A friend of mine was nearly mugged yesterday. She was walking in a shopping mall, absorbed in the task of sms-ing a friend on her phone when the would-be thief made a grab on her phone. Thankfully, because she had both hands gripping the phone, the thief was unsuccessful and fled the scene. In the [...]

Everything was fine and dandy until my boss dropped the bomb that my 2-week leave to Australia might be cancelled. All due to some delays in the project I’m working on that was not caused by us. Really, it’s just a typical episode of the longest running series in this reality show – “Who Says [...]

Pre-Christmas Celebrated Annie aka Bambi’s 25th birthday at TGIF with the DASHYAT+Renee+Paul gang. It was also a pre-Christmas gathering with some of my favourite people. It’s not often that all of DASHYAT+Renee+Paul are able to meet in one-go like this. I would think that it’s the first time ever in history that we congregated under [...]

This must be the year where I feel decidedly un-Christmassy. So many things are going on at work, socially and in my newfound photography hobby that I didn’t realise that ’tis the season to be jolly. “Yaay, next Monday is a public holiday!” a colleague said joyfully. Took me a while before I realised why. [...]

What happens when… Beauty meets… The Beast? At least that’s what Pastor Chris called Jon when giving the wedding sermon. “My children always called Jeanine ‘Beauty’. So I guess you must be ‘The Beast’, eh Jon?” It was a huge wedding. The attendance itself was akin to one of the church’s celebrations. Huge though it [...]

I have a bone to pick with our Home Ministry people. In the name of censorship, they have confisticated the shipment of one of the books I ordered from a local online bookstore. Simply because it had the word ‘Kiss’. Gimme a break, Home Ministry people. There are heaps of porn out there in the [...]