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I am having lunch at a maid cafe. The waitresses here are dressed in
french maid uniforms.
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We have An entire boxful of moonfuckers, star sodomizers, planetary
clusterfucks, constellatiom convulsions and rocket rapists.
Happy Chinese New Year to all my readers. May your lives be like a box
of [...]
Normally, whenever my hair gets too long, it’s a sign that I’ve been in China for too long and I should fly back on the next available plane. But these days, I don’t go back so often. And to make matters worse, the next time I fly back, it will be just in time for [...]
Today, I came home early and found a handwritten note (in Mandarin) on a piece of tissue paper. My mind instantly went into a flurry of panic because it was obviously a note of ransom or blackmail or some other diabolical plot to do considerable harm to my impeccable credentials or financial standing.
Despite the fact [...]
Last night was perhaps one of the most confusingly horrific nights during my tour of duty in China. I had been invited for the wedding dinner of a female colleague and went along to see what a China wedding was like.
Something I discovered included that the China Chinese are even worse than the Singaporean Chinese [...]
The expat supermarkets I had found so far had been found lacking and selling overpriced shite. To make matters worse, the selection of imported food at places like Carrefour was found to be severely lacking.
Having picked up a copy of a the only freely distributed English magazine in Guangdong called “Here! Dongguan”, I began flicking [...]
It was a grey and lifeless day yesterday in Shanghai. I could barely feel the passage of time because the sun was hidden behind clouds of gravel-coloured cotton. Although I had left Suzhou at 7am in the morning and slept all the way during the dull 2 hour journey to the Pudong section of Shanghai, [...]
For the past 4 days, I have been running about nonstop on business.
The worst part about business travel for me is that I am reminded how lonely life can be.
So I’m now sitting in the waitingarea of Shanghai’s HongQiao airport waiting to board my plane when it hits me that in the past, after I [...]
Last night, I unpacked the Nintendo Wii that I had brought to China from home. After setting it up on my huge 46 inch plasma tv, I settled down to play a round of Super Mario Galaxy.
After about 10 minutes, I felt bored and somehow empty. So I went to the fridge and had a [...]
This morning, I woke up with an painful tummyache and proceeded to take the dump of all dumps. Since I moved into my own apartment in China, I have been cooking my own food instead of eating out. I think the instant noodles de la luncheonemeat souffle may have gave me food poisoning because after [...]
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Spotted at El Amigo Cafe in JB
I am returning to China tomorrow. Screw clothes. Who needs clothes? I’m stocking up on cream crackers, Malaysian instant noodles, Sarawakian pepper, socks and underwear.
Dear Singapore Airlines,
Your new lounge in the Hong Kong International Airport sux. I should know, I’m there right now blogging this.
Without going into unnecessary banter, here is a list of things that are wrong.
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The receptionist has this morose expression that looks like her entire family died last night. Couldn’t you have hired somebody who at [...]
The last 3 days of my life has been anything less than normal.
The security guards at my company staged a strike and walk-off. I won’t go into details on what they did, but I temporarily became their new boss that morning and began negotiations. It’s not a pleasant thing to do, standing in front of [...]
Last week, I purchased a 3G modem and SIM card from China Unicom for about a thousand renminbi.
I then inserted the SIM card into my iPhone 3GS. While on the move throughout most of the day, I use my iPhone to access the Intarwebs. When I get home, I connect my iPhone to my [...]
The closest thing I can get to an English television channel in China is this Phillipino channel called Studio 23. It’s pretty good, in fact it’s similar to Singapore’s TCS5 except that they mix a lot of tagalog into their conversation and also they air live Catholic mass services.
There is plenty of Phillipino MTV’s which [...]
You thought Singaporeans were consumers from hell? Let the women from China show you the how.
I brought a bunch of my female team members to a Haagen Daaz outlet in Suzhou to reward them for their hard work. In case you don’t know, Haagen Daaz is very very upmarket in China being extremely expensive after [...]
Bored of being enclosed in the safe haven of my hotel room, I went out for a spot of sight-seeing. There are large tracts of shops nearby which I’ve never ventured to, so I headed there.
Therein lies my mistake. The areas I walked to were rather poor, being mainly populated by the hardworking folk [...]
I have been big big big fan of Dan Simmons, ever since I picked up his Hyperion Cantos trilogy which revolves a science-fiction mindf87k travel through time and space. In fact, I’ve borrowed and reborrowed his books from the NLB many times.
Later his duology of science-fiction Greek gods called Illium and Olympos blew my mind [...]
Hello – so it appears that today, the Great Firewall of China has decided to block twitter.
Other sites now blocked include Flickr, Hotmail, Bing and Youtube.
Basically, the intarwebs holds no joy for me now.
Hullo, I spent the weekend in Kuala Lumput, the capital of Malaysia.
I made a list.
Regardless of how fast you drive, the fastest time it takes to get to KL from JB is 2 hours. And I drive very very fast.
Beer is very expensive in KL. Something like > 20 ringgit for a Hoegaarden. Didn’t stop [...]
