Have you ever come across a scenario where you liked your impression of a person more than the person herself?An impression that you slowly built in the person's absence, based on a few choice encounters, and which you fell in love with?And then you really meet the person. Perhaps it's a date. And over the course of the time spent together you realise that, robbed of her …

...is alcoholic-ly. It's funny how you can just go out with your best buddies with absolutely nothing planned, and as planned, do absolutely nothing, but still have a hell of a time.I would hereby like to apologise to the couples at Clarke Quay yesterday who had a romantic night ruined by our tone-deaf rendition of Yue Fei's Man Jiang Hong and other hits from the Chinese High …

He never told me that he won the award - I only knew it from my ST colleague, who told me that they were running a Home article on him. And it's a 40cm story too! Even billionaires don't get 40cm in Digital Life.If only all policemen would focus on the serious stuff like murders and robberies and theft and rape, instead of wasting taxpayers' money staking out gay people to …

It's been almost a week since I begun using my new baby, the Panasonic Toughbook CF-W5, and it still impresses me from time to time.There's the cool CD/DVD drive for starters, which not only has a very special way of ejecting a CD, but can be manually or automatically switched off to conserve battery power.Then there's the battery which never seems to run out. Try not …

Conclusion: I age 20 years when I'm tired.

What does a journalist, a lawyer and Chelsea's Premiership ambitions have in common?Simple: they're all going to hell.The stigma surrounding journalists has been going on forever, since the first caveman chose to draw the scandals of his fellow cave-dwellers on the walls instead of the usual ego-boosting fight scenes (and probably got thrown to the sabretooth tigers for his …

Dubbed "Your Personal Moon", this portable crescent is a project by some Russian designers. While there's really nothing to jump up and scream about about a gigantic moon-shaped light, I just thought the photo looked so magical.I guess part of the impact comes from all those legends and tales I've heard about about pulling down the moon, some Chinese folklore, …

We are so used to having computers helping us do our dirty work that we forget that they can be really deadly buggers indeed. A 20-year-old student named Wu from Shanghai found out the hard way, when he was electrocuted to death by his PC. Trying to scrimp on air-con costs, he opened the external casing of the CPU to prevent it from overheating (which, by the way, doesn't …

Meet Nicholas Lazarus, the man who has everything. He's got an ultra high paying job and is making his way up to social ladder as a Young PAP member.However, like Spiderman, his blessing is also a curse.Mr Lazarus has to do battle daily against the forces of evil. As a lawyer, he has to fight off green-eyed monsters envious of his high pay. Yes, even though it is a …

For just a coupla tokens, you get to drive the actual tofu car!For added realism, drive with only one hand and put a cup of soya bean on the cup holder a la Jay Chou.#1 reason why you won't see this in Singapore?Must pay COE. Sian.