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Confucius says; Chinese New Year house no red, not Chinese

True story.
You know come Chinese New Year we’d (the older us) would go, yeahh no need to buy new clothes lah. Yeahh no need to buy decoration la. Yeahhhhh no need to buy all red red la.
Lies all lies.
Or maybe it’s just me. I say all these things because I’m cool like [...]

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The silliest Chinese New Year-related argument ever

This has to be it.
It has been on-going for a while now.
So much grey matter poured into this debate.
And it’s a really non-life changing discussion.
So one day I tweeted something along the lines of,
“I CAN’T WAIT TO TONG TONG CHIANG!!”
K obviously it meant Chinese New Year, right?
Tong3 tong3 chiang1.
Perhaps I should have included the [...]

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Customers’ rights: do you pay for non-service?

My friend Shirley is upset.
She bought a deal from her local group buying site. To cut the story short, she felt that the vendor was not fulfilling its promises, thus she wants her money back.
So she wrote to the vendor telling them so. Good for her, I hope she gets her money back. [...]

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Smiling in the face of cancer: Daniel Hedlund

I came across something amazing last night and I just had to share.
There’s a campaign called “In Search of Incredible” by Asus and Intel where they team up with Jason Mraz for inspiring stories. One of the few stories they gathered was of Jesse Billauer, a champion junior surfer who broke his spine in [...]

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Famous Australian beer, Little Creatures in Malaysia!

Little Creatures is in Malaysia!
If that didn’t mean anything to you, don’t worry you’re not alone. Apparently the appreciation is mostly by those who’ve been in Australia long enough (read: students) to understand why it’s so fantastic.
This is because Little Creatures is kinda an exclusive thing. Their microbrewery is in Fremantle [...]

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