For most of my growing up years, my dad worked for the government away from home, only coming back on Thursday evenings by express bus and going back away on Friday nights. His weekend was on Friday, my school weekends were Friday/Saturday. Friday mornings were always spent with him in town. I’d follow him to Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, the biggest bank in town (now known as HSBC). Banking was different in those days, customer service was non existent (well maybe somethings haven’t changed that much) so to get all your banking done, you’d have to line up in multiple long queues. I’d pass the time by counting the…

If I mention Scotts Emulsion Cod Liver Oil, most of you you’d think of the orange flavoured kind you can get at the pharmacy. Something like this: Tastes great, like Haliborange. But back when i was a kid, when my mother said it was time for Scott’s Emulsion, i had to run for cover. Back then it was a bottle of thick white stuff, no nice orange flavour, it had a strong, almost nauseating fishy flavour. My brother and I always had to close our nose drinking it, and the thick fishy taste stayed with you for hours after that. Especially when you burped. Ewwwww. I couldn’t find a pic…

Was watching this talk show where veteran HK/Taiwanese comedian Slyvia Chang (张艾嘉) was doing a candid interview with a few stars from the 80’s, one of them was Lowell Lo (盧冠廷). Watching them reminiscent about the old times somehow reminded me of another HK star, a TV series, and an unforgetable song. It was Under the Lion Rock by the late Roman Tam, (獅子山下-ç¾…æ–‡) and the TV show was named similarly. I can’t remember much about the series, only that it was about the life and hardships of the middle-class Hong Kong citizens. (The actual Lion Rock in Hong Kong. Its said that Roman is refering to all HK folks)…

Went to Checkers in Damansara Heights last Saturday. We’ve heard a lot about this ‘KL’s best kept secret’ so we wanted to try out their ribs and compare it to Tony Roma’s. Checkers is a (very very) small homely restaurant nestled in the CEO bungalows of Setiabistari in Damansara Heights. Its so obscure that they don’t even have a signboard. Make sure you have good directions if you have not been there. The place is pretty small, 6 tables inside, 2 outside, so reservations is a must. The decor is a bit lacking, its got a mom and pop ambience, but the important thing here is the food. The menu…

I found this article and just had to reproduce it here, hat tip to the source here. Makes you put everything in your life in perspective – your problems, your grouses, etc. In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft photographed the planets of the solar system from outside the orbit of Pluto. This photo shows the earth (tiny dot just left of the white line) from 4 billion miles away. Astronomer Carl Sagan wrote of this photo: Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.…