When I was a kid I had a bad habit of pulling my hair. Not pull on a bunch in an attempt to ease a migraine (which I still do until now but which doesn’t really work but I don’t know why I keep on doing it), but actually pull them out by their roots, […]
Birthday Cakes
For the first time in the history of me working, I decided to take a birthday leave! Yahoo! So… now what? *Crickets chirping* Aha! I can wax nostalgic and take a look at pictures of my previous birthdays. (Whew! Crisis avoided.) My first ever birthday. Obviously I don’t remember anything about it but the pictures show that […]
One Hell of a Summer
My colleague recently went on reservice training. All Singaporean guys are called by the government to go on military “reservice” training once in a while where they are taught how to be soldiers so that they would know how to defend their country just in case it went to war. I have to say, their […]
Can You Please Check If the Water is Running?
When I was in High School, before caller ID was invented, my neighbor used to prank her friends by making me call them and say, “Hello, this is the water district. Can you please check if your water is running?” After that person had checked and come back and said yes it was, I’d then […]
A Busload of Bus Memories
This morning, I saw a video of a burning Guiwan bus terminal on Facebook. According to an article, the fire happened last Monday and razed the old place to the ground. That terminal has been around forever and is probably way overdue for a replacement but still, it is our city’s only bus depot. How will […]
Saved from Geocities
Geocities is closing. The end of an era. I wonder if there will come a time that Blogspot will, too? God I hope not. Anyway, I never had a Geocities site, but my friend Flisha did. I remember how zip.to/flisha was one of the sites I always visited whenever I had a chance to rent […]
Kuya Tupe’s Birthday Letter
Aww, was brought to tears when I read Tupe’s open letter to me in his blog. Tupe was a college classmate whom I called Kuya (big brother) just because he was born a year ahead of our batch. He gamely allowed me to and called me his little sister. In many ways, he did seem […]
Three Poems, Three Performances
Imagine that your Literature teacher had given you a group task to come up with a creative way of presenting the poem below, how would you do it? Children’s HourHenry Wadsworth LongfellowBetween the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,That is known as the Children’s Hour. […]
Innovative Kid
Yesterday I read an article about the popular board game, Monopoly, on Reader’s Digest, and recalled a childhood experience. A classmate had brought his Monopoly board game to school on a Friday, and I fell in love with the game. As much as I wanted to have one for my own, I did not come […]
Drills and Thrills
Today we had to climb down 14 floors worth of stairs for our fire drill. My legs were shaking by the time I got down. A good thing I had worn flats in preparation for this event. When this had happened back in P&G, I was wearing stilettos. No wait..that wasn’t during the fire drill. […]