Saw a boy on the train wearing his serviceman uniform. Not a boy really, maybe 20 years old.  6 feet tall, typical buff Chinese Singaporean build. And no it wasn't that I was attracted or anything. So it's not that kind of post ( Read more... )

If one day I trip and fall on my face, I will blame the Barnes & Noble eReader application on my iPod touch. I have fallen in love with this app -- I can read anywhere and everywhere...even when I walk! I had always envied the Singaporean women who manage to stash a pocketbook in their bag and read on the bus and train. But if you know me you know ( Read more... )

News that probably only matters to me ( Read more... )

I try hard not to think of the Twins from Hell (aka my siblings) because all they do is give my family heartache. But my recent trip to visit my family in the US was of course an inevitable crash course in "What happened since you left."

The plot details:

1. My psychotic junkie sister aka Demoness get pregnant (by choice) from her ne'er do good ( Read more... )

I wonder if people are oblivious that they've already become a caricature. Some people really do beg the stereotype.  Take this guppie (gay yuppie) I went home with. He's a good-looking, muscular, 40ish Chinese guy I met at the gym. He flirted outrageously in the locker room. Normally I'm a snob, and you really need a lot of self-confidence to get ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in ages...and so far I've kept from writing about my life here on the Little Red Dot. I don't really know why. Maybe because it sometimes still doesn't feel real. And by real I mean permanent. It's the perfect place for commitment-phobes: life is fleeting, people are transitory, routine is temporary. You can get to "try" a life and ( Read more... )

Work is driving me nuts. I can't wait to go to the beach -- this is supposed to be my first real "summer" vacation in 3 years because I always end up working during the Easter weekend. Well wouldn't you know it: we're shooting an ad that weekend.

So I was looking forward to Labor Day. Then I get called to a meeting in Indonesia -- the only country ( Read more... )

I've been gone for almost 2 weeks. Went straight from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur, and my only source of amusement is switching hotels. (Seriously ( Read more... )

Carrying a big secret is like a millstone around your neck. I should know, I carried one for the most part of two decades having been in the closet ( Read more... )

I heard from a couple of expats before that you hit a 3 month wall after you leave home. You get a big pang of homesickness and you get into a stupor -- you can't think about going about your normal daily  life and you can't distract yourself either.

I thought I would be stronger than that. I thought I could distract myself (via good ol' retail ( Read more... )