This Chinese New Year passed without much damage, except to my bank account. Since its my first year starting work, I handed hefty ang paos to my two grandmothers and, more reluctantly, to my parents who demanded it from me. So now I've broken clean. All in all, I didn't eat much, save the deliciously fine vegetarian noodles on the first day that ( Read more... )

Got this off a friend's blog. He took the picture at City Hall MRT. I feel damn sorry for all the ITE people out there, if their institution has decided to rub salt to the stigma by entrusting the ITE image to this advertising firm. If, however, it was a deliberate move, then I salute its candour in the expression of such a fundamental social truth ( Read more... )

Another Chinese New Year. They seem to pale with each passing year, and I know that when my grandmothers are gone they will no longer hold any meaning. It is a tribute to the very last generation that has refused to submit itself to the shocking, soporific present.

I have been neglecting my pond for the past half a year. After 1 year of exquisite ( Read more... )

On Monday I went for a facial. It was 3 hours long. The girl who was administering it was young, pretty and extremely chatty. After awhile I got so tired of talking to her I tapered off my responses to grunts until finally I decided to feign sleep ( Read more... )

I resolved to be less lazy in 2006. On the first working day of the year 2006, I woke up at exactly 8am, absolutely refreshed. I felt that I could take on the world. That was until I remembered that I was meant to be at work at exactly 8am ( Read more... )

The months go by so fast, the weeks even faster. A constant flurry of activity, smoke-curled nights, and the tightening of friends. I feel like I've been reeling life in to snip away all the loose ends. We have revealed ourselves to eachother, and I've survived the fact that revelation is one of the hardest choices to make.

Went to Cosy Bay a few  ( Read more... )

Caught Aeon flux. I love women in skin-suits, prancing around beating the shit out of eachother. Very stylish movie, which should be watched for the visuals alone, but nowhere near the amazing depth and complexity and total WTF-ness of the animation series ( Read more... )

I've been shifting back into gear, getting used to the draining year-end hospital schedule. Much screaming kids, but fun and excitement from colleagues and friends. The beauty of office politics, the boredom of after-dinner lectures. Drinking and shopping a little too much.

On monday I was posted to a school in far-flung Bedok for a day, as the ( Read more... )

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When it becomes no longer possible to divide ( Read more... )