G drew my attention to another couple in the cinema the other day, and remarked that they were the opposite of us - the girl was white and the guy was asian. it didn't hit me right away as G does not look white (being half-Belgian and half-Cambodian). i suppose it's natural that he thought of himself as white, having spent his childhood in the ( Read more... )

in my Eternal Quest to Do More Interesting Things with my life, i bought a tennis racket today. obviously, in the hope of playing tennis at some point in the future but I am getting a feeling that this will be a very Distant Future. the racket will languish in the corner along with my roller blades ( Read more... )

i have an inability to sleep in, even on weekends and it feels like such a curse. but then, weekend mornings are perfect for sitting in some cafe, dipping my croissant into a big mug of coffee, and leisurely reading the weekend papers. my gripe is that the variety of breakfast foods around my area is limited. i miss the good 'ol american style ( Read more... )

on the treadmill this morning, i remembered that it was Irena's birthday 2 days ago. two summers ago, we'd have dinner together every Friday night. and she'd tell me amazing stories of Andrej, her plastic-surgeon boyfriend, jetting in from Boston/LA to see her for the weekend and less-amazing-but-still-fascinating stories of her travels. at ( Read more... )

i realised that i have not updated properly for a while.

so here, i'm going to start with The Blonde Update for shunzeThe Blonde Flatmate is off to Monaco for the next 6 weeks. Hurray! No more strange sleazy male friends of hers walking into my room in the middle of the night for 6 weekends. No more Blonde being rude to my less glamourous friends! ( Read more... )

it feels surreal to be back at work after 10 days of holiday!

i am suffering from chocolate withdrawal. maybe i should have a chocolate digestive biscuit?

had pleasant surprise phonecall from g last night.

for shunze, the Blondes are currently on a detox diet which means they don't consume anything but this weird solution of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water. the last time i saw them, Hannah was still going strong but her kidneys were hurting coz her toxins were supposedly spewing forth from her body (???!!!). and amanda had succumbed to ( Read more... )

got reminded this morning about a new field in economic research - the economics of happiness. one particularly interesting area of research is the correlation between money, sex and happiness. according to research done by Oswald and Blanchflower, going from having sex once a month to once a week results in an increase in happiness equivalent to ( Read more... )

because i just met a werewolf ( Read more... )