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• Itchiness and Economic Irrationalism...
  on Aug 4, 2011
  ...is what happens in Year Seven.The former is a cheap excuse, but the later, for Israelites in Old Testament times, a year of redemption (so the enslaved would go free and debtors would have their debts cancelled) and rest and celebration to rememb...
• Jewel Coffee and the Gem of Micah
  on Jul 12, 2011 in *Micah All Given For Food: Coffee
  Jewel Coffee at One Shenton Way - another artisan coffee joint but one stuffed with coffee toys for its single origin beans. At the brew bar - Hario V60, Hario Siphon, Chemex; for the espresso crowd - a manual La Marzocco Strada...and an Uber Boiler.
• Sirens of the Zeitgeist
  on Jul 3, 2011 in Travels: Singapore Worldviews
  From Part 1.Bryant Simon's thesis is that the developed world is more susceptible to the seduction of buying because the pullback of community, the state, and other binding agents allowed brands like Starbucks to sell more goods by claiming the vacuu...
• Everything But The Progress
  on Jun 23, 2011 in Travels: Singapore Worldviews
  While planning to take some wow-Singapore-is-Monocle's-15th-most-liveable-city out-of-towners around Singapore during the Great Singapore Sale (see Foreign Policy Design Group-curated Great Singapore Stores), was amused to notice how closely Singapor...
• Angry Birds at Youth Camp
  on Jun 17, 2011 in Camping Without Tents: Youth Camp
  Some days you think the sky is falling...and it's raining Angry Birds tchotchke. At least one stall in every pasar malam and mall a gaudy display of soft toys, electric fans, bags, files, pens bearing the images of the rotund birds in primary colours...
• God's Sovereignty, Man's Responsibility, Free Will and Durians
  on Jun 4, 2011 in Questions
  "Our Mate"The morning after being grilled along with some mystery meat at a Korean BBQ, was still considerably in awe of God."If God knows everything that will happen, why didn't he just make everyone obey him?"That's exactly what we would do if we w...
• Saturday In Design Singapore x Olympus Trip 35
  on May 25, 2011
  A happy afternoon perusing wares at Saturday In Design Singapore, the first of what's slated to be an annual trade event for the design community. Quite a bit of the exhibits were not new, but it was fun to see them all at one shot, observe tropes an...
• I Shall Wear the Bottom of My Trousers Rolled
  on May 15, 2011 in All Given For Food: Coffee
  Fun times at The Steeping Room, a pop-up shop with a lifespan of only 3 months, from the same folk who brought us Papa Palheta and Loysel's Toy. Reminiscent of Square Mile Coffee Roasters' Penny University. Fantastic initiative and, to use politico-s...
• May Day! May Day
  on May 11, 2011 in *Micah Travels: Malaysia
  The destination for this year's May Day pilgrimage was Pulau Besar in Johor, another boat ride from Mersing jetty.We made full use of the 2-3 hour long queues at Malaysian immigration (they were testing out their new biometric thumbprint scanning sys...
• Thoughts for Cooling-Off Day
  on May 5, 2011 in Politics
  How lovely if the crowd that had filled the Serangoon Stadium to capacity had streamed out, not from a Workers' Party rally, but from one of Billy Graham's; if the clusters of people in fiery debates under trees and in the void decks of HDB flats wer...
• This Do In Remembrance of Me
  on Apr 24, 2011 in Ministry
  One of the best things I learnt from the very well thought-out OMF missionaries in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is to consider the practical human aspect of evangelism: that is to say, when one does evangelism, one is also modelling to others how evangelism...
• The Pies of Pressing Petition
  on Apr 13, 2011 in Prayer All Given For Food: Bake and Cake
  Assembled a chocolate, banana, toffee pie for the first time last Saturday. Unfortunately, it was for a newcomers' dinner at which several people, for whom banoffee pies were sacred, would be present. Hadn't been too fond of the same confections they...
• The Hario V60 Trials and Stewardship of Time
  on Apr 4, 2011 in All Given For Food: Coffee
  Assume only one brewing device: the single-cup Hario V60 - 01.Assume a similar grind: dialing in at 3 notches from zero on the Hario Skerton.Assume also a dose of 23g of the same beans (but no two beans are the same!).Assume even a water temperature...
• An Ethiopian, a Palm Civet Cat and a Judge Walk into a Brew Bar...
  on Mar 26, 2011 in All Given For Food: Coffee
  It is a funny feeling to come upon one's preferences quite suddenly, as if simultaneously running into an old friend around a street corner and identifying him for the first time.At first cupping, the Ethiopian Djimmah stood head and shoulders ab...
• The Flat Whites (and Some Caps) of Singapore and The Failed Humans of the World
  on Mar 13, 2011 in All Given For Food: Coffee
  On the way to lunch, the newly-minted owner of a naff Nespresso from Nestlé and I were drawn into a cafe by fresh coffee smells and a fire-engine red roaster in the window. A short discussion and rush of related questions commencing with "But why...
• God and the Japan Tsunami of 2011
  on Mar 13, 2011 in Suffering
  Elsewhere on the internet, someone expressed revulsion at another's status message calling on Japanese people to repent and be saved.Q: Is it as some claim that it was because of their great sinfulness that Sendai and whole towns in Miyagi and Iwate...
• The Heavens and The Earth, The Sea and The Dry Land
  on Mar 7, 2011 in Amateur Sportiness: Sailing and Boating
  There is much to be said about the romance of cruising the high seas with wind harnessing sails, but when the cold beer runs out and the onshore barbecues are a-calling, an immediate return to land usually necessitates vigorous use of petrol-fuelled...
• Boating, Transversing Park Connectors and What We Talk About When We Talk About Prayer (Colossians 4:2-4)
  on Feb 20, 2011 in Amateur Sportiness: Bicycling/Biking/Cycling Prayer *Colossians Amateur Sportiness: Sailing
  A pant-astic Saturday is:being out in the waters off Raffles Marina, waving to coast guards and getting the power boat driving sorted (and also having the Dynaglass gorge out a bit of flesh from the shin),sitting on the breakers, chowing down a McDon...
• The Ghosts of Cows Past and The Omnivorousness of Faith
  on Feb 12, 2011 in All Given For Food: Dead Cows
  Each forkful of juicy fat steak managed somehow to acquire, between plate and masticating organ, a seasoning of lingering guilt; residue, no doubt, of years of vegetarianism that accompanied adherence to earlier beliefs.Those beliefs were born of a w...
• Chinese Lunar New Year, Wholesale Food Shopping and The Great Mystery
  on Feb 4, 2011 in All Given For Food *Colossians
  Another lunar new year, another repetition of things soon to be ossified and thus dignified as "tradition". Yet it would be a queer thing indeed if there were no observable change to the human beings participating in such traditions.Paul describes th...