Month: May 2013

  • Shanghai Is Still In China (And Singapore Airlines Is A Great Way To Fly)

    On a work trip to Shanghai last Friday, I sat in my cab and marvelled at the gleaming towers, giant billboards and the frenetic pace of the people in the business districts of the giant city. Then my cab driver asked me something which I assumed to be permission for him to excuse himself because…

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    To every son and daughter’s mother, a happy Mother’s Day. You’ve made your children what they are, whether or not you’ve intended to. To Naomi – on behalf of Kai and myself, thank you for being everything he needs. To Naomi’s Mom, thank you for being family. And I remember my mother today, for making…

  • Please Take Dengue Seriously

    Read this first, then come back to this post. Yes, you can die from dengue. But mostly, people don’t exhibit serious symptoms, and are often not ill enough to be hospitalized. It’s been the same with this outbreak, and I’ve found that as a result, people are being a bit blase about the current epidemic…

  • Seminyak Highlights

    Our love-hate relationship with Bali continued this trip, with our ideal idyllic villa getaway shared with our friends celebrating their anniversary turning into a three day battle with mosquitoes (and the holey mosquito net) before we retreated to a multi-storey hotel with fewer bugs. Constant traffic jams on single-laned roads plied by mercenary cabbies whose…

  • This Blog Has Been Rallied

    I’m a bit excited about this blog being highlighted (at around the 28-minute mark of the video) at an NTUC May Day Rally. Never in a million years would I have thunk it. Seriously. My friends are making fun of me. If you’re at all interested in the rest of the rally – do watch…