Borrowing money is a bad thing ?
on Oct 10, 2008BOA, Washington Mutual(WaMu - everybody says Wa-Moo), Wachovia - familiar names to us as we see those names whenever we go past Sunnyvale financial district in California.Local and foreign media have put so much focus on the financial crisis and anal...

New York Times, then now Malay Mail. Yippee!
on Oct 9, 2008I chose this site to "announce" it first, since this site has LOWER (secret) traffic following, compared to my main blog at Teczcape - An Escape to Food. Freakonomics.In fact, I just had a cooking post up in Teczcape - An Escape to Food and did

Contrasting views all a matter of perspectives
on Oct 9, 2008My Dad is going to jump at this - "S'pore top choice for expat parents" published in My Paper, 9 October 2008. It re-emphasized his point that Singapore......"is very good what ...a lot of foreigners want to come here..."Yes &

Different views of employment
on Oct 3, 2008Most of us who are employed or looking to being employed or even choosing "not to be employed"- we all have our reasons for doing so. The hierarchy of needs directs to a environment where the basic bread and butter needs to be satisfied first. S

Being gracious
on Sep 26, 2008I did not experience/observe this personally but hooby did. He saw a mother pushing a pram(with kid, of course) into the MRT train one day during morning peak hours. With the pram, this mother was occupying about four "standing spaces" in the tr

Making personal choices, just let us be
on Sep 18, 2008There is something that sparked off this post. These days, even a single sentence in a full long article can have me make inferences to how I feel. It is about what Ms Teo Ser Lee (TODAY Newspaper, 16 Sept 2008) said "Men want to have a successful, g

I miss California so so much...
on Aug 18, 2008I did not sleep well on Saturday night. In fact, I have been feeling sad ever since I came back to Singapore.I miss California so much! Sunnyvale and the surrounds....I miss the freedom. It is hard to define. It is just a feeling deep inside my heart...