In my 15 years’ stay in Malaysia, one of the things that I noticed about Malaysians — especially the Malays — is how they like to ask or state the obvious.
Scenario 1: It’s 6 pm. I pack up my laptop, lock my room and walk towards the lift with my laptop bag and handbag in [...]
Ever since Lola and I got back from Europe, things have been unbelievably hectic at the office.
There’s the usual backlog that accumulated while I was away. It took me hours to plough through hundreds of emails — both bonafide ones and spam.
Then my 3-year old Sony VAIO laptop went nuts — restarting without warning, [...]
Here are some photos of the twins when they had their first proper haircut at the
barbershop last April. By proper, I mean, without me having to restrain them or sit with them. Unfortunately, they were taken with a camera phone, so please forgive me for the poor quality of the pics.
I must confess I first [...]
The twins arguing on the proper pronunciation of the word ‘excavator’:
Twin 1: Ska-vey-ter!
Twin 2: A-vex-ter!
Twin 1: Ska-vey-ter!
Twin 2: A-vex-ter!
Me: Ex-ca-va-tor…
Twin 1: Hah! Abang pandai! (Big Brother is clever!)
On the way to playschool this morning:
Twin 1: Nak nak kus! (Tak nak school – I don’t want school) Cuti! (Holiday!)
The twins arguing on the pronunciation of the [...]
My assistant and I flew to and from Singapore on AirAsia yesterday. We went in the morning, had a meeting with one customer, had a second meeting with a supplier, then flew back in the evening.
The flights were on time, the leather seats were impeccably clean and felt luxuriously good, and the flight was so [...]
