Category: Living

  • More funky names

    iTunes is playing: My Funny Valentine – Frank Sinatra – My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra Wanna be a successful business person? Have a funky name. Works as well in Singapore as it does in Hong Kong. There were several contributions to Funky Hongky names which you can see in the comments to that…

  • More funky names

    iTunes is playing: My Funny Valentine – Frank Sinatra – My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra Wanna be a successful business person? Have a funky name. Works as well in Singapore as it does in Hong Kong. There were several contributions to Funky Hongky names which you can see in the comments to that…

  • Violence at the movies (what I did on Valentines Day)

    E started a fight in a cinema when she shushed some ah beng for talking too loudly. Naturally, mind the thug responded. But by hitting her instead of me! So, ailment a short fray and chase later, pills the cops and paramedics came, took statements, and the cops decided to charge the less articulate of…

  • Symptoms of fire

    Symptoms of fire Last week during ICT, we were treated to the usual round of lectures, done by instructors in an army of the 21st century – powerpoint slides, flash animations, the works. Lectures usually precede practical field training, and despite our sniggering, they usually help in our understanding of what we’re supposed to do…

  • Absolute discomfort

    When we’re not sick, we forget the aches, the drowsiness, the struggle to have control over our faculties. I think I am talking about what it will be like in the next week during in-camp. No matter how much I prepare myself mentally for the training, it never seems adequate for the gradual shock of…