Month: April 2005

  • Cosa nostra

    For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If…

  • Look! What’s that up there?

    The week starts off well enough, and then you get the Wednesday sag. But of course, there’s always this blog to distract me by giving me things to write about, pictures to look at, and podcasts to listen to. And remember, if you think it’s all going to the dogs, what about the 35,000 new…

  • WTF is an IR?

    Gambling is so much a part of life here that it is ridiculous to see how much fuss has been made about building the two ‘Integrated Resorts’. I’m game for a flutter once in a while too. So do my friends. We gamble on anything: the stockmarket, when to buy a car because of the…

  • You just wait and see

    Don’t believe? My father told me ages ago there was gonna be a casino in Singapore. He’s usually right about these things. (He told me in 1992 that you would be able to buy mobile phones for $0 if the telcos made you sign a two-year service contract or something). And now that you’ve seen…

  • Tracy Huang, Space Invaders and the girlfriend from hell

    I once briefly dated this girl from college and we had an intense relationship. First time I stayed over, she told me, ‘my step-mum’s at home, so we’ll have to behave’. I said ok, and off we went, quietly. I got out to the kitchen to get a drink, and I’m thinking to myself, I…