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Year: 2013

  • The Bravery

    When I went to uni with this bunch of fellas, we used to dare each other to do really stupid things. Like playing football at night in winter, topless, or diving into the surf at Bondi at night in winter with clothes on – this went on even after we left uni and returned to…

  • Choom Choom!

    It’s been a very rough month so far, and I’m not in a position to elaborate further as to why. Just know that unreasonable people are involved, light will be shed soon, and the same said unreasonable people will have their comeuppance. Meanwhile, there are ways to raise one’s spirit. Unfortunately, Naomi has warned me…

  • An Aerogramme From Hossan

    OK while tidying up my home office, I finally found an aerogramme from Hossan he sent 21 years ago. There is a stack of these somewhere in our storage boxes.

  • What? There’ve Been 10 JB Arts Festivals Already?

    Unbeknownst to many, and especially unbeknownst to me, there is a JB Arts Fest, and they’ve had it for ten years. This is a bit surprising given all the horror stories we read in our papers about JB and crime – where it’s always “Singaporean Shot While Shopping”, or something like that. Although after speaking…

  • Eric Khoo’s Recipe – A Film About Dementia

    I was invited to watch an Eric Khoo telemovie last Tuesday called Recipe. It stars Zoe Tay, Li Yin Zhu, Moses Lim and Jayley Woo, and deals with the topic of dementia. Why is this important? Dementia affects our aging population, and our aging population is growing. In 2005, there were about 22,000 recorded cases…