October 16th, 2006 | by popagandhi | published in general
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 or the ECP, and… my [...]
October 16th, 2006 | by popagandhi | published in tech
teleport ââ¬â 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 for photo post-processing, Garageband, and [...]
October 14th, 2006 | by popagandhi | published in food and music
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 jÃÂcama dressed in a powerfully spiced savory dressing”
Ipoh beansprouts: “very simple, lightly blanched bean sprouts served in a soy dressing with [...]
October 12th, 2006 | by popagandhi | published in general
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 page of the Straits Times [...]
October 10th, 2006 | by popagandhi | published in general
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 of English and all of [...]
