October 23rd, 2007 | by popagandhi | published in dispatch, tech
Jagannath Mandir temple workers lift the heavy wooden top of Goddess Subhadra’s chariot, 6 days before the Puri Rath Yatra 2007. Subhadra’s chariot is always red and black; Balabhadra’s is green, and Lord Jagannath — the star of the party — has a massive yellow and red chariot. 1072 logs from Orissan forests, 1200 metres [...]
October 22nd, 2007 | by | published in general
earnestly reading about the trans-siberian: seriously thinking about it http://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm #
Delighted my passport takes me to Turkey, Latvia, & most of Europe w/o a visa. Now about that Russian visa.. #
Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong makes his speech about repealing 377A in Parliament in approx 6 minutes. #
what’s the point of studying: researching Istanbul-Aleppo trains, [...]
October 21st, 2007 | by | published in general
Fucking awesome writing about well, cursing http://urltea.com/1u2o #
Anyone know cheap and reliable places to register the .tv domain, other than GoDaddy? #
Checking out the Seinfeld "Soup Nazi" moment as @daveoli advised. That might just be me. #
@jackerhack i have never been able to get makemytrip.com to work properly on anything other than windows and IE [...]
October 21st, 2007 | by popagandhi | published in glbt
Other than tech and travel. Or why I don’t usually like discussing my country. Re: 377A.
I’m never comfortable whenever I’m referred to as a Singapore blogger. I’m a blogger, yes, and from Singapore: that’s as far as it goes. I’m not in the country that much. I stopped talking about Singapore some time around 2004. [...]
October 21st, 2007 | by popagandhi | published in general
To raise awareness about its New Improved Kotex Soft and Smooth Ultrathin Pads, Kotex had a red booth outside Orchard Cineleisure this weekend, with the words: You May Not Remember That You Are Having Your Period. Wonderful copywriting.
Not knowing whose campaign this was, it made me double-take and think: Am I really? I don’t [...]
