Monthly Archives: June 2003

I have a business idea

I have a busi­ness idea. I think it will work because there are a lot of peo­ple who would want to buy this. Nine out of every ten con­ver­sa­tions with A begin like that. Noth­ing much out of the ordi­nary com­ing from peo­ple of this ilk, as there are always men with busi­ness ideas who need

A Malay wedding

Shareena’s wed­ding din­ner took a lit­tle longer than what Boo Seng pre­dicted. He and I had arrived unfash­ion­ably early. The ear­li­est among all the guests by the looks of it. So early we had to excuse our­selves to go to the car park to pre­tend to get some­thing. It was an expe­ri­ence, as I have

Talking Cars

I tried fix­ing the wipers on my car right after lunch, smack in the noon heat, hop­ing to renew the Tioman tan, but failed in both depart­ments. I popped the bon­net and peered into the engine com­part­ment, think­ing, so, this is what my car engine looks like. You could say I know noth­ing of cars

Texting 1,2,3

Tex­ting 1,2,3 The num­ber 7 but­ton on my phone hadn’t been work­ing prop­erly since I returned from Tioman. I had noticed ear­lier that there had been fine grains of sand embed­ded in the crevices on the phone’s plas­tic shell. On Sat­ur­day night, I slid the shell off with a screw­driver and won­dered how almost a