Category: Living

  • For dreary Chinese New Year’s afternoons

    For mine, the CNY holidays are usually a series of long waits between visitors and visiting. I’d finish a whole novel (read or write) if I could. In one afternoon. For two days. So, if you’re sitting pretty at home in your New Year’s new clothes, swatting mosquitos (Pah Bung) and preventing flies from settling…

  • Stuck, in a moment

    I cannot blog about anything, because a day out from Chinese New Year and I’ve already eaten one tub of Kueh Bankit, half of Kueh Whatsit and several pieces of Kueh Simi. I am so gonna get a sore throat. I already have had several tummy aches. This is not good. I cannot blog. I…

  • Music for the eyes

    What’s a guy to do on the weekend when there’s not much on besides soccer on the telly, crowds on the streets (made worse by the grandstand built for the ChinGay parade) and expensive drinks? Trawl the ingterneck! From my referrer roll, I clicked on this weird looking link and it happened to be the…

  • Absolute torch and twang

    I was very very tired last night and I went and watched k.d. lang thinking I was about to waste $138 because I was going to be too tired to enjoy anything, especially after battling traffic to get to Our Esplanade. But let me tell you this now. Never, ever doubt k.d. lang and her…

  • Lamb’s Tales

    I’m-a half-asleep because I’ve just been woken up by a work emergency. But still, I haven’t been this tickled (not by the work emergency) since the letter ‘G’ blew out on the neon sign of Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus Steakhouse. It’s about yesterday’s post, the subject of which I filched off Mr Brown’s extensive coverage…