Packing is such a bitch, especially this time when I have to pack for different climates. Hot and humid Indian cities (Kolkata and Mumbai) Even hotter central plains (Varanasi, Lucknow, Agra) Cool hills in the Eastern Himalayas (Darjeeling, Sikkim) HOT desert at the peak of the Indian summer (Rajasthan) The Beach (Goa) I don’t know where to start and I’m [...]

What: Cable TV and internet connection mysteriously stopped working When it started: 2 days before start of final exam When technicians will come investigate: 1 day after final exams end

My dyke dude turned 21; present at dinner are 5 gay men, two girls (one gay, obviously, and one bi). Overheard remark from the waitstaff: “Is everybody at that table from Brokeback Mountain?” Too bad for him that the person he made that comment to was someone who could fire him, and who could also tell me [...]

The urge for new places and new things began quite early on; my first personal computer came bundled with the PC game, Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? At 10 years of age, I finally found out why I shunned boardgames and card games: they couldn’t talk back to me, I couldn’t make them [...]

the bloodbath that began with a steamed bun, in which a girl lies to a boy because she is hungry, steals his mantou, and nicholas tse grows up to become a heartless killer As I’m not very tuned in to the Chinese-speaking/writing side of blogosphere, I missed out this gem until I read about it in [...]

On OASIS — jon: this is a dramatisation: me: yes? jon: [SMU-CIT]: Crap! Mac users can use OASIS with some ease! Let’s spend 10 million dollars with IBM to make it less accessible! me: what’s up with it now? jon: same old same old in a sense. IE-only javascript links. try navigating and it stuffs whatever you want into a [...]

Exposé approximating my state of mind. Evidently, I need to get into using virtual desktops. A tip: Excellent ambient music to “work” to — Brian Eno’s Music for Airports. That, together with the constant flow of the water pump in my fish tank. A few more bloody thousand words to go, a life to get back to, and [...]