Not homesick, but ---

It's very strange to dream of being in Singapore and wake up still in Korea.

A household in rebellion

The washing machine is fixed and running again, but one of my bedroom lamps has gone kaput.

Do you shoot RAW or JPEG?

For all my photographer and photography-loving friends: A DSLR Catechism.

Get a whiff of this

It's funny how one's fingertips still smell faintly of raw garlic two days after I chopped some.

You know the weather is hot when ...

It takes me less time to use up the contents of two ice-cube trays than to make more ice.

Hrm, redux

And today, it turns out that I've been misspelling "inoculate". Could've sworn it had two "n"s!

Related post: Hrm

Hrm

I just typed "output" as "outpoot". This doesn't bode well for a Monday.

Pure heaven

I really like the "taste" of ice-cold water, but it tastes even better after a cup of rich black coffee.

Oops

It's entirely possible that I'm white.

The prettiest picture of them all

A number of my friends are enamoured of the biggest drawing in the world (fake, by the way) but I'd rather have this picture of the Milky Way, please. Did I mention that one of my earliest childhood ambitions was to be an astronomer?

One problem with growing up in the '80s

... is that I woke up this morning with, inexplicably, Stevie Wonder's rendition of "I Just Called To Say I Love You" in my head. And it wasn't till I was halfway through my shower that I realised it.

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Tired as hell

It's a strange sort of day when I typo "mind-boggling" as "mind-blogging".

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Someone said ...

So apparently, I am very well-preserved for my age.

Huh.

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An unexpected taste

It's extremely disorienting when the pork chops from a Western food stall at a hawker centre taste like Twisties (chicken flavour).

Fortunately, it wasn't my dinner.

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Missing the news

For some reason, Gmail has been diligently filing the BBC News' daily email alert in my Spam folder since January 1. And here I thought they were just enjoying an extended New Year's in the UK ...

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Is it almost midnight?

It's no fun when the work week begins on a Sunday.

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I love Leopard but ...

Toggling between Spaces gives me motion sickness.

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Rhymin' games

I typed this in an email today: "online moniker Ondine".

Now say it five times fast.

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Writing style

I write in Helvetica 11 point with 125% zoom on Microsoft Word. How 'bout you?

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Disturbed sleep

It's really not a good sign when one starts dreaming about Facebooking ...

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Of all the ...

I thought I got a splinter in my foot --- but it was a whisker from my cat!

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I have a bad earworm

Blame it on the iCommons party I attended last night, but I woke up with an insipid mash-up of Garbage's "When I Grow Up" with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "Enola Gay".

And it won't go away.

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Not the coolest thing to do, I'm aware ...

But is anyone going to be watching the National Day Rally at 8 pm so that we can heckle it together online?

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Saturday night spelling bee

Not since I was a pre-teen have I needed to be sure I got the spelling of "hippopotamus" right ... and I almost had to use "hippopotami".

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Because anything can be a song

Everyone needs to go listen right now to the Barenaked Ladies' "Testing 1, 2, 3" (recorded at a concert in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004).

It's nice when Last.fm makes me laugh in the middle of clearing work email.

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Shortchanging myself

I have been madly scrambling to get all sorts of work done because I thought I had only two weeks between returning from Ho Chi Minh City and jetting off again --- but it turns out that I cannot read a calendar properly, because in fact I have three weeks.

Now I can breathe again.

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Off to a party

--- at which I will be the oldest person there other than the host's parents.

I'm not sure what stage of life this marks, but it has to mark something (other than impending dotage).

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Fast food frustration

Sometimes I eat at MOS Burger, and then I wish I'd taken a few steps more and eaten at Burger King instead.

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Crabby when hungry

Now that's a warning label I should come with.

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Flavours

I had two kiwifruit after lunch and now I can't wash the tang out of my mouth.

Oh wait, a mouthful of fresh black coffee just did the trick.

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Things I wanted to Twitter yesterday

... but didn't have the time or internet connection to.

$83.94 for a new remote control for the airconditioner??

Despite all the construction and new traffic, pockets of Portsdown Road are still very pretty.

Nothing like almost choking to breathlessness on a miscplaced gulp of water to add a little perspective to one's day.

People who screw up one's dinner (namely Suzie's) should offer at least a free dessert to atone. (Sun With Moon Cafe, if anyone wants to know. Good food and service, except for the part where they screwed up).

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I'm a weak-minded fool and you're all sly, crafty old rats, redux

Previous post here.

No time to blog.

So I Twitter. Do you?

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Welcome back

Ah, swollen lymph node, how I've missed you.

Not.

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Bah

How can I be so tired even after 8 hours of solid sleep?

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First day hiccups

I'm not sure that it's good luck for the New Year to be standing by the roadside and repeatedly muttering, "Where the fuck are all the cabs?"

