Letters from the Equator

This is my first ever Chinese New Year away from Penang, away from my family, and it is a little weird, though very relaxing. If you have never ever ever been to Penang during Chinese New Year, then you don’t know what the meaning of bad traffic means. Okay, maybe there’s Bangkok and Bangladesh, and [...]

I’ve been hit by a flu bug (which one doctor of mine has pugnaciously remarked that flu is not an official disease). I coughed up a lot of odd stuff. I once read in Wikipedia that pus is a combination of liquor puris and dead neutrophils and debris. I keep thinking that every blob of [...]

The volkswagen I used to own has now been transformed into an ultra-cool chick magnet. Check out the pix:

I’m really happy that the new owner has decided to invest some good cash into sprucing this car up. I don’t think I would do justice to it, if it was in my hands.
Here are the previous [...]

I will be spending my last day at my current company tomorrow. I will be joining a “proper” MNC for the first time in my career. It is a miracle from God. The timing couldn’t be better:
1. job offer came just in time as my current company is performing a staff switchover by the end [...]

Here’s a list of cars I’ve driven in the past, in decending order of first driven (i.e. I drove the Alfa 156 just recently). I initially wanted to post about how infectious continental cars can get, especially the Italian marques, when you’re at the drivers seat. But….. that’s going to take a lot of processing [...]

I have nothing left to blog about! oh no! maybe it’s because I’m too fussy about what to write, having reached a certain standard of published content… or maybe my life really is that mundane… or maybe I’m just too shy. Whatever it is, I don’t have anything worthy to put down here, because well,….. [...]

IKEA: The Swedish Feeding Trough - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: “Furniture giant IKEA lures customers with homey interior landscapes and cheap warm meals. But more and more people are starting to use the stores as an ersatz for social services and babysitting.”
I guess a lot more people have a lot less stigma about [...]

Despotic Shampoo Originally uploaded by jaremfan.
Yes, folks… you got that right. This is a despotic shampoo. It rules in absolute tyranny… arrr!
I found it at the Pik Wah restaurant gent’s washroom near Stadium Merdeka. I couldn’t help but take a picture.
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This post is dedicated to my wife, of one year (ok, almost), and friend since before the 2nd millenium. Out of all the things and events, the ups and downs, bla bla bla… these things become empty shells without the lives of wonderful people. It’s hard to put down in words, as necessary as they [...]

I did a very stupid thing today. I went out and test drove a BMW E36 325i coupe… and was smitten.
If I was 30 years old, I think I would’ve bought the thing on the spot. But now I’m in stitches. The car is actually within reach, at slightly less than RM60k. The only thing [...]