Please Take Dengue Seriously

On May 9, 2013 · 6 Comments · In Living, Parenting

Read this first, then come back to this post.

Yes, you can die from dengue. But mostly, peo­ple don’t exhibit seri­ous symp­toms, and are often not ill enough to be hospitalized.

It’s been the same with this out­break, and I’ve found that as a result, peo­ple are being a bit blase about the […]

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Seminyak Highlights

On May 8, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Eating, Living, Places

Our love-hate rela­tion­ship with Bali con­tin­ued this trip, with our ideal idyl­lic villa get­away shared with our friends cel­e­brat­ing their anniver­sary turn­ing into a three day bat­tle with mos­qui­toes (and the holey mos­quito net) before we retreated to a multi-storey hotel with fewer bugs.

Con­stant traf­fic jams on single-laned roads plied by mer­ce­nary cab­bies whose reflex […]

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Ownself Declare Long Weekend

On May 2, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Living

We’re in Bali to cel­e­brate with friends (wedding/wedding anniver­sary). It’s nice to get away, though unfor­tu­nately, bits of Bali are so built up, and traf­fic snarls every hour of the day and night that it takes a bit off the tran­quil­ity that it’s sup­posed to promise.

Plus, it is very, very hard to watch one’s […]

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Everyone Is Responsible For Fighting Dengue

On April 27, 2013 · 7 Comments · In Living

This year’s dengue out­break is scary. So far this year, there’ve been 4,756 (1 Jan — 19 Apr) cases, and it looks like it might increase some more.

I’ve pre­vi­ously tweeted and posted on Face­book about this, and the reflex response from read­ers have been the same: “too much con­struc­tion lah, it’s all in the construction sites”.

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A #HealthyRivalry For The Ages

On April 24, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Living

Over the years, Kin Mun (mrbrown) and myself have sort of egged each other on to do stuff. Some good, some dumbass.

When he used to work for an agency, he used to drive a car and didn’t get to exer­cise much. I took him to run at the NIE track twice a week, knocking […]

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Stand Up To Pervs

On April 23, 2013 · 9 Comments · In Living

Say you were on the train and some moron started tak­ing pic­tures of you with his camera/phone. He might be a STOMP con­tent pro­ducer so you check your­self to see what it is about you that might be wor­thy of a sala­cious head­line in that ven­er­a­ble broadsheet.

There’s noth­ing worth talk­ing about, unless the photographer […]

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Show Me The Monkey

On April 19, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Living

We love our new home. And after four months, we still love that it takes 30 min­utes to walk up from Dun­earn Road (although there’s a shut­tle ser­vice) and we love the lush green­ery all round.

We didn’t mind that there […]

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Here’s Your Chance To Get Away (Stay)

On April 11, 2013 · 3 Comments · In Living

Tak­ing a break does won­ders for your phys­i­cal and men­tal well-being. Even with­out tak­ing on a spa pack­age at the hotel we stayed at because it was, how you say it, frikkin’ expen­sive, the knots in my neck and upper back dis­solved after one full night’s sleep (it came back after my son […]

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#$*%&! Who Say We Not Happy?

On April 3, 2013 · 8 Comments · In Living

A fort­night ago, mrbrown and myself vis­ited Tekka Mar­ket. It is a happy place though you’d nor­mally think oth­er­wise. It’s hot, noisy, smelly and gets really crowded at peak shopping hours.

So what makes peo­ple at Tekka happy? Is it because that ven­er­a­ble wet mar­ket has resisted the tide of change and retained its […]

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A Healthy Rivalry Gets Serious

On April 2, 2013 · 5 Comments · In Living

I have to admit I haven’t been far­ing too well with food choices lately.

I have a pen­chant for junk food at rehearsals and script meet­ings, and the recently com­pleted Kumar show prob­a­bly saw me put on a cou­ple of kilos because of the curry puffs, fried chicken and other assorted fried foods.

A post-show party […]

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