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Cynthia and I share a rather limited reading list. I could spend hundreds and hundreds of words here talking passionately about the books I read but she’d catch no ball. She could …
How did you spend your Valentine Day? It was on a Monday, not an ideal day to celebrate. So we celebrated ours on Sunday instead. In case if you are curious on what we did on Monday, th …
Cynthia and I are known as “the late couple”, especially so during weekends. There are hundred and one things to do such as not wanting to get out of bed (that is Cynthia), no …
“Terribly good”, so said one of the audiences behind us at the end of the show. This movie, “The King’s Speech”, has attracted quite a crowd of Westerners. …
Some of you might have heard or even joined us for the Midnight’s Children read along last year. OK. That was a bit intense. To kick start a new year, we are doing something light …
This is the final installment, of my trip to Bandung, divided into 500 words per piece. … rinse them inside a tank of water, and make sure that they are towel dried as they may catch …
Chinese New Year is a time we spend it with our family and in our case, ‘extended̵ 7; family. At the stroke of midnight, Cynthia, our gaming buddy Mark, and I were in our goblin …
The beauty of keeping my website current is that I can always go back in time and find out, say, what I did last new year. It is hard to believe that one year has passed. Reading what I …
In “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, it is the hunger for the banned foreign book titles in the 70’s China that drives the plot forward. Similarly, in “Once on a Moonless Night” …
This is the fifth installment of the Bandung Chronicle, sliced up at 500 words a piece. “My beloved Nathaniel, he who calls me Oom Pea Prit” … “Shouldn’t you ask him the …
Well, well, well. It doesn’t matter what we write, does it? If you are a Jay Chou fan, you still want to watch “The Green Hornet” regardless, yes? It is an omy.sg organ …
Evening at SLE I don’t know which is more hilarious. The huge lorry with a speed limit sticker of 60km/h traveling at the speed limit of 90 km/h on the rightmost fast lane. Or the …
Flawed as it may be, this book “The Shattering” in several occasions moved me literally to tears. For better or for worse, Christie Golden may well be one of our finest. She …
“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” tells a story of two young men – in 1971 when Mao’s Cultural Revolution was at its peak – being sent to one of the villages in the mo …
Cynthia finds it creepy. But I happen to love the singing sunflower companion, quite possibly the best companion we see in World of Warcraft to date. It sings random lines, musical notes …
This is the view from my window. In the year of 2011. Far ahead is the reservoir, and the country club. We love this view. We love our home. By year 2020, there will be a new highway …
This is the fourth installment of the chronicle, a journal of my year end trip to Bandung at 500 words per piece. … the humming got louder and louder. All of a sudden, there was cra …
Give a choice, I would have started from book one of the series “A Year in the Merde” and work my way to “Dial M for Merde”. But you know how borrowing books from a library is like. So I …
What a surprise! I am seeing the casting in a whole new light. I would not have thought that Christian Bale can act. Like really act. I was weary if Bale was going to have that batman …
And the chronicle continues, onto its third installment, with 500 words per piece. … and form a city beautification initiative. I am not sure what natural resources Bandung has, but I wou …
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