Best Cafes in Singapore (according to my friends)
I asked my Facebook friends for Cafe recommendations. In no particular order: Artistry (Jln Pinang) – now closed Group Therapy (Duxton, Katong) FB Two Men Bagel House My Awesome Cafe – staff always...
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I want to make a page of my favorite people in Singapore, who I feel confident in recommending to others. A work in progress, in alphabetical order: Alfred Lua (@alfred_lua) Product marketer at...
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377A
“Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male...
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Marina Bay Sands is Singapore’s Schelling point
What’s Singapore’s single most identifiable landmark? It’s changed over the years, and that’s the subject of another blogpost entirely. At some point it was the Merlion (featured in Japanese ads), at...
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Naiise
2015 Naiise goes big with largest store opening at Central (todayonline.com) “Can someone give Naiise’s founder Dennis Tay and his team a trophy?” 2016 Who says Singapore designs don’t sell?...
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2019 Struggling grocery startup Honestbee fires its CEO (techcrunch.com) Honestbee Chairman Brian Koo Resigns, Firm Still Owes Ex-Staff Almost $1M In Salary (vulcanpost.com) 2020 Honestbee founder’s...
View Articlespeak up
I want to assemble a post to honour the people who have spoken up in Singapore over the years. 2021 MOM apologises to ex-DJ Jade Rasif for saying her account of maid’s Covid-19 scare was ‘inaccurate’...
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exciting
What makes a city exciting? How do we make Singapore the most exciting city in Asia by 2050? Opportunity. In simplistic terms, economic opportunity. But it’s not just about jobs. It’s about wealth...
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One of the most common and sticky criticisms of Singapore is that it’s sterile. Part of this can be a kind of orientalizing Western perspective – the assumption being that Asia is supposed to be...
View Articlethe Jack Neo Moral Universe
This is a junk draft of a post idea I’d title “Jack Neo Moral Universe”. It’s an analysis of several of Jack New’s movies, primarily Money No Enough and Ah Boys To Men 1 & 2. Jack Neo does a...
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