Peranakan pics!

It’s good to be back at work. New and old faces. Many welcoming embraces from all walks of life. Same same but different. From downstream to upstream. From familiar ground to unchartered waters, except that I’m doing the chartering now. There is a massive journey ahead of me. I can see the destination point but…

Ye gads! It is 2.30am and I have finally replied to everyone’s emails. It is really like looking at a time capsule. New message alert boxes were popping up as they were being downloaded, mostly spam, some intriguingly in Malay, and one looking like a genuine domain name mixup. It was a massive spring cleaning….

Here I give a brief tribute to Dr. Alex Chao, a friend of my father’s, who died of SARS on April 22, 2003. He was the son of the late Professor Chao Tzee Cheng, Singapore’s most famous forensic pathologist.

What a lazy Vesak holiday we had at home – woke up late, tried to have lunch at Lingzhi (25% discount off the a la carte menu!) over at Liat Towers, but despite making reservations we were still in a queue (everybody else made reservations, too), and we gave up waiting. We settled for the…

Happy New Year. I haven’t quite decided what my New Year’s resolutions are going to be. I’d like to be more punctual – but if everyone else isn’t, then I’d just wait around like an idiot (which happens frequently enough already). I’d like to lose more weight. And stay there. But Christmas and New Year…

First, Bush won. Well I kind of expected that and I don’t have much more to say but that the Democrats have to buck up and re-invent themselves. Next, I was asked to uninstall Firefox from my computer. I kind of expected that too. After debating with the IT staff about IE’s security issues, how…