Clerk: When will you be coming down to collect your certificate? Me: This Thursday or Friday. Clerk: Our opening hours are 10 to 4. Friday...

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Wail and gnash your teeth, ye liberals! Cardinal Ratzinger, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - in plain English...

SR Nathan hints that he prefers retirement. Frankly, what's the difference? I've only seen him attend concerts and charity shows sin...

There was yet another article in the Straits Times yesterday about the beleagered profession, that manages to even further dilute and dimini...

Continuing a recurring topic of this blog... Here are your predictions on the state of the job market of 2005! Prognosis: The economy has im...

Applied for job with Shell. If anything, I felt my answer to their question on the global challenge on water might've lost it for me. We...

Overheard on the internet: akikonomu> Oh dear... sounds like the pope is about to be mortal gnu> I don't get why they don't le...

Advice for Andy Ho of the Straits Times: Don't write about what you don't understand "Dr" Andy Ho is a "senior writer...

Hi, I'm Aki. For the good part of the past 3 years, I've been blogging elsewhere, but many readers complained that the blog service ...

"For more accurate news, read the Straits Times" edition Today morning, a position for a presenter for a small radio station drew...

Kafka's The Trial is required reading at high school level in most societies, perhaps because Eng. Lit. teachers have found this the pe...

Okay, not the most surreal since the geezer wasn't bonking a camel at the table while interviewing me... But still, what does it mean wh...

And we're back to God, his problem, and our problem with him... The sole source of the Bible grappling with the problem of evil is in th...

Theodicy was first coined in the 18th century by the philosopher Liebniz. While the field of philosophy loves to formulate problems as abstr...

There was a tsunami in the region almost two months ago. Yes, it's a little late to start reporting it, but it isn't too late to exa...

or, NOT the starhub advertisement you know EXT. ORCHARD RD – DAY TWO rowdy young men step out of a mall. They look like they haven’t had eno...

Few days ago, I described a workaround to Singnet's fluctuating proxy servers. But how and why does it work? Singapore's leaders dec...

Recently I've landed a freelance writing stint for a scientific trade magazine. After a few hiccups, I'm proud to report it's no...

or, More Funny Proxy Technology from Disneyland with the Speakers Corner In plain English, Singapore Singnet's proxy servers to all fore...