September 2010
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August 2010
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June 2010
2 posts
“Reenie had gone the whole hog on the menu, or as much of that hog as we could by...”
– Magaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
November 2009
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July 2009
1 post
curiosity killed the cat
Since I have recently been queried about the existence of my tumblr here is an update:
(Luodong city, Yilan Prefecture, Taiwan)
I’m vehemently irritated about the lack of integration, flexibility, consistency, streamlining, and design in some online systems. When you allow exceptions to the rule you also have to design for them. IT will always be overhyped so long as people fail to...
January 2009
1 post
community centres
Instead of being practised in specialised institutions, esoteric subjects - or simply, things which aren’t deemed practical - in Singapore are taught in community centres. They range from latin to art. It must be rather disheartening for their practitioners, but Singaporeans aren’t stupid. Those who want to seek a bigger stage will do so; for a small nation we are particularly adept at...
November 2008
2 posts
a picture tells a thousand words but they could...
I was quite tickled when a friend of mine complained about her flatmate’s absymal cooking skills, because I had seen photos of his culinary creations before and they actually looked pretty good. Goes to show how much you can do with a good camera, good lighting, photoshop, or permutations of the three. So guys and girls, trust only tongue.
August 2008
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July 2008
2 posts
hos
and i have some gin and hos man speaking of hos they were out of stock at duty free the outrage woah i got some stella artois instead stella doesnt come close to the ho awesomeness woah didn’t know you were into hos too well me neither guess u only find out when u lose them how much they meant to u and other emo terms of endearment
we were talking about hoegaarden actually.
CUTE DOG!
Last night we were watching a Chinese drama when a very odd thing happened… In the middle of a serious scene…the subtitles suddenly shout…
CUTE DOG!
(rewinds, checks again) Errrr… ?!?
It seems that whoever transcribed the subtitles is a bit of a dog lover and decided to comment on the occupant of a kennel outside the window!
but suddenly in the middle of...
May 2008
4 posts
bedtime reading list
- Transformers More Than Meets The Eye Official Guidebook (Vol.1 and 2) - Plato’s Republic - Rawl’s A Theory of Justice - Insight Guide to the Netherlands - Milan Kundera’s Farewell Waltz - Camus’s The Plague Some of these are on loan from NLB and I don’t have enough time to finish them all :( It doesn’t help that I don’t have anything you could...
baileys
The woman told me cannot mix with coke. Said it mixes better with milk. wtf I wanted to I might as well drink milk can.
decisions decisions
Someone’s selling a 17-85mm USM IS f/4.0-5.6 on CS for 300. Tempting but the problem is there’s fungus. A clean 2nd copy usually costs around 500.