When resource becomes scarce is when our true color reveals, true or false? One can talk about the beauty of humanity when people are getting what the majority are having. But strange behaviors emerge when we have to compete, especially when the rules are not well established. What am I talking about? The stealing of parking [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Diary'
A Small Reunion Dinner
February 13th, 2010 2 Comments
When asked what we do during Chinese New Year, I often begin the lengthy recount of our culture and tradition with a reunion dinner that happens during our Chinese New Year Eve period. Family members get together in a dinning table (or a dinning hall depending how big one’s family is) to celebrate and to [...]
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A Twitching Motorcyclist
January 28th, 2010 8 Comments
Update: On the next day after this blog entry was published, on the same highway, similar location, similar timing, another motorcyclist was down, apparently hit by a car. Two lanes were closed. Tow truck, ambulance, police car were present. I saw bloodstained on a piece of white cloth.
I am much saddened today, or at least [...]
Tags: road accident
She Is Bethany
January 20th, 2010 9 Comments
I have finally realized what the phrase “sleep like a baby” means after spending much time watching my niece who does nothing but sleeps during my frequent visits. Or I think I have realized. She does nothing but sleep! And I want to be just like her. In fact, when I look at her not looking at me, [...]
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A Little Prayer For My Little Sister
January 9th, 2010 4 Comments
It was just yesterday, over our dining table, in the context of who has helped out during my sister’s pregnancy in what ways, we joked that Cynthia is now assigned to be our Chief Praying Officer. Yesterday I have also spent some time, with the happy expecting couple – Benny and Lora – and our [...]
Tags: baby
So I Am A Shopaholic?!
January 6th, 2010 4 Comments
When I dreamed up my “do it now” theme for this new year, never has it crossed my mind that I would turn into a shopaholic on steroid. Though, come to think of it, these are merely a cascaded list of delayed decisions over the years that sooner or later, someone – by that I [...]
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And So Soaking These 2 Weeks In A Laid-back School Holiday Style
December 30th, 2009 4 Comments
I remember what school holiday was like. Or to describe my current sentiment more correctly: these two weeks of annual leave reminds me of what school holiday was like. In UK, the school holiday is long, very long. Six weeks of break in between terms (we call them Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity), more than three months [...]
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Celebrated Christmas Eve With Avatar, An Impromptu Dinner Party, And A Midnight Mass
December 25th, 2009 5 Comments
A Merry Christmas to my readers. ¡Feliz Navidad!
While we were queuing to enter the AMK Hub car park, out of nowhere, Cynthia asked what do people really mean when they say Merry Christmas to one another. Good question. I wonder how many of us genuinely ponder upon the good news of the birth of a savior [...]
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Seat “Chopping” And A Non-Existence Bazooka Lens
December 16th, 2009 30 Comments
Two unrelated stories to share here. One from Cynthia. One from me.
What is seat chopping? For those who live in Singapore, we all know what this means. For my overseas readers, no, we don’t literally chop seats here. We simply don’t chop anything in Singapore. Not even the trees. We move or relocate the trees [...]
Tags: doodle · singapore culture
(Dear Plant) You Look Ugly But I Think I Can Live With You
December 9th, 2009 8 Comments
I woke up this morning and realized that nature has delivered a plant to me.
Last night, I had a great dream. Not the type that I could remember in detail. But one that has such great sense of freedom. Like nothing else matters. Cool wind on my face. In fact, I could breath the freshness. I [...]
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