3 Singapore hotels in TripAdvisor’s 2009 Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels

Singapore’s tourism officials usually market our island-state as a “clean and green” place. However, 3 Singapore hotels have been given the dubious honour of being in the Top 10 list of dirtiest hotels in Asia Pacific by TripAdvisor.

I’m not really surprised, because Singapore is not as “clean and green” as it claims to be. [...]

Melancholy

As I am nearing the end of the schooling phase in my life, I’ve been wondering about what I have learnt in the past few years – not so much in school, but rather in life… how I have changed and developed myself into a better (I hope) person.
Unfortunately I don’t have the answer as [...]

Afraid to graduate

This is a terrible time to be a graduating student. Since last year I have been sending job applications and to date I estimate that I have sent at least a dozen (yup not a lot, because admittedly I am applying selectively and not a lot of good firms are hiring), but have yielded only [...]

Bangkok Trip Photos

I’ve been wanting to post my Bangkok trip report for the past 2 months but never found the time or motivation to do a proper writeup… so just let the pictures do most of the talking…

We want a no-frills government, not a no-frills HDB housing

While scanning through some of the blog posts on the “no-frills” HDB joke (at least I like to think that MPs Lim Wee Kiak and Lee Bee Wah were just kidding when they suggested in parliament that HDB builds housing estates with no playgrounds, covered walkways and BBQ pits to reduce the cost of housing), [...]

The beginning of decline in PAP’s popularity?

The PAP has been governing Singapore since its independance in 1965. While there is no doubt that the party played a pivotal role in transforming the island-state from a third-world to first-world status in just a few decades, there seems to be growing discontent among Singaporeans about how the government leaders today seem to be [...]

I won movie tickets

I won a pair of movie tickets for providing “good” feedback about my faculty in an online student survey.
If I knew the survey wasn’t anonymous I wouldn’t have done it. Darn. Or maybe it’s just the paranoid me again.

I’m a deal addict

I suddenly realized that I’ve got a problem – I’m a deal addict. I enjoy spending time seeking out deals and then spending on those irresistable deals without considering too much about the consequences. Although there aren’t many negative consequences and most of them are associated with wasting money on things I don’t eventually use, [...]

Strange phone call

A stupid bitch called my house phone today and accused me or someone in my household of making nuisance phone calls. WTF. Here’s how the conversation went:
Bitch: Hello, may I know who is this?
mrbiao: Who are you looking for?
Bitch: May I know who is on the line?
mrbiao: May I know who are you, and who [...]

MPs solution to HDB housing woes – build slums

From the ST:
No playgrounds or covered walkways in new HDB estates. Nor any barbecue pits. New flats should have very basic floor tiles, meanwhile.
It is hardly the usual call from Members of Parliament (MPs), who tend to push for upgrading in their constituencies. But two among their ranks are making the call for “no-frills” housing.
According [...]