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At the recent demise of my 5 year old white Macbook, I was convinced to go back to using a Windows machine. It helped that I got a machine that's the same specs as a 13" Macbook Pro, for half the price. It was not as hard as I thought to be back to using Windows, though the keyboard placement did give me a slight problem. Anyway, the transition from an Apple OS to Windows … 
Being home the past couple of weeks, I've been doing a lot of things that I've not been able to do for quite a while due to my busy schedule. I got to meet up with my friends. I forgot how much fun I have when I'm out with them and I've missed it. I've been reading a lot of comics lately too, catching up on my reading list. I went for a camera workshop with my … 
The previous weekend, my friends and I dropped by the Heritage Along Footpaths event organised by the National Heritage Board. It's an event to showcase some of the disappearing trades that used to be a common sight along the footpaths in the good old days. These trades include the cobblers, barbers, ice ball sellers, fortune tellers and kachang puteh sellers. You can still … 
The previous weekend, my friends and I dropped by the Heritage Along Footpaths event organised by the National Heritage Board. It's an event to showcase some of the disappearing trades that used to be a common sight along the footpaths in the good old days. These trades include the cobblers, barbers, ice ball sellers, fortune tellers and kachang puteh sellers. You can still … 
The previous weekend, my friends and I dropped by the Heritage Along Footpaths event organised by the National Heritage Board. It's an event to showcase some of the disappearing trades that used to be a common sight along the footpaths in the good old days. These trades include the cobblers, barbers, ice ball sellers, fortune tellers and kachang puteh sellers. You can still …
You don't realise how much damage a previous relationship had done to you until something triggers those old fears and you're hit with crippling doubt and insecurity. It sucks. It makes you want to scream and punch someone, preferably the one that left you damaged but mostly, you want to smack yourself for letting those things get to you.
Or rather, at least reading the research papers I brought. Instead I'm just sitting here, at the basement of an empty campus and listening to the sounds of construction and the chirping of unidentified birds. I've seen less then 50 people on campus, in the last two hours I've been here. It's peaceful. Maybe just a little too peaceful since I find it too relaxing I even do …
I'm sitting on the floor, along the corridor, right outside my lab. It's raining where I am and it just got heavier. I'm waiting for my samples to finish centrifuging so that I can keep them and go home. It's been a superbly long day and at this rate, I think I might be too tired to even head down I meet my friends and attend the Lomo store opening. It's been back to back …
When Dude used to be at Haji Lane, I used to spend quite some time there. The area has a different feel to it, compared to other places in the town area. There's not much going on in the day time but it comes alive at night. Anyway, it's been a while since I've been there and my friends and I decided to take a walk to see new Snapshop Asia site at Haji Lane. The place was …
I couldn't sleep last night because I was worried that my mussels wouldn't survive the night. It sucks when you don't have any control over this. I know that I'm not the first or only grad student to lose sleep over their project. I don't enjoy it at all! I just want this stupid project to get completed soon so that I can finally go back to having a good night's rest.
As much as I love Japanese cuisine, sashimi is one of the few things that I've never gotten into. The thought of having raw fish was something that was hard for me to accept. I tried it once before but it ended rather horrifically. On top of that, my experiences with salmon left much to be desired. I always found them more than a little fishy and a they have a very strong …
I caught one of the last few episodes of the first season of Junior MasterChef Australia and like I've mentioned before, the skill that these kids show, totally puts me to shame. I can barely cobble together a meal without much preparation and effort. These kids make it look so easy! Anyway, the second season has just wrapped up it's episodes I think and I'm looking forward …
After watching a number of episodes from MasterChef USA and being totally blown away by the kids in Junior MasterChef Australia, I was relatively excited that they were going to have this somewhat close to home. For once, I was glad that I had cable and I was looking forward to watching it. I didn't catch the top 40 contestants but I started watching in earnest when they …
There's a heavy metal double bill coming to town next year, with Judas Priest playing the same night as Lamb of God. The last time LoG were in town, I had an exam that same night so I couldn't make it. I was still with the ex back then and he wasn't around either to go with me even if I wasn't having exams. Now, two bands that he introduced me to are playing in Singapore …
To attend a company function, themed "When I Grow Up", dressed in a corset, with a skimpy skirt or tight pants and say that I wanted to be a call girl, just so that I can use my corset again? Or, turn up in a white shirt, black underbust corset, pleather pants and whip, and say that I wanted to be a dominatrix? The underbust corset I'm talking about. Just pretend that …
The latest batch of mussels didn't survive past a week and so I'm left feeling more than a little stressed and frustrated, so I'm going to take a little break to recover from this setback. I'm going to get Obsidian Moon, Obsidian Eye by J. Damask, which is a continuation of Wolf At The Door. Both are available at Lyrical Press. I haven't read urban fantasy in a while and I …
It's almost the end of the second week of November and I'm way behind in my NaNoWriMo writing. Strangely enough, I'm not even fretting or even worried. I think that's because I have something else to worry about. I know I've been talking about my mussel project for ages and over the last couple of weeks, I decided to take some time off over the next few months to finish it …
I'm in school today, preparing some stuff for my experiments next week. Due to my day job I don't normal come down to campus in the day and encounter the full-time students here. It's a different kind of experience. As I sat down, having lunch, i noticed that school life here on campus isn't so different to when I was in school a decade ago. Students laughing in groups, …
It's the start of November and also the start of NaNoWriMo. Did I write? I did. Not a lot, just enough to catch up for two days worth of words (to complete 50k words in 30 days, you need to rack up about 1667 words per day). I managed some 3000+ words yesterday. The need and the mood to write almost always seems to start when I'm at my busiest or when I'm needed to do … 
At this moment right now, my colleagues are having a lab meeting but I'm not there. I should have been there but I just can't being myself to sit in and pay attention; even if we're supposed to have pizza and other things after the meeting. Lunch time has always been time for me to get away from work and relax. Time to be just me and having to attend a meeting during the … 
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