A friend recently asked about getting a job and moving to the UK, and I thought I’d write it down. This is more like a reflection and I would maybe update it in the future when I gain more exposure and experience. First of all, there will be the argument why go to the UK…
My daughter recently came back with a very long book, about 100 pages long. For context, she is 6 years old and normally only reads books that are 10 to 20 pages long, and even those are in big fonts. Recently her teacher let her choose her own books to read, and that is the…
My daughter asked me during dinner today if I know the meaning of the word bigback. “What?” I asked. “Bigback,” she said again. I asked her to spell it out. Still didn’t ring a bell. “It’s a term for someone who likes food,” she said. “Although it can be derogatory, depending on the tone.” “I…
I went to buy a cake recently from franchise in the UK that is famous for selling eggless cake. They are quite decent, although a bit pricey, but they are widely available with outlets almost everywhere. We called first before going to an outlet to confirm that the cake that we wanted was there, and…
The book is by Stephen King and is in fact the second in its series. The first one was Mr. Mercedes and it was turned into a movie a few years ago. I quite liked the first one so I read the second one. After finishing it, I was a bit disappointed that although initially…
I am getting old and older and I am now becoming more comfortable with the concept to just get the things done. I used to spend hours customising my phone or PC background, but nowadays I just use the default ones. While doing my work recently, I must say I ‘submit’ a very shitty work…
It’s been snowing quite a bit here. Kids being kids, there is always the joke about not eating yellow snow. I used to be perplexed by it and didn’t understand the joke but once I saw a dog relieved itself near a building, it stuck to my mind ever since. Meanwhile when I first started…
We were watching a documentary of the missing Malaysian flight MH370 recently. It was quite interesting although a bit too dramatised for me. When we wanted to watch it, my wife and I said to our children that this happened years ago, back when the oldest of them was still in the womb. I also…
It’s the end of the year or at leasts almost the end of the year so offices are having Christmas dinner, as well as schools. I went to my office’s dinner recently and felt that it was quite good actually. The food was okay but when I went back home, it occurred to me how…
My daughter cried just now and when I asked why, she said she was sad because of something that was said to her. I knew it was a big thing as she was quiet for a while and sat there contemplating before bursting into tears. And this happened when I was tucking her into bed….
Why do they call it Black Friday? I asked chatGPT and its unconvincing answer was that people used to do so much shopping that the police or enforcement said that it was a black day, i.e. it is a bad day to work. The term was then supposedly hijacked by capitalism and applied commercially. Yeah,…
