From the monthly archives: September 2009
The boys waving at random people coming down the escalator. Some looked over their shoulders to see who they were waving at, some assumed they were waving at someone else and ignored them, some tentatively waved back and then looked closer to realise that, yes, they don’t know these four guys. Right here is [...]
When I was in primary school, I used to look at the drawings of some of the other (artistically-talented) kids and think how beautiful their trees looked with splashes of different greens and yellows mixed in. My trees were always the one flat shade of green, and even though I soon learned to mix [...]
Have you ever seen a turtle swimming in the ocean? I’ve seen them over a dozen times while scuba diving and almost every single time, I’ve stopped to stare. It doesn’t matter that I’ve seen one before or that my diving buddy is going to abandon me if I stay any longer, there [...]
After the public holiday and National Day parade that accompany Merdeka, Malaysia Day is usually acknowledged simply in passing. But that doesn’t mean it’s not there. It’s always baffled me why we celebrate our independence with such aplomb but give little more than a cursory nod to the day Malaysia was formed. Isn’t this the [...]
For someone who loves sports, plays music and is fairly coordinated, unless I’m playing Halo or Winning Eleven or one of those impossible X-Box games because they involve six different buttons each with its own function (how am I supposed to remember all that in the heat of battle?), I have terrible timing.
Every once [...]
I keep a list of thoughts and topics that come to me or that I might want to explore later on in my writing, and one of the things that’s been sitting there for quite a long time is this phrase, “Some things cannot be unsaid.”
I’m not going to share the incident that prompted [...]
I was on The Breakfast Show one morning last week. It was a blink and you’ll miss it appearance and – in my opinion – totally didn’t justify rising at 7.15am and waiting around for a good hour and a half for ten minutes in front of the camera. (This is probably one of [...]
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