Quispiam loquor

Perhaps coincidentally, since I wrote about Alfred Russel Wallace in early August, there were several further reports in the local newspape...

"What is caveat venditor ?" asked my sister, "I only know of caveat emptor , meaning let the buyer beware." Caveat empto...

Last Sunday, The New Paper On Sunday, had an article by Elysa Chen. In it, she reported on the phenomena that occurs in major departmental s...

Yesterday, my key fan supplier, Fiona from KDK, was sitting at my desk when I received a call from an irate customer. This customer had orde...

Saturday, August 29, 2009 A few recent incidents in my profession on the front-line for my store sadly reminds me that there are still peopl...

If someone asks who founded the Theory of Evolution , most people would say Charles Darwin . And rightly so. Ever since he published his ...

When I was younger, literally at a time when the policemen wore shorts , I lived in the Upper Bukit Timah area. From the mid-50s till late ...

I was doing a search for some information for a piece I intended to write about the Upper Bukit Timah area when I came across this picture t...

With National Day coming just round the corner, I thought it might be a good time for some patriotism. After all, I do love my country. In 2...

I used to live at a small housing estate called Princess Elizabeth Estate, located at Hillview Avenue in Upper Bukit Timah. Was reminiscing ...

I have only a fleeting interest in paleontology. That started long long ago, long before the movie Jurassic Park . Somewhere in my boxes, t...

I commute to work by public transport. I ride the MRT from my home at Bukit Batok to my workplace at Boon Lay at least 5 days a week. For t...

Why does it always have to happen when I am out on those rare few occasions with the Missus?? It simply reinforces my wife's notions abo...

Last Sunday, one of my co-workers caught a shoplifter at the store where I work. We detained the shoplifter in our store office pending the ...

Saturday, June 20th 2009. I have another blog at http://fujiwara-kankoo.blogspot.com . That started from the prompting of my ex-colleague Da...