Wow it's been more than a year! I guess writing on a blog has really gone out of fad for the commoner like myself, huh. I mean, unless one has an large number of followers and makes money for these, everyone's one facebook these days sharing stuff - and even that is slightly passe possibly ( Read more... )

Argh. I need to have a picture hosted somewhere online, and I seem to remember that I signed up for a free hosting service somewhere.

And after looking back 100 posts here, I still haven't found where it was. Bleah.

Sometime during the course of tomorrow I will find out, or at least I'm supposed to find out, if my partner and I will have made it to the SEA games, representing Singapore in the Nage No Kata. This is following an appeal, the result of which we were initially supposed to find out on the 15th, but which got postponed ( Read more... )

Just back from a dinner engagement with Jeane at her friend/colleague's house. Some dude was going away to Sudan for a work trip and they were worried about him never coming back, given how guns are easily obtainable there. But really it was just an excuse to get together to have a cook-over, i.e., we come over and a group of them cook. We'd go ( Read more... )

I haven't been here in longer than I thought - don't blame anyone out there for thinking i'd abandoned this ( Read more... )

A chair is still a chair ( Read more... )

Wow. So is happening in my life now I really don't know where to start. I quite like it that I still have this cosy little place i can retreat to whenever I want. I was half surprised that it still exists, and that none of the evil forces have taken over it, though some have clearly taken over the comments section of the previous post ( Read more... )

I have for myself this little phrase that I feel keeps me grounded. No matter what happens, or how successful I become at a certain thing, this particular phrase teaches me to keep both feet on the ground. Similiarly when I'm down in the dumps this phrase becomes a pick-me-up, far better than any teh si peng can do - Today I will share it with you ( Read more... )

Just today in branch, on a (now) typically quiet day, one of my colleague posed an open question to two of his colleagues who were around - one of whom happened to be me ( Read more... )

in the hot seat. my boss is pressing me. hard. gah.