Month: August 2005

  • YOU KNOW NATIONAL DAY IS REALLY NEAR WHEN YOU GO DEAF

    Control, this is Blue Leader, we are approaching the Padang for flypa… oops overshot, let’s go arou…. oops, we’re over Batam, going arou… oops, we’re over Woodlands, turning agai…. shit, we’re past Tuas… coming round to the Padang agai… shit! Changi liao! Above all, noisier than all, thems fighter jets and choppers have been making…

  • TODAY: Bloggers get a battering from mainstream media

    Excerpt: IF you read the local newspapers over the weekend, you’d have seen many column inches devoted to blogs — how useless and inconsequential they are, and then how dangerous they are. A few bloggers’ feathers were ruffled by one tabloid’s investigative piece titled “Blogheads or what?”, which drew a comparison of the contents of…

  • Orgasmic organic wholesome goodness

    It was my grandmother who introduced me to organic foods. She used to live in a shophouse in Seremban where she kept livestock together with my uncles and aunts on the 2nd floor, and where she also planted all manner of herbs and spices in little pots on the balcony. There was also a papaya…

  • Special Saturday

    On Saturday afternoon, I was reminded why I like working with my business partners. After our regular schedule of gymnastics classes, I was just about to pack up my things and head home when I was told, ‘Dude, you’re up for the Special Olympics class at 6pm’. My shoulders dropped and I think I started…