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,…
Of course it is, don’t answer that. It is a rhetorical question after all, one that sometimes crept around the back of my mind when some anti-green post lays down their fact. For all my pompousness of being analytical, I have stopped to bother checking the facts laid out by people who claim that it…
I’ve been having toothache since a few weeks now, and today I finally decided to call and make an appointment. At the appointment, the dentist checked and said I have the option of doing a filling or pulling my bad tooth off. I chose the latter. There’s a few reasons but one of them is…
For those who don’t know, poorly means unwell, or sick. I think it is a north-west/Manchester slang (Mancunian) thing. Or maybe every British uses that, I don’t know. At first I find it appalling as it seems poor equals to sick, but now I believe it came from the sorry condition one is when he/she…
Disclaimer: I am neither a cybersecurity expert nor an Aikido practitioner so apologies in advance for any faux pas or false facts. I was watching this video recently where it interviews an Aikido masters and he talked about Iai (Iaido), where one is always prepared to draw their sword due to sudden attack, which relates…
Went to a friend’s makan-makan (party) today and met a lot of undergrads, mostly in their early twenties. As we’re from Asian background, i.e. all are Malaysian, there is a bit of hierarchy between us and also reverence towards me and my friend, who are well in our 30s. Despite that though, the conversation does…
