My Silent Pages

Shame on Marc Jacobs for his collection, so hastily put together he seems to coast merely on his fame alone. Granted this season has shown u...

This is a digression from the usual vapidities of my blog but here it is. I love Singapore and (almost) everything our nation-state stands f...

I was told that certain cuisines cannot be replicated in Singapore due to its climes and as a result, we are only ever sampling an approxima...

Two friends and someone else sent me to Food for Thought, opposite National Library, for lunch. After much searching, a bad sense of directi...

Singapore, for all its vaunted ambition to be a world class city, lacks a proper Jewish restaurant. We also do not have enough Greek eaterie...

Well now, in recent months, friends have been raving about the macarons at Bakerzin with some going so far as to suggest that they were bett...

This blog is not dead. Happy New Year. Will be back in 2008. C'est tout.

HELLO. All right, I know, I have been neglecting this blog. No grand sermons on the right of government, no tirade against the petty working...

Hello hello! It's been terribly long since I last blogged here and it is entirely my fault. I know. I should have blogged more often, es...

It has been a week since I last blogged so you can tell how distracted I have been from that. The event is officially ended what with the ap...

The event that has been the cause of so much interest, experience, pain and work for the past 7 months has finally come to an end. This does...

Whew, woke up at 11am today. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CAME YESTERDAY AND/OR WISHED ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Not that I'm pleased to be one ye...

The week thus far has been good and it should be considering that it is the week of my birthday and all. Work has been bearable and the work...

The past week was annoying and gorgeous at the same time. Annoying: My bosses have been extremely irritating. I feel that they're increa...

OMFG, one of my bosses is annoyingly incompetent. I cannot believe he just threw work at me and then the next moment, I find him reading up ...

A certain somebody threatened to get a wospec to do something unimaginatively horrible to me. Words cannot describe the mirth I feel now. Pa...

I am utterly and resolutely in love with Nigella Lawson and her boundless womanhood. How can you not love a woman who lets her hair trail in...

Ce soir-la, c'etait vraiment special pour moi. The meeting began at 0900hrs. God welcomed all to the meeting and thanked them all for ta...

A word to you anon, you're always welcome to tag on my board. It's really there for you to air your frustration so go ahead. We all ...

I await tomorrow with bated breath. No, seriously. Tomorrow will determine if my recent streak of unbelievably bad luck is at its end. I hop...

Increasingly, work sucks. This cannot go on. Hello Clare! God I thought you were dead or something. C'est tout.

I am going to say that you obviously have some manpower (not to mention a couple of other) issues when you need a clerk whose hips and back ...

The past week has flown by really quickly. The break on friday was really much needed after all and I'm a lot fresher now. Yesterday was...

Wednesday evening was a pleasant surprise because Mummy decided to have dinner at Boat Quay en famille. We ate at al dente which was passing...

It takes so little to make one realise how reliant we are on our technology. I was observing my mother using the computer yesterday and it d...

Jessie has just figured out why my writing skids too closely to the excessively florid most of the time and I'm not telling you why save...

For a non-science geek like me, Charles Stross' Accelerado is one smashing hard science fiction hit. I love the idea of Economics 2.0, t...

Oh gosh, the kid's got exam tomorrow and I'm sadly too drained to give her tuition today. I'm responsible enough to feel guilt b...

Hier etait fab. J'echappais du bureau a dix sept heures et reviendrais chez moi pour me preparer avant d'aller a Clarke Quai pour re...

My little trip to Genting can be summed up with but a line. It was shit and I'm never going back there again. Ok, I appreciated the oppo...

I am suddenly fixated with the whole idea that were I to buy a vintage Dior Homme suit (yes, they are vintage now since Slimane no longer wo...

I AM LIKE TOTALLY UNSTOPPABLE. And Urban is so depressing. Seriously, I've only begun reading the Straits Times this year because there ...

My doomed apple dumplings are leaking molten butter in the oven because I inverted the sugar:butter ratio. ARGH. Ille me parlait hier et pou...

I love my rainy days, so restful and all. Evenings like this, makes me want to paint everything in saturated shades of blue. Oh and I wish h...

Oh gosh, I'm suddenly so desperate for a liposuction I think I'll rob the bank. Hectic hectic week. I love my office with all my nic...

Il y a un/e personne qui m'aime, vraiment. Ille m'aime si beaucoup nous-meme sommes blesses. C'est trop triste pour moi. Je ne p...

I did it. Et c'est un bon coupe aussi! I bought my beautiful marc jacob jeans from blackspade AND it was after a 50% reduction instead o...

Ouch, I really really need physio or some kick ass tuina because my left leg is a mess. The shin splint is still there, my butt hurts and so...

I once had a pair of red Calvins that were absolutely beautiful, the sort that follows the line of your leg and makes them look five feet lo...

The past two days (three if you count today) have been rather at once incredibly fulfilling and tiring. I don't even want to talk about ...

The idiot who said home-cooked food tastes the best must have had Bocuse or Robuchon in his kitchen. I did make a beautiful dessert platter ...

With all the gravity of a soon to be nineteen year old, I think I've grown fatter. Somebody in my office commented that I looked as if I...

Damn the Straits Times. This is deliberate baiting, I tell you. Look, obviously, I'm going to roll my eyes at the pathetically desperate...

Today has been utterly charming. It has been a long time since our family last spent a Sunday together having fun without the phone(s) ringi...

Hellohello! It's been a long time since I blogged. While, it's been a long time since I blogged about happy things so yes. I have my...

In the event that my beloved Padre happens to be reading my blog, here goes. I resent it when you tell Mummy that I'm spoiled and when y...

I choke on your fatalism and storied pain. I ought to be calm, composed and relaxed. This, however, promises to be too much. It hurts when s...

Somebody ought to revive Project Alabama. The past week has been crazy, well not really, last saturday was crazy. Sister and I were eating c...

Every obliging, I am writing this post at the behest of Jessie who would fain be glad that what was writ upon my blog be erased. R Project w...

Sweet Jessie, leave anon be. There are certain people among us who are too frustrated in their impotent anger and can only do the irrational...

crudefug is quite right in describing me as insecure, miserable and pretentious (he is unbelievably stupid nonetheless for lumping me with ...