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Public sector sustainability & strategy consulting at Accenture. Former Singapore diplomat & climate policy guy. Proud papa. Loves cities, wordplay, trivia, food, sport. Pronounced “suhng”
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Woke up to use the restroom and got started on the NYT spelling bee www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Kid: I’m so chubby! Me: No you’re not! Kid: Yes I am! Me: Wait, what do you think chubby means? Kid: It means you’re naughty! Me: No! Chubby means you’re plump! Kid: No it doesn’t! It means you’re naughty! You’re trying to trick me! You are being chubby!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 5 days ago • 579 comments

Did an epic walk in NYC yesterday. Started at the World Trade Center, walked through Chinatown, crossed the Williamsburg Bridge, walked up Bedford Ave from Williamsburg to Greenpoint, then crossed into Queens and walked to Long Island City before the rain finally stopped me

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Watched Jean Smart give a dynamite performance in Call Me Izzy on Broadway, then got her autograph and we chatted about her amazing experience in Singapore

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

For the record, just in case it gets deleted again, Genius for T/ADEHLY on the Spelling Bee

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Annoyed that I had to redo a whole Spelling Bee and also annoyed that LINGUAL and UNUNUNIUM didn’t count. But there, Queen Bee www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh I woke up at 5am to use the restroom and then solved the Spelling Bee - was two or so words away from Queen Bee but now it looks like it’s all been reset!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Okay as a huge Hacks fan and a Singaporean I was not expecting a final episode set mostly in my home country. Amazing

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This Reddit/Tumblr discussion about the lack of phonics education in America brought up an interesting point: what if those arguments you have with randos on the Internet are because those people are literally not reading you correctly? www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTum...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

You would think the NYT Games app would use correct grammar, but then you see “1 points”

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Pope Leo XIV has a degree in mathematics, which means he understands the parabola of the Good Samaritan

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The important question is: is the Pope a Cubs or White Sox fan?

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

I was hoping he would choose to stick with Robert as his papal name

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

That was fast!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I like stories about bad detectives told in Noh theatre form. I call the genre Noh Shit Sherlock

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I watched this episode of Lip Sync Battle when it aired and I remember loving Zendaya doing Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic. Probably a top 5 Lip Sync Battle performance. But then she got totally obliterated by Tom Holland

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Sparkling finale for the Righteous Gemstones last night. As someone raised in the evangelical church, I appreciated that this was one of the only shows that properly understood how to skewer church culture without skewering faith

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

You know your friends are speed solvers when you get sub-20 seconds in the NYT mini and you aren’t even in the top 3 (nor did I expect to be - had a typo that I had to correct)

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments