Quispiam loquor

This is a letter I wrote to Mr David Ong, the Member of Parliament for Jurong GRC which I sent today. Mr David Ong (davidong@bukitbatok....

You say you can't understand the Nyan Cat video in the last blog? Just a waste of 3-1/2 minutes of your life? No purpose at all? OK, ...

You've all probably received it once or many times before - Chain letters. Except now, it's via email.  Make x copies, forward ...

There's one local website which I visit only if I am totally bored or really scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is the so called ...

Led down the garden path is an idiom, meaning deceived someone by giving him or her the wrong information. In the English Languag...

Youth is one of those awkward words in the English language, especially the plural form. Is it youth or youths? I was raised in the old ...

Following my previous blog about St Theresa's Convent , my sister text'd me to say that another venerable Catholic school, St Joseph...

I have this thing that's actually been bugging me for years and years. I am sure it is wrong and yet I have not been able to get out of...

I presume many will read this blog as a curious response to the word Cum in the header. Wikipedia defines cum as: A sexual term, meaning...

I get the monthly Lifestyle magazine courtesy of the NTUC, which I hardly ever take out of its plastic wrapping.  It's supposed to be S...

As I write this, my country is in the midst of a General Election. The populace will elect or re-elect a government in a few days time accor...

Without wanting to sound too presumptuous, I just need to get it ‘off’ me.  Every time I hear that phrase 'off day',  it ma...

My sister Jen emigrated to USA more than 2 decades ago and I usually chat with her via MSN. Last Saturday, with tongue in cheek, I told he...

I got my very first Personal Computer  around 1980s. That's way back in the the 20th century, so long ago that I can't even remembe...

Today somebody said to me,   Go to all that trouble?, it's only 4 cents! (referring to my earlier blog ) Sigh. The sad part about ...

Despite the bus companies' claims that the overcharging problem had been fixed, I've had 2 further instances where I was still overc...

Or rather, I can't stand the auto-correction feature in its messaging, email or Notes apps! It not only corrects your spelling but chan...

Today, I was waiting for the lift at my apartment block when this youngish lady in her twenties also came to wait. I  know her to be one of ...

I get peeved when those fast food servers behind the counter rattle off their scripts like robots instead of using their heads. For examp...

I took a bus to work yesterday in the sweltering heat. SBStransit #182 from Boon Lay bus interchange towards  Customs Checkpoint at Tuas 2nd...

I recently learnt of a phenomenon that occurs almost every day though most people are unaware of it.  For the briefest moment each evening...