Month: February 2008

  • Your clothes, give them to me now

    photo by kandyjaxx Taking an enforced break from working on a script because Mac needs to go to the toilet at least twice a day, I went downstairs past midnight, and walked through the basement carpark where a faulty flourescent light was flickering. For a brief minute, I was spooked, because you know how in…

  • Did the earth move for you?

    “Richter Scale of Love” photo by ___Q___ Over the past year there’ve been more tremors felt in Singapore than I remember in the last decade. And there might be an explanation for this, according to a member of the Israeli Knesset. Shlomo Benizri MK, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, claims that earthquakes are…

  • Super-seize me

    Willard Scott as the first Ronald McDonald In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald. Name and other variations aside, he’s probably the most famous clown on the planet. While doing research (yeah right) on a job we were doing, we came across several bits of trivia which were quite funny. Like the time…

  • And China will rise some more

    Never in my thirty something years of being Chinese have I experienced such a surge in everything Chinese. On the 2nd day of the New Year, Naomi and I went and visited her Mum, as is decreed by the Keepers of Chinese Custom (on the First Day, you visit with the husband’s family, on the…

  • Malaysia Can

    An “Oh Shit” Moment, KL, Malaysia As we were walking the 8 minutes (as stated precisely in our hotel’s information pamphlet) back from Suria KLCC, we saw a motorcycle make a U-turn simply by going over the divider. Naomi, who gets stressed by anything moving on the roads, simply sighed and said “Wah, Malaysia really…