I had a cou­pla con­ver­sa­tions lately relat­ing to depres­sion.

I can’t write about depres­sion prop­erly. If I could form coher­ent thoughts about it, I wouldn’t be doing it justice.

To describe it would be too twee.

The con­ver­sa­tions I had with friends dealt with reac­tive depres­sion, that is, the con­ver­sa­tion revolved around the […]

$100 for the cheap­est tix to Andrea Bocelli’s 2004 Tour! And the tick­et­ing page (sis­tic lah) adds this instruc­tional blurb: Please add to above price $2 SISTIC Fee for tick­ets above $20 and $1 SISTIC Fee for tick­ets below $20. Charges include GST.

Pay me $100, I sing the entire La Boheme […]

After a par­tic­u­larly unevent­ful day doing admin­stra­tive tasks (phone calls, web updates et cete-fucking-ra), me and the boys went and tor­tured our­selves in the gym. It was a par­tic­u­larly long work­out, which made us real hun­gry, so we decided to ‘grab a bite’ before going home.

Grab a bite we did, at this […]

I haven’t embraced tex­ting short­forms as much as other peo­ple have. I think I am a stick­ler for more for­mal forms of lan­guage. Even my mother can text ‘Sup’? and ‘cmg hm 4 dnr?’, which, although easy for the tex­ter to text, is a bit of a pain for me to decrypt. Even […]

Hic­cups can come on at any time, so says this arti­cle, which I was hop­ing would tell me how to stop this fit I am hav­ing now.

As I write, I am still hic­ck­ing and cup­ping. It’s gone on for the best part of the hour, and I’m afraid it might destroy any […]

E-Bay has launched its Sin­ga­pore por­tal. So I sup­pose that means I’ll rum­mage through my room to see what I can sell that peo­ple who have lost their mar­bles will buy. (Replace­ment marbles, maybe).

When online trad­ing first appeared (online), I went on a ram­page, putting things up for sale left, right and centre. […]

That’s when the earth’s tec­tonic plates slide under the crust in a sort of large scale recy­cling, and which is why the sea doesn’t get saltier. Or some­thing. I read this in Bill Bryson’s A Short His­tory of Nearly Every­thing. I am most likely wrong. I’m just haz­ard­ing a guess where […]

Some­one or some group called the ‘Yel­low Red Orga­ni­za­tion’ says they will con­duct some seri­ous ter­ror­ist activ­ity from 20th — 30th April at some inter­est­ing places in eight coun­tries includ­ing Sin­ga­pore. (Note also that our Chan­nur News Ayzure has con­spic­u­ously omit­ted our nation’s name from the head­line. Scared share prices plummet again.)

Fear not, […]

‘The film in its quest to infor­mate the audi­ence use voice over’.

–from a (very recent) National Uni­ver­sity of Sin­ga­pore under­grad­u­ate exam script.

I came home from beer (again) and promptly fell asleep in front of the telly, which was on CNA (Chan­nur News Ashia), which was on repeat mode cos being CNA, they don’t do ‘live’ feeds from disaster sites.

Big mis­take. I got increas­ingly irri­tated in my sleep as I kept hear­ing the awful, awful voices of […]