I am not an American. My version of thanksgiving as such. I am thankful for this country where I call home. She may be tiny; her citizens may have plenty of complaints (myself included); but Singapore is still one of the few miracles in our modern world that continues to draw people of different origins [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My Abstract Life'
Fragments Of My Dreams Episode 16 – Curse of Ten Thousand Years of Hideousness
October 19th, 2011 No Comments
“In fire I burn, and what keeps me going is the distant memory of Alicia whom I love and miss so much.” Alicia and I had chosen Forrestville to settle down, temporarily, because this small town was well embraced by nature’s beauty – a forest decorated with colorful flowers and endless streams of river, animals [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 33 – How Have You Been?
October 5th, 2011 22 Comments
There are so many words I want to write. So many ideas stuck inside that my head figuratively exploded in my bathroom this evening, while I was showering. Instead of putting shampoo onto my hair, I used shower gel. It smelt good, it smelt different. And then I realized that my ‘shampoo’ shouldn’t smell different. [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 32 – Don’t Let That Dumbbell Falls Onto Your Balls!
August 15th, 2011 6 Comments
“You are much smaller than how I imagine you to be,” said one colleague of mine from India whom I have not met before in real life. We were having lunch at our office canteen. It was a bright and sunny day with the glory of the afternoon sun flooded into our dinning hall through [...]
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One Milestone Down: Participate In A Writing Competition
June 29th, 2011 8 Comments
My sister commented last Saturday, “My brother has many milestones [that he wants to achieve]“. OK. I don’t have that many. But participating in a writing competition is certainly one that is high on my list. I wish I have studied literature, instead of engineering. Having said that, I am not sure if I would [...]
What Does Corpus Christi Mean To Me?
June 27th, 2011 No Comments
Try this out the next time you and your partner have an argument: Hold his or her hands while you argue. I first heard about this idea from Wedding Encounter years ago. Holding someone’s hands or even hugging that someone while trying to be mad at him or her is, believe it or not, very hard [...]
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On A Night Of Insomnia – A Little Diary
June 6th, 2011 8 Comments
Every night, the moment my wife slips out of my embrace is the moment I am briefly woken up, if I am asleep by then. That happens all the time because living beings do not stay still when sleeping. Do they? One time, I observed my dog back in Hong Kong. I think he dreams. [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 31 – Round And Round In Circle
April 26th, 2011 15 Comments
When I told other men1 that I drive an extra 34 km2 a day through the rush hour traffic and tolls to drop off and pick up Cynthia in town every working day, a common reaction would be: Why don’t you drop her at a train station near your home and she can make her [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 30 – Love, Yusheng, Snail, and Bicycle
February 16th, 2011 4 Comments
How did you spend your Valentine Day? It was on a Monday, not an ideal day to celebrate. So we celebrated ours on Sunday instead. In case if you are curious on what we did on Monday, the picture below says it all. Something is very wrong about this picture in so many dimensions, I [...]
Tags: lo hei · valentine day · World of Warcraft · yusheng
Merry Christmas, And A Brief Summary Of 2010
December 24th, 2010 21 Comments
What a year 2010 has been! By the time you read this, I am very much on my way leaving town, looking forward to meeting Cynthia’s family and enjoying the serenity of an Internet blackout. Back to basic, somewhere in Indonesia. I can imagine how I would hear the ringing in my ears at night, [...]