Does a dog have a soul? Tak Tak was ten years old. And he passed away yesterday’s morning in Hong Kong, in the loving arms of my parents. The news has darkened my day, no doubt. But the emotional impact is nowhere near to what my sister and parents have experienced. On that very morning, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Diary'
So We Assembled A New PC
August 10th, 2011 2 Comments
It was November 25, 2005 when I upgraded my home computer to the one that was powered by the 64-bit AMD chip. Over the years, I have incrementally upgraded its parts until recently, my 6 years old machine has shown signs of aging whenever Cynthia plays WoW and watches YouTube at the same time. [...]
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Sea Devils, And Other Not So Random Stuffs
July 13th, 2011 6 Comments
El rape, in Spanish, can mean a type of fish called monkfish. I have no idea how ugly it is until I looked it up in Wikipedia. One classmate from our Spanish class commented that monkfish is a type of anglerfish. Curiosity or boredom, I am not sure. But someting drove me into reading up on [...]
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I Welcome My MIL With “Teary” Eyes And Other Encounters
June 22nd, 2011 8 Comments
Last Saturday I woke up with my right eye red. I suspect that has something to do with the intense online gaming I had the night before, not entirely sure. Cynthia and I woke up early on a Saturday morning because her mother was due to arrive in town. At the airport, while Cynthia was [...]
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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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Back From Spain!
May 30th, 2011 12 Comments
¡Hola! We are back from Spain. Spain again, you say. Haven’t we visited Spain like 2 years ago? True. But since we have been dipping in and out of the language for three years – the word ‘soaking’ would have been a vast exaggeration - touring Spain thus becomes one of our favorite choices. Fortunately, there are [...]
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Singapore National Youth Orchestra – A Musical Chemistry
April 22nd, 2011 No Comments
We’ve missed the previous media invite on the LANXESS SYNO Classic event due to our Spanish commitment. And they are kind enough to invite us for the main event that took place yesterday at Esplanade, an event coincided with the JP Morgen Corporate Run that caused half of a highway in town to be sealed [...]
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Bethany And I, At Botanic Gardens
April 13th, 2011 8 Comments
I can now begin to understand why some single men like to borrow babies in order to chat up with girls. When I walk alone, no one stops and looks at me. But when I carried my niece Bethany, inside the Botanic Gardens one fine Saturday, all the women around me smiled at – collectively [...]
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Touched By An Angel
April 7th, 2011 4 Comments
Auntie Bernadette, we reckon, is around eighty years of age. She is my Godmother Betty’s best friend and together, they have literally followed our Lord’s teaching: leave all that behind and trust that God provides. You would have thought that in a country like Singapore, one must have a job and earn a living in [...]
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Say What? It Is Level Pre-Advanced 1 at Las Lilas School?
March 23rd, 2011 4 Comments
Compare to my good Spanish classmate Monster, I am a lot more conservative. When his colleagues asked him which level he is at after spending close to three years learning the language, he humbly replied, “Intermediate”. After all these years you are still at intermediate? they would ask. And he would reply, “Yes, intermediate”. To [...]
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