Letters from the Equator

Nasi lemak - RM4Fettucine Carbonara - RM16
Teh Ais - RM1.20Iced Latte - RM8.80
Autoworld Malaysia - RM9.90Autoworld UK - RM17
Perodua Kelisa - RM40000Honda Jazz iDSi - RM100000
If these prices look right to you, then simple calculation should tell you that an import culture will most definitely cost 2 to 4 times more than a local lifestyle.
I [...]

It kinda sucks that Malaysia (and a lot of asian countries) don’t have review sites on appliances like cookers, stoves, washing machines, and the like. Searching google is like the needle-in-a-haystack thing, since models sold in the West tend to be different than the ones exported to or made locally here.
Anyway, it’s great that [...]

I never thought it would happen to me, but I’ve been very a conventional employee in terms of changing jobs. Our parents used to job-hop a lot less frequently, and I used to think it was good to remain loyal to a company. When I tell people that I’ve been with my first company for [...]

I recently realized that worshipping God is meant to be an outward expression to God, not an inward injection to receive God’s manifest presence. Perhaps I had been deceived by the mainstream depiction of youth raising hands in some kind of experience of worship.
Worship is not about the experience. It’s about giving glory to [...]

Hearthstone Originally uploaded by Silas Mask.
A colleague of mine was talking to another colleague of mine…
“I know your mouse is female. My one is male.”
“How you know my one is female??”
“Female mouse got pad.”
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At ten minutes to 8am, a unassuming black figure wriggles across the bedroom floor. A cockroach. It proceeds to the bathroom, where it finds itself comfortable for reasons unknown to us. It took me awhile to get to the spray, and when I finally did, I found out that the thing took way too long [...]

I just got back from the Actors Studio in Bangsar and some aftershow drinks at the friendly La Bodega, and the show was absolutely amazing. It doesn’t exactly beat Blue Man Group, which my wife and I were fortunate to experience in Chicago a few years ago, but it sure hits the spot… I was [...]

I don’t know why, but I never liked the idea of drilling too many holes into a wall. I’m always afraid that I’m drilling at the wrong place, or that I won’t be able to patch it up the same ever again, or that there’s some kind of stigma that I’ll somehow degrade the structural [...]

I found it… the camera I want:

- 6 megapixels- 28mm Leica DC Vario-Elmarit wide-angle lens- 3.6x optical zoom- optional underwater housing- light: 132g- compact: 94.1 x 51.1 x 24.2 mm
The only thing “bad” about is that it doesn’t have fully manual controls (shutter/aperture) and it doesn’t support RAW. And it’s not on sale…… yet.
And this [...]

I don’t know what got into me, but I got to a point where I was so confident of getting my next car, I put a downpayment for it and put up ads to sell off my Kelisa. It wouldn’t have been so bad, except that the build-up had been really enormous.
Almost a full [...]