I too am shortsighted. So I am not here to poke fun at you, if you are or know someone who is shortsighted too. Looking at the number of people around me who require optical aid or surgical treatment to see properly, I cannot help but to wonder from time to time what would happen [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My Abstract Life'
Summer Blog Episode 9 – Shortsightedness Versus Spelling Handicap (Final Episode)
June 30th, 2010 2 Comments
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Summer Blog Episode 8 – I Am Your New Minister For Transport
June 29th, 2010 8 Comments
I had a dream. I had become the new Minister for Transport. * * * * * Dear citizens, I have great news to announce. As a small child, when I see that an average citizen has to pay up to $100,000 to buy an average Japanese car, I see something is not right. For [...]
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Summer Blog Episode 3 – My Table In My Primary School
June 22nd, 2010 No Comments
My memory of my primary school life has been fuzzy. Of the few fragments that I remember, there were those wooden tables that we used at school, unlike perhaps the fine furniture students use today. The surface though smooth, was uneven. You could trace the texture of the wood and you could see the little [...]
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Summer Blog Episode 2 – A Harem Full Of Girls And A Hard Disk Full Of Music
June 21st, 2010 No Comments
Cynthia often pokes fun at my ears. She says my ears are promiscuous. I used to buy many compact disks regularly. My favorite pastime since the day when compact disk format was made popular was to camp at record stores, staring at the nicely wrapped disks trying to decide if I should buy just one [...]
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Life As A Business Analyst – A Comic Relief
May 26th, 2010 8 Comments
Here is where I need to put a little disclaimer. While the following write-up is inspired by things that I see and do during my nine-to-five job, all the characters and events are fictional and by no mean resemble to anyone or anything in particular. That means to say, if you think that I am poking fun [...]
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“When I Was 18″ – A Spanish Homework
May 19th, 2010 19 Comments
“When I Was 18″ - that was the topic of our Spanish homework. In fact, our teacher Natalia left the age to be open. It could well be when I was 16, when I was 24, when I was 30, when I was … OK, let’s stop here. I mean, when I was 16, my life [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 25 – Five Stories, Work Inspired
April 28th, 2010 6 Comments
In this episode, I have five stories to share. All are work inspired, somewhat. * * Screw Bloggers At Your Own Risk * * Recently, a friend of mine forwarded me a link to a juicy gossip that finds its way propagating through the social networks. The subject of this gossip? A man who works [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 24 – Obscure Observations Of The Ordinary Routines
February 18th, 2010 8 Comments
Life is simple. Most of the time, you are waiting for something to happen. And you spend a good portion of your life doing cut and paste activities. Or pure repetitive, routine type of work. Even the pleasure that we seek comes mostly in a variation of cookie cutter recipes. Or the same old thing that pleasures [...]
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Alcohol And I – A Story Of Our 2 Years Of Separation, Thus Far
January 25th, 2010 13 Comments
Last weekend, I have quietly celebrated the 2-year anniversary of not having a single drop of alcohol in my blood stream. I even faked drinking that glass of champagne on stage, during my friend’s wedding when I was the emcee and my sister’s wedding in Hong Kong and in Singapore. Of the many questions I have received over [...]
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Is Liking What We Get A Resignation To Life Or The Key To Contentment?
January 17th, 2010 16 Comments
My favorite writer Doris Lessing once wrote: We learn to like what we get. Seven simple words so accurately describe our current state of affair, in so many different dimensions. But yet when I shared this revelation with a friend, her immediate response was: That’s called resignation to life. Such is the beauty of literature. [...]
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