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Gobsmacked

So it turns out that in this era when the word "Google" has evolved from a search engine to a brand name to a bona fide verb in the dictionary, there are people my age who still use Yahoo to search.
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The mirror doesn't lie

I have white hairs!!!

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They will blow your mind

"Fruity Oaty Bars" is the best cell phone ringtone ever.

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My mom was right

It's too hot in Singapore to wear this shirt, even in the semi-airconditioned environment of a Halloween party.

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A meeting of minds

It's very thrilling to unexpectedly meet someone who not only appreciates Beautiful Girls as much I do, but once we get started on it, both of us immediately quote the same line: "Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version."

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Too soon for comfort

Sometimes I see the preview trailer for World Trade Center on TV and I think, no, I'm not ready to watch that yet. No, not even the trailer.

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It's an epidemic

If I see another "hip" and "funky" restroom, I'm going to vomit.

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Oktoberfest!

Beer.
Barflies.
Banter.
*burp*

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No memory

How sad is it that even after looking up both Terz's and my blogs, and reviewing my credit card records from last December, both of us have absolutely no recollection of how we celebrated his birthday last year.

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TGIF!

There's no better to start a Friday evening than to have a delightful colleague come in at 6 pm bearing well-powdered doughnut holes from Four Leaves Bakery for everyone.

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Who knew?

So it seems that when people who only know my first name find out about my double-barrelled five-syllable last name, their instinctive reaction is to think it's either a lie or a pen name of some kind.

Weird.

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Poo (literally)

Nothing like stepping in dog shit to wreck one's day.

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In case you didn't know

This is the best blog to follow what's going on in Thailand right now.

Well, until Cowboy Caleb goes home, anyway.

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Still tapping away here

It is entirely apt that as the clock chimes 1:28 am and I start on a final piece of work (deadline: tomorrow), my iTunes on shuffle mode selects New Order's "Working Overtime", followed by the Postal Service's "The District Sleeps Tonight."

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Note to self

Consume coffee immediately after lunch in order to kickstart work for the afternoon, rather than zombie virtuously through the afternoon and capitulate to the coffee craving only at 5 pm, by which time several productive hours have been wasted.

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I need a WorkSpace

Will someone please hurry up and develop one of these for Singapore already, please? Tankyu.

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The not-so-cute side of having a cat

Ink just killed and ate a cockroach.

I'm torn between glee and revulsion.

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Argh

I would like a glass of wine and a cigarette right now, please. Thank you.

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Mid-morning snack

It is a very strange thing to be eating Khong Guan biscuits, while researching the founders of the Khong Guan Company.

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*burp* says my fridge. Or maybe *vomit*

This one's for kk.

I have just thrown out the char siew baos from our Crystal Jade feast way back when.

Oops.

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I just wanted to say ...

... That there are many cute young Canadian men in the office today.

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Go watch

ampulets reviews The Last Communist, which I saw last week, and as usual says it much better than I can.

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Good morning

This morning, I opened the door to leave our apartment for work, and in the first burst of pre-rain fresh breeze, everything smelled of Vancouver.

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Seeing stars

Some nights, I plan to blog, have pictures and a draft post and everything --- and then it's 3:52 am by the time I send my last deadline-non-negotiable work email and you know what? It's time for bed.

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How to beat a rebellious nose into submission

Embarrass it by going public with its recalcitrant behaviour.

Today I'm much better.

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Why everyone should keep disassembled fans around

So that the cat has a playground to rummage around in.


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Can't win 'em all

Some days I am geek girl. Other days, like today, I need to download a video in order to figure out how to remove the cover on my cellphone so that I can reset it.

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The simple things

I'm not sure if I'm getting cat-like tendencies, but I really like the feel of the office carpet under my feet and have taken to padding barefoot whenever I'm up and about from my desk.

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Why you should be nice to your friends in primary school

Because they may turn up many years later as the wife of your boss!

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Revelation of the day

So apparently, I am a Senior Researcher and Script Editor.

It's nice when other people make up nice-sounding titles for the work I do.

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On a completely different note

Epicurious has the best iced tea in Singapore.

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I've always liked a good storm

It never rains.

But it sure the hell pours.

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Well, now

It occurs to me that I really suck at interviews.

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Damn.

How on earth did I miss the news that Betty Friedan died last Saturday?

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I know some people are rich but ---

--- Who the hell goes into Watson's (a local drugstore) and tries to use a $1,000 bill to pay at the cashier?!

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The season of love

Christastrophe's said it all: The taste of love is sweet / When hearts like ours meet.

Who, me?

I have just been described by someone who's known me for ten years as 'free-spirited'.

Now that's a first.

Status check

I have been telling everyone I'm imminently unemployed. I like the way the phrase rolls off my tongue --- for now.

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