I have always been curious about Pulau Ubin – an island off our mainland. For more than a decade, Cynthia and I and some of our friends have been talking about visiting Pulau Ubin. To cycle, or to observe the wildlife. For some reasons, all that talk does not seem to go anywhere. Earlier last [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Diary'
Dinner & Lunch
January 17th, 2012 4 Comments
Part One – Dinner Perhaps I shall hand out a feedback form to my mother to fill in at the end of her each visit to Singapore, at the airport, before flying back to Hong Kong. The questions, I would imagine, go something like … Have you seen enough of your son in your visit? [...]
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Speed Of Light!
January 5th, 2012 4 Comments
My boss has been kind and understanding. Over an early evening meeting, he said to us in all sincerity, “I know I should have asked you two to do this back in November. But can we have a document in two days?” Can Michelangelo paint the ceiling of Sistine Chapel in two days? I suppose with [...]
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How Did You Celebrate New Year’s Eve?
January 1st, 2012 2 Comments
This year, I am not going to over complicate my New Year’s resolution. It would be: read more, write more, play more music, and do more sport. Other time sinking activities will have to be scaled back accordingly. We stayed at home on New Year’s Eve, thanks to a laborious walk at Ubin Island the [...]
Tags: Luc Besson · Natalie Portman · Quentin Tarantino
“Wah” – And Two Cars Banged
December 19th, 2011 No Comments
Singapore is a small country. You can drive from east to west along the highways that totaled to approximately 50km. That is from Changi Airport to Tuas Checkpoint that leads to Malaysia. Or you can drive from south to east, a 30km journey from our beautiful resort island Sentosa to the not too beautiful Woodlands [...]
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My Niece Says the Funniest Things
December 15th, 2011 2 Comments
My mother is in town. All of a sudden, my humble home has turned into a family headquarter. My sister visits my home often, with or without my presence, together with my buddy a.k.a. her husband and my niece a.k.a. Bethany. Bethany and I converse in various modes . I often stick to my mother [...]
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Wind Powered Decorative Door Damper (Alternative Title: A Week Moving In Jelly)
December 11th, 2011 4 Comments
“This is my patent pending invention!” Recently, the inanimated objects around me seem to have taken an unanimous decision to stop working. I felt like moving inside a huge swimming pool filled with grass jelly. Maybe I am too lazy, quietly observing the hole on my sofa growing bigger and bigger. More holes have appeared. [...]
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Nan Lian Garden
October 26th, 2011 6 Comments
Today is Deepavali. We will never forget last year’s Deepavali when we started our trip stuck behind four and half hours of traffic jam crawling from Singapore to Malaysia. I put my bladder to the ultimate test. Since then, we have not driven to Malaysia. According to local news, earlier this year, when Malaysia Customs first rolled [...]
Tags: Deepavali · Hong Kong Oct 2011 Trip · Nan Lian Garden
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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How We Celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival
September 13th, 2011 8 Comments
Out of the blue, my sister called me at work yesterday. Everyone at the bench area turned to me as I was speaking in Cantonese. Yes, I am bilingual. If you are to count my half baked Spanish, I am quasi-multilingual. Quickly, I moved into a phone booth as I battled – mentally speaking – [...]
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