Although the title of the post suggests a reminiscing of sorts, I will not do it simply because last year this was exactly what I was doing: thinking about last Christmas. My Christmas eve tonight will be a busy one; the house will be the venue of our Christmas party. This means I will make [...]
I have very few reasons to smile and laugh these days. I won’t give the morbid and grisly details because people are put off by other people’s misery, this I know clearly now. It is not true that misery loves company. People, especially those whom you feel very close to, tend to drift away in [...]
My favorite color is blue. I wear a lot of black. Most probably on account that I’m a big guy. I like some shades of green. Gray doesn’t complement my skin tone. I discovered I can get away with orange, a bit of yellow, pink and purple. But not red. My mother, who shopped for [...]
I broke my self-imposed vow of sobriety a couple of nights ago. No special reason. It actually started the night before that, when a friend invited me to ‘Talkin’ to a Stranger’, a bar I used to frequent a lot because it was so close to where I live (a 5-minute walk). Over a plate [...]
So by this time it’s common knowledge to those who follow tennis that Roger Federrer is this year’s Wimbledon champion, in turn capturing his 15th grandslam title and a page in history for beating Pete Sampras’ record of 14. But before anything else, let me just say that I’m not a big follower of tennis. [...]
Whenever I travel outside of Cambodia, one of the first things that I do is satisfy my cineaste heart. There are no cinemas in Cambodia that show English films. I have to make do with DVDs that I regularly buy from my friendly neighborhood (pirated) DVD shop. So soon after arriving here in Kuala Lumpur [...]