TalkingCock the Movie was our first, very ill-advised foray into filmmaking. We had just done a very successful amateur short that had picked up a prize, and in our stupidity, thought that qualified us to make a feature film. Based on our website TalkingCock.com, it...
We began THE COXFORD SINGLISH DICTIONARY online in TalkingCock.com, as a crowd-sourcing effort to document Singapore’s vernacular English or “Singlish”. Since its print publication in 2001, it has sold tens of thousands of copies, and been praised by...
Before TalkingCock, Singapore Dreaming, Dim Sum Warriors or our other creative projects, there was PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS. It was an essay we wrote very shortly after moving to New York for a book titled Singaporeans Exposed: Navigating the Ins and Outs of...
I’ve been writing (and occasionally drawing) The Last Page for 8Days, Singapore’s highest circulation weekly magazine, since 2000, in a pretty much unbroken run. I’m tickled that specific generations or demographics know me only for my Last...
For a certain generation of Singaporeans, what I’m best known for is TalkingCock.com, the first full-bore satirical website in Singapore’s history. It ran from 2000 to around 2010, during which time it chalked up millions of page views, spawned a movie, a...
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