Jellybeans and foreign born men stealing our women

Listening to: Good Lovin’ Ain’t Easy To Come By (with Tammi Terrell) – Marvin Gaye – The Very Best of Marvin Gaye R.I.P. Ronald Reagan. Though what I remember of the Reagan years are sketchy and informed mostly through this funny British show featuring puppet caricatures of various political figures and celebrities called “Spitting Image“, […]

Saturday Reviewed

Listening to: Hot Stuff – ROLLING STONES – Jump Back- The Best Of The Rolling Stones A brief entry before I crash, exhausted. At work today at the school which was formerly the SCGS, three things: 1. The road outside was chockers with star-struck fans, who were lining up to obtain Jolin Tsai’s autograph. Who […]

The Game They Play In Heaven

Listening to: Foolish Games – Jewel – Pieces of You Ka mate, Ka mate! Ka ora, Ka ora! Ka mate, Ka mate! Ka ora, Ka ora! Tenei te tangata puhuruhuru Nana i tiki mai whakawhiti te ra! A hupane, kaupane A hupane, kaupane whiti te ra! Hi! Wonder what Bucky Katt’s haka sounds like. I […]

Regale us with tales bold but true

Listening to: Crazy Ones – John Mellencamp – Whenever We Wanted Tonight me and the boys met up with another uni mate of ours who’s back on a short visit from Hong Kong, where he works as a top-notch high-flying award-winning chick-pulling copywriter. We envy his life and his boldness and his impossible sense of […]

Buddha Day

Listening to: King Porter Stomp – Benny Goodman – Clarinet a’ la king Vesak or Wesak celebrates the birth, death and enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha. It is a public holiday here. But not for me and my business partners. We’re still running kids’ camp for the benefit of families who have no idea what to […]