Month: July 2012

  • A Week After The Uneventful Angiogram

    Anyone else had an angiogram before and whose arm aches like all buggery even after a week? Mine does. But apart from that, I’ve rested a few days, gone straight into work at writing the Hossan Leong Show: Flying Solo with Hirzi and Jasmine (the multi-tasking Stage Manager) – got your tickets yet? – and…

  • An Angiogram To Be Thankful For

    So I went for an angiogram this morning to see if I had any blockages in any coronary artery, and if so, how bad it was, and if it was bad, whether to do a balloon angioplasty or place a stent inside. The procedure involves threading a catheter through a vein in your wrist into…

  • Voicing The Beetle

    Put a brand new car on public display, get one comic actor and one comic writer in a control room that allows them to talk to the occupants of the car, hilarity ensues. That was the formula the organizers thought of the past fortnight, and they were right. Chua Enlai and myself had so much…

  • I Quit And Stayed Quit

    It’s been awhile since I’ve quit smoking, and it never ceases to amaze me how easily I quit and how quickly I quit. I was lucky though. My wife and I were both heavy smokers, going through roughly a pack a day at the peak. It must have been terrible for non-smoking visitors to come…

  • Downtown Line Accident Donation To Close

    At 2359hrs on Friday, 27 July, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) will stop collecting donations for the victims of last week’s Downtown Line construction site accident. If donations marked “Bugis MRT accident” are still received after the deadline, the organization will email the donor asking whether he/she would like a refund or if the donation…