Recently, I got to thinking that I ain’t exactly a spring chicken anymore (I’m 30 this year) and my life is almost 40% over. Here is a list of things I’ve decided I won’t be accomplishing in this lifetime.
Running a marathon
Buying a BMW (because of 5 recent horror stories from close friends about their lemons)
Growing […]
I have a very very very bad throat inf87ktion. Caught in China without antibiotics, I’ve been attempting to medicate with liberal doses of beer, but a few sips of Bacardi last night set my throat on fire.
Am now at work despite a high fever.
Oh lawdy….
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OHAI IM IN UR GUANGZHOU, WURKIN DIS ARFTERNUN
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Yesterday, I was mooching around Sim Lim Square where just for fun, I enquired about the price of a Garmin GPS device and was quoted an amazingly reasonable SGD350 for a Garmin Nuvi 200. For that price, the dealer also threw in a free 1GB SD card containing a set of open-source Malsing Maps. I […]
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Best cheap jap fusion food in town. Even bester cheap jap fusion deserts!!!
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Corks@Capital Towers.
Lots of wine. Lots. Drowning.
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Burp. Now at Hong Kong Intl Airport
Just had 2 original glazed krispy kremes.
Yes, I know you despair. I love being me too.
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Left my hotel at 830am today on a van bound for HKIA. Still stuck at the shenzhen border. Van is full of arabs who smell like they’ve been smoking […]
This made me stop and think for awhile. A pause in the non-stop crazy pace of my non-stop crazy life.
I think most of the time, we’re too afraid of making decisions because we don’t know if the decision we made is the optimal one. Everybody wants to be ‘free’, but what exactly does being ‘free’ […]
I had dinner with Jaywalk and his dad tonight, at this joint called “Banana Leaf Curry House” which just opened outside his house in China. We had all assumed it was an South Indian restaurant but it turned out to be a Thai restaurant much to our chagrin.
At some point, Jaywalk’s dad decides that he […]
So sick of this happening. Seems like no matter how much you earn, you spend that amount as well. Oh well. Lucky I don’t have a car to support as well.
I was just looking back at this old post from 2004, where I bitch about being broke.
Those times are a faint memory and my financial […]
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This sign with an imaginary meta-human defacating was spotted on the wall of a toilet of a jap restaurant called Bono in ChangAn which Jaywalk brought me to for […]
Happy Birthday Mandrake, you biatch.
I can’t remember how old you are, but you should be as old as Optimus Prime or Matt Tracker.
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Now having brekkies with Cakie at T3.
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I have a terrible raging fever. And yet, tomorrow I must take the 2nd morning flight out to Hong Kong. Enduring the flight will be a terrible experience. My fever came from my throat infection. My throat infection came from my gorging on fried fish, roti prata, chicken curry and all manner of unwholesome heaty […]
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Spotted this at a jap supermarket. Price was pretty gourmet too.
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The Griffin iTrip I bought at the airport is a piece of crap.
For all the “One Touch Tuning” razzmatazz, I gave up trying to get decent quality sound from the iTrip streaming into my car stereo. I’ve heard better sounding crap, underwater.
Learn from my mistake, biatches.
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Today, I returned from China with one of the Gods in tow. The aforementioned god was all work and no play. I did not get a chance to imbibe […]
Yesterday evening, I made my way to the Cafe de Coral where they serve my favourite baked porkchop with rice. As usual, I went straight to the cashier and pointed to the picture of the dish I desired afterwhich I made my way to the nearest empty table.
When I travel, I note that the locals […]
Milktea seems to think that folk are ignoring her.
But of course, they’re not. But hang on - she thinks they are. This is why keeping a blog is useful.
As her imaginary friend, I have successfully extrapolated the undeniable truth that Milktea’s fragile grasp on reality is slowly slipping - in simple terms, she’s gone […]
In today’s edition of Singapore’s daily paper, The Straits Times; my earlier answers to questions that Mak Mun San posed about the effect of blogging on a person’s health, was published together with responses from my pals and top bloggers Xiaxue, Mr Miyagi and Kennysia.
