Ahem. Before I start a rant about the spring fashion sense of some individuals on campus, I want to wish Shuqi, my psychic twin (born 3 days before me, batteries not included), a very, very happy twenty-first birthday even though I already sent her a text at 12am EST and 10pm WST. I was really tired and couldn't stay up till 2am but anyway— HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHUQI! I …

I "celebrate" the passing of my embarrassing adolescence today. I use "celebrate" in the widest sense because I do not feel celebratory at all and would rather stay home, a grumpy woman (ooh, I'm a wo-man now!) in her ratty PJs eating wasabi peas, watching Ellen and Oprah back to back. What, don't women do this all the time, eating comfort food and watching feminist …

…especially when the brother comes home after three months abroad and makes special requests to his mother for stir-fried choy sum, steamed pork mince with dong choy, and a delicious pan fried snapper lightly dosed with soy sauce and spring onions. Best of all, everyone’s present (well, almost everyone), the steamy fragrance of rice ...

The keyboards anchored by locks (I kid you not) to the eMacs are not pristine, they are quite grubby, in fact. I have an uncontrollable urge to wash my hands after I leave the computer labs. I do, and when hands are clean again I allow them to touch my other belongings: wallet, phone, iPod. I have mild obsessive-compulsive tendencies like that. I don't mind a bit of dirt now …

From Paul Brians’s Common Errors in English:Reign/ReinA king or queen reigns, but you rein in a horse. The expression “to give rein” means to give in to an impulse as a spirited hors …

Lately I’ve been yearning to write about something new and interesting, have created draft posts trying to detail what it is that could possibly be this exciting, and have come up with none. It’s terribly unusual because I am often motivated by highly stressful situations to come out on top and move on, but it’s ...

My fingernails are the stubborn sort that hang two millimetres over the fleshy tip even after they’ve been freshly cut. So I have a habit of trimming them every fortnight–also due to previous lessons in pottery (hand-building and wheel)–because I dislike clacking nails on the keyboard (very awkward).Which is why I thought to post something ...

Last year I was living in limbo. Sort of. Three locations within six months, my life abroad packed in the large suitcase and duffel bag I arrived with, plus a plastic box filled with accumulated books and course material. I was uprooted and quite unhappy with the state of readily furnished rooms, their impersonal and ...

I’ve been a little short of words lately, as most of what I do at work comprises of image editing, printing and more image scrutinising. I hardly have time to take pictures but I’m going to make use of newly found skills learnt at work to play with photos in Photoshop more often.A pause in ...

Sometimes I hate having a busy schedule because it means that days pass easily, so quickly that when I finally have time to take a breather after a whole month of alternating between high speed coursework and working hard at my new job, I realise that it’s nearly the middle of April and it’s officially ...