Tag: singapore

  • Car-centric cities

    Car-centric cities

    Having been fortunate enough to have seen quite a few parts of the world, and having been in Singapore for 6 years now — I’ve been able to start comparing places and looking at the “where next” question. With Ila on the way, both as a parent and if I were a kid still —…

  • A Wes Anderson-ish Singapore

  • Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare

    Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare

    […] [migrant workers] labor and their identities are clearly commodified, something which is, at times, heartbreakingly visible. In a country that’s notoriously obsessed with safety, where jaywalking and failing to wear a seatbelt can be punished with jail time, migrant workers can be transported on the expressways in the back of goods vehicles. Calls for…

  • #PGHomeStories | Yeri Tiete & Shan Wong’s Home Refinancing Journey

    Shan and I recorded this a few months ago for PropertyGuru. Didn’t know it was also on YouTube (they were mostly using it in ads and on facebook/Instagram). Keeping it here as archive. 🙂

  • Singapore Metro

    For the Metro nerds among us…

  • Talent drain?

    “City of London Faces Brexit Talent Drain“. I guess that was not unexpected. This could level the playing fields a bit for other big capitals like Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt and maybe even Brussels. […] a report by several City organizations said that Brexit was making it harder and more expensive to hire foreign staff. International…

  • Covid-19 communication

    Covid-19 communication

    How Singapore went from clear, simple and stable communication surrounding Covid, to total chaos — losing people’s interest and understanding. To the point, there’s now Covid bingo. I quote, in case they one day decide to delete it all: Insanity.

  • Continuous Sidewalks

    Living in Singapore — a city extremely unfriendly towards bicycles and pedestrians (to the point they banned e-scooters because they had to blame someone for the accidents, and it couldn’t be the cars) I started paying attention to urban design in Europe and started noticing the little things I wouldn’t pay attention before. Having just…

  • Hong Kong housing

    Video from 2018. Since then, we’ve seen the riots (revolution?) in HKG. Suddenly, the HDBs in Singapore make a lot more sense, and we should credit the SG Housing Board for their solution (sure, HDBs are not perfect, but compared to those cages…).