Last night, I was exhausted having worked till 7.30pm after a grueling early morning grind fighting the evil forces of Beijing (I lost, and didn’t manage to get a China Visa) in Hong Kong. By the time I got back to the hotel, it was already 8pm. Dinner took about 15 minutes to arrive and […]
Okay so I am leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow, Sunday morning at 5am to catch the 8am flight. When I alight at Hong Kong International Airport, I will hop directly onto a ferry that will bring me to Fu Yong Ma Tou - the ferry Terminal in Shenzhen, China. There hopefully, the hotel van will […]
For the past 3 days, I have been
1) spending the day in boring mind-numbing meetings
2) spending the nights schmoozing and networking with the folk from the meetings.
Actually, my main objective was point 2, point 1 was just a necessary evil. My peers from all over Asia were in town for a regional meeting, and in […]
This week, I fired my first employee.
This little douchebag was caught indirectly setting up elaborate schemes to defraud the company, by his boss’s boss. Since we didn’t have evidence, I gave him the option of resigning or being fired - he opted for the latter because it comes with a huge payday in China […]
I may be in a lot of trouble.
My boss called from Singapore today for a much delayed ‘chat’ that I’ve been requesting since last week to discuss some issues. As usual, despite being presented with the facts, he somehow totally misses the point of it all and rejects the options I’ve presented to him.
So I’m […]
Remember the image above from this post back in 2006?
It was funny back then, but it’s not so funny now. I came into the office only to find a stack of the forms above, all marked “Abortion Leave” waiting for my signature. Life is cheap in China.
As a non-practicing Catholic, the very notion of […]
Last night, I lay paralyzed in bed as I suddenly realised that giving out the bonus may not have been a great idea because some of my staff may use it as an exit strategy to cash out.
Some of them must be thinking that I’m a useless fat f78k of a boss that depends on […]
Okay, here is a run down of my day today.
3.30am - My phone rings. It’s the driver. He says I requested for a 3.30am to the airport. I scream “I ASKED FOR A 5.30AM!!!”. Can’t get back to sleep.
5.30am - Leave house for Changi airport.
6.30am - Discover that the Krisflyer Gold lounge is only serving […]
Since my laptop is broken, I took the chance to quickly run back to Singapore. Although I was originally scheduled to return, I was going to postpone it but without a computer, I simply wouldn’t be productive.
The truth is that my stress levels have gone through the roof since I got new responsibilities forced upon […]
The restaurant captain is an old Taiwanese man who chews too much pinlang, and his smile is always that of a vampire. He seats us at a table near the far end of the restaurant, away from much of the noisy mostly crowd Taiwanese crowd in his popular Taiwanese restaurant. Then he doesn’t bother to […]
Now that a lot of us are spending time on forums, facebook and MSN, it becomes really easy to make a ‘friend’. However, I think one really needs to watch out whom they choose to spend their time with. When you spend your time online all the time whining and complaining about your lack of […]
Once and for all, I would like to confirm that I am mildly dyslexic. Which is why when I blog and my wordpress editor doesn’t have spellcheck - which results in my words coming out in strange forms.
nipple = nippleh
animal = aminal
ever = evar
That’s right, those words that you folk have been re-using because they […]
This morning, I stood on my hotel room balcony and looked at the pool below. The water looked gorgeous as I gazed at it.
Too bad it’s friggin winter at the moment.
Like many things in (my) life, some things may seem like they are within reach, but are actually not. So close, yet so far […]
The hours bled into each other, and stained my life with the borrowed colours of a man that has either been working too hard for so long that everything was now on auto-pilot with the mind switched off.
She came into my room at about 5pm, a little waif of a girl no older than 19 […]
It used to be that when I came home with that little white ball of frustration in the pit of my stomache, I would stoke it with whiskey. If that didn’t work, I would visit my favourite bar for some oblivion in a canter. Of course that was when I used to be a bachelor […]
Hatred overflows from my heart while mine gaze beholds the Kundalini snake of traffic.
There is no “long story” today. Because I am down in the dumps.
Fear and self-loathing, baby.
So I have 2 nephews who’ve come to stay for the duration of the school holidays. Last night, I was asked to help the elder one with his school homework. During the duration of my tutoring, I discovered that the kid was as dumb as bricks. And I’m not being mean.
His Malay and English language […]
Prayer against Depression - by Saint Ignatius of Loyola
O Christ Jesus,
when all is darkness
and we feel our weakness and helplessness,
give us the sense of Your presence,
Your love, and Your strength.
