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For the past 10 years I’ve lived in this neighborhood, I haven’t once spoken to a neighbor. No kidding, I don’t know a single one of them. My dad goes for the odd neighborhood gathering and he’s pretty in the loop, but for the most part, I stay out of it. But I do know ...
For about two weeks so far, I’ve been working the night shift. It means I come home late, sometimes past 1am. Today, I took my time walking back to my house from the main road and for the first time in two weeks, I noticed how uncannily quiet it was.The street lamps cast an eerie ...
All the big national exams in Singapore are just round the corner. You’d think young working adults would need some help jogging their memory about school life, but it seems we’re being reminded it’s exam time far too often. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Coffee Shop Seat Hogs.Yes, I’m talking about the teenagers who buy ...
I am over the moon. My Taj Mahal drawing was one of the four 1st-place entries in the Jones Soda Facebook graffiti contest. View the other winners here. This was picked as the winner of the “Man-Made” category.
I’ve definitely been bitten big time by the drawing bug. It’s been a long time since I’ve done two pieces of Facebook graffiti on the same day. One’s for the music-themed graffiti contest; the other is for the World Wonders contest. Ai pointed out that the Taj Mahal is kinda leaning — crap! I think ...
I picked up a ring outside office yesterday, so I sent out a mass e-mail hoping the rightful owner would claim it. Instead, I got a bunch of hilarious responses, mostly from men I know: urm. i lost one yesterday..it’s round. i think that’s the oneit’s a signIt’s circular, about 2cm in diameter, and is ...
This, everyone, is one of three shoe cupboards I share with my mother. I can say with certainty, though, that only about two pairs of shoes in this cupboard belong to me. I keep my most prized pairs in their boxes, nice and safe in my room. My Mom, on the other hand, is having ...
I just got back from a good break in Taiwan with my family. I wasn’t that excited about going there, but it was nice spending loads of time with my folks and sister. We stayed at the Grand Hyatt Taipei, which is notoriously haunted. Thank God we didn’t have any encounters of the stranger variety.Some ...
I did this in my sketchbook today while watching Chao huff and puff his way to a stellar showing in his IPPT (physical fitness test). We celebrated with a copious amount of coffee afterward. There was a skinny teenager there with frizzy hair walking around with a vacant look on his face while listening to ...
I think the problem with attending top schools all your life is that while you gain book smarts, you hardly learn to cope with adversity or to manage your expectations in a reasonable manner.I remember on the day I got my A Level results, classmates who didn’t get straight As were buckled over in various ...
Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Clone Wars, done on Facebook Graffiti.Chao told me just now about a friend of his who’d got him supremely aggravated. It seems the friend was going through a bad relationship patch, and her bitterness got the better of her. She ended up pretty much unleashing all her negativity and cynicism on ...
Chao and I watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s over the weekend. I have become semi-obsessed with everything to do with the movie, hence this piece of graffiti done on Chao’s wall today. I heart Audrey Hepburn (she shares my birthday, too).
My entry for the World Wonders graffiti contest — the Northern Lights. I spent about 45 min on this, the greater part of it being used to fix the colors. I quite like the end product though.***I had the most wonderful weekend. Spent most of it with Chao, because it was his birthday this week. ...
For the music-themed Facebook graffiti contest. This is supposed to be Audrey Hepburn singing Moon River in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
I was blessed with the opportunity to speak with an extraordinary man today. I call him extraordinary because I have never met anybody who, in the face of such extreme adversity, has managed to press on.This man is homeless. He is old. He spends his days roaming the country, and his nights sleeping in public ...
About three months ahead of any wedding, soon-to-be wed couples go through a curious rite of passage known as the Pre-Wedding Photoshoot. Preparations for this day are intense — think a manicure and pedicure, facial, complete makeover — the works.Dressed in their bridal finery, the bride and groom-to-be triapse around picturesque locations where they are ...
With share prices at multi-year lows, Chao and I were talking about how it could be time to go bravely into the market again. For some odd reason, we remembered the same thing a mutual friend, M, said a couple years ago when the bloodshed hadn’t started yet:M: Buy company X’s shares. Chinese New Year ...
What does true friendship really entail? If you see a friend making a decision you believe is wrong, is it ever your place to interfere and say your piece? Is it considered apathy if you don’t? On the other hand, in the event that your friend wants to continue with the perceived mistake, does it ...
I resisted it for three years — I really did. But recently I decided what the heck, I want to know how indentured I really am. So I asked HR what my outstanding bond amount was. In scholar-ese, the official term is “liquidated damages”. And even though I’ve served half my six-year bond, I’m still ...
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