I’d like to say thank you to Mak Mun San for […]
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Once every 2 weeks, I bring my team leaders on a shopping trip to a nearby supermarket where we load up on fruits and junk food.
Since I expect them […]
The Straits Times sent me a mail asking if Blogging was harmful to one’s health. Just in case, I am publishing their questions and my replies online.
Update: They asked Kennysia the same question!
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Hi Cowboy Caleb,
I’m Mun San from ST Life!. Sorry to bother, but I’m doing a story on how blogging affects the lives […]
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The above is a pack of snacks (probably corn crackers) sold at most convenience stores in China. The packaging is most ‘zen’ doncha think so?
In other news, my wife […]
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All my digital cameras are on loan from somebody. When I went to Thailand and India, mrbrown loaned me his cam. And the digital cams I use right now […]
Last night, I bought a bunch of bananas.
Turns out that bananas are filled with nourishing magnesium and vitamin B1 to infinity. A combination of these 2 badass ingrediants does wonders for depression and nerve problems caused by Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
My 5 year old nephew spots the bananas and asks me why I bought them, because […]
Singalong to this post with “All These Things I’ve Done”….
Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no
Every weekend, I return home from abroad and try to squeeze all the time I’ve lost into a […]
Last night, I was invited for drinks by a few expat managers, who were strangely mostly female. They brought me to a club, in a part of this China town I had never seen before. I had no idea why they asked me out, and I expected them to ask me for a favour.
Inside the […]
Sitting in the lounge waiting to board my plane, I would like to recap a conversation I had this morning with the driver who drove me to the airport.
He had told me that he was sick of driving - the hours were long and unpredictable. To make matters worse, the Mas Selamat fiasco was increasing […]
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I am with my family in Malacca having dinner at the Portugese Settlement.
The pic above is Dabal Curry aka Devil’s Curry, a traditional dish local to the Malacca Portugese.
Sent […]
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Feeling grumpy while waiting to board the plane. Now on 4th can of beer.
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List: Things I will Not Do Today.
Begin!
Go to church for Easter mass (there are no churches in the part of China I am in, and besides I haven’t gone for confession yet)
Have a foot massage - it’s raining so I don’t think I could walk there from my hotel and not get soaked.
Eat a Happy […]
Over the weekend, I tricked my mother into going out for lunch, so that I could bring her to a private hospital for a quick scan of her stomach. Unfortunately, I forgot that the surgeons in Malaysia usually schedule their surgeries for Saturday, so I was unable to secure an appointment.
While we were having lunch, […]
So the conclusion to this 3 part mini drama, is that I finally managed to get past the Tuas Checkpoint at 1.30am in the morning, after joining the queue at 10.30pm - 3 hours later.
FACEPALM
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1230am - 3 hours later, I finally arrive at the gates of the checkpoint.
I really need to pee.
Crackerniggermahaipokokpisangf78king hell!!!
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I1130pm: ‘ve moved about 20 meters in the past 1 hour.
20 meters in 1 hour!!!
Still can’t see the checkpoint.
I’m going to need a bathroom in an hour. This is […]
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It’s 1030pm at night. The traffic jam at the tuas checkpoint is so friggin long, I’m stuck inside the tunnel?!!
KNNBCCBaiiiiii!
Guess Mas Selamat did succeed in one way or another.
Sent […]
One of my pals noted:
Pal: It’s been raining for the past 2 weeks
Me: So?
Pal: You’ve been gone for 2 weeks.
Me: And?
Pal: When you arrive back home tomorrow, the rain will stop
Me: You’re saying the rain is my fault?
Pal: Everything is your fault
Me: Everything?
Pal: Mas Selamat escaping? That was your fault too.
I need new friends. Anybody […]
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After a great pizza+buffalo wings+burger dinner with jaywalk and his extended family, he hails a taxi to bring me back to my hotel.
