The title is the phonetic rendering of the traditional Scottish song, Auld Lang Syne, which means “Time Long Past”. Well, 2006 is not yet ti...

Dartmouth Flood Observatory December is turning out to be a month of disasters in Southeast Asia. Two years ago today, the Asian Tsunami cl...

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselo...

It is here again. As I look out at the forested hills in front of my hotel room at 6 in the morning, a white cloud-like mist has descended a...

I am blogging this as I sit in my Hotel in Batam Island , on a short vacation. I haven't been home for close to a week now though I hav...

After talking to some friends in Shanghai, I learnt that there is no Christmas holiday here. They'd still have to go to work come 25th D...

I am writing this as I sit in my Hotel room in Shanghai. I had to take an urgent company business trip up here and will only fly home to Sin...

mymall.sg - blared Mediacorp over TV in the last week or so. It tells you to login (and shop?). Well, I logged in, and it asks me for a keyw...

The most anticipated secret in the second half of 2006 is out - Genting International has won the race to build the Sentosa Integrated Resor...

Some people are now suggesting that Singapore should relax its rules on the use of Chinese dialects in the officially support and sanctioned...

This entry is in response to a reader's thoughtful comment on my previous blog entry "Declining language". I often wonder if t...

Some have bemoaned the decline of English language competency and an interest in speaking well in the same language in Singapore. I am not. ...

I cannot help but feel a sense of Virtual Map getting a taste of its own medicine. It is now being sued by the Singapore Land Authority for ...

Some people have the gall to ask, "Is selling personal data legal". Well, of course it is. It's been going on for as long as G...

I used to work in the old Pidemco Centre, just beside OCBC Building. It has since been demolished. Every day, I would get off the train at R...