Happy Valentine’s Day, folks. Simon does a list. Ten Items. So its a top ten list. Enjoy the chocolates and flowers, everyone, while they last. Top Ten Things Not to Say to Your Girlfriend on Valentine’s Day “I hope you don’t mind I go out with my friends to the watch the football live telecast tonight, dear…” “Hey, did you know that the initials of Valentine’s Day is VD – the same as Venereal Disease…!” ”Guess what? I ex-girlfriend called me today! We spent almost two hours chatting…” ”I wanted to buy you this fantastic gift at the Shell service station just now, but it would seem that my credit…

Right. Only less than a few days to the big V-Day. If you’ve got a present for your loved one, well and good. If not, well, now’s a pretty darn good time to start panicking. Seriously. But just in case as of February 14th evening, you still haven’t got a small package wrapped in either pink or red, well then, here’s some excuses. But of course use only as a last resort. And don’t use the same excuse for 5 years running. Top Ten Excuses For Not Buying a Valentine’s Day Present Look, you know I don’t believe in all this crass commercialism and superficial American consumerism. I’d thought our…

OK, newsflash: There are only 4 full shopping days left to Valentine’s Day, so if you still haven’t got that gift for your girlfriend / boyfriend / husband / wife / secret admiree, then… hey wait a minute, I HAVEN’T BOUGHT A GIFT YET!!! Okay, calm down… there’s still Saturday… maybe then this fantastic gift at a super affordable price will just appear before me… saving me the hours of frantic shopping. Anyways, for the rest of you, here are some things you may or may not know about the Feast of St. Valentine’s. These facts may or may be true. So you may or may not want to believe…

This is a continuation from yesterday’s post. Go read it first. No, seriously, go! Just one more shot Coronation Park (DR Park). Nice trees, my teacher calls them ‘cemetery trees’. I must say MBI is doing a decent job of maintaining this place. On weekend mornings, lots of people have picnics under the shady in the background. Right, moving on. It’s the train station in town. This is the last scene in Lat’s book ‘Town Boy‘. He rushes he to see off his best friend Frankie, who leaving for the UK for studies. The station still looks imposing, but they’re doing some renovation works at the side and on the…

Amidst the long Chinese New Year holidays, I managed to send at least half a day to visit the sights and lights of Ipoh, the city of beautiful architecture (by Malaysian standards la…) and glorious food. I have been to the city countless times since i was a kid, and my perception of Ipoh has always been shaped by Lat’s book “Town Boy“. For those unfamiliar with the milestone comic book story by Datuk Lat, it’s a story of how Lat comes to [tag]Ipoh[/tag] in the early 60’s as a schoolboy, meets a Chinese kid named Frankie, and how they grew up together until they finished school. Along the way,…

Man, coming back to work on a Monday morning after a long holiday is a drag, man. What’s worse is that half the office is still on leave (how long a holiday do these people need?!). But at least I can have a relatively peaceful day of work, at least until the phones start ringing. The thing is, while some of my colleagues are on annual leave, one or two are on Medical Leave. Or as they call it ‘MC’ around here (MC stands for Medical Certificate, the little slip the doctor gives you). And one of them are on Emergency Leave. What kinds of leave are there existing in…

I’m at home, still enjoying my holidays. Most of my pals are still on holidays, too, like me. To sum it up, on normal days and months of the year, we work our asses of to pay for the car, the house, and every other doodad we’ve accumulated over our working lives. But for this week, we bumming around in our underwear, gorging our faces with dried meat and prawn crackers, watching [tag]DVD[/tag]s or MTV. I’m not complaining, life is great, as good as it gets. Speaking of DVDs, my friend is a huge [tag]Renee Zellweger[/tag] fan. She may not realize it (in fact she denies it), but she has…