1. Roger Federer...lost in the finals of the Rogers' Cup to Andy Murray. The match was at 1.30 a.m. Singapore time and I had work so I didn't watch it. I did, however, wake up with no help at all from my alarm clock at 3 in the morning because I suddenly remembered, "Oh my god, Roger's playing the final now ( Read more... )

I just spent four hours watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics, all because it was directed by Zhang Yimou. My mom upgraded our cable TV box to the digital one just because I asked, innocuously, what time the opening ceremony was. According to her version, I explicitly said the words "I want to watch it", but I don't remember saying it ( Read more... )

As much as I would like to pretend that this...occasion doesn't exist, I've been asked way too much (i.e. at least once) what I'm doing today, thereby thwarting my initial plan of paying homage to the saying "ignorance is bliss". But then again, if I have to make an effort to ignore the significance February 14 (that is, significance in the eyes of ( Read more... )

I love Chinese New Year despite the uniform predictability of the things we do and for reasons that are entirely inexplicable and unexplainable. Attempting to explain to Kenneth, someone who doesn't care for Chinese New Year, why I love Chinese New Year produced only a lame, superficial answer: I love the idea of Chinese New Year. It's the only ( Read more... )

"I found law school to be intensely boring. During my first and only semester of law school, I found that it required a great deal of extremely tedious study of the most boring material. I also questioned: "what's the point?" The law is a farce. Government is so completely lawless that it's just absurd to pretend that there is any such thing as law ( Read more... )

I really, honestly did want to read some Criminal Law before I slept but I got out of the shower (at 1.49 a.m.), discovered that my mom forgot to switch off the cable modem, and decided to change the layout. And now I just feel like writing.

Damn, I'm totally spamming my own diary.

I was in quite a hurry to get rid of the previous Joaq-channelling- ( Read more... )

Two movies two days in a row. Yesterday: Memoirs of a Geisha (let me just add that the West Mall theatre was packed). Today: Huo Yuanjia/Fearless.

(possible spoilers for both films)

I have a predilection for Jet Li and his martial arts films. In fact, I have a thing for martial arts films, period; Jet Li gracing the film with his elegance and might ( Read more... )

Reading Yun's latest entry made me think about my Taiwanese relatives.

Wait, before that:


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I was about to do the first part of my Taiwan diaries (too lazy to think of a less corny name for it) but I realised that I didn't feel like it at all.
Maybe tomorrow.

Stupid table lamp is spoilt and it's all dark and my eyes are beginning to hurt.

Just did a quiz:

you are olive
#808000
Your dominant hues are red and green, so you're definately not ( Read more... )

I know it's been 24 hours and much more and I know that I missed him at the Heeren but I still have to say that I am still on a semi-high which I only half got off after his concert.

Seriously, that guy is amazing. If he weren't so musically-inclined, I would've written him off as a Taiwanese ah beng with little education and proceed to laugh at him ( Read more... )