I’ve been going through this entire blog checking for spelling errors, adding tags and organising things a bit. Through all that reading, I thought it might be a good idea to add a sort of glossary to the entire website, seeing as I am, as many of my fellow local bloggers, prone to using local ...

This is the last blog to expect successful promotion of any product, but I felt the need to do this, if only for the things that it has done to me, for me.It’s called The Resident Tourist (http://www.drearyweary.com/TheResidentTourist/index.php?showimage=1). Created by one Troy Chin (I-S calls him the Underground Maverick, which cannot be more true), it’s ...

Ah, technology. So advanced that 3 dimensions are no longer enough. It used to be 2 dimensions are all you've got when it comes to looking at your child before it makes its debut into the world from its mother's womb. Add another dimension and a 3D ultrasound scan will yield the images you see above, and then you add yet another dimension and call it a 4D scan just to make it …

The coverage of Reverend Shi Ming Yi’s trial led to a small balcony discussion between me and my wife, and subsequently, a number of lengthy comments between me and a skeptic (with good reason) in – of all people and in all places – local celebrity Ken Tay’s Facebook profile.For those not in the know, ...

My first Father’s Day.I’ve told my wife what I really thought of Father’s Day from my own point of view, particularly after having witnessed what she had to go through giving north to our son. Father’s Day to me was like an afterthought; someone came up with Mother’s Day, and then about a month after ...

I’ve been stuck on Twitter the last couple of days. Though I did register yonks before, and have a rudimentary understanding of how it came to be one of the hottest (and most inane) cultural phenomenons of this digital age, it didn’t hit me how useful it really could be until I decided to run ...