She’s almost gone.The lady who announces which station you are approaching.Her voice is commanding yet soft.Never intrusive.Informing passengers when they should prepare to alight.Warning them not to get caught in the gap between train and platform.SMRT, in all their wisdom, have decided to update the announcements.In her place, a younger voice.One that has strange …

Ok, I know everyone is more up to date with their Prison Break/Toilet Break witticisms regarding one Mas Selamat Kastari. I have been quietly observing what’s gone on and reading what’s been written the past week. So far, it has been one cock-up after another.Unlike some articles in the Straits Times and letters from the ...

Click ‘+’ to zoom in and ‘-’ to zoom out. You can click and drag the map to move around. View Larger MapI decided to try the full-length Southern Ridges walk one morning with Steel Wool. We started from West Coast Park after breakfast. (No prizes for guessing where we ate.) The walk took us ...

Recently, I was asked to add a photo to the Flickr group, Singapore, we grew up here…It’s an amazing collection of photos of Singapore in days gone by and of hidden pockets of our past in Singapore’s ever-changing landscape.Flickr user Smurfiechowchow hunts down these photos and gets the owners to add them to the group. ...

After a whole morning of not being able to even access the site, I manage to choose my seats.Then, I hit an Error 51.Is that like Area 52?Call Customer Support for further assistance?? What’s the number?The main ticketing hotline has been engaged since morning too.Oh, and I tried getting tickets at Singapore Post during lunch. ...

… and that is In-Camp Training. My unit has a tendency to book the last week of September/first week of October for annual ICT. Yes, the race is on a Sunday night, so I can probably rush back to camp. But I have a 3-day ticket, and I intend to use it on all three ...

Well, just one last night - his first in almost a year, but an important one for Manchester United.Another game which United did not control, although the players did not give away the little possession they had as easily as they did in the first leg.On one hand, I felt it was an underwhelming performance. ...

Peter Chan, a Friend of Yesterday.sg, took a walk around the Marina Bay Street Circuit this afternoon. He emailed me the photos and kindly gave me permission to post them here. So, here goes!The first two corners. Hmm… possibility of an accident as 20 cars come flying through?Chicane near Singapore Cricket Club.Armco barriers at Anderson ...

Singapore 2 Lebanon 0.That scoreline might come back to haunt us. Qualifying for the 2010 World Cup is still a very distant dream.But to make it happen, we need to punish teams when we can.I’m not being boastful when I say that we could have easily won this game 6-0.We were in control. The Lebanese, ...

If Melbourne is to Australia,and London is to UK,is Singapore as to Malaysia?Sorry, Metblogs, not since 1965. Or do the people at Metblogs know something that we don’t? Hmmm…Thankfully, it’s not Singapore — China!