Deepavali: Awareness of the Inner Light
Northern Lights over Oslo – photo by flickRarity When I was in kindergarten, I learned about the different ethnic groups (known in Singapore as “races”) in Singapore and the festivals they celebrated. Ours, the Chinese “race”, was coolest because we had our New Year for two days in a row, and we received cash money […]
Excuse me sir, any pump?
“Make by Burke” Our Ang Moh friends find it hard to understand us sometimes, and it suits us just fine. It suits them fine too. In fact, this status quo ante bellum thingie works well for everyone. If something stuffs up, the Ang Moh can just say they find it hard to understand us, and […]
Waiter, there’s too much food on my table
There is a restaurant where you get rewarded for being a nice customer. Or at least, for being a customer who is nice enough to take time out to talk to the waiter about our HTC Touch phone which he was eyeing and wanting to ask about. When Naomi obliged by saying a couple of […]
The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Ten
This is an announcement we’ve dreaded making. Our sea-monkeys are no more. Actually, they haven’t been for a while since some time, and the colony expired some time during Naomi’s extended hospital stay (there were only one or two adults and a single baby left when she was warded in September). We’ll be leaving sea-monkey […]
Collective sigh
This evening when we went out to get a bite, we saw a notice posted at the basement car park lift lobby. I absent mindedly thought it was the old en-bloc attempt notice, but eagle-eyed Naomi saw that it was freshly photocopied A4, and took a further interest in reading it. We didn’t have to […]