Help us to have perfect trust
in Your protecting love
and strengthening power,
so that nothing may frighten or worry us,
for, living close to You,
we shall see Your hand,
Your […]
To fill in the gaps, while growing up as a young boy, my family was always the poor relatives. We had the worst car, the smallest house and every once in awhile, we had to borrow money from our richer relatives. I used to look forward and dread the holiday seasons because we would have […]
Last month, I was asked if I could go to Udon Thani and Vientienne to do a travel article. Due to various work commitments, the timing was plain bad and I replied in the negative.
That was really stupid in hindsight. Everybody in my office is leaving or has just returned from a vacation. They don’t […]
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The problem with friends, is that you never really know where you stand with them. Are you high up on their hiearchy, or way down on the list? Confound it, one needs to be a mindreader these days because people are getting more and more complex as a result of the Intarwebs and sitcoms like […]
Screw the world!
You know how somedays, you just feel like like you’re not as strong, fast, smart or better as you thought you were? And everything that can go wrong just goes wrong?
Guess that’s why I started this damn blog.
Cowboy says: tonight msn meeting
Mandrake says: I see how first. coz I going to an opera
Mandrake says: not sure what time they finish
Cowboy says: you f87k what go where?
Mandrake says: Opera lah
Cowboy says: sorry, we can no longer be friends
Mandrake says: fuck off lah, its free tix
Cowboy says: so if you got free tix to […]
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Wimmen who don’t play mahjong
Wimmen who can cook more then 1 dish
Wimmen who took the time to readup on fellatio
Wimmen who know all about football but just pretend they don’t
Wimmen who have read something else than the Da Vince Code
Wimmen with nice hair (visits hair stylist on a regular basis)
Wimmen with some body […]
Such it was when I recently discovered vore - short for vorarephilia, a sexual fetish involving creatures eating and digesting other creatures. This can be animals eating other animals as they would in the wild, or, more hilariously, people getting eaten by giant animals, or people eating other people.
Strange fetishes, all bound to sicken and […]
It’s been quite awhile since we had any tales of self-loathing and despair.
Whenever I drive alone, I pick my nose. I know it’s disgusting, but because there’s nobody around and I feel so safe and secure within the womb of my car, my primal instincts from ye days of yore kick in and the caveman […]
photo by Johnny Malkavian
When I wrote about what I have happened to noticed, it was inspired by this news article I saw in TNP about the ‘Hottest Blogger’ Dawn Yeo. At the time, I was just saddened that apparently you had to be hot to be a popular blogger.
The very same day, rumours that she […]
Need extra cash quickly? Now you can get a cash advance from your credit card by easily crediting funds from your credit card to your account, to another third party DBS/POSB account, or an inter-bank account - yet another first from DBS.
In an unprecedented move of sheer genius (which everybody knows is a double-edged blade), […]
Mighty Zeus,
Deliver me from my mundane job. Help me to cope with the relentless influx of inane email from cretins. Strengthen my will to resist the temptations of procrastination, despair and intarwebs. Help me to forgive the backstabbers, and assist me to backstab them before they get me first. Remove the crutches of caffeine and […]
LMD has probably emerged from the operating theater by now from her operation. I’m going to visit her tonight.
I hate going to Hospitals because they give me the creeps. In my little mind, hospitals are associated with death and despair and therefore should be avoided at all costs. Unfortunately LMD is a friend, and […]
I’m sorry I am not better looking. Some CL men seem Godlike from the pictures they post. I feel ashamed that I am only ordinary.
I’m sorry I am not more “fun and outgoing”. It seems many CL men are mountain climbers or skydivers or surfers or dirt-bike riders or bow-hunters. I feel ashamed that […]
Last night, I had dinner with the married duo known as Terz & Tym. Actually I’ve been having dinner with them lots. The reason being that they live in front of me and there is only one coffeeshop in our area thus we are all victims of circumstances.
So anyway, Terz is a professional photog which […]
During lunch yesterday, I was browsing around one of those second-hand bookstores and came across a book that looked vaguely familar. Upon further inspection, it turned out that it was a trilogy collection and I had read the first book when I was a 13year old kid.
The title of the book is The Inquisition […]
It used to be that whenever I got depressed, I didn’t want to be alone. The company of friends was a must whenever I felt down. They say that misery loves company. I had a need to tell people about how I felt, why I felt that way and what I was going to do, […]
I cannot study. The phone keeps ringing. Either it’s my office wanting me verify something, or to review some docs (via email) or it’s my dad asking about some financial projections I did for his business in Malaysia.
