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Raita-toueeee
Some time ago, I was eating dinner at an Indian place in a back alley somewhere in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. I raised my hand and said to a waiter, “Can I have raita?” He nodded, and scurried off. Ten minutes later, I still didn’t have my raita, and I noticed he hadn’t even entered the restaurant storefront or [...]
Secret Nepali Hideout in Singapore
I wrote an email to one of my good friends, a Nepali guy studying in Singapore, with the million dollar question: where can I get real, and really good, home-cooked Nepali food here? There are many Nepali restaurants here, but as a South Asian food nazi I find them all lacking. He said there was [...]
Dhaka Days
Dhaka, 2006. I came to Dhaka in the unlikeliest of ways—I flew. Bangladesh wasn’t the sort of place I imagined I would ever fly into, at least not on my first time there. There was something romantic about tracing the footsteps of hundreds of thousands of Bengalis in the reverse: in the rickety buses of Calcutta, [...]
Taipei’s “Tongzhi” Issue
Say what you will about Taiwanese politics, but I don’t think I’ll ever live to see the day in which we have such open debate, nor such debate about sensitive matters, nor see politicians stand up to openly state their (relatively) positive stand on gay rights. Compare this to what our politicians are allowed to [...]
Happy Holi, Everyone
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 [...]
Running: A Free, Distraction-Free Way to Get Things Done
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 [...]
I TOOK A PICTURE WITH SONDRE LERCHE
Self-explanatory. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. (We’re such fangirls, we were first in line for the autograph session. Someone: “So kiasu Singaporean!” Me: “But I was the only Singaporean… and I didn’t queue! The Malaysian did! Malaysians also kiasu ok!” This is turning out to be like the I’m Malaysian, I Don’t Shower episode…) Check out Sondre’s MySpace [...]
About Getting Things Done
Maybe many of us geeky types live in our own worlds where we take for granted, as ‘normal,’ the things we know and love (or things we hear about a lot). Like GTD, for example. I’m not a huge practitioner of the GTD philosophy, but I read enough blogs about it, and as a Mac [...]
Out of This World
You’d never guess where this is. I spend so much time travelling, and when I’m not travelling, I’m looking at or reading about travel. It’s hard to bowl me over these days. But… this. Every once in a while you come across something truly exceptional like this. Hint: it’s in my favourite country. The country I [...]
Hands On with the 9″ Eee Pc
Those of you who wanted the Eee PC but didn’t dig the 7” screen… the 9” version has been announced, and this is what it looks like. Although… did they really have to put Windows on that demo set? I have a never-ending crush on my Eee.