Their food is to die for. Our favorite Thai restaurant, Diandin Leluk, is unfortunately situated in the Golden Mile complex.

Two weeks ago, the highway behind it collapsed, forcing evacuation of the building.

Today, it was evacuated again -- for supposedly unrelated reasons -- after the building started shaking due to an earthquake across the water in Sumatra. No one else in town seemed to feel a thing, myself included.

One might never want to go near the place again. But only if one hadn't ever tried their green curry soup.

Serves us right. I only knew fifteen minutes beforehand. Marjorie knew all along, but figured if it was a Kevin Smith movie, it couldn't be all bad. The point is, we both knew going in to see Jersey Girl that it starred Ben Affleck, and we went anyway. We got what we deserved.

I've always had issues with how a certain word can be consided obscene,
while another word which means the exact same thing is considered acceptable.
Most times, it's just due to an accident of history, and it makes no sense to
me at all.

Why, then, did I blush for the Singapore newscasters the other day when,
while introducing a story about the tenth anniversary of Viagra being
available in Singapore, they put up a graphic reading "Helping Singaporean
men get it up for ten years"? And then, a second later, when the reporter
started the story with "Are you hard up without a hard on?"