Some of you may have noticed that my twitter tweets are sometimes spiced with music from blip.fm where I have a DJ account.
Hey, maybe some of you are already using blip.fm to discover new music. If you’re haven’t signed up yet, I strongly urge you to.
Recently, I discovered how to put a blip.fm badge [...]
Sitting on the ferry from HKIA to China, I tried to absorb my entire concentration into my latest book ‘Drood’ by Dan Simmons. My mind however kept drifting back to the fact that they had bloody lost my suitcase.
So there I was, forlorn with the knowledge that I was marooned in China with only the [...]
Last night, an old classmate from secondary school found me on facebook. As a result of hooking up with him, I found an entire legion of old classmates none of which I have seen in 14 long years.
As I have mentioned before, I kinda find Facebook to be creepy in a manner that resembles spiders [...]
0400 – Wake up
0500 – Driver arrives to drive me to the airport
0600 – Arrive at Changi Terminal 3, check-in and proceed to the lounge for breakfast
0800 – Board the plane
0900 – Wake up and realize we’re already in the air
0910 – Fireup the laptop and work instead of watching movies
1000 – Brunch is served. [...]
Remember that crazy ghost story I blogged about a couple of weeks ago?
There was another ‘incident’ last week. Only this time, it happened in the room next door.
This may sound crazy, but I’m seeing a ‘ghostbuster’ this afternoon to engage his services.
What choice do I have? If I don’t put a stop to this, more [...]
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I paid 9 bucks so that my niece and nephew could roll in oversized hamster balls in a pool of water.
I also paid for the pleasure of queuing up [...]
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Sent via BlackBerry from SingTel!
I have decided that there are more things under God’s heaven than one can ever possibly understand. Here is a true tale that happened in China which I am trying to comprehend myself.
2 weeks ago, a male employee was suddenly struck down with a sudden bout of madness. It manifested itself in the middle of [...]
What a novel idea!
Singaporeans do NS here, work here, slog here, pay our taxes here but they are encouraged to go die in Johor Bahru (Malaysia)! Apparently because their dollar goes a little further there.
The funny thing is that Malaysians and other folk from different countries are all coming to Singapore to die [...]
The problem with flying Singapore Airlines is that it becomes the benchmark for all other airlines that you fly.
In the past 2 weeks, I’ve flown Southern China Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines and Shanghai Airlines. Rude staff, delayed flights, rickety planes, lack of in-flight entertainment systems, inedible gloops masquerading as food and zero pillows/blankets seem to be [...]
Having left Shanghai for the garden city of Suzhou, I now find myself imprisoned inside my hotel room. It’s -2 degrees Celsius outside, and my toes and nose almost turned into ice when I walked out for dinner. This is really unfortunate because Suzhou is truly a beautiful city.
I was supposed to fly back to [...]
Admittedly, I am supposed to be on a business trip and therefore there is no excuse for not hauling my arse out of bed on a chilly Saturday morning to go to the office.
I had only returned to China on Thursday at 5pm, which left me with 1 hour and a Friday to get [...]
Last night, my hotel GM and I went out for dinner. It was rather cold (around 8 degrees) and I felt like having China porridge which is basically extremely starchy porridge with prawns, crabs and other good stuff cooked in a claypot.
The thing about this kind of porridge is that it is only served in [...]
Quite a long time ago (probably last year), mrbrown and I had a discussion. I do not recall if that discussion was in person, via msn messenger or email due to the amazing changes of lifestyle that the Intarwebs has wrought us.
Our discussion was more of a bitching session. And what we were bitchin about [...]
The mood in the office is currently dismal. People look like their favourite uncle has died or their pet parakeet got run over by a truck.
I decided that enough was enough and went out during lunch to buy a Christmas tree.
(Well actually I was out looking at luxury apartments and by the time I was [...]
Malaysia is a wonderful country. One can simply pickup the telephone to book an apartment, get your entire family into the car, drive 7 hours halfway across the country on the North-South highway and suddenly you get to enjoy 16 degree temperature in the mountains.
We left at 6am. I had earlier lied to my mother [...]
For tonight, I would like to begin my descent into oblivion with a Bacardi, on lots rocks with a slice of lemon. While I down this in one gulp, my eyes will rove to my watch (a heavy chunk of metal, but an automatic nonetheless) and after the last drop of Bacardi has stroked past [...]
Behold, The New Dragon King of Bhutan – Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (’Chuck’ to his friends).
Oh and ladies, he be single at only 28 years of age.
In 1996, as a lowly paid factory operator working at a semi-conductor factory in Toa Payoh, I earned the grand total of SGD500/month. The money was pretty bad, but I only worked 4 days this week, and then 3 days the following week. The only catch was that I worked 12 hour long shifts, day [...]
Yesterday, I was stuck on window seat on the plane. This meant that I had very little space to move about in. I usually get aisle seats, but since I had booked this flight at the eleventh hour – all they could get me was this lousy window seat.
As I watched the clouds go by [...]
