It is difficult to like hospitals, and government general hospitals are even more unlikable because of their labyrinthine nature. You could walk for hours and end up in the same place and then ask someone in uniform where a particular ward is when it just so happens you’re standing right next to the ward you […]
Originally published in Men’s Health (July 2007)
A few weeks ago I had a very bad dream. I was walking back home from Holland Village, just a stone’s throw from where I live. It was getting dark, and it was a bit drizzly, and between the knuckles of my […]
Originally published in Men’s Health (May 2007)
You know how as kids, we were indoctrinated at a young age about how truth and honesty trump untruth and dishonesty? I was such a believer I decided to put that into practice when I was about five. And who else to demonstrate that […]
This is an exercise in self-awareness. I still have the habit of not answering questions properly. No, let me clarify that. I still have the knack of not answering questions — by giving an incongruent answer.
E.g.
Q: What’s your favourite colour?
A: My favourite colour is very nice.
[…]
Maybe I should look at the world through rose-tinted lenses or something
There are days bad enough when you’re not only not sure what day it is, you’re also wishing it were another day altogether, wishing you could turn back time (or bend space and […]
This blog is now 3 years old!
From when it first started in April 2004, till now, it’s seen many, many facelifts. Mostly because I’m easily bored and like to tinker around without any thought whatsoever as to whether I’d break the template and have to call for help. Thank you those who’ve […]
Ours — Style Weddings March 2007
I’ve mentioned previously about the record number of weddings we’ve attended the past year, and how each of them was beautiful in their own way — which is like saying nothing, really, if you think about it.
But I know there’d be some […]
It was really cold one morning last week, and I mean, like 24 degrees celsius type of cold. The type that makes you want to head out to a coffee kiosk and have a comforting cuppa coffee and an equally comforting piece of confection. Like a brownie or something, because […]
It’s been five years since I watched in astonishment on my mother’s television set the destruction of the twin towers.
That night, on the 11th of September 2001, I had just come home from I can’t remember what (this blog didn’t exist yet), and my mum’s study door was ajar, and she was sitting and […]
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