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Smokes and reading
I've recently taken to reading in the stairwell outside the apartment. Tonight I heard the stairwell door upstairs open and close, and then I detected smoke from a cigarette. As much as I hate the smell of it, I feel a certain kinship for this anonymous lone smoker. -
Nudist telepaths and time-travelling, evil doppelgangers
I have always had vivid dreams. Sometimes they feel like very entertaining, self-contained TV show plots, and other times they come with entire backstories, as if there have been prequels and lead-up movies to the single story I dreamt ( Read more... ) -
A slim waiting tortoiseshell by the road-divider
Tonight after dining with B&M near my office, while we walked towards the taxi stand to grab a ride home, I saw an elderly Sikh gentleman feeding some community cats. My friend who lives in the block where my office is had told me before of an Indian man who has been faithfully feeding the stray cats on the area, so I decided to cross the road and ( Read more... ) -
Haunted Doraemon Rock
I had a couple of funny dreams last night - the one I remembered first was of a haunted rock. And not any rock either - it had a naturally-occurring squiggle in it that if you looked at hard enough, KINDA looked like a Doraemon illustration. It was like trying to decipher the image of Jesus in a tortilla ( Read more... ) -
Beautiful mind
On Sunday, someone told me I had a "...beautiful mind." It kinda made my day : ) -
Dead cow
Wally this morning, while trying to push my somnolent body to the side: "You're heavier than a dead cow!" -
God and corgis
Wally, on seeing seeing an impossibly cute corgi puppeh from http://corgiaddict.com/. "Wah, God really knows how to make em!" -
On being a valuable person
Ever since Kathy moved to NZ, we've been staying in touch over GChat. Sometimes we have very funny conversations. Here's a peek into such a conversation dated 21 July 2010.
Kathy: how was the straightening of you yesterday? (She's talking about my visit to the chiropractor)
me: Very crunchy. Sounded like the chiro was crushing peanut shells in my ( Read more... ) -
Ocean reaching fingers into an ancient seaside town
Written 1 June 2010: 01:19 AM ( Read more... )