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In the mirror (facebook repost)
I was more upset than I expected when I realised that, money aside, I was not going to own a GT 86– that as a family man, it wasn’t happening. It took me a long time to process that and figure o...
Note: National Day, Singapore
I’m going to open with the concept of love, because that’s what patriotism is– the love for one’s country. Some people with nothing better to do will argue “no it’s not. There are so many forms o...
Why do you fight?
I’ve occasionally been asked: why do you waste time fighting people who are clearly just out to cause trouble? Usually I get some platitude about how the lion is unconcerned with the opinion of ...
Building the perfect beast
There is a crushing and terrible loneliness in knowing, rightly or wrongly, that there ain’t no thing like you, except you. (This is in fact quite a common malady of youth.) Fortunately, few of u...
Ladder
You can spend your time always looking up , seeing the best in humanity; you can seek it out in yourself a million times and fall short a million times, but at least you emerge a better person th...
From a conversation
H: I don’t understand these people. I see them, I know what they’re doing, but I don’t understand. Me: Sometimes understanding is not about walking in their shoes. Me: Sometimes understanding is ...
Random
Sometimes learning all the words in your vocabulary serve only to teach you this: That sometimes words are not enough, that silence flows and fills the gaps where words cannot fit, that far more ...
It's not a rich man's world
A quick calculation, assuming a wage of 8 bucks an hour (comparing me to a cab driver, since I was, at my lowest vocation rank, a heavy truck driver), shows that the army should have paid me in t...
Bait and switch
A friend of mine at uni was a very butch member of the local LGB society. Around Christmas, this was our conversation after about four beers: Her: I’m still trying to figure out how to tell my pa...
Game plan
How far away were you when this happened? Five metres? Ten at the most? Eight steps. Then you were never in danger. Next time, the moment a single one of them touches you, you shout. I will re...
*headdesk*
Genetics is powerful. Like both her parents before her, Xueling has discovered the joys of stapling herself.
Beads (Facebook note)
The real question is not what you can claim to be [by their standards]. The [real] question is why are we behaving like the fawning sycophants of the popular kids who get to decide who is in or ...
Hard E Har
Sometimes the only reason we laugh at someone’s joke is because it’s the only socially acceptable way we know of saying What the fuck is wrong with you?”
Be a MAN. Do MANLY things.
RR: What defines ‘masculinity’? What do you think is ‘manly’? Come, I need all comments, in regards to this. What are your thoughts? (for an academic paper) Me: Looking at it as a writer, I thin...
Ranma newhalf
Me: You know how you’ve observed that I prefer non-girly girls, and how I seem to have a fascination for red hair? Caffeine: suspiciously Yes? Me: So I found my dream girl. Caffeine: Well, that ...
What's good for the goose....
I could probably open an entire new book on these: Saw this: and my first thought was because when you need them you’re hovering by your messenger and they don’t know you need them yet and my se...
Cards against the huge manatee
I finally saw Cards against Humanity. I looked at the options for about five minutes and then I closed the tab. Way I see it, it’s fridge magnet poetry, except that instead of making poetry, you’...
*INCOHERENT SCREAMING*
DEAR MICROSOFT WHY IS THERE NO STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY TO ENSURE FORMATTING CONSISTENCY WHEN OPENING THE FILE ON SOMEONE ELSE’S COMPUTER YOU PIECE OF SILICON VALLEY LAPUTA. Ok, I’m done. Back to work...
And now I'm getting nasty:
Seen: Me: Every time you put up a post like this, you lose another person who might have.
I am still a terrible man
This popped up on my facebook feed: My first thought? “You owe me money.” Note: I wanted to use a pic, as with the previous, but all the ones I could find were either racist or sexist, and so my...
Parenting fail
~~kid points gun at Xueling and goes “BANG BANG BANG”~~ Xueling: Daddy! Me: Yes? Xueling: He is pointing a gun at me! Me: Do you not like it? Xueling: Yes! Me: Then you have two choices. You can ...
All the way up the yin-yang
The most effective lies are those that contain no falsehoods at all, and the most pernicious Truths are those without need for facts. Note: Effectiveness is not the same as morality.
Dramatical conversation
Me: ~~Makes puppy face~~ Caffeine: ~~pats~~ Me: Shall I be Ren? Caffeine: So I’d be Aoba? Me: You say this in the full understanding that I have an unhealthy fascination for Aoba cosplayers ...
I think I am a bad man
I saw someone share this on Facebook: and my first thought was this: The only reason I didn’t immediately respond with it is because when someone is possibly on the edge of an emotional cliff, ...
So we confuse people.
On the way home from the Trickeye last night: T: So… [you and Caffeine] are friends? Me: We’re married. T: Oh. I’m sorry. Me: We’re good friends too, if that helps. Here’s how she was looking yes...
Book Description
Epiphanies, sarcasm, opinions and thoughts that may or may not fit in 140 characters.
