I’m getting tired of waiting

My home computer broke down. Sort of. You see, the CPU’s power supply is running, but my monitor (“No signal input”), keyboard and mouse don’t seem to think so. I have no idea how to fix it, and the guy we usually call for help seems to be out of town. I tried working on…

Had lunch with DSD today and she asked me about my new year resolutions. I had given up making resolutions for a few years already. But at the end of 2005 I did decide, after a culmination of incidents, that certain things would certainly improve my life and relationship with other people. My first resolution…

I took out a big sports bag to store all my comics in. Now, I usually group my books by genre / character / series, but they got slightly rearranged with the repacking. So I was deeply surprised when I realised that ‘Rogue’ was now on top of the left stack, and ‘Gambit’ was on…

I’m ill. With a runny nose, slight cough, headache and a fever that just went away. It’s a feeling I’m not used to, seeing how I’ve only taken medical leave once in two working years. To make things worse, I spent the whole morning and afternoon moving house. The amount of junk we have is…

Today, I had the pleasure of having lunch at a friend’s place. While her home was old, there was a lot of happiness and synergy between her sister, the long-serving maid (treated as a member of the family) and father. The house didn’t have designer furniture or fancy architecture, but I told her I could…

My cousin recently discovered a pic of me and some family members, dressed in our Peranakan best, on a stranger’s website. The photo was taken off an old blog entry of mine. (No no no, we still had our clothes on, and I didn’t get my face Photoshopped onto some Playboy bunny’s body.) While I…