Popagandhi

Pardon if this is the hundredth Singapore or Malaysian blog you’ve read about the haze, but… I woke up this morning, stepped out of my house, and couldn’t see very well. I thought I was in Darjeeling again. Except that it’s not 8 degrees, I can’t see the Himalayas from Clementi ...

teleport — I frequently work with more than one Mac, and always get annoyed by having to switch mice and keyboards. The most common setup at my desk is my PowerBook G4 in front of my iMac G5, each doing their own thing: PowerBook for writing and school stuff, iMac ...

NYMag provides us with some definitions most of us have certainly never thought of. I mean, how do you define a yong tau fu? Well, here goes. Rojak: “a piquant salad of pineapple, cucumber, and jícama dressed in a powerfully spiced savory dressing” Ipoh beansprouts: “very simple, lightly blanched bean sprouts served ...

Your photo shares the top banner rotation space with 10 other photos at the Flickr Nokia site. Sometimes I feel like Nokia’s whore. (Watch this space, where yours truly’s mug and video will grace those screens.) Giggling at the digs we take at Gong Li in our little parody. On the front ...

In other news, our neighbouring country has decided to fine “offenders who mix Malay and English”, and a special unit will be set up to weed them out. (I’m not making this up.) Mampos! 1 sen says Singapore will set up a unit to catch Singlish offenders who violate our national language ...

Or wired up, as they say When you have are using a networked laser printer, and the printer runs out of paper, you walk to it to top up the paper while grumbling, “wah lau why cannot make a network laser printer that can network refill paper?” You try to get your ...

Brown and Ruby eating the Beeb’s microphones. If anyone’s going to have a mixer encased in wood, it was going to be the BBC. The Beeb — the BBC! — approached us to do a podcast about.. well, podcasting. The podcast we came up with will be aired on the BBC ...

The little dinner thing I threw was apparently the most halal birthday party ever, according to some of my Muslim guests. Halal food + Arab Street + no alcohol + large turnout of family. “Dammit I really should take after you next time,” they quipped. (Please be signed in to ...

Now that the author is able to go on school trips, participate in community service, watch artistic movies, buy things on instalment, get married, all without having her parents sign consent forms…. So, happy 21st to me, and happy 3rd to popagandhi.com, and thank you all for reading. If the ...

If you’re a cool cat, you know that the first Friday of every October is Catmas. To observe the holy day, all bloggers who fancy themselves cool cats are to post pictures of cats — not necessarily theirs — on their blogs. I don’t have a cat (yet) but I am sure ...