From the monthly archives: November 2008
9.15am
I’m running late and Y’s car is blocking mine in our driveway. If I didn’t have a full day of running-around planned, I’d take the manual to work. Instead, I move his car to the visitor carpark so I can take mine out.
9.30am
Five-minute pit stop at the office to pick [...]
My brother may not be able to get into Science stream for his last two years of high school and my mother is hugely upset. She won’t admit it, but I suspect she secretly resents the fact that my sister and I opted for Arts (read: a non-medical career).
My youngest sister became the first [...]
Eight girls and a guy decided they would make a road trip to Gopeng, Perak, for some adventure. So we drove a 400km round trip, went white water rafting, jungle trekked with a torch in pitch darkness and played paintball, all in just over 36 hours. Here is the evidence (thanks MA and Wawa for [...]
Y and I were up 7.30 yesterday morning to attend the wedding of one of my childhood friends. I’d probably only seen Jo twice since I was 16 – my wedding ceremony, and my wedding dinner. But we’d kept in touch via MSN and that most glorious of creations, Facebook. Now it was her [...]
Yesterday, MA brought these tiny hamsters to the office. They were going to be our mascots and we were going to name them “hot” and “HELLO!”. Actually, we did. A bunch of them went out during lunch to buy a proper hamster cage and wood shavings because the hamsters were living in a mini [...]
To one of the coolest, nicest persons I know, have a very happy “Forever 21″. This photo, captured on my mobile phone at a random gift shop during one lunch hour, was too good not to put up on Reta’s birthday. If any of you are on Facebook, give her a lil’ poke, won’t [...]
I have managed to break one of the hardiest spectacles around – Silhouettes. Half-asleep one night, I must have taken them off and tossed them to one side. The next morning, when I finally found them between my pillow and headboard, they had been somewhat grotesquely twisted. Ever the optimist, I tried bending [...]
I didn’t realise until after I’d arrived in Rome how few pictures I’d taken in Paris. The City of Light is called that for a reason – for me, it’s because it’s far more beautiful by night. Unfortunately, that also means my point-and-shoot simply couldn’t cut it, especially when it came to capturing all [...]
The beggar woman clutched her filthy shawl closer to her body, as if by drawing it tighter she would be able to ward off the pain and cold of abandonment. It wasn’t the winters that were so hard; the weather she could take. It was the knowledge that she would be alone for yet another [...]
My brother-in-law is discovering the joys of teenage infatuations, not that he would ever admit it. One morning over breakfast while we were in London…
Me: Hey, did you want to get the necklace I bought the other day for your girlfriend?
Bro: [Careful pause] Mummy likes the necklace. It’s for… her friend. I don’t [...]
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