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Month: November, 2007

Aotearoa, the Land of the Long White Cloud

View Larger Map It still hasn’t really sunk in that I will be flying to New Zealand for a family holiday this evening. We will be travelling around the south island. It will probably hit me when I’m driving away from Christchurch International Airport. We’ll be taking in lots of scenery, probably do some standard [...]

Bump

Yesterday, the COSDU bunch in Singapore played host to two visitors from Malaysia. Michelle and Hobart were in town over the weekend. We planned to meet some time ago, but I couldn’t contact Alison. I tried calling and SMSing but no response. This was after an initial email. The strangest thing – the bunch of [...]

Geotagging photos

I’ve always thought that photo geotagging – attaching coordinates (latitude and longitude data) to photos – is a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, most cameras on the market do not possess an integrated GPS solution. Since I am going for a holiday in New Zealand later this month, I figured now would be a good time to [...]

The Mothers’ Lexicon

Chevelle shared this video via e-mail. It’s a hoot! Some of these phrases are culturally specific but overall, a lot of these would have been uttered by mums worldwide at some point in time. I think my mum has covered only a quarter of this list with me, at very most.

Fantasyland

“Congestion taxes on vehicles plying on busy roads are a routine course of action in Singapore. The maximum time to reach any corner of Singapore is 20 minutes as traffic is not allowed to flood the roads,” he added. City influx shocks Singapore panel via Mr Brown. When was the last time the Founding Father [...]