Squareface @ 31°North

I’m spending a week in Singapore . Family call.
It’s both frustrating and comforting to know that some things will never change. But anyways.
As a move to build a home somewhere else, or just trying to minimize junk, I’m doing a major overhaul to my room in Singapore. Or just a major hauling out of things. [...]

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(And why are you not?)
Some mornings, in the early seconds before wakefulness, I see in my mind a hot bowl of hei mee — prawn noodles. The bright yellow noodles in a pastel blue plastic bowl, swimming with shelled prawns, fried onions, and deep fried pork lard in steaming hot brown soup. And then I can [...]

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In very bad taste, here’s a Christmas E-card from MCYS.

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Singaporeans tend to make this simple equation. Singaporean identity = Singaporean food. We spend our lives talking about food, and how good it is. We dedicate our lives finding the best food in town. For those who live abroad, they bring boxfuls of food/pastes/spices from home, and learn to cook versions of the famous Singapore [...]

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These pictures were taken in various Singapore bus stops, early February 2009, with a Nokia N95 8GB.

What is common in these three public service messages from the Singapore Police Force and the National Crime Prevention Council? Apart from the usual offence of being very tacky (playing with alliterations, feminine rhymes and syllable rhyme [...]

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Singaporeans are mocked, laughed at, and made fun of because of our reputation with our language(s). Can’t blame foreigners or ourselves for doing so because these exist:

(found this powerful image at STOMP’s website, under “Friends of Stomp”)
For the majority of Singaporeans, being Chinese, we pretty much have a confused mother tongue, or a different concept [...]

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Experiencing an amount of inertia when it comes to blogging. The notes in my phone are piling up from the random things I want to blog about, and I don’t know how else I should put them down other than yet another post about random things. (Not the 25 random things about me ok don’t [...]

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Just shut my luggage.
Wondering if the mess in my room will be untouched for the rest of this year.
Heading to KL tomorrow morning for a mother-daughter thing (?!) before proceeding to Shanghai for what we all hope to be my last semester in that university. As to what happens after, your guess is as good [...]

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…not as random as to list things like 1) I have always been scared of dogs (esp German Shepherds) because I once opened the house door to my brother’s bloody face (he was chased and bitten very very near his eye). 2) My Nokia N95 8GB phone is pretty much obsolete. Trade-in would be worth [...]

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For a step-by-step of the Great Singapore Workout, look here.
In an attempt to kickstart some exercise in this freezer we’re in, I let MissY take a look at the long-unheard-of Great Singapore Workout, and she loves it! But well, she loves all the National Day Parade songs I youtubed for her to watch too haha. [...]

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