Some of you know I’ve spent the last couple of months working as a web consultant on the Miele Guide. The most important phase of the site was launched a few minutes ago, the one that marks the start of online voting. It’s as much my baby as it is that of the amazing designer/developer [...]

Almost exactly a year ago, a crazy old man told me (in Chinese, of course) that I will be phenomenally successful, “not just regular successful”. That before this can happen, I had to unlock the secret to my success. Apparently the key to success is different for everybody, but I had the good luck to [...]

My city is often made out to be a boring business city, sterile and lifeless. Not entirely. No amount of protestation at how we’re really unique, though, is effective in driving home the truth about (some parts of) my city—how there are bits you can really love, if you look hard enough. My city, tonight, started [...]

Just because every once in a while, I need to talk about Goodness Gracious Me! Typical Asian Parents My Son is a Lesbian! Going out for an English

The universe has such a way of throwing a spanner into your plans, just as you think you’ve got them down pat. Thankfully, the spanner that’s been thrown into my plans happens to be a fairly attractive one. So I’m not going to America, though I thought I would. That doesn’t mean I’m staying put [...]

Or happy festival of colours, happy dolyatra, happy boshonto utsav, whatever suits your fancy. One of the things I really love about living in Singapore is the diversity: of languages, races, religions, even the diversity within each race and religion. Today’s Holi celebration at Farrer Park was organized by the Bhojpuri Society, but Indians of every [...]

and how to get started Staying in optimal physical shape does wonders for your mental state and overall productivity, I can’t emphasize this enough. Too often we seldom find the time or discipline to make exercise a part of our weekly routine—I’m certainly no stranger to that. Although I once ran competitively, and running was once [...]

While talking about music earlier in the night, the conversation turned to ‘music that we grew up with’, music that changed us, music that define periods of your life. We all have those, music that have made us who we are now. Like when you walk through a mall and hear a certain song and [...]

and this is my preliminary draft. any resemblance to characters or situations dead or alive… is wholly intentional. this novel will be about my family. novels about dysfunctional families sell really well—see jonathan franzen’s “the corrections”, for example, in what seems like a thousand pages in a hefty tome about… well, families that don’t work, families that [...]

If anyone still cares about this site at all, the lowdown is I graduated from university three months ago. And how things have changed. If I knew before university what I know now, I would say: screw this education, the one I received in particular. I haven’t collected my transcripts, I’m not sure I’m going [...]