Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Closing Down Continues
Today my bank accounts and Banker’s Guarantee and all that other financial stuff were officially closed down. The only link I now have to living a “local” life is the fact that my phone still works, and that’s only got a lifespan of about 48 hours at best and then that too [...]
Respect Your Elders
Tonight was one more in a seemingly endless parade of dinners and get togethers that have been converging ever since it was announced The Move was happening and was not some fake, pathetic, plea for attention or, a petty way to try and get people to convince us to stay with offers of [...]
The Tourist & Geeky Goodbyes
It cost me 30 Singapore dollars to become a tourist.
After going to the Ministry of Manpower aka, MOM, I got in line behind 200 other people who all decided that they needed so kind of Foreigner Love on Friday afternoon. It took a while, and many runs through the various [...]
Still. Not. Legal.
Okay, so it looks like my Employment Pass has NOT been approved after all. This is a bit annoying. After getting the letter saying the EP was approved, I headed on down to my all time favorite place in the world, the Ministry of Manpower, aka, MOM, to once [...]
Getting Stuff Back
Now that the move is something like two weeks away, people are slowly either receiving things from us that we are trying to get rid of, or giving things back we had borrowed. Case in point, Battlestar Galactica DVDs. I first saw the new BSG when a friend over here loaned me his [...]
“WE’RE NOT WRONG… wait, we are? Oh… then…. YOU’RE STUPID!”
What an odd morning.
After arriving at the GameAxis office, I was told that a story I’d posted on the GameAxis blog had been pulled by the editorial team at the request of Singapore Press Holdings. For those of you that don’t live in Singapore, SPH [...]
New Propaganda Pseudo/Retro/Neo-50’s/Post-Modern/Public-Service Revival!
Because I too must utilize the public transportation system a few times a week to get down to the GameAxis office, I’ve been bombarded during the morning with the a new public service video that runs on the LCD monitors hanging from the ceiling of every train station. These videos, done [...]
Boating & Evicting
Today we hopped on one of the long boats (So called because it’s… well, long, and has a tiny propellor attached to an impressively long rod that stretches way out beyond the aft side of the boat) to check out the near by cove of Railey. While we were there we ran [...]
Another Random Thought
If Batman had been born in Singapore, he probably would have had to call himself “Fruitbatman,” since that’s the bat indigenous to this region.
Getting Picked On By The Government
Thursday ended up taking a turn for the strange when I got a call from the GameAxis editor who is currently IN FREAKIN’ JAPAN, because HE got a call from the MDA, otherwise known as the Media Development Authority of Singapore. In a nutshell, they are the censorship [...]