You know how sometimes life gives you some surprises right? Mine happened 4 days before the GE day, 5 May. I wasn’t prepared to be a Polling Agent or Counting Agent (or what’s called PACA) this general election. I thought that the most I’d do was turn up early on Sunday and vote and sit …
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This is an article written by a good friend. He chooses to remain anonymous. Feel free to share this if it tugs at your conscience. With a few days to go before the nation goes to the polls in what would be the closest, most keenly fought battle between the the ruling party and the …
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If you read my blog closely, you know I am highly opinionated. I have raised some ire in the past with my strongly worded blog posts. I have been naughty like that. But it isn’t just about being naughty. Or wanting to be controversial. If you know me really well, I am a bit of …
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It’s only when guests or friends come to Penang that I make that mad effort to find new places to dine. Most times, we’re lazy and eat around our area which to me is rather sad and boring. I mean, how many times can you eat “chee cheong fun” for breakfast before you kind of …
Read More »How To Spend A Birthday 5
Yesterday was my birthday. I am officially 39 years old. One year before I turn 40. Yikes. But inside I feel like I am just 30 (OK, OK, we all feel like we’re younger than we really are, right?) though sometimes my energy levels tell me, OK, maybe not. As a Piscean, I am one …
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My paternal grandma passed away on 2 February, a week before Chinese New Year. That’s why this year’s been the lowest-key Chinese New Year I’ve had in a long, long while. Granted, my grandma, Madam Chin Pek Lam, was 95 years old. She was bedridden, had to be bathed and fed mushy, blended porridge. She …
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I wanted to write about so many other (better) things – like the short lil trips I made and the fun weekends I had BUT this bugged me to no end. I refuse to be a food blogger (half of them don’t have an opinion except that it’s tasty or it’s yucky anyway) so I …
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It’s one of those things that just happened. But it takes friendship and some love for books to make it come to life. So Lerks and I have started our Saturday Book Club. It wasn’t planned to be - it was just some crazy bantering over breakfast of homemade bread at her kitchen nook one …
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Did I tell you I have a pomegranate tree in my backyard? It’s about 5 years old – a tree that I grew from some leftover pomegranate seeds from a huge pomegranate I bought at one of the fruit stalls at Lorong Kulit. In the initial years, it was a spindly thing. At that time, …
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While I try to have a variety of topics in our business blog, I am also that anal sort (yes, slap me) who wants a blog post that is befitting of a business blog, one that’s thoughtful and not written just because I have to spit something out on the blog. That is certainly not …
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