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“Have you eaten?”
That’s how the cleaning lady in my office and I often start our conversation.  It’s not “How are you” but “Have you eaten”.  As though in the eyes of the older (Chinese?) generation, if one is well-fed, one is “I’m fine, thank you”.  Strange, isn’t?  This late morning, we got further.  Leveraging on my [...]

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Apart from the time we eat and pee, poo and sleep, we spend much time communicating with one another, misunderstanding each other.  It is staggering how many different ways one finite thought in our heads can be altered before it reaches its intended destination, or worse, unintended destinations.  That gets me thinking: is it that hard to, [...]

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I swear things are getting more expensive in Singapore.  Just couldn’t pinpoint the exact figure as I am lousy in numbers until one morning, I was devastated to see my beloved muffin at Coffee Bean is now selling at S$3.50, up from S$2.70.  That is a 30% hike over the weekend.  That’s it, no more [...]

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Cynthia’s mother is leaving, my mother is arriving.  I think I need a holiday.
We all do something stupid, in the past.  I can’t explain why the paranoid.  I mean, those are just computer files and pictures and seemingly useless stuffs now that I am looking at them.  But back then, I put a protective password [...]

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One day, a girl in front of me flip-opened her phone. Wallpaper was a picture of two girls. Two good friends perhaps. I thought it was beautiful. I wonder what if you see a guy in front has a wallpaper of two guys instead. Or three, with heads close to one another. Something wrong … with [...]

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At night, I drive. Clueless about direction. Clueless about my destination. A listless body. Heavy in breathing. Clueless about where I am heading. Clueless about what I am doing. I drive, at night.
Porcelain, unblemished whiteness. Below which a story less common. And to life, we toast. And this moment, we live. Above which a being [...]

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Sometimes I wonder, how many pairs of non-work related user id and password we have to memorize these days? I actually have to keep a record on paper and there are close to 45 pairs. In the order of importance, they are: [1] Essential accounts (14%) like the SingPass, [2] Web mail accounts (7%), [3] [...]

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From young, my parents taught me that we work hard for food - like the farmers, like the fishermen. To be successful in life, we work hard. If I had my own child, I would probably have redefined what success means. I would have preached that hard work only earns you (in most cases) a [...]

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A life worth writing is a life worth living, true or false?
Planet Earth caters for all walks of life. One evening I returned home. At the lobby there was a kid and a maid. 6 feet away there was a cat by the driveway. The kid kept chanting: cat, run over by the car and [...]

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At work we talk about reward and recognition. How often do we show signs of recognition to and reward our loved ones, our family members, and … our friends? The words “I love you” is never being said enough. And it is never too frequent to be recognised. And yes, thank you for being an [...]

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