Monthly Archives: October 2006

Hello Halloween

Saw an elaborately decorated house on the way to Jon’s place for an XBox 360 fix:

Celebrating Halloween is sort of a rarity in Singapore: people seem to prefer the gaudish red of the Chinese New Year over the swarm of rising dead and sweet treats. It’s nice to see someone putting in a little effort [...]

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New Camera

In the end, I decided on a Nikon D80. A great camera: I’m sure it will serve me well.

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There’s No More FEER In S’pore

The Far Eastern Economic Review, that is. Apparently, the reputable journal has been banned in sunny (oops, hazy) Singapore for an article that has drew the ire of the government, or, rather, two of the most prominent and powerful party members of the PAP.
This article in question was written on the chief political adversary of [...]

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Camino Would Be Near Perfect If

I could disable its tab bar overflow ‘feature’, which as of the latest stable release is sub-par, anyways. The unreleased (in final form, at least) Firefox 2.0 already has such an option, albeit well-hidden, so I can’t see why its OSX-native cousin should be so sorely deprived.
Well, I guess I’ve gotten too used to Opera [...]

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Parents

… I’ve finally figured them out.
This post will bear witness to what is probably the most personal material I’ve ever published online. Even so, it’s gone through the censors and sanitization - I don’t really take to handing out details of my private life so casually. I might be entirely wrong in my evaluation, or [...]

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Asphyxia

Singapore, as of late, has been caught in a Hell of haze.

I fail to see how THAT can be considered, according to the day’s Pollution Standards Index rating of 80, ‘moderate’. The island’s practically a smoker’s lung.
Something has to be done about the situation in Indonesia. Hasn’t this happened before, albeit with a little less [...]

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