Letters from the Equator

Uncanny. Lee Lian and I were in N.Y.C. in August, before September 11. And we were in Bali just 2 weeks ago. Tonight’s blasts were no doubt the work of a muslim terrorist group, and Monday marks the start of the Ramadan period. I just feel really perplexed and sad for the people of Bali. [...]

The apartment isn’t ready yet, and I am on another round of idle thoughts about how my new home will look like. My preface is a 27-year old male, married and employed, and currently living with my parents. I love my parents a lot, but the walls of my room are starting to close in [...]

Everyday should be a day of rest, just as it should be a day of work…. is what i ideally imagine my life to be. However, if work is fun and fun is work, then where’s the meat?! Anyway, I guess I don’t have to complicate matters by turning them into paradoxial compartments. I just [...]

when the alarm rings, we dread to wake upwhen we wake up, we dread to go to workwhen we’re at work, we want to go homewhen we’re at home, we want to go outwhen we go out, we can’t decide where to go

don’t touch the, originally uploaded by jaremfan.
5 dives. 4 days. 3 nights. 4 mantas. 2 pygmy seahorses. 1 frogfish. 1 lone baracuda.
NO Mola.
None at all. And freezing waters did not add to our livelihood. That fish just would not show up. Sigh, now we have plan another trip to Bali.
All in all, it [...]

mola-mola Originally uploaded by jaremfan.
I’ll be on a flight to Bali, tomorrow morning. It’s a dive trip with the wife, and father-in-law and his friends. And right about now, it’s Mola Mola season.
It’ll be my first time amongst such large pelagics, as well as manta [...]

Three apartments were broken into at Lagoon Perdana, Sunway, just this past weekend. One of the apartments belongs to a colleague of mine, who wasn’t there when the thieves broke in. Some of the stuff that were stolen were a digital SLR, a portable hard disk , a laptop, a minidisk player, and a handphone. [...]

FÖRNUFT Originally uploaded by jaremfan.
My apartment isn’t ready yet, but when that time comes, we’ll be ready for it!
In the past few months, we’ve acquired quite a number of homey stuff, such as the Ikea start box, lighting, a red couch, some shelving, a mobile [...]

the Prankster (47% dark, 19% spontaneous, 31% vulgar)

your humor style:CLEAN | COMPLEX | LIGHTYour humor has an intellectual, even conceptual slant to it. You’re notpretentious, but you’re not into what some would call ‘low humor’either. You’ll laugh at a good dirty joke, but you definitely prefersomething clever to something moist.
You probably like [...]

ipod nano thin Originally uploaded by jaremfan.
Apple’s really good at keeping secrets. Here’s the latest: ipod nano.
3.5 inches tall, 1.6 inches wide, and 0.27 inches thin. Weighing at 1.6 ounces, half that of the ipod mini, which is on its way to the ipod museum.
It’s [...]