A Thought On Infidelity….

 
On infidelity and fornication……
It’s like climbing a mountain without a jacket, you can still reach the peak but after a while it gets very cold!
Julian Tan 2007

Book Review - The Cold Moon By Jeffrey Deaver

Synopsis : Lincoln Rhyme returns in The Cold Moon, a roller coaster of a thriller that pits Lincoln and Amelia Sachs against time itself.
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black skies over New York City, two people are brutally murdered—their prolonged deaths marked by eerie calling-cards: moon-faced clocks [...]

Show Me Obi Wan…

Well this post isn’t really a show me how, but rather a show me the end result.  If you recall some time back, I blogged about how my father was teaching me to make a whistle out of coconut leaves.  Well this time he did his version of a caterpillar using the coconut leaf.  I [...]

Little Silly Things That Some People Do….

Some will press the traffic light button numerous times thinking it will change to ‘Walk’ faster.
Some press the Up button on the Elevator when they want to go Down.
Some press the Down button on the Elevator when they want to go Up.
They make ‘Symbols’ for the Open or Close buttons in the Elevators which often [...]

Parent & Teacher Meeting On Mother Tongue

Yesterday evening there was a session held to meet Seth’s Chinese Teacher and to have some idea of the school’s curriculum.
First and foremost let me just say that my Mother Tongue is English, after all Mom is a Eurasian! So if the meeting was on Father Tongue then I have nothing much to say about [...]

Two Songs From The Past…..(JD)

Message from JD……
I know you’re someone who can appreciate the golden oldies so I wanted to contribute 2 songs to your blog, hoping you’ve heard them before and that it brings back some fond memories. They definitely brought me back to when I was a wee lad of 6 or 7 years old. Was thinking [...]

Dinner At Liang Kee Teochew Restaurant

Venue : Liang Kee Teochew Restaurant
Address : 737 Havelock Road Singapore
Tel : 62787026
Went for dinner here last night with my Boss and colleagues, where there was no corkage charge for the wines we brought. The food was [...]

Why MCA?

With the recent Malaysian elections over and with the big upsets comes this hilarious clips from some very creative and I might add brave people!  For our friends overseas you might not get some of it but overall it is still a good laugh.  Frankly I wasn’t even following what was happening or happened but [...]

OpenOffice.Org 2.3.1

Finally this time I think they got it right!  Over the years I had been looking for a good alternative to Microsoft Office because the software keeps getting more and more expensive to upgrade.  I was hopeful when StarDivision initially launched StarOffice but sadly it did not meet my expectations and after a while I just didn’t [...]

A Simple Yet Profound Lesson From A Five Year Old……..

So we were on our bicycle and on the way home from the Childcare centre, when from a distance I saw a heavyset bald headed man walking towards us. I was thinking about my blog entry ‘The Bald and Beautiful’ so I casually asked my son……..
Dad : Hey Kenan, see that Botak (Malay For Bald) [...]

“Ne me quitte pas” (”Don’t leave me”) By Jacques Brel

The lyrics to the song is just so beautifully written and what an emotional performance!
Original Lyrics
In French (lit. translatiion required): Ne me quitte pas Il faut oublier Tout peut s’oublier Qui s’enfuit déjà Oublier le temps Des malentendus Et le temps perdu A savoir comment Oublier ces heures Qui tuaient parfois A coups de pourquoi [...]

Movie - Vantage Point

Synopsis: In Columbia Pictures’ action-packed thriller Vantage Point, eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt
Runtime 86-89 minutes
Why did I bold the runtime? Well that was [...]