Back in November our Team's Swim Rep sent out a Survey about the coaches, swimming, etc.  The survey had four questions and an option to add anything else you like.  I posted the survey and my answers to the questions.  But since I took a few days to think out my answers I emai...

As some of my fellow swim bloggers already know via an email I have a rant bubbling inside of me right now.  I've let it fester inside all day.  Between this small  issue that I'm making into something bigger than it is and my current lack of euphoria for my swimming I am t...

So, being today being Valentines day (and yesterday being Friday 13th) this aint a good weekend... The daddy "borrowed" my car to bring the mammy out for a meal (awwww), so i was left with his, which is also a 2.5l BMW 5 series, but his is 4 years older than mine and has a manual gear box....

Alex Au on the internet response to Rear-Admiral Lui Tuck Yew, the junior minister at the Ministry for Information, Communication and the Arts, "stuffing his foot into his mouth", and the press coverage of it (see also my un-self-regulated response). Excerpt from Yawning Bread, Behind Today's Lui st...

1. Put your iTunes on "shuffle". 2. For each question, skip to the next song to get your answer. You must use the title of that song as your answer, no matter how silly it may sound. 3. Tag at least 10 friends who might enjoy doing this, as well as the person who tagged you. 4. Tag someone you think...

The conflict of interest case involving ERA property agent Jeremy Ang (guy on the left), his boss Mike Parikh and boss's wife Natassha Sadiq (couple on the right), and their flipping of Mr Yuen Chow Hin and Madam Wong Wai Fan's condo has finally resulted in the High Court ruling in favour of the cou...

Been that kind of day today... I need some sort of headdesk icon!!! Kids were up the walls (spent the day giving out yards, then one wanted to know at two o'clock could he use his ten credits to get a night off homework... cue me looking at him incredulously and the rest of the class head-desking......

I saw this in a Facebook status thread about whether Mr Tan Yong Soon should apologise for "boasting" about his Paris holiday. Joseph C wrote: An apology would be welcome but hardly necessary. It's not like he let a suspected dangerous terrorist escape from custody and then failed miserably in the d...

I’ve been a long-time subscriber to Entertainment Weekly.  Each January they torture me with a little list called “25 Movies You Must See Before Oscar Night.â€�  And while it’s something they publish annually, it’s hardly a big deal in the magazine…but it drives me crazy. x Fir...

Who said our senior civil servants are just boring bureaucrats? Look at the international coverage about how one such talent acquired French cooking skills from Paris, for mere peanuts. Reuters: Bureaucrat's cooking trip sparks outcry SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singaporean bureaucrat who wrote about ta...