tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157400982009-03-18T12:43:18.031-04:00when I least expect it, I succumb to melancholy... and wish that there was someone... someone with whom I can share my soul. Spend the day reading in bed... our limbs lazily intertwined... tenderness without words.g. kryptonitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730918565759564315g.kryptonite@gmail.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15740098.post-6873618456471677832008-11-30T11:18:00.002-05:002008-12-01T10:34:31.043-05:00

me: When in doubt, go to the source of the information. colleague: I'm almost tempted to do that me: or one of the cute HR gals colleague: Yeah, well I don't know any of their names. Would you happen to know some ;) me: No, but it's a conversation starter colleague: Oh yes, it sure is me: If I were you, and if I saw [some cute girls] in HR vicinity, I would walk up to them and say... 'do you

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East Coast, Singapore 26° C (78.8° F) Nine months have passed since I made Singapore my home... It’s such a cliché to say ‘time flies’... but it really does. In the short nine months, I began to realise a downside to living in Singapore: everything seems transitory. Being the hub of everything southeast Asia, there seems to be a large pool of expatriates here in Singapore. Most of them

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East Coast, Singapore 24° C (75.2° F) It’s been close to two weeks since this illness has been wreaking havoc inside my body. The doctor will be drawing my blood later today for ignoring my fever for far too long. ‘We need to find out if it’s bacterial, viral, or dengue’, she says. Apparently, prolonged fever is not quite natural. Against my better judgement, I will have to take another

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Parkway Parade, Singapore 32° C [It hasn’t been too long since I have realised that I process information differently than others’ may. One aspect in particular is the fact that I tend to plow through information and boil it down to core idea or patterns. The explanation for this is another long-winded hypothesis, so I will save it for later.] It’s been about 11 years since my professor

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East Coast, Singapore 80.6° F (27° C) Purging of thoughts.... This was one of my reasons for joining the blogging masses. Sometimes these thoughts are bouncing in all directions in my head that they clutter and divert attention from the task at hand. For example, some of the thoughts overcrowding my head at the moment are: Natural born administrator - coming from a long line of

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It has been almost 3 weeks since I moved into my new home... but the place remains unfurnished (well... minimally furnished). It’s partly due to the mad rush to buy furniture before the Chinese New Year and partly because I was working day and night trying to heed to all the URGENT calls flying in from every direction. My initial intent was not to complain about the demanding workload or the

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Avenue de Lafayette Boston, Massachusetts USA 39.2° F (4° C) 'Forgive me doctor, for I have sinned. It has been a year since my last cleaning. I have been flossing, but it's possible I have not flossed as I should have...' This is how I usually start annual dental checkup/cleaning session. But it seems I need to extend my confessional practice into another realm: blogging; 'forgive me

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Somewhere in Den Haag, Netherlands waiting for tram 6 41°F (5° C)... feels much colder though... I must say I did not expect to find myself trying to figure out how to travel from point A to point B this morning, but the wonderful people at HTM saw it fit to provide me with a nice little challenge by reshuffling the routes near Centraal Station... It's a good thing I don't speak any Dutch.

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ToussaintkadeDen Haag, Netherlands 53.6° F (12° C) (feels colder though...) It all started innocently enough. I tried not to kill my guests with my talent in culinary arts (lack thereof) and they continually disinfected and fortified their stomach lining with Polish rye vodka -- Wyborowa. Pretty soon, a liter of 80 proof refreshment was completely empty and we moved on to beer and wine. As

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Centraal StationDen Haag, Netherlands For the first time since I began residing in Den Haag, I am finally venturing out of zone 5400 (city center) and into the unknown... 5413 (Leidschendam). It should have happened a month ago, but then again, I should have done many things a long time ago... The remaining days of 2007 will be dedicated to preparing for a new beginning. It will be a giant

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TousaintkadeDen Haag, Netherlands 44.6° F (7° C) At first, I resisted, then I reluctantly wandered in... I was bored. That was all it took! Now I'm hooked. I'm sending updates using SMS via Twitter, throwing sheeps at friends, and racing my pet tofu against imaginary furry little critters my FaceBook "friends" choose to call their own... that is, of course, if I'm not in search of long

