The weather was supposed to be predictable. So I was very much peeved when I called off touch footy on account of a Category One storm brewing (because one does not recover from a lightning strike quickly enough for work on Monday), only for the clouds to clear and the rain to stop. But it was …
February 28, 2005 – 3:07 am
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Being the kaypoh that I am, I got myself caught up in the furore that was unfolding on FF’s posts, in which she described how outraged she was at a dinner companion’s photographing her cleavage/bosom/chest/blouse. So, I looked up the Penal Code to see if, at law, what the dirty bastard did was a punishable …
Me and Mr Brown, we’re going to our secondary school reunion dinner next week. It’ll be the first time either of us has attended such a thing. Not that it’s that important to maintain old school ties, but this one’s a big one. It is twenty years since we took our ‘O’ Levels. Naturally, a …
February 26, 2005 – 12:06 am
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I had a break in work yesterday morning and so I drove myself and my business partner to breakfast. In the car, he noticed three large blotches of birdshit on the windscreen, and laughed his head off. Totally understandable, because the blotches were so big they looked like upturned tubs of chutney (without the tubs). Maybe …
February 25, 2005 – 1:06 am
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…I agree about the pace of change and what with this whole ST interactive crap, it just accelerates the feeling that we have lost some of our identity and ‘anchor’ to the Singapore that we grew up. Too much change with shiny, plasticky, contrived ‘entertainment’ offerings are de riguer in Singapore and just about every …
February 24, 2005 – 2:59 pm
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’A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.’ –Jorge Luis …
Today I met up with a friend who’s just returned from an almost-all expense paid diving holiday in Sabah, and she seemed a little down because things aren’t the same as they are in Sabah, because in Sabah, she met many nice and hospitable people. Simple folk with simple lives but big hearts, kids without …
February 23, 2005 – 12:01 am
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I am on a roll, after feeling good about taking pictures and blogging about them, I checked and found a comment made on a blog post I made during Christmas, when I wrote about a friend who saw something in the car park at Thumper. I’d have thought it’d be good for business to have …
February 22, 2005 – 12:01 am
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Here’s a little recipe I want to share with youse all, which works well when you’re in a sorta deep blue funk about things. When you’re in a sorta deep blue funk, focus on other things you normally don’t pay attention to. Some people call it escapism, but that’s too big a word for me. …
February 21, 2005 – 10:51 pm
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It’s Monday. And maybe that’s why things that were supposed to have affected me a while ago are only doing so now. My family and I haven’t had a very pleasant Chinese New Year. First up, on the eve, I drove my mother and a bag of oranges and CNY cookies to my Granduncle’s. I reminded …
February 21, 2005 – 1:15 am
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