Dance like no one's watching

Our women’s table-tennis team just gave Singapore its first Olympic (silver) medal in 48 years.  48 years – that’s a wait that started even before Singapore gained independence.  Kind of put things into perspective doesn’t it?  Our girls fought hard.  They clawed tooth and nail for every point in the semi-final against Korea to earn […]

SINGAPORE BEAT SOUTH KOREA IN THE BEIJING OLYMPICS TABLE-TENNIS WOMEN’S SEMI-FINALS TO ADVANCE INTO FINALS ON SUNDAY!  WOOHOO! Would it be too much to ask for a gold now?  😛  

Sigh.  My eyeballs are in overdrive today.  In this world there are the collectivists, the individualists and the pure delusional. Came across this other article on the Internet about table-tennis.  The last paragraph took the cake. "Still, we’ll never appreciate table tennis like the Chinese do. We’ll never chant and ooh and ahh when the […]

There’s been a furore over China’s handling of the Olympics opening.  By now, everyone knows that a little girl lip-synched, and 28 out of 29 footprints seen on TV were digital images because the hazy skies prevented the real footprint fireworks from being captured. Beijing’s critics have jumped at these examples to criticise China.  They […]

IRAS is efficient!  I just got a call from them saying they’re looking into it.  So far, they confirmed that Comfort Taxis includes it in the receipt.  So either Premier Taxis is slow, or the cabbie is recalcitrant.  Either way, the diesel surcharge forms part of taxable income hence they’ll probe more. See!  This is […]

Sends search engines my way? Sigh.  Before I got hit by the stupid spam hijack thingy, this blog was rated pretty high on google’s search engines.  Type "uptowngal" and the first hit would be this blog.  Now… this blog has gone completely under the radar. I was told that google removed all the blogs / […]

Today is Iceman’s birthday… but the poor chap had to go to office extra early thanks to some heartless doctor who wanted a meeting at 7:30am.  Good grief.  Which normal human being turns up at office before 10am?  (Ok, I’m exaggerating here).     Anyway, Happy Birthday Sayang!! *Hugs*

Two of my colleagues resigned this week.  One’s from my department and the other is from Booze Queen’s department.  The guy from my department resigned to pursue his dream of being an entrepreneur.  Nothing wrong with that except he doesn’t want to tell Bigmac what his plans are because he feels Bigmac will "poke holes" […]

              Doesn’t it look like one?  Hehehehehe.

Selected photos from Night Fest 2008!   Dancing couple in the air           This picture of a face is actually projected onto a water fountain.           Looks quite freaky in the photos…           There was this gymnast dancing, balancing, diving and doing all […]