Category: Off Beaten Track

Came across the terms “synthetic” happiness vs “natural” happiness today in a talk. To put it simply, natural happiness is when you get ...

Saw this funny incident from Seinfeld on TV last night. Elaine was depressed and was wandering aimlessly in the rain. She cried: “I don’t know where...

YouTube and the internet are truly turning our global community into a smaller place day by day. This is particularly true when, a couple of months ago, I spott...

Been rather neglecting this blog of mine. Having a flu right also does not help much… Well, been watching the series Heroes lately so I thought the follow...

It’s hard to believe that it’s Cricket World Cup time again! In fact, seems not so long ago that Australia successfully defended their World Cup tit...

I have been neglecting this blog for quite a while, which I hope to rectify starting with this entry. Well, what has been happening lately? Firstly, I switched ...

Unless you have been hiding in a cave for the last couple of years, YouTube should not be a foreign name to those of us familiar with the internet. Well, here i...

Some amazing photos of people on this photoblog. Each face IS telling a story, but frozen forever in an instant. Wish I can also shoot some half-decent portrait...

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at t...

Life gets pretty predictable when the hot buns lady knows exactly what you want to order as soon as you walk up to her stall, then hands you a full bag of stuff...