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  • Heathrow Airport Body Scanner Abused; Employee Takes Picture of Woman’s Scanned Image

    Back in January, when talk of putting body scanners in airports was running at full steam, I posted my opinion on the whole matter, which is, in short that it’s a horrible idea that offers up way too many opportunities for abuse of the system by less than ethical employees and the government.  I pointed…

  • Tapa King in Singapore

    Tapa King is a restaurant that serves a popular Filipino dish called tapsilog.  The restaurant is very popular in the Philippines and has finally opened branches here in Singapore at Lau Pa Sat (same place as where the only Wendy’s in Singapore is) and one at Century Square in Tampines.  There may be other branches…

  • Pulau Ubin and Young NTUC’s Run350

    A few weeks ago, my wife told me she’d signed us up for a running event called Run350.  It was encouraged among NTUC employees, since it was a Young NTUC sponsored event.  The purpose of the run was to gain attention for climate change.  The atmospheric carbon dioxide for February 2010 was 389.91 parts per…

  • Horrible Singaporean Buyer (SMS Conversation Screenshots)

    If you’ve ever tried to list something publicly to sell it, you’ve probably had a similar experience.  I doubt many of you have had to deal with this level of annoyance though. Just to give a little background, last month I sold a Nokia e51 I had sitting in a drawer, because, well it was…

  • MyTransport.SG: Why LTA Really Killed the ‘Park-a-Lot’ iPhone App

    A few days ago I wrote a post about how LTA had told Park-a-Lot developer, NiiDees, that his wildly popular iPhone app could no longer access real-time parking information from garages. The reasons cited were that the information leased to LTA was only allowed to be shown on its site, and not through iPhone apps.…

  • Discovering What Halal Really Means

    I recently came across an article about an ongoing problem in a town called Colne in the UK.  According to the article, the KFC there has switched to serving halal foods as part of a trial.  A KFC representative said this was done because there have been quite a few requests in the UK for…

  • Aggressive Bicyclists Are Disregarding Laws And Endangering Pedestrians

    This evening while my wife and I were walking to the hawker for dinner, we were almost run down by a bicyclist.  We had stopped at the cross walk in front of Loyang Secondary School in Pasir Ris and waited for the pedestrian light to change to green.  When it did, we glanced quickly right…

  • LTA Trying To Scam Singaporeans’ Money?

    The Park-a-Lot Lite app, developed by local developer NiiDees, has removed its live parking data feature which displayed which carparks had vacant lots, following a notice from the LTA. via zdnet asia Park-a-Lot Lite is an iPhone app that was previously able to pull data from the LTA’s website, which then showed Singaporean drivers, through…

  • Book Review: Atlantis by David Gibbins

    As the title suggests, this book deals with the legend of Atlantis and the chain of events that lead up to its fictional discovery by Jack Howard and his colleagues from IMU.  Jack Howard and IMU are both fictional and play a role in quite a few of David Gibbins’ books, all dealing with archaeology…

  • Blood Trail Leading Through Downtown East and E-Hub (Pictures)

    My wife and I were in Downtown East tonight when we noticed this trail of blood leading past the entrance to Sakura.  At first, I thought that perhaps some poor girl was having an unfortunate night, but then I realized it was way too much blood for that.  The trail led to the door going…