attractive and/or hot. This information has normalizing and leveraging effects for taste and perception, i.e. if you find a trashbag attractive, your future opinion is less likely to hold much sway. So without much ado, I present to you, my favourite L Word [...]
Our Favourite Pastime
Half a year ago, on an atypically breezy Singapore evening, we talked for hours by a sidewalk. After that talking was over we blew smoke from our shisha pipes into our faces, and after the smoke cleared, we set off for an indeterminate place. The point, it seemed, was to walk as far as we [...]
Charlie
Why Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Is In Fact A Bollywood Movie There are dance sequences. There are as many dance sequences in the movie as a Bollywood film. The people (or rather, person) in the dance sequences are the same people all throughout, and they’re lip synching. Dr Wilbur Wonka is such a typically Indian father. “No son [...]
Train Over Alor Setar
Cramped together with you in the lower bunk, I was an intruder in your space. Yet with the curtains drawn, that our backpacks occupied the same space I was supposed to, didn’t loook any bit out of place. Your lips on my cheeks, at first still, deliberating and pondering – jolted as the train [...]