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Dream vs Plan

Hear, hear — some pertinent observations on the Singapore Dream and the Singapore Plan. It’s important to learn the difference, but that usually only happens after you live and suffer it. You wake up everyday and work from Monday to Friday, and often, Saturday too. If you finish work early, you and your partner go [...]
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HSBC Restaurant

No, the global bank hasn’t diversified into Hot and Spicy cuisine, but these good folks offer up decent food in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. Hot and Spicy Bangsar Cuisine (whatever Bangsar cuisine may be) is an odd place — completely South Indian-run as far as I can tell. But they only sell Chinese Malaysian food, and [...]
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Alpha and Omega

Everything starts and ends with India. I am always coming and going to India. Every post of significance here, these days, seems to have to do with the going and returning and yearning for India. I spent all of 2008 yearning for adventure, 2009 living it, 2010 wanting a bed, a pillow and a bedfellow. [...]
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Cookie Monster

A three month old living being called Cookie rules my life now. She is the reason I wake up early, cuss more times a day than I should, run from phone calls with my family screaming “Poop! Poop!”, and also the sole reason I am finding it harder to drop everything and go. She makes [...]
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Two Hundred and Nine

2009 was a year of many things: it was the year of change and death. More so it was the year of change because of death. Many famous people died that year; my grandfather, who was not famous, somehow also did the same. In April I called him from a phone booth in Beirut at [...]
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