miyagi.sg | My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}

Lis­ten­ing to: Trib­uto Al Niño Rivera — Afro Cuban All Stars — Dis­tinto Difer­ente There are bless­ings to count. S com­ing back from Syd­ney has been a god­send. Today, after work, we met at our local, as per nor­mal every Fri­day and Sat­ur­day for the past two months now, and we had our com­pul­sory Hoe­gaar­den …

Lis­ten­ing to: Bolero Sonám­bulo — Manuel Galbán/Ry Cooder — Mambo Sin­u­endo A few weeks ago, we were sit­ting at the din­ing table hav­ing din­ner. All was usual. Mum was grip­ing about every­thing. Sis was com­plain­ing about some­thing at work. Brother-in-law was ask­ing me some inane ques­tion in an effort to drum up con­ver­sa­tion with me. …

Lis­ten­ing to: Rid­ing With the King — John Hiatt — Y’all Caught OK, who wants to buy a 1986 Mer­cedes Benz 300SEL? I got this car in 2002 for a real bar­gain by Sin­ga­pore stan­dards — $28K for 5 years left on the COE (for non-Singaporeans — Cer­tifi­cate of Enti­tle­ment — yes, you need a …

Lis­ten­ing to: She — Elvis Costello — Not­ting Hill I spend so much time on the com­puter it’s scary. And thanks to my hor­ri­ble sleep­ing pat­terns, I spend nights, mostly alone at the com­puter, churn­ing out (very slowly) all man­ner of busi­ness pro­pos­als, web­site updates, cus­tomer emails and so on. Which is why I am thank­ful for …

…as I was just say­ing about love letters… 

Lis­ten­ing to: Miss Otis Regrets — Bryan Ferry — As Time Goes By www.delovelymovie.com 

Lis­ten­ing to: Sor­row — David Bowie — The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974 I was read­ing someone’s blog entry about how Sin­ga­pore was totally devoid of any his­tory or cul­ture or national iden­tity worth talk­ing about, when I felt awash with indig­na­tion. The gov­ern­ment had to invent national sym­bols, she wrote! Igno­ra­mus! The lion city …

Lis­ten­ing to: Base­ball Theme — Vince Guaraldi Trio — Jazz Impres­sions Of A Boy Named Char­lie Brown I still like my drink. Even if I can no longer drink all night with­out feel­ing crook. I felt crook all week­end after Fri­day night, when me and my mates attended Fly’s 5th anniver­sary non­sense party at Cen­tro. Being …

Lis­ten­ing to: If not for you — Olivia Newton-John — Back to Basics More stuff to keep me occu­pied when I’m bored (and that’s pretty often). Pretty nifty thing that lets you upload pho­tos to your blog­ger blog, like so: Benny & Kenny, Dec 2002.  You can even take screen­shots, like so.

Lis­ten­ing to: O Mio Bab­bino Caro — Renée Flem­ing — Voices The first of the accuseds in the Abu Ghraib prison scan­dal was sen­tenced at a spe­cial court mar­tial to 1 year’s impris­on­ment, reduc­tion in rank, and dis­charge. I won’t say how ridicu­lously light the sen­tence is, regard­less of whether the bas­tard has agreed to …