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You wouldn’t believe what I did at the Malaysian Custom last Friday. When I was young and needed to travel overseas on my own, my dad always made sure that all the new items I carried across the border would have the original packaging removed.  Each and every item.  As I grow older, I deduce that [...]

OK.  Don’t panic.  It is not as though I have not celebrated Chinese New Year in Singapore before.  Like that one year I had to hunt for oranges at the very last minute after discovering that it is the tradition here to pass the oranges around.  Or that year … erm … to be honest, [...]

I appreciate the fact that talented people create online surveys to let people with a curious mind to analysis themselves … for free. I really do. But for God sake, if you are going to tell a dude like me that I am with a “very high femininity”, please follow up with a free counseling [...]

Let me tell you one thing. The most powerful form of nagging is not how persistence it is but how subtle it is. You-know-who never explicitly nags me. She subtly nags me. The thing is, once someone nags at me, the guilty feeling of what-I-should-have-done is somewhat lessen. Nagging itself is a form of punishment. [...]

You know how couples occasionally plan their evening sex first thing in the morning, romance with the idea the entire day, and then have a wonderful time in the evening waking up the neighbors throughout the night? The entire day today, I kept thinking of my home cooked dinner. You see, cooking at home as [...]

Bananas rip fast. One moment they are all green and astringent. Another moment they are all yellow and starchy full of sweetness. One night I looked at my remaining five bananas in distress. Any moment, any of those bananas would fall off from where I hang them. They were getting overripe. And then I remembered [...]

Just one day before we departed for Kota Kinabalu, I took Cynthia to AMK Hub to show her my love-at-first-sight Nike ACG (All Condition Gear) sport shoes. There is a lady version as well. Need not to say, upon seeing those beauties, Cynthia has chucked her idea of getting a pair of cheap sport shoes [...]

Yesterday, my dentist’s assistance called if I wished to have a routine checkup. Impressed by the proactiveness of my dentist, I promptly agreed to a 9.30am appointment. The truth is, I am still traumatised by my “routine” extraction of my wisdom tooth back in 2003 that took like an hour till Doctor Goh was exhausted [...]