All posts for the month November, 2006

My mum’s cakes

My love for baking started when my son was born. His birthdays were celebrated with a birthday cake made by one of my sis-in-laws. It dawned on me that if she can bake a cake so can I. I started experimenting and looked up books and magazines for recipes which was easy to follow. One [...]

Whithr Flickr?

Read/Write Web highlights an internal Yahoo! memo which is a harbinger of change to products like Flickr and del.icio.us. Part of the memo highlights that various Yahoo! products/brands are treading the same ground. However… There’s a good argument to be made that Flickr doesn’t cannibalize Photos, because Flickr is used by the early adopter crowd [...]

Turkish delights

Alaturka is a wonderful little restaurant along Bussorah Street. My colleague, whose husband is from Turkey, attests that this is the place for a Turkish meal that is almost as good as home-cooked. Warning Their website has a very slow-loading Java applet. If this is home-cooked Turkish food, I want more! I went there is [...]

Tribute Video to St. Joseph’s Institution

After writing the previous post, I googled “Saint Joseph’s Institution” and found this! “Soccer player.” Yeh! More about the former SJI premises at Wikipedia. Technorati Tags: saint+joseph’s+institution, SJI, singapore, bras+basah, heritage

The Singapore Art Musuem a.k.a. former Saint Joseph’s Institution building

I took this photo on Tuesday afternoon, just before a seminar at the Singapore Management University. I’ve decided to write a bit about it ‘cos I noticed quite a number of people have viewed the photo. Many many years ago, the ground I was standing was an open field. My primary school – Saint Anthony’s [...]