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 [...]

you are always write.

i have jumpstarted ridj.org again.

girlfriend?

from pictorial evidence gathered through a Facebook photo album, i have surmised that my friend the nyutramp is now in possession of a girlfriend. this interesting phenomenon is news to me, even though we share a blog together (which we periodically attempt to defibrillate back to life once in a blue moon).
brader, you have girlfriend, [...]

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 [...]

all is quiet on the western front

a couple of days till mr barack h obama takes to the throne of the biggest office on earth. every periodical i pick up these days are abuzz with skeptical musings on whether he will be able to steer the states out of the dismal state it is in today.
it’d be a humongous feat if [...]

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 [...]

this is a title

and this is a blog entry. wow, new wordpress looks very swanky. and where is mr hansiong who hasn’t blogged for so long? in fact, he’s gone awol ever since barack won. what’s going on?
today i met a customer who treated me the shittiest any customer has ever treated me. in the blink of an [...]

worried sick

i’ve been sick with fever and flu, or an amalgamation of both maladies, for the past week. this is perhaps one of the longest bout of fever/flu I’ve had, but regardless, I kept soldiering on with the duties and responsibilities of being a boss of a small startup, where nothing really moves if the boss [...]

pedestrian culture

you can more often than not tell the nationality of a person as he crosses the street here in singapore.
most of the time when the person walks across a zebra crossing without a moment’s hesitation, you can be sure he/she’s a singaporean.
i notice that most foreigners pause and look around for cars to slow [...]