The dilemma of explaining my heritage:

I’ve always had difficulties explaining my mixed blood, even in my own home country. So imagine that difficulties magnified tenfold in a foreign land. Even Hero grapple to understand it in the beginning.
I find it the most difficult to explain my race to my American friends than to Australian friends, though. I have a [...]

Reward for a closet nerd: turning into bloodthirsty maid for a night!

As a direct result of my non-existent social life last semester, lots of late nights and insurmountable amount of money invested in energy drinks, I hereforth happily announce that I have managed to score myself two High Distinctions (means I scored between 85%-100%) and 1 credit (I don’t want to talk about this blotch in [...]

The Prolonged Silence

I’m sorry if you came here and expect to read something…I don’t really have much to offer these days.
Studies and work have been keeping me on my toes. I thank God that created whoever it is that came up with the idea to put caffeine into yummy energy drinks. Without it, I’m cuckoo.
It’s not that [...]

Thank Yous

My grandma will be buried today, though I’m not sure when. It’s not a good feeling not being there to say goodbye for the last time, but I’ll honour her memory by paying her back with success.
Thank you to everyone who have sent their condolences through comments (thanks Shinta, Amiey and zeL). Thank you for [...]

Penguin on a hiatus…again

Sorry for the silence folks, but it’s getting busier at my end of the world right now.
We are feeling the recession so I’m putting in more hours at work and squirreling away money. Not that it’s gonna do much different since a huge bulk of it will go to my fees next semester but hey, [...]

Don’t beg me to read your poems (they most likely suck)

To whometh it mayeth concerneth,
I would like to implore thee to use thy senses.
Just because I blog does not mean I’m a qualified, bone fide writer (my split personality will beg to differ, however).
I do not have formal writer’s training. My forays into writings are limited to those pretentious essays I write in high school [...]

A very chickenfull post

Buckeroomama have been kind enough to award me the Zombie Chicken award.
Yes, you read right. Zombie. Chicken.
Basically this awards means that I’m one of the people that she’ll not stop reading even if there are an army of Zombie Chicken attacking her. Now, she doesn’t think of me in this whole situation i.e them [...]

My Legal Letter from a Very Legal Barrister.

a.k.a my ‘relation’ died and I hit jackpot. Do I care to find out who he is? Not really. As long as he leaves me money, that’s all I care about.
Click on the picture to view my very legal, formal and professional letter.

My English teacher mum will be so proud of me.
Thanks Mr. Jim [...]

If a chocoholic refuses chocolate, is she dying?

I’m sick.
I don’t get sick often and the sensation of being sick is foreign to me. I don’t like it. I have tonsillitis. Every year, it gets inflamed once. When this happens, I can’t even eat my favourite chocolate haystacks!
However, there are a few things I like with being sick. Like having Hero, [...]

This finger is ringless…

..and it plans to stay that way for a while.

What is it about Aprils?
At last count, Hero and I has 3 engagement party invitations—not including the one we have just attended last 2 weeks—and at least 3 wedding invitations. I say “at least” because I know there are still another 2 under way, and [...]