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at 10:24am on Saturday morning, a newborn gasped his first lungful of air and let rip with his cries. my wife heaved a sigh of relief, her face flushed with exhaustion. my right hand throbbed from being wrung.our son is born.weighing in at 3.8kg, he is bigger than the usual baby, even though he is ...
on sunday night there was a fire in one of the flats near our block. my wife was the first to hear people talking loudly and upon further investigation i saw a group of people gathered near the multi storey carpark all looking upwards.either they saw superman, or got free showi think it was almost ...
There are people who are afraid to ask stupid questions for fear of looking stupid, and then there are people who are afraid of being stupid if they don’t ask these stupid questions. Of these two, the latter will risk looking stupid but rarely end up being so.<p>Sadly the same can’t be said of the ...
i’m kind of trudging my way through the days for the past week, sometimes like a zombie. many friends, when i smsed them about the arrival of mere puter (my prince), were quick to quip, ‘welcome to the sleepless club’.how witty, i thought, but i was soon to learn that it was less about wit ...
fatherhood is super tiring (or parenthood, rather). very exhausting. last night, i thought i’d just changed his diapers, when my wife roused me again and said he needed to be changed.‘but i just changed him?’ i remarked in disbelief. however, to my astonishment, almost 2 hours had passed. i didn’t feel as if i’d even ...
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the domain podah.com is nearing its expiration and i do not intend to renew.i think it is time for me to stop blogging, if not permanently, then at least for a certain indefinite period.it has been a good 10 years of blogging, but there seems to be little left that i would like to share ...
my pakcik barber remarked as he was cutting my hair: “dekni ketawa selalu tak agak-agak”. he was talking about jean danker on the radio.
it’s that time of the year again, when i have to reach into the darkest corners of my storeroom and drag out moth-bitten, dust-covered knick-knacks and start packing for the annual holiday. this time around it’s the longest reservist stint ever, almost 4 weeks straight. bummer.for a startup owner like myself who’s trying to get ...
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