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So we sat around the table with the peanuts, exchanging stories of Grandma. Tales that were long buried resurfaced. How she sat in my overcrowded kindergarten class, the only parent/grandparent allowed to do so, barking out orders in Teochew to 40 screaming kids to keep them in line. Apparently my mother went to the teacher to apologise for my ( Read more... )

Just caught the Arcade Fire live at the United Palace Theatre up in Washington Heights in New York (with one of my LJ friends) :) Incredible show. Especially the one-two punch of "Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)" and "Rebellion (Lies)" that closed out the main show before the encore. "Rebellion (Lies)" is amazing to hear live - the build up, and then ( Read more... )

One thing I like a lot about travelling out of Singapore is the sense of anonymity, the sense of escaping the feeling that you might meet some random acquaintance around every corner. And so it has been with NYC, with me happily strolling down the streets of Midtown (okay, Midtown more than any other part ensures anonymity...). It's really good to ( Read more... )

(Random reference to the Interpol song) But anyway, as some of y'all know, will be in New York for 2 weeks for work from Monday. I like how things work out sometimes! Haven't been to the city since 2003 - which was a lifetime ago.

I hate getting phone calls. They make me jumpy, they rile me up. I've switched to calmer ringtones to avoid getting too worked up over calls (Natalie Merchant's "One Fine Day" is my default ringtone, although in the past I've used Erik Satie). But that only alleviates it somewhat ( Read more... )

The news today was the tremors from the Sumatra quakes: was on the 24th floor in the conference room, and then the room shook so violently I got giddy. For a while I thought it was the usual - every now and then I find the room starts spinning to me. But no, it was really spinning, or at least, shaking ( Read more... )

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Ooh, I added LJ Talk to my Adium list, so supposedly anyone's who's a mutual friend (and uses LJ Talk) will be on my buddies list. Not that it really matters - a lot of you are on my MSN/Gmail etc. friends list - but the nice advantage is that I can post to my LJ via IM (like I'm doing now), instead of calling up the LJ site. Nice.

Happy New Year, one and all!