Sunday, June 20, 2010

Pictures - July 2009

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Sir Richard Steele

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Resuming my incredibly tardy picture series (before July rolls around and laps this series):

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"Back off. I'm a taxpayer"

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Beat the ang mohs with Curtin

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Bugis Junction's sad idea of retail therapy

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Crystal Jade's job ad starts out bilingual, but the job listing is only in Mandarin

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How bad the economy was last year: Israelis had to come here to sell Dead Sea Shit

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"Every Sunday at 11am, K88 Coffee House will be giving away FREE Economy Rice, Chicken Rice or BBQ Fish Slice /Chicken to old folks aged 60 years old and above."
I don't know if this offer is still on

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SMU Graduands and Cosplay at City Hall. The cosplayers shouted "sumimasen" at the people taking pictures of them, until they realised they were still in Singapore and changed to "excuse me".

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Maths failure on Supreme Court Heritage sign

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Japanese buffet in Great World City - with no Japanese desserts

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H-Two-O ad. I don't know what the ang moh is doing in the background. Maybe it's a symbol of submission.

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Hashima from Ah Chew Desserts. It comes in balls instead of a contiguous whole, but hey it's $8

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Flyer for Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP) - you have to be really brave to lie on the grass in the tropics

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Jamon Iberico Hum Sup guy gave me

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Gender discrimination in job ad. I don't recall seeing ads which only ask for males.

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L.H.O.O.Q

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"This lift is CCTV-ready".
Presumably it means it hasn't been installed yet.

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Mamee - containing sustainable palm oil, and traces of crustacea and fish

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Mamee - with optional flavour sachets looking like condoms

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"Singapore's premiere (sic) pageant [for] married women... [who] work with their husband... in becoming positive role models"
Presumably the ideal for women is to get married and stay pretty

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NDP - celebrating mixed marriages

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Displaying a NTU certificate in NUS is not the wisest of moves

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"Paws ''N'' Furs" - pet shop urging you to skin your pets

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Politicised carpets sign at Holland Village; notice the flag of Kashmir

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Quizno's Bagus. Except for the third (Classic Italian), which wasn't as nice. But maybe that's because we were full already.

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"Salt Cookie".
Damn Japs (it wasn't salty).

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A dying tradition - Chinatown ritual (see, that's why someone else is also snapping it)

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Migrate to Australia ad in Today

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VCH: "Music should strike fire from the heart of a man, and bring tears from the eyes of a woman" - Beethoven

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"Visit Remarkable Adelaide"
Well, I guess it's slightly more entertaining than Perth

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"Well known food... CHEF is mad but the food is not bad" - Buona Vista market
The auntie came to hunt me down later, and I told her that with such a sign, she was asking for attention, so I gave what was desired to her (this is the u r wt u wr principle, but if I apply it to u r wt u wr I will end up in jail because Singapore is a sexist society which treats women as sacred temples)


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Presumably this teaches kids to be Zorro

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Intrepid fencers


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Waffletown - the best fried chicken in Singapore. Though with a very kiam loyalty card scheme; if I can redeem something from it, I know I've been eating too much fried chicken.

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Their wonderfully tender and non-greasy meat


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"A fuller bust makes you feel complete as a woman"

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"Bust Stations... is able to stir up sympathetic nerves, strengthen effective pressure of all capillaries in breast tssue and promote the breast fats to absorb full female hormone and fatty acid to improve the whole breast."

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"Now I feel like a REAL woman"
If you're not a REAL woman if you're less well-endowed than her, this may explain why trannies are so popular in Singapore

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"Breast cancer myth busted!"
They forgot the one about men getting it too
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