Letters from the Equator

wishes
Originally uploaded by nardell.

I went for my first-ever futsal game last week, and I sweat so much I think it took me a week to put back all the moisture. Still it was fun, and definitely so with a diverse crowd including girls and 3 young boys.
My work has been a heavy load, [...]

Soo Yin, this is in response to your May post. Ugh, I’m late.
Intergalactic, by the Beastie Boys was the most audible song on the airwaves. The amount of times “intergalactic” is prominently remembered as a member of the English lexicon was second only to the word, “planetary”, which also occurs shortly after “intergalactic”.
Which [...]

Linguiça
Originally uploaded by Maria Castro.

ES, MVO, WL, LL and I finally got around to having a meal at “Carnaval”, which serves Brazillian Churrascaria in my humble hometown of Damansara Jaya.
ES had a craving for it a few weeks now, and we decided to all hop on an opportunity for some good chow. I’m [...]

I was searching on Wikipedia for the ipod nano article, and I found something really surprising: various price points for the nano, some in an obscure denomination known as the Ringgit.
Wah, like that also can… Malaysia boleh! Click on the image below.

After this we can start taking on the world already. We just put MYR [...]

Originally uploaded by Nîck.

Last week, there were a few memorable things worth mentioning.
On Thursday, we had a nice dinner meal with our new neighbors, who are a Chinese Canadian couple here in Malaysia for a year, teaching at a local college nearby. It was good to get to know them a little, and [...]

I feel like I just entered a time warp into the future. Since a decade ago, I’ve been gradually ignoring pop culture to the point of now not ever watching a single episode of Heroes or Lost, not ever listening to Fly.FM or ever being in line to watch Transformers.
I’m now in an odd dilemma [...]

Thumbs down!
Originally uploaded by Brooklyn Hilary.

After the negative food review for Eat Workshop, I present to you something even worse:
K3K Benta Kaya (from Kuala Lipis, Pahang) in SS15, Subang Jaya, near Taylors College.
Apart from the lovely decor, interesting indoor/outdoor facade, and over-friendly and over-zealous staff, this place SUCKS.
I had this ayam goreng rice [...]

Penelope Trunk
Originally uploaded by DrStarbuck.

I’ve been mildly addicted to the Brazen Careerist blog, by Penelope Trunk. There’s a lot of useful tips on how one navigates their way through life and work in the 21st century.
It’s funny that her studies and observations and applications are based mainly on the US job market (where [...]

The 146’s battery died yesterday morning. I managed to unlock the car with the remote but when I turned the ignition, I realized my battery was flat.

146 at johor house
Originally uploaded by jaremfan.

The weird thing was that it wasn’t giving any signals the night before, and I wondered whether my frenzied driving to and fro [...]

Johnny’s new toy rabbit
Originally uploaded by Andreas Schjønhaug.

We got our hands on a Nabaztag at the office - the original one, not the one with the belly button. It’s not as big as its larger-than-life on-screen persona. And it doesn’t offer much instant gratification at the touch of a button, as it really [...]