When I travel back to China from Singapore, one of my optional routes is to fly to Hong Kong and then travel overland to China. During one of such trips, I discovered to my great delight that Krispy Kreme doughnuts were now being sold in Hong Kong.
And during longer stays in China, I would sojourn [...]
Tonight I had dinner with a few members of my team. One of them is a girl I only get to see every once in awhile because she works in a different location. So I make sure that I bring her and a few others out for dinner every once in awhile so she doesn’t [...]
During a brief period where I flew back and forth between Bangkok and Singapore for about half a year, I somehow managed to accumulate the entire collection of Haruki Murakami novels, one book at a time from the bookshops in the airport.
This habit, of buying books before boarding a plane seems to be a global [...]
The global economic crisis is beginning to be felt in China, with many large companies frantically cutting back on inventories, calling in overdue payments and reducing their overly large workforces.
Today, I had a meeting with my team leaders with the objective of cutting back on costs. None of them had ever experienced a recession [...]
There is this lady that works the reception in the hotel I am living in. Last month, she took some time off from work. Her boss, the GM of the hotel who also happens to be my partner-in-crime told me that she was going to get an abortion – her third so far by his [...]
[Star Wars was made circa 1978, it is ancient]
So yesterday, I discovered that one of the tv channels in my hotel is showing Japanese soft-pron movies all day long.
I had lunch with the hotel GM, so I casually mentioned it during which this conversation occured.
Did you know that your hotel in-house tv channel is showing [...]
Somebody sent me this post about bloggers having namecards.
Namecards!!! Holey Moley Batshit Bananas!
Maybe due to the fact that I’ve always been anonymous, the idea of having a blogger namecard never occured to me. Even if I did have a name card, it wouldn’t tell anybody I was a boring old blogger. I mean, everybody [...]
The widow sits in a daze. Her father-in-law, went to work today and only showed up at 6pm (after work) – nevermind the fact that it is his eldest son’s funeral. The first thing thing he enquires about when he arrives at the funeral parlour is “How much Pek-Kim (funeral donations from family & friends) [...]
It has come to my attention that probably only 1 out of 10 Singaporeans actually comprehend the scale of disaster that has made it necessary for the US gov to engineer a $700 Billion Dollar Bailout. And 9 out of 10 Singaporeans read my blog, so we really do have a problem here.
Imagine that everyday, [...]
This very evening, for some strange reason – the general manager of the hotel of which I have been dwelling in for the past 4 weeks in China, decided that he would like to take me out for dinner. He picked me up from my office and proceeded to zoom back to the hotel where [...]
I made a list:
Being served a meal, without fork, spoon or chopsticks
Liverpool FC – I mean wtf, Gerard?
Being asked a rhetoric question (eg. Why is the Malaysian government so stupid?)
SMS’s on my phone
Assistants to lawyers who think they are big-shots
Phone salesmen who call me while my mobile is on roaming because I’m travelling out of [...]
Despite owning a Blackberry, I fail to reply to a lot of mail from my readers. I think it’s high time I cleared the air surrounding the mystery of my missing replies.
So I made a list of real and imagined excuses. Its up to you to sort out which is which.
I procrastinated
There was something more [...]
Every Friday night, the pub in China where Jaywalk and I hang out at, holds a lucky draw. For every drink you down, you get a ticket. With each ticket, you get a chance to win. There are a multitude of prizes consisting mainly of alcohol (I won 4 bottles of any beer of my [...]
I’ve been wanting to write about my trip to Kuching, the capital of Sarawak but I keep delaying it because all the photos are back home and I’m currently in China.
But there is one curious incident I would like to to share with you.
One night after a ridiculously large seafood dinner (lobsters, prawns etc for [...]
I hired a new girl. The fact that she posed like a model for her resume photo should have triggered alarm bells. But we were desperate for a new person so I really had no choice.
So she showed up for work today. Then she calls her team leader, who then comes running to me.
“The new [...]
The other night, while watching tv in Jaywalk’s house, the Taiwanese cable channel screened an advertisement we found extremely amusing. Since it was only sold in Taiwan and not in China, Jaywalk called his relatives.
So we found ourselves having dinner with them on Friday night, lo and behold – they actually brought a dozen cans [...]
Last night, I was sitting at the bar counter. I was wearing my running shoes without socks, because I had just came from the gym. And since I was feeling warm (it’s summer dammit), I slid my shoes off.
Then this guy comes in, with his dog and sits 2 seats away from me.
30 minutes [...]
Apparently, there was a tax driver’s strike in Dongguan yesterday.
All the taxi drivers were protesting against the increasing cost of living in Dongguan city. Prices for food, water and electricity were going up.
I’m not sure what they are protesting about, since none of them have ever bothered to use the meter (at least while [...]
Another expat has just informed me that a kopitiam (Singapore/Malaysian coffeeshop) has opened in the nearby town of Changping. Apparently they have kopi, nasi lemak, rojak and all other manner of food from the Singaporean Persuasion.
A kopitiam in China!!!
Oh, be still my heart… I must get there fast. It’s probably only going to be in [...]
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