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 […]
Stupidity Factor
I’m happy to do National Service not because I’m a True Believer, partly because I’m never sure what I believe in. But National Service is such a way of life here that I’m better off not spending my time kicking against it while having to serve, because that’d make me a whole lot more miserable. […]
Stayin’ alive
There was once at my previous job when I had to travel to Bintan with half a dozen chiobu in tow, and decided it would be nice to be wearing a tank-top and shorts, seeing as the chiobu were wearing the same. At the ferry terminal where we met up, one of the said chiobu […]