As if it needs to be said, I rarely read the Bible. Gah. My grandma begs, implores, entreats and just about bullies me into reading at least a verse a day, she says. C'moooonnn, read it. Look, I've bookmarked it for you. I say, okay, leave it there. I'll read it. Soon. After I finish reading this ( Read more... )

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I didn’t really want to rent City of God. But because I read good reviews, I thought I should check it out. I wasn’t disappointed. It’s a brilliant film. And it didn’t need a Hollywood budget behind it. The story of those who lived in the slums of Rio de Janeiro only made the pseudo-gangsta lifestyle shown on MTV all that more hilarious (du’oh). As ( Read more... )

One of my best friends B* is in Hyderabad, India to attend an academic conference on something that is Biochemistry-related. :P She wrote...

Namaste from Hyderabad!!!

Sori mass email again but internet time is little...had a fantastic plane trip 2 get here...didn't get upgraded but flew singapore airlines w/c is sooo good!!! Flight attendants ( Read more... )

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Sunday

At 8.15am this morning, I stepped off Bus 278* and made my way to Building C*. I took the route that hundreds of thousands of students would use over the course of their studies.

Nothing special about that except at the start of this well-trodden path, a memorial stood with the following inscription:

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While most people felt mixed emotions of sadness, shock and jubilation on the news of Brad and Jen’s break-up, I was far more affected by a similar example of love gone sour, Barbie and Ken’s split early last year.

While Jen dumped Brad after a four-year marriage, Barbie dumped Ken after a 40-year long-term relationship. No one really knows if ( Read more... )

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To be or not to be, that is the question that plagued the lead characters of The Incredibles, a movie about a family who all had super powers forced to live normal lives in deep suburbia after a spate of lawsuits.

Ironically, these lawsuits were handed down by the very people they saved and, to add insult to injury, the Incredibles and other ( Read more... )

It was a beautiful night. Had dinner with Grandma and friends then walked to S* place to watch the fireworks at the balcony of her terrace overlooking Balmain Wharf. :)

The fireworks dwarfed the twenty-and-above storey buildings in North Sydney (left of frame).

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