When people say ‘know thyself’ what they mean is you know your strengths, flaws and desires. They don’t really mean that you should know about all the squishing and filtering your organs are doing. It’s more than a little creepy when you think about all the sliming and pumping going on inside, especially since your [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Deep Inside of Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health scare, medical check-ups, x-ray on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Don’t Poke Me!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged injections, needles, pain, vaccinations on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I may be a big girl but needles still scare the shit out of me. When I say ‘needles’ I’m referring to the simultaneous thoughts of ‘urgh…looking at that thing makes me queasy’, ‘please please please don’t stick that in me,’ and ’shit, what if I can’t stand the pain and squeal like a wimp?’. [...]
Lost in Translation
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was packing some of my stuff and dumping things when I found this:
Translation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged National Day Rally, Singapore on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“PM changes timing [of National Day Rally] to tomorrow so that people can watch table tennis finals.”
Translation: The PM knows that given the choice, people will all watch the table tennis finals instead of the National Day Rally. To save face, he is going to speak only the day after the finals, hijacking all the [...]
Tarnished Gold
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Beijing olympics, medal tallies, naturalised citizens, Singapore on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After nearly half a century without a medal, Singapore is placing this year’s hopes on athletes like Li Jiawei and Ronald Susilo. Of course, I want Singapore to finally win an Olympic medal, but it bothers me that these two, as well as other stars like Tao Li were given citizenship because of their medal [...]
Tasting and Waiting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lectures, NUS, random, school on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today Sihui and I pretended to be NUS students and crashed Janice’s English lecture. A couple of people groaned and asked me why I wanted to crash, since I could be sitting at home enjoying my slacking time. Yes, I could have, but I had this perverse desire to get a taste of what I [...]
Name Game
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged names on August 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I was watching When Harry Met Sally with Bimin and laughing my head off. There’s this one part where Sally’s talking about how she had really good sex with Sheldon Gordon and Harry says “You can’t have really good sex with a Sheldon…Give it to me Sheldon. You’re an animal Sheldon…Ride me hard Sheldon.” [...]
The Power of a Leap
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Beijing olympics, don't boycott the olympics, olympic ideals, the olympics on August 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
History has not been kind to the Olympics. The competition often became a concentration of the world’s problems: bigotry, tyranny, terror and cowardice. Although meant to inspire us with feats of glory, the Olympics were frequently a reflection of our darkness.