Must…study…or…I…will…be…so….f87ked.
It has been a long day. Long after everybody had left the office, only the lights over my desk still shone. My mind was exhausted as was my body. To destress and keep the kilogramonster at bay, I have been going for a swim during my lunchtime everyday.
Although there is an excellent swimming pool in […]
After getting home at around 9.30pm, I took a shower and dried my hair. I looked out the window and wondered what was this feeling, of pure uneasiness. Something’s just not right. Had a brief chat with Ngader, and I mentioned that after reading about her frequent sojourns, I felt like I was living my […]
10am
LMD: You want to have dinner or not?
3pm
LMD: You want to have dinner or not?
4pm
LMD: I don’t care. Tonight I will kidnap you for dinner.
And so it came to pass that LMD kidnapped me at 8.30pm for dinner to a very very nice place in a private club because her credit cards were not sufficiently […]
After missing 2 days of work (one day on leave, another on MC):
675 new emails
No more mailbox space
Voice mailbox jammed full
25 meeting invites
18 mystery interoffice envelopes
I want to end my misery NOW - Farewell cruel world!
Today, my tea lady informed me that my morning noodles would henceforth cost 10 cents more due to the rising cost of doing business. This served as a trigger to switch my mood into a black cloud of despair. It wasn’t so much the friggin noodles, but rather a combination of events lately that led […]
Time to sell the kids, sell your body to strangers, max out all your credit cards, steal from your neighbours and pawn the family jewels - yes, ladies and gentlemen; The GREAT SINGAPORE SALE IS UPON US (from 27 May - 24 July)
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Today is going to be a baddd day. I just opened up my calendar for today and discovered I have meetings scheduled back to back all day long. Not just any plain vanilla meetings, today is the day with boring meetings followed by argumentative meetings followed by another boring meeting and then a point-finger-at-each-other meeting […]
I’m in my office. It’s raining bats and frogs outside so I can’t leave yet. I have to go and buy a new pair of shoes because I’m supposed to play football tomorrow after work but I left my shoes back at my parent’s place. In addition, there is a ton of wurk left to […]
With reference to my earlier post, Mandrake has sent me the pic of Miryclay in a skimpy bikini.
My eyes nearly popped out.
You know those ads in the papers, advertising boob enhancement, slimming centers etc? Yeah, that’s what she looks like in the flesh. Perfect tear-shaped mammaries, washboard tummy and3% bodyfat. Days like these, monogamy […]
photo by Tomsch
Some days, you feel like a dark cloud hangs over your head and there’s a constant need to look over your shoulder. The only countermeasure for such dreary days is to have whiskey for dinner, preferably alone.
On days like this, I slip away to a Japanese bar near my office. It’s run […]
“But, seeing Jesus at a distance, he ran and fell down before him, and exclaiming with a loud voice, said, What hast thou to do with me, O Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I conjure thee by God, torment me not! For he said unto him, Vicious spirit, from the man begone! And […]
Cute, Cuter, Cuterest
There’s a very interesting meeting going on right now. All the blogging powerhouses are attending it. Hell, even Channelnews Asia is going to be there to cover it.
But I had to decline the invitation.
Because Bruce Wayne says so. Attending is just not possible if you want to remain anonymous. Keeping my identity […]
Yesterday, you signed my soul away.
Just another step to climb another run in the ladder to maintain your position in the rat race and hopefully advance a little further for a little more money so you can buy a better house, a larger car and more bling bling.
Life seems to be full of […]
I got a few messages on MSN asking me if my being El Cheapo was genetic or because I don’t earn enough. People have started to notice a pattern in my behavior that just reeks of El Cheapo.
Click on more for the shocking truth reason.
The hardest part of being an adult is the fact that you never get to do what you want to do even though you can.
As I write this, MrMiyagi and co are playing touch-footy out in the gorgeous weather without me. I am stuck infront of my computer working, and of course complaining to my […]
I was feeling really down and out yesterday. The last thing I wanted to do was go out and chill. But I had been turning her down once too many times. When she asked for a movie last night, I said no, but then she said how about coffee instead? Being the tender-hearted calf […]
Since I moved up to the 20th floor, there is a new cleaning lady assigned to my team. She drives me nuts. Objects thrown into the wastepaper basket will magically reappear on my shelves (eg: a bag of starbucks coffee powder, a tin of coke etc) because she thought perhaps we might not want to […]
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