Middle way
The Chinese has this knack of playing on both sides of the field. I mean, there are always reasonable responses to support actions for and against something. Fo...
Category: Off Beaten Track
New Year resolution
Happy 2005! A brand new year, and a time for new resolutions – as usual. Seeing that most of such plans doesn’t often come to fruition, perhaps it&#...
Catch
A friend sent me this. It’s fairly religion-neutral and not affiliated with any faith in particular. Sometimes, it is necessary to ask ourselves some toug...
Lessons on the road
The past weekend was a long-weekend in Singapore, because of two ethnic holidays in succession: Deepavali (Hindu) and Hari Raya Puasa (Islam). I decided to catc...
Stroke of genius
I hope that I don’t get into the habit of doing this, but I simply could not resist re-posting a story I received by email today, as it touches on the mai...
Water crisis
The bathroom water heater at my new place died yesterday. Burnt out literally. Fortunately it will be replaced in the next couple of days. In the meantime, it&#...
Not-so-close shave
On the way home tonight, had a close shave with a passing car. Well, maybe not THAT close… On the one hand (perhaps in a rather perverted way?), I was kin...
Small Singapore
Had another amusing incident over the weekend which accentuated once again the “smallness” of Singapore. For the past few days, I have been looking ...
Projection
Just had this flash of genius on the way to work. The thought came as I saw some students walking to the bus (the internal bus on the campus of NUS) stop. I was...
Copyright abuse
Read (this link will be no longer active once the offending materials have been removed) this morning that a certain Chinese website PConline.com.cn has been bl...