Went down to Taipei after nearly 10 years since I've been there ( Read more... )

It's been such a long time since I blog that I can't even remember what the rant in my previous entry was about ( Read more... )

Intelligence can be a burden... I mean human intelligence ( Read more... )

The passing of my granny was something quite different and she definitely left this world the way I would have expected from her - in her own unique way ( Read more... )

Actually this year was pretty fun - I no longer had the rush of the last 3 years where I sort of had to get my ass back in Singapore in time to celebrate it. This time round, things seem a bit more docile. In the week before CNY, went down to Chinatown with my brother and surprisingly there wasn't that many people ( Read more... )

It can be funny when I see a comment why I won't use Chinese when I can read and type ( Read more... )

The following is an excerpt from an article I read on the nyt by Ben Stein

We are more than our investments. We are more than the year-to-year or day-by-day changes in our net worth. We are what we do for charity. We are how we treat our family and friends. We are how we treat our dogs and cats. We are what we do for our community and our nation ( Read more... )

I've decided that I needed to cut some inches off my waist - starting with tomorrow... there's no way I'm going to win my bet with 老大 ( Read more... )

Status over the last 1 1/2 month changed - started working, meaning I don't slack at home or go for trips out anymore (at least for leisure ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, James (my younger brother) brought me to a Cantonese restaurant near his workplace. I was quite impressed by the food and cozy setting of the place. So I decided to get my secondary school friends to try it out together. (Maybe I was starting to get sick of the unchanging menus of crystal jade - think it's the largest chain of ( Read more... )