The LTA continues to pat itself on the back for a job well done last week: “Traffic conditions improve in first week of new ERP criteria” (from CNA website) To quote from the article: “The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said there has been an overall improvement in the travel speeds and traffic conditions in the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
“Traffic Conditions Improve In First Week Of New ERP Criteria”
Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
Songcraft Stuff
Monday, 14 July, 2008
Since our July Songcraft session is this coming Friday, I shall dedicate a few posts to Songcraft this week. Firstly, let me just announce that after almost 16 months of existence, we finally have a Facebook group! (Many thanks to Jerron for setting it up, cos I wouldn’t have done it on my own.) Songcraft [...]
Official NDP 2008 Theme Songs Launched!
Thursday, 10 July, 2008
The official NDP 2008 theme songs are now upon us! See the NDP website (here) to learn about the songs in their full glory, including lyrics and hi-res video. Shine For Singapore Music & Lyrics by Benny Wong Performed by Hady Mirza The English song is “Shine For Singapore”, written by Benny Wong. What can [...]
Increase ERP? Yes! More Wages? No!
Thursday, 10 July, 2008
You gotta love what you read in the news these days. Today’s Straits Times headline says: Tharman: Pay rises no cure for inflation (Hmmm…”pay rise”…now where have I heard about this contentious topic before?) Anyway, whatever it is, our Minister says a pay rise is NOT the best solution in times of rising prices. There [...]
NDP Song Update
Wednesday, 9 July, 2008
Well, today was quite a breakthrough for me as I finally nailed down all the melodic lines to my NDP song, especially the few lines which were giving me huge problems for the last one week. So I finally got the entire melody and structure set, as well as all the chords. All that’s missing [...]
Wacky World Of Sports
Wednesday, 9 July, 2008
I watch quite a bit of sports, and there’s one thing (or two things, rather) that I can never understand: How come baseball pitchers never apologise whenever they hit a batter with a pitch, be it accidentally or intentionally? And how come tennis players always apologise whenever they inadvertently hit the ball such that it [...]
US Olympic Selection System Needs Work
Wednesday, 9 July, 2008
I’m gonna put it simply: Sometimes needs to be done about the US Olympic Trials selection system. Brendan Hansen, who owns 3 of the last 4 WRs in the 200m Breaststroke, as well as the current 100m Breaststroke WR, is out of the 200m Breaststroke in Beijing cos he came in a shocking 4th in [...]
One For The Ages
Monday, 7 July, 2008
So Nadal triumphed over Federer in what was probably the greatest Wimbledon Men’s final ever played. I was fortunate to catch parts of the epic clash, especially the end of the fourth set. Amazing stuff. They say every great athlete needs a great rivalry in order to cement his/her legendary status. I say we’re seeing [...]
NDP Song (Plus Songwriting Process)
Monday, 7 July, 2008
I am currently working on a new National Day song to be presented at this month’s Songcraft session. Have been working on it for exactly one week now, but it’s still incomplete. It’s posing quite a few problems, but I kinda like what I have at the moment so I’ll continue working on it. It’s [...]
27 Dresses And “The Giver”
Monday, 7 July, 2008
You tend to appreciate a movie more when you can identify with some of the circumstances which the protagonists go through. It makes you sit back and think. Maybe that’s one reason why I enjoyed “27 Dresses”. In the movie, Jane (Katherine Heigl) is the sweet helpful girl who never says “no” to her friends, [...]
