Chicken rice never fails me

When the going gets stuff, I go chicken rice. It’s my official go-to local food when I can’t decide what to eat or I have no other choice. When office friends invite Mike and I to lunch in some unfamiliar hawker center, we’d immediately seek out the stall where freshly broiled fowls hung behind the [...]

Saving the planet, one plastic bag at a time

A Linkin’ Park song made me cry. It’s silly, I know, it happened when I saw the music video of “What I’ve Done”. The lyrics go “Let mercy come and wash away what I’ve done…” over images of various events in present history, man-made catastrophes and tragedies of global proportions, crimes against humanity and the [...]

Goodbye, Yahoo Photos

What do you do on a Friday afternoon when Boss is not around, the big deadlines settled at 2pm, and work is but a trickle of tiny revisions here and there? Why, you work hard on more initiatives for clients! Well, that’s for the more productive hours of my day today. The rest of the [...]

Walking Maps

This never fails, every time Mike and I are walking to anywhere, there’s always someone who’ll come up to us and ask for directions. We don’t really look local, well Malay, maybe. It could be the ask-us-we’re-so-into-each-other-we’re-no-threat-to-others aura that two people holding hands exude. Good thing we always know where to point them. One time, [...]

Care for a cup of coffee jelly?

If you’re bored with your dinner guests and would like them to leave, the polite way to do it is to offer them coffee. I forget where I heard that from but that’s supposedly the cue for the guests to leave after taking their last sip. But if you want them to stay and [...]

Cheers to Mister Hall of Famer

Bosses come in all shapes and forms and I am extremely lucky to have worked with and learned from the best of them. There was Ompong, my first boss who taught me to persevere, to be diligent, to tell stories from the heart. Then David who taught me how to have fun, to free my [...]