- 30-08-09: 32 Days On [0]
It's been a month and a day since I got home for what would almost be for good, although it...
- 29-08-09: Horse [0]
After years of putting the cart in front of the horse, hoping that the horse would leap over the cart...
- 28-08-09: Cart [0]
The problem, in almost everything I do, is that I keep putting the cart before the horse. It's also known...
- 27-08-09: I am too smart [0]
I am too smart for my own good; why don't I ever do N-step look-ahead when I'm playing chess, so...
- 26-08-09: What makes you alive [0]
The rain!--when it's raining cats and dogs, and I'm safe, warm and dry indoors, and the lightning storms are out...
- 22-08-09: Whatever [0]
So much for getting any work done at all, it's turned into yet another afternooon-nap plus home-improvement weekend and we...
- 21-08-09: Old school [0]
Windows is so old school--and I finally have a dedicated Windows device that runs only Windows (dual-boot machines which I...
- 16-08-09: There is nothing quite like... [0]
There is nothing quite like... ...running in good old hot and humid Singapore, finishing the run with my clothes soaking...
- 14-08-09: On Fire [0]
And now I need to actually start acting on all the potential leads and possibilities, and to actually work hard...
- 10-08-09: For real [0]
I need to start getting used to things being real. Everything begins tomorrow, for real. A lot of things have...
- 09-08-09: Family affair [0]
It's nice revisiting the old family tradition of having dinner in front of the googlebox watching the National Day Parade,...
- 08-08-09: In the crowd [0]
I think know why I don't like being home--the isolation, the loneliness, the one-up-against-the-world-ness, is so much bigger, the more...
- 08-08-09: Too much noise [0]
It's very distracting being home, because there's simply too much noise, and everything is so packed together, so close, that...
- 07-08-09: It's the little things [0]
I have not been good at dealing with the little things--I think I have always preferred the big-picture, because when...
- 05-08-09: That familiar smell [0]
The haze is back, I think. That hateful, sickening, burning smell and the dreamy, ugly yellowed look is back in...
- 04-08-09: What really matters? [0]
If there's one thing we're really good at, that we care about a lot, as a country and society, it's...
- 04-08-09: Unthinking [0]
Too many things happening too quickly, yet nothing is happening at all, I'm thinking too much, and not thinking at...
- 01-08-09: Nobody said [0]
Nobody said this, any of this at all, was going to be easy. But nobody tells me no either, I'll...