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My totally unpredictable flatmate has created a scene in Singapore once again. Right now X-08, the X-Box 2008 convention is going on at at Marina Square, and my flatmate was particularly excited about the demo for the unreleased, upcoming game Gears of War 2.After playing in multi-player mode for fifteen minutes, my flatmate looked at the Chinese guy who had been playing with …
At 27A Thompson Road in Singapore you can find Cheeky Chocolates, a new restaurant that specializes in chocolate desserts. They serve a variety of crapes, chocolate cakes, waffles, and chocolate drinks. There are a few entree items on the menu, but that is not why you would go to this place.When I visited this new food boutique about two weeks ago, I was able to sample a …
On my twitter feed I follow a guy who goes by the alias of Coffeecup. He's studying psychology and according to his twitter reports he just helped save the life of a guy preparing to commit suicide. Coffecup's profile reveals that he lives in Singapore. The man that he was helping lives in Florida.I am thankful that this man was able to get help, but it also causes me to ask …
M1 Mobile Broadband is repeatedly doing unacceptable things to web pages that their customers try to download.At first they were intercepting the web pages of customers and performing a javascript injection on their pages designed to make images blurry and low bandwidth. Thankfully the blurry images are gone. Now they are doing some other bizarre thing. It seems that …
(Caution - this post may seem kinda gross.)My first food service job out of college was working at the coffee kiosk in Mizzou's Memorial Union. At that time, before the big Starbucks boom, it was the only place that served Starbucks coffee in mid-Missouri. In my boredom, during the mornings and evenings when I worked there I'd spend free moments during the shift reading the …
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When I first came to Asia over three and a half years ago, I found shopping exciting for the first time in my life. The night markets of Chang Mai were abounding with fake Gucci and Prada, brands that my Missouri eyes had only seen as the accessories of rap star girlfriends on MTV. Bootlegs of films still in the theater were for sale inside the duty free zone of the Batam …
Earlier in the year when I was trying to decide what internet service provider to use, I found out about the new M1 Mobile Broadband. Everything that I learned about it seemed almost too good to be true. Well,the things I learned really were too good to be true and here are five reasons why I am disappointed with the service:1) It is slow. It is so slow that watching a …
Walt Disney must have been a heck of a math teacher. While my family and I were staying at some condos at the Lake of the Ozarks I saw this old vinyl album titled Addition + Subtraction. Originally created in 1963 this album features Jiminy Cricket and Rica Moore singing songs about addition and subtraction.The A side of this LP features songs about addition, and the B side …
I had a hard time finding good pizza when I first arrived in Singapore. Spizza was too thin; Rocky's was on the greasy side; and Canadian Pizza is passable, but there is really nothing good about it.My dilemma was solved when Boston Pizza rolled into town last year. They deliver; they aren't halal so that means they use real pork; the crust isn't too thick or too thin; and …
Since my last post involved my church friend Byron, I thought I'd take the time to plug the cafe that he runs. Nanyang Good Morning Cafe is on the third floor of Chinatown Point. Byron makes great scones, kaya toast, and serves a delicious cup of kopi.If you're a scaredy-cat expat and don't like the ambiance or the hygiene of your local neighborhood HDB coffee stall, this …
A friend of mine once called certain types of Christians "litterbug evangelists." They go around distributing little comic books that contain forceful and oversimplified messages about Christianity and other religions. Christians will leave these scattered all around hospitals, in certain churches, in grocery stores, and my Grandma even once got one sent to her in the …
I haven't been updating my posts in the past week because I've been hard at work on my new online project (not to mention grades are due on Tuesday).Click the big button to see what it is all about!
Last Friday, Daphne told me about a special promotion where bloggers could get free tickets to last Sunday's Slingers vs Philippine Air 21 game. Many people from my work enjoy watching basketball so I took advantage of the opportunity.As I arrived I saw how sparse the crowd was and realized why they needed bloggers to promote their show. The entire top level of Singapore …
Reubs, my former flatmate, posted an account of his annoying battle with an obstinate bus driver:The other day I got off the MRT (the subway) and ran to the bus stop. I was in luck, because the bus that comes once every 15 minutes was right there, waiting for me. The bus door was closed so I politely knocked on the glass to ask the bus driver to open it. And you know what …
I noticed this museum display sitting on one of the back shelves of the Asheville Nature Center when I was there last December. Can you guess what it is? Leave your response in the comments section!Learn more about the Western North Carolina Nature Center.Link
I've just bought one of the best routers, the Linksys WRT54G; it has open source software, the documentation is good, and there's a lot of support for it, but with Singnet I had a struggle to make it work. And if you do a search, there are countless other people who have had the same struggle.The problem is that Singtel requires its customers to use crippled Speedtouch 516 …
Entering Singapore as a foreigner is like a freshman attending college orientation, you are bombarded by people that offer you invitations for events, clubs, outings, and organizations.When I first arrived in Singapore, I started attending the Tuesday Group prayer meeting. The Tuesday Group is an interdenominational group of Christian believers that gets together to sing …
There's a certain type of woman that gets to college, becomes self-aware and free from her parents' authority, rejects any semblance of traditional values and begins crafting an identity based on radical feminism. What happens to these females is that they learn that society doesn't necessarily have to be as it is, but is instead based on a series of collective choices made …
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