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Sex and the City has finally started showing in Singapore, "only" months after the show finished its run in the US.

Here's a funny article on the day Google went down . Frustrating as all heck. It was the day I learnt that Yahoo and MSN searches are nowhere near as good.

In a fit of consolidation, I've created an Arts section for this blog. So now there's Delta Sierra Arts for film and music reviews (since I don't only watch films at the Singapore Film Festival ), Singapore Sox Fan for baseball writing, and good ol' dsng.net here for random thoughts on life, the universe, and everything. Including punctuation and grammar. Especially punctuation and grammar.

People in Singapore like to say "local" whenever they mean "Singaporean". So even when in the US, you catch Singaporeans saying "I discovered a restaurant that sells local food!". This Epinions review of Singapore Airlines notes this when the reviewer realises that the peanut packet says "local mixed nuts". Local mixed nuts, incidentally, is not a bad name for a band.

For sale: One church, inflatable . Pity there's no bouncy floor.

I love the New York Times' website's summary of the arrest of Bobby Fischer . Makes him sound like some sort of seriously wanted criminal, in hiding from American officials, deviously capturing pawns en passant. The cheek of it, playing chess in Yugoslavia! Probably tried to mate with a bishop or something.

An excellent summation of the Spider-Man comics . I wonder whether Gwen Stacy will ever feature in the movies? Or the Hobgoblin? Edit: Change of title. Also, here's an excellent Lego version of Spiderman 2 .