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Laan van Meerdervoort Den Haag, Nederland 50° F (10° C) After paying 13.80 EUR (19.52 USD ~ 29.10 SGD ~ 22.19 AUD) for a bowl of noodles you could get in Seoul for 2,500 KRW (1.91 EUR ~ 2.71 USD ~ 4.05 SGD ~ 3.09 AUS), I realized I took a HUGE pay cut as soon as I set my foot in Amsterdam. I remember the good old days when a dollar carried more weight. I was able to spend a week in Vienna

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Laan van Meerdervoort Den Haag, Nederland 62.6° F (17° C) Time flies when you're flying to and fro... from Australia to Singapore... U.S.... then to Europe. I can't believe my first week in Den Haag (the Hague) is already coming to an end. It only seems like yesterday, when I was looking forward to spending time in Singapore... and I now, I am already dreading the gloomy autumn weather

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 64.4° F (18° C) 27th of August... It's been two years to the day since I started this blog. Two years ago, I was sitting in my rented space inside a larger office... my two cubicle space where I attempted at starting my own software development group. Living in Korea was a curious experience... where the belief that I was Korean was utterly shattered. I

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Some five thousand years ago, there existed a seven state nation without a king. The elders of the states prayed to the heavens for they were in need of a true leader. After many days have passed, a box descended from the heaven. When the elder opened the box, it contained seven large golden eggs. These eggs soon hatched into seven healthy baby boys. The babies grew into adults within

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 59° F (15° C) Perhaps it's the perpetual sleep deprivation or the dreary winter days, but I can't shake this sense of disillusionment. Many years ago, I had wondered if I would ever see the "land down under"... where kangaroos roam and koalas nibble on eucalyptus. I was under the impression Australia was a country full of friendly and laid-back individuals

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 51.8° F (11t° C) A much younger coworker was talking about the intricate dance we like to call "dating". He thought the date had gone well, but after two unreturned phone calls he seemed perplexed and disappointed. He was wondering if he had called a bit too early after the first date. "Just be yourself and call whenever you feel is right", I said. "Do what

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 51.8° F (11° C) I often have these moments when I cannot decide where to eat. It's not that I am indecisive, but I just don't feel like eating anything even though my stomach constantly informs me otherwise. It almost feels like a chore. I walk gudgingly toward my usual Korean place... but I stop in front of the entrance. I just couldn't bring myself to eat at

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 48.2° F (9° C) OK. I'm not proud of it, but I had to read it. Call it preemptive reading. It all started when a coworker left a copy of the first book at the office. I picked it up, casually, during lunch. I was flipping through the book. Next thing I know, I was finishing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I do admit

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 44.6° F (7° C) Being a nomad, normalcy is... not easily attainable. Before I had realized it, I seemed to have begun to alter my behavior to achieve some level of normalcy in my life. It began as routine visits to Korean groceries... then it soon expanded into Singaporean Chinese and Korean restaurants. I was puzzled at first, since I was never one to crave

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 41° F (5° C) I can see myself... taking a deliberate detour on my way back from the office... walking out of Eldo Cake House on Harrison avenue with coconut bun and charshiew pao. strolling across the Boston Common... continuing on to Public Garden, constantly reminding myself to 'slow down... and absorb... let all worries fade away... breath...' crossing

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Starbucks on Swanston St (between Flinders St. and Collins St.) Melbourne, Victoria Australia 42.8° F (6° C) Easytone Communications 274 Swanston Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia I cannot say that I have had much customer satisfaction moments during my two month stay in Melbourne, but this one just takes the cake when it comes to customer dissatisfaction. Allow me to elaborate. I

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 44.6° F (7° C) It is only 5 minutes before 6... and it is pitch-dark. As I walk toward the Crown, I find myself drawn to Sandridge bridge... the place where I last witnessed the remains of what was once a monument to the people of Australia. Gazing through the lens... I realize... that it has become a monument of another sort: the fragility of serenity. It

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Docklands, Melbourne Australia 41° F (5° C) 2009.07.09 06:00 GMT+8 The inhumanly effective alarm clock is screeching. I stagger and slam my hand in the general direction of the alarm clock. For a moment, I admire my agility and coordination; I always seem to manage to lunge and kill the alarm with my eyes closed with uncanny accuracy. This, of course, is the very source of my demise; I

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Outram Road Singapore 77° F (25° C) In several hours, I will be leaving Singapore. No concrete dates have been set, but I know this will not be the last time I set my foot in Singapore. The short time I have been here, I have grown to think of Singapore as somewhere I can grow old... a place where I hope to be happy. I will now have to mold my future... to accomplish what I had allowed

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