It says something about the efficiency of the MRT system here, or the ineffiency of the bus system here – or maybe both – that it took me the same amount of time to travel from City Hall MRT to Bishan MRT by train, as it did to travel from Bishan MRT by bus to [...]

I’ve known about Twitter for a while, having heard about it from Leo and his gang of TWiTs, but have never paid it much attention thus far. It always sounded like some silly thing that only encouraged web stalking, and I never understood why anyone would want to spend time twittering, or letting others have [...]

It’s no secret that Japan and Korea have consumer phone technology light years ahead of everyone else, but I wonder if all of it is useful. Just as people have been going back and forth arguing about the use of HTML in emails, one could do the same about rich text formatting in SMS. One [...]

I keep underestimating the Singaporean penchant for queues. Subway in Singapore’s been having a series of promotions to celebrate its 10th birthday, and today’s promotion was a 10-cent sub at all Subway outlets, between 3pm-4pm. Naively I thought I’d go and grab myself a cheap sandwich, only to be daunted by the long line that [...]