Just joined twitter about two weeks ago, under the name ‘simontalks’. Coincidentally, there’s an article in the Star by Oon Yeoh about Twitter and microblogging, for the uninitiated. I’m exploring all the apps related to Twitter, and believe me, there are lots and lots of them, goes to show how popular it has become. There’s Twibble, Twitteroo, Twitterific, Twitthat, Tweetybird, etc. Heheh was joking about that last one. Anyways, I haven’t really started looking for my friends in twitter, so if your there, say hello to me and I’d love to start following you. 🙂 Last week, just for the fun of it, I started following Kevin Rose and Barack…

Last week I got a pink birthday card from AIG, the USD$700 billion bailed out insurance company. Actually it their wholly owned subsidiary, AIA. Slightly different initials, but same same. Think financial meltdown, federal reserve bailout. But I’m digressing. Actually last week i had already nicely worded letter from AIA telling me “everything is fine” and “don’t worry, your money is secure with us”… yadda yadda yadda. But this one is actually a birthday card for my daughter because I bought a policy from them many eons ago. You know what? Maybe AIA Malaysia might want to use a smaller font for that “An AIG Company” line… just a suggestion…

It was my first semester of life in university for me, and it didn’t take me long to settle in, but I never really clicked with most of my classmates, partly because I was not Chinese educated nor very interested in studying. But i found a few good friends like Dave and Ray, who shared a lot of my interests – music, PC games, you know, the important stuff. One day Dave came to my room and told me that another pal of his, Jedi, had problems getting past a certain PC game (I think it was Ultima VIII:Pagan) and needed help from someone who completed it before. So I…

My friend once told me a modern day adage that I found to be very true: these days everybody needs to know 3 people – a doctor, a lawyer and a mechanic. Without any of the services of these three professional, be prepared to lose lots of money when something goes wrong, ESPECIALLY the last one. I have an excellent family doctor, a young lady who, thankfully had to inject me on the backside only once so far. I know many lawyers who are good friends, but thankfully I haven’t had any reason to need their professional help, and hopefully don’t ever need to. As for the mechanic, i’m pretty…

Let me just wish all my Muslim friends a belated Eid Mubarak, Selamat Hari Raya. hope you guys had a good holiday. *** Some time ago, I wrote a blog posting about the Alleycats (you can read it here). That was in April 2006. As most of you know, on June 4, 2007, Loganathan Arumugam, or Loga, passed on after a battle with lung cancer. Since then, in addition to the comments offering condolences to the family appearing on that blog post, I have received numerous e-mails from their fans (from as far as the UK) asking me if how to get in contact with the David Arumugam and band.…