being happy

many apologises to my constant ‘temporary’ writing hiatus i grant myself (to you too ridjal).
it seems ironic that while i was in algeria, where i didnt have proper internet connection, i could churn out articles after articles, day after day. my source of writing comes from the most mundane of stuff but yet, it has [...]

new

this year, this new year, new president, new resolutions, new clothes, new vows, new friends, new hopes, new disappointments, new worries, new joys…. so many things to look forward to and so many not.
just watched the most watched inauguration ever, man, it is really something. but after the speech it all went downhill. and i [...]

christmas?

except for the lights, the incessant advertisement and the ceaseless tourists, there are actually very little going on in NY that feels as if it is Christmas. If anything, Thanksgiving seemed like a much bigger thing (even the sales concurs).
still, gf was very happy to be around, showed her a lot of NY although we [...]

it is aug 26th

hello people, finally my exams are done. or is it?
cannot believe that semester 1 has ended, that i have been here for 4 months, that i have gotten so drunk and puked in the subway, that i can survive on a strict pizza and no-fruit diet, that snow is actually irritating and unpleasant when it [...]

paradise

Got this picture from a friend’s friend whom i don’t know. I think this is such a great picture.. If only the focus on the eyes were sharper

the civil service

I went to the Singapore consulate in New York on Sunday. There was this PSD (public service division) recruitment event going on. I thought i might as well go and search out other singaporeans and maybe snag an internship.
Turns out that there were only 4 singaporeans who bothered to attend the event and about 8 [...]

obamania

lest you stay on Andromeda galaxy, you would know that tonight marks the end of one historic election. though i am not an american, being in NY is enough, the atmosphere is bordering on electric.
also, since my school is a public service school, the students are usually more fervent about stuff like that and tonight my [...]

coming of age

when i was younger, i always think of myself as “pa-buey-tou” (hokkien literal translation of ‘beat no down’), never to be defeated or rather, armed with the power of invincibility. I further thought that i had a far superior intellect than many of my peers. Never mind that my scores weren’t the best, it was more [...]

chai

The disambiguation of the word ‘chai’
The singlish word chai comes of unknown origins and is used primarily by singaporean chinese ah-beng types (and used extensively by yours truly). Suspected to be a hokkien term initially but really chai has no meaning in all forms of spoken language except being phonetically similar to the mandarin word for ‘vegetable’.
So what does [...]

smokers beware?

Hmm… talk about informative advertisement.
Please click on picture for more old school cigarette adverts, all pictures in this post courtesy of http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html.
Although i am a smoker, this blog post does not seek to encourage you to smoke and if you plan to sue me because the pictures influenced you to start smoking, then you are [...]