Posts under ‘Daily Randomness’

Sometimes I just wish that this country wasn’t so darned small and the world wasn’t so darned big.

My sis had a visiting friend over the weekend, and my family invited her to join us for dinner at Clarke Quay. We passed by the river cruise ticketing box, and Mom thought that it would be rather exciting to take a river taxi down the Singapore River, and so we did, on the DUCK [...]

Today I did something on a public light bus that probably made the observer-passengers and the driver think, “she’s so stupid”. But inside me, I was laughing. I was happy, for I had learnt something.

View from my window this morning:
 
Quite typical up here.
It’s a mild winter – feeling like the upper 10s instead of a 11°C, yet the locals are all wrapped up like they’re training for an Arctic expedition. Something that amuses me greatly, every time.
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“唔准哭,” he tells [...]

Clinic staff [over the phone]: Can I have your name?
Me: Xxxxxx Xxx. Xxx is my last name, X-x-x.
Clinic staff: Chinese name?
Me: Um, Xxx is my surname…
Clinic staff: What is your full name?
Me: Xxxxxx Xxx is my full name.
Clinic staff: What is your Chinese name?
Me: It’s not in my full name.
Clinic staff: [...]

I keep hearing voices in my head. Not the schizophenic sort! but more like silent monologues, if you will. I’d be an observer to a scene or an earwitness to a conversation and the dialogue would just fade out and there’d go my voice, like a scripted voice-over in documentary, providing a running conceptual abstract [...]

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