All posts for the month January, 2006

Galbiati Gourmet Deli

This afternoon, I had lunch with Adrian, Dennis, Edmund and Gerard. The food was excellent! The place? Galbiati Gourmet Deli. I searched the web, and there was only one reference to it. Travesty! A place this good can’t have so little publicity. If the beef goulash were ribs, they’d slide off the bone effortlessly. The [...]

Alison’s Wedding

Yesterday seemed like an auspicious day for getting married. Mr Brown went to Cowboy‘s wedding. Other friends of friends were getting married. I was invited for a Mass Comm classmate’s wedding, which I had to turn down as I went for Alison’s wedding. Alison got married in a beautiful ceremony at St. Joseph’s Church (Bukit [...]

Blogging underrated! Heritage lives!

As a counterpoint to my previous post, I want to highlight a couple of inspirational blog entries I came across today. I was excited and delighted to come across these because it gave me a sense that are are like-minded people out there. The blogs also gave me a chance to interact with these bloggers. [...]

Blogging overrated?

In the 2nd Jan 2006 issue of The New Paper, reporter Ian Tan gives his “brutally honest” opinion about overrated technology stories. The article, Don’t believe the hype, includes a brief but predictably misguided diatribe about blogs, which I have reproduced below. Blogs Blogging is old news. Individuals have been creating homepages for over a [...]

Monkeys in Yishun

The Rambling Librarian spotted monkeys in Yishun Park. I’m not sure if this is a rare occurence, but it’s definitely interesting. Perhaps not newsworthy enough to make the pages of ST or even The New Paper. Still, it’s proof that wildlife still thrives in our ever pervading concrete jungle. Ivan also adds that his post [...]