Girl with the plastic lei

Tonight the Girl with the Plastic Lei came and had dinner with me, and I listened to her talk. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, she said. I don’t know what’s wrong, is it just me or is he not the one or is it just me? I don’t know, Girl with the Plastic […]

Where would you rather be now?

When you’re my age, you’re old enough to be conscious of hanging out with people either a lot older than you and even more conscious of hanging out with people a lot younger than you. You look at the old fogies and you snigger, and then you shock yourself when you calculate how few years […]

Brain dunno go where

There are some things you really shouldn’t do. Like trying to get up from your desk to go to the toilet when you’ve still got your headphones on your head. Good thing my laptop is quite heavy, and I didn’t so much yank the computer and some peripherals off the desk as much as re-injure […]

The world around us

My friend who travels a lot to far flung places often complains that we’re very parochial, us Singaporeans. We don’t know what’s going on in the world around us, outside of Singapore, she says. Remember ASEAN? That grouping of how many nations now? Neh, the ones that gave us the Tiger Cup and the SEA […]

Linky stuff

So busy with work, so long blog posts will have to wait. Steph Song’s really back in town, and she called yesterday from her land phone, which I didn’t know the number of, and so answered the call very politely. She greeted me politely too, like someone who’s about to kill me would. Where didja […]