Why the f87k is the driver behind […]
How did Xtralicious Shop begin?
I like vintage and I have always been inspired by vintage and vintage-inspired finds and their seamless juxtaposition into modern style. Hence the journey to search for affordable vintage inspirations began.
This is a plug for my friend Xtralicious who has just launched an online store called “AN XTRALICIOUS LIFE” that aims […]
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I sleep better with Chipster, literally.
Yes, I realize my bedsheets are very masculine with strong lines and bla blah.
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Today, my mother asked me if she could retire (she has been a kindergarten teacher for 30 years, since she was 19 years old).
Her health is on the decline. Stress, she (and I agree) suspects is the culprit. When you’re in your fifties and have to herd a classroom full of overactive, whiny and noisy […]
As a result of a minor car accident on last Friday, I kinda fell into a bad state of mind. It got even worse when I had to fork out 300 bucks to fix my car and wait 6 hours to collect it. To cheer me up, my wife said she would buy me an […]
My car grazed another car as I was coming out of a carpark last night. The other car is fine, but has long scratches running across the side. My car is dented and is scratched quite badly. Nobody was hurt.
I just don’t know how I could have been so careless. Perhaps I have been a […]
This evening, I went down to buy a pair of shoes from Robinsons since I had a $50 voucher. In my mind, I had settled for a cheapo pair of dark brown Norwegian Bluchers since I had recently purchased several pairs of khaki’s in a series of descending tones of tan.
Men do not like to […]
After spending so much time wondering if I should move to a new job, the answer presented itself.
My mom’s health has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. I might be in for a rough time, the next couple of months and changing careers is definitely not going to be a good idea.
It’s funny. I […]
A huge career decision has been causing me a lot of frustration and indecisiveness over the past 2 weeks. I’ve been offered a position elsewhere but I’m torn between staying and leaving. Both companies have been increasing their offer and refusing to take no for an answer from me.
So last night, my wife went to […]
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Forgive me for I have sinned. Ice blended milk coffee with dollops of butter with kaya on thick toast is better than sex.
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Singapore has banned the everpopular Luncheon Meat (pork), and Ayam Brand has released their version of Luncheon Meat made of Fish(!)
I bought a can and fried it for lunch over the weekend.
“Ptui, yarks, eeeyurrr…. I dowant to eat this!!!”
Here is the verdict, direct from the mouth of my 7 year old niece who chomped […]
Today, i dragged myself out of bed at 5.30am and drove my brother-in-law and sister-in-law to the airport. They’re off for a week in the mountains of Hangzhou, which I guess is somewhere near Shanghai and therefore must be frozen so I have no idea why they are going.
After they had alighted at the airport, […]
There are two computers in my home linked by a wi-fi network. One is my laptop, which I pretty much use for everything. And everything these days means surfing the web, updating my blog, using Microsoft Money and surfing the web.
The other computer is my old desktop which I purchased in 2002 as a swinging […]
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I’m having ‘Halal Yee Sang’ at an Indonesian restaurant with my muslim team members!!!
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The current ban on fireworks in Malaysia is no deterrent. My uncle just bought a bloody huge box of fireworks - just one box. It’s so large, it’s about the size of my nephew.
The box cost RM650 and we have no idea what to expect when we light the fuse, except to run and hide […]
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Spotted these abominations at a store at HabourFront
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This is version 1.2 of My Current Guide To Having A Modestly Successful Life, updated for 2008.
New items are at the bottom of the list:
Write your goals down. Each goal has to have a deadline. Stick it up someplace where you will see it every day. Like that spot of ceiling directly above your […]
My family is not rich. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Back in the mid 1990s, my dad got a Proton Saga to use as a company car as he was in sales. Funny as it sounds right now, my family was very happy because all we had back then […]
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I am off to climb a mountain on this gloriously cool Sunday morning
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I seem to eat more Japanese food in China than anywhere else in Asia.
Wtf?!
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