Archive for April, 2009

Coffee addendum: no weasels

I should add to the previous post that Jack does NOT deal in weasel coffee.  That’s the (reputedly) exquisite coffee, available only from Indonesia and Vietnam (perhaps Thailand as well), where there are civet cats, a glorified type of weasel.  These critters periodically indulge in eating coffee berries, exposing the coffee beans inside to their […]

Trung Nguyen coffee distribution company for sale

Previously on this blog I sang the praises of Trung Nguyen’s ground coffee, called Creative 1, which I get by ordering it online.  Well, here’s a big opportunity if you want to sell coffee in Singapore – Jack Yu, who owns the Cafe Ventures company (which delivers my coffee), wants to sell it.  So if […]

Naked in Singapore

My avid fans (both of you) will recall that a few months ago I mentioned a pair of nudists who strolled through the expat enclave of Holland Village.  Well, despite their lack of identifying clothing they have been fingered and taken to court (fully dressed).  A Swedish guy and Singaporean girl, they were charged with […]

Controlling the Undesirables

In my taxi home from grocery shopping yesterday we went by a vast new complex of modest housing.  “Worker housing,” said the driver, “So now we can keep track of them.”  Like other countries I could mention, Singapore depends on hordes of underpaid immigrants to do almost all the landscape and construction work while the […]

Singapore sex blog

I see from my blog statistics that there’s a steady of trickle of people who find this site by googling “Singapore sex blog.”  God, how disappointed they must be.  But I’ll do my best, speaking as a monogamous married type who keeps early hours and lives about an hour’s ride from the red-light districts. Yes, […]