Cái bản đồ

Lần cách đây hơn 2 năm mình về VN. Í, mà hổng nhớ chính xác là lần đó hay lần trước nữa. Dạo này khái niệm thời gian nhiều lúc cứ lù mù, lờ mờ. Đích thị là bệnh già. Thôi, cứ giả bộ là lần cách đây 2 năm đi. Vị chi là đầu [...]

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Fiscal restraint

Me (to m’ & TM): What do you guys think is the quickest way to make money?
m’: The other day the girls at work were talking about certain sort of female students who do certain type of dancing at certain kind of clubs. To pay off their Uni fee!
Me: Yeah I’ve heard of that. Well, [...]

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Possible psychological implications of a morning meal

Since someone got up too late this morning and didn’t have time to make me breakfast (hmmph!), I ended up munching on a scone and some coffee at work. Hey wait! Where are you going? Come back! This isn’t going to be one of those boring blog entries which describe in great details every single [...]

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Asian delicacy

Last night A. was supposed to come around for dinner and guess what? He was an hour late, as per usual procedure! So when he arrived I was giving him the silent treatment, to which he commented that I seemed a little “distracted”. And he should have been able to read my mind because at [...]

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Torrent

It’s raining. No, raining is an understatement. It’s pouring. Bucketing. Cascading. If it was warmer I wouldn’t have minded jumping out for a wild rain dance. Like that corny scene in Australia (the movie).
This kind of torrential rain always makes me ache for Vietnam. Because in Saigon, this is how they do business, man! None [...]

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Waterwork

I cried. I put my head on his shoulder and I wept and I wept and I wept. Not too silently either. He woke up, stroked my hair and said, “Let it out. Just let it out, e.b.” Without asking why. And I was so taken aback with it that I had to stop for [...]

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What a girl sees

TV: “Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd met up with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London today to discuss the GFC before the economic summit on Thursday.”
m’: “Oy! This new guy’s not as good-looking as Tony Blair!”
me: “Yeah. And why are PM’s talking about the Geelong Football Club?”
Well, so now you know the kind of [...]

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