Sub-post no. 1

An interesting blog I come across: http://public-artroar.blogspot.com/

This site contains a lot of interesting street art around Singapore - some are just amazing.


Sub-post no. 2

Ray McNiece's blog: a very insightful post about living in Singapore. Ray's from the States, and he's living in the HDB estate while he's here. I am always interested in reading about foreigner's - note, not just Caucasians - comments about HDB living.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=151992265&MyToken=d607b452-3aea-4b59-a4c6-f094f786cca2ML


Ray was one of the hosts of Musical Slam which I recently attended (okay, maybe not so recently) on 29 May 2007 at Velvet Underground (my second time there after the first Musical Slam last September). He, with Alison Lester (coincidentally I realised that she was the author of a book about aspects of Singapore life from which I have quoted excerpts and posted up on this blog, and she was very nice to leave a comment expressing pleasure that I put up her article) were the livewires of the evening - they did improvisation, were the gracious hosts who kindly put everybody into the fun mood. So enraptured by their performance was I that I was keen to find out who they were outside of being the hosts of Musical Slam. And so I stumble upon Ray's MySpace site, and this interesting blog entry.


Sub-post no. 3

Why does the media like to quote "hottest bachelor" but nobody writes "hottest spinster"?

My own speculation is that "spinster" as a word doesn't sound very nice and lyrical compared to "bachelor". As an ignorant school kid many, many years ago I used to think that the word had something to do with spiders, because they spin webs. Maybe somebody should invent another word to replace "spinster"?

Okay maybe it's not as drastic as "nobody", but sound out if you come across instances.