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News: Singapore to get pandas from China

2009-11-12T10:09:09+08:00

I guess we're good enough friends now with China to receive a pair of pandas, wonder if they'll get any incentives to have babies :)

Incremental changes

2009-10-18T13:22:45+08:00

My ayi kinda reprimanded a bit today. "Your place needs to be cleaned every week! Too dirty!" This was after not having her come by for a month because I was home for 3 weekends. So she had to work extra hard today. Anyway I agree with her, the apartment is rather dusty despite my efforts to sweep mid-week. But moving forward, so long as I can schedule her to come in every week to clean, my apartment should really be much more manageable for her - cleaning is afterall based on handling incremental changes. I don’t know where all this…

Check up

2009-10-08T17:10:21+08:00

It has been a fantastic 2 weeks back home. Was able to catch up with the usual suspects I always want to hang out with when I come back - this was truly time well spent. Also found some long-lost friends - like my primary school friend who found me on facebook by going through profile photos of many many people with the same name (hmm guess I look pretty much like when I was a kid). And of course, I managed to do some shopping too (yes I saved up all my money to spend back here to boost the…

Got plans?

2009-09-06T12:52:29+08:00

Was talking to Jukebox the other day and we were planing our Fall 2012 Europe tour to 10 countries. Pretty excited about it because i've never toured Europe before, except for popping in and out of the UK, Holland and Finland for work a bit. So we were budgetting and talking about saving up and stuff, and how we were going to prepare (like making a friend from every country we wanted to visit), and couchsurfing and stuff.

Fall 2012 is a long time more though. But it's the furthest i've planned ever. I realize that i don't have a mid-term…

I wanna go see

2009-07-22T09:32:28+08:00

...the new natural wonders of the world!

Saw this deck of slides of the newest natural wonders of the world. Some are breathtaking. (Some were photoshopped a bit too much though)

Boys' Morning Out

2009-07-12T10:59:32+08:00

Turns out I'm not the only one who's a fan of Mac's breakfasts. In my past 3 visits to this particular Mac's near my place, I've noticed this bunch of 6 middle aged men who sit in the middle of the restaurant and have energetic discussions about various topics. I say various topics because they're speaking Shanghainese, which I don't understand.

They're there every week, before I arrive and stay around after I leave. They're having a great time. Talking rather passionately, as if they're discussing on some very important matter. Then again, they could just be bitching although they wouldn't…

UPSET

2009-07-08T18:09:10+08:00

Facebook blocked in China. UGH. Just as I was having fun with the status updates...

The R.C.

2009-07-06T19:37:50+08:00

Some of you have probably seen the soap The O.C. and enjoyed the drama that was going on there. I'm seeing The R.C. over here, live. The Residents' Committee.

The other night, when i came home, there were 20 people gathered in the lobby (which made it feel rather claustrophobic actually) talking at the top of their voices. In shanghainese. On the way up, I asked the other passenger what was going on and my memory is fuzzy on this, but she either said that they were talking about the new R.C. or changing the R.C.

Some of you know what…