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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My Good Life'
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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Diablo III Beta – Part 1: First Impression
November 19th, 2011 No Comments
I am grateful, to say the least, when I received a beta key from Asiasoft, the new distributor of Blizzard Entertainment games in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Thank you Asiasoft! I tried to ask when the Collector’s Edition of Diablo III will arrive in Singapore and they said Soon™. It’s OK. I am a patience [...]
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Nokia Lumia 800 & 710 – First Impression
November 15th, 2011 2 Comments
It has been a while since I last attended a Nokia’s media event for the bloggers. My personal schedule seems to be in conflict with Nokia’s calendar lately for some reasons. I have been anticipating Nokia’s next generation smartphone. Suffice to say, I am happy to be able to make it for the Lumia event [...]
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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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A Spanish Homework: Un Robo Extraordinario Que Tuvo Lugar En Barcelona
September 24th, 2011 No Comments
Lately, I have started to enjoy writing in Spanish, thanks to our replacement teacher Gloria. Three years and more, our class has ground through our weekly Tuesday class. That is two hours a week and over 300 hours of learning in total. We must have invested more than S$5,000. At the end of each lesson, [...]
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A Spanish Homework: Las Cosas Al Azar Sobre La Boca Y La Cabeza, Y Etc.
September 16th, 2011 No Comments
It is rather amazing that the six of us are still studying Spanish at Las Lilas School in Singapore. The minimum class size is five for us to continue indefinitely. So far, there is no sign of slowing down. We are still crawling at snail-breaking speed. At least I am, albeit the slowest of all. [...]
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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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Goodbye Tak Tak. We Love You.
September 3rd, 2011 8 Comments
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, [...]
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