A Birthday and A Slaughtering

Today is my niece’s birthday celebration. We had this tiny little party with the immediate family and our favourite family friends.  
It was fun, really fun. We had a big barbeque. We had lontong, satay and lamb chops for food. In between food we played a few games that we thoroughly enjoyed.  
In short everyone [...]

Fire

Remember I wrote about my adventure lighting up the fireworks at Sun Island Resort. I would kindly suggest to everyone to erase them from the addresses of their minds.  
Instead dig this.  
It was the third day of Chinese New Year. At about 1145pm, the city woke up to a barrage of fireworks from across [...]

My New Hobby

I have just recently found a new hobby.  
GOLF 
I know what you are saying.  
Nevertheless, prejudices aside it is a sport. People say it’s elitist. I don’t doubt it. People say it’s boring. No doubt. People say it’s an old man’s game. Most probably.  
However, I am not one of those people. Even though I [...]

Happy Chinese New Year!

It’s officially the Chinese New Year. All over China, people are celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Pig. Everywhere I go, I’d see that rather bellyful porky figurines and symbols.  
Meanwhile, people are releasing scores of fireworks even though it is illegal in this country. I shan’t get into a legal argument with [...]

Assumptions and Desires

For a while, the weather in Shanghai got warmer. But then Mother Nature had other ideas. On came the wind, the thunder, the lightning and finally the rain.  
It is raining right now as we speak. It isn’t a torrential rain. It is more of a drizzle really. However, any rain at this time of the [...]

There is no such thing as Central Asia.

My brother’s girlfriend insisted that there isn’t such a thing as Central Asia.  
In the most annoying Singaporean slang she adamantly said: ‘where got Central Asia!’ 
At first I was really pissed off but gradually I began to see the humour in her statement. When a person insists to be in the dark ages, what can [...]