Archive for June, 2009

boost juice bars @ klcc

The lovely Yasmin (lady boss over at Cafe Libre) told me some time ago that she, together with her sisters and brothers-in-law would be bringing Boost Juice Bars to Malaysia. Of course I had no idea what she was talking about at that time, the same way someone from Australia would not understand Old [...]

Food, Food, Food

dear insurance agents…

I wish you’d stopped coming by our office ‘just to ask a few questions for a health survey that we are conducting’.
We both know that there is no such survey — I’m just too polite to tell it to your face. We both know that it is a sales/ introductory tactic you learned from [...]

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a card to keep in touch

I was looking for a birthday card for a friend when I saw the following:

Card front and inside
It got me laughing for a while because: a) it’s funny; b) my previous job was related to Chinese metaphysics; and c) it brought back memories of what I used to have to write. The first person I [...]

Stories, Thoughts, Ramblings

what just happened

I always joke with my brother-in-law that he is an Ah Beng because he’s very Cina one. How to describe someone as very Cina to you, I don’t know. Seeing is believing. He’s not that much AhBeng-nised any more but I still make fun of him now and then. If you think I’m bullying him [...]

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i can has new chairz?

My sister bought me a new office chair. I am referencing myself very liberally because in the first place, I hoisted her old office chair up to my room and shamelessly used it. After quite a while, Ryan broke it and I was chair-less for about 24 hours. So I sneaked into her home office [...]

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