Singapore Lah!

I was in Malaysia when my host asked me how I liked his lawn. I remember saying it was " nice, but it isn't grass ". The resul...

I received an old style $2 note in change and shown in large copperplate writing was This note is legal tender . A quick check in the wallet...

Kiasu is an Hokkien adjective meaning fear of losing , although before I read up on the word, I would have defined it as "pushy, edgy...

A new anti-Spam law came into effect at the beginning of June which tries to give consumers better rights when receiving unsolicited commer...

As part of my Singapore PR application, my race is coded as European , again. They must have copied it from my original Employment Pass (EP)...

My PR application is approved. Looking back, it wasn't as bad as the application form suggested it might be. There were lots of questio...

The posters for this are still up at work and the constant reminders have finally sunk in. It was part of National Family Week 2007, and the...

It's Dengue Fever season again and the full might of the Singaporean bureaucracy is being applied to the problem. It's a nasty dise...

HDB flats have a consistent design that includes an empty ground floor creating a Void Deck ; just pillars, lifts and mail boxes. There are ...

While some may say kiasu is the defining Singaporean characteristic, others may cite the slightly overlapping issue of elitism but for me, ...