October 2010
4 posts
Where and when is human sense of survival being limited to total obedience? (i.e. You have to obey us in order to survive!) Where and when is human sense of survival forcing people to be entrepreneurial and creative? (i.e. We have to overcome the situation using this, this, and this in order to survive)
I found Haloumi cheese in the grocery, and the reciple on its wrapping tempted me to give it a try. Besides, I need to increase my daily intake of calcium for my baby. Hence, today I cook this Grilled Haloumi Salad with Hicory Smoke Bbq Sauce. Unwrap Haloumi and rinse with water (I found out later that Haloumi is quite salty, and this can be overcome by immersing it in milk for a while, if...
After months of searching, we finally bought cow tongue. It is quite xpensive, but we managed to bargain with the seller, reducing the price from $18 to $15 perkilo. We’ll cook cow tongue stew tonight, and we will invite Wicak to come & enjoy the delicacy!
Lemme just quote a paragraph from Absolut Badalu on the place called home. ,Indonesia isn’t without flaws either. The endless problems with discriminations, pollutions, poverty, corruption, hipocrisy, political turmoil, education, etc. (still a long list to go). But what makes a difference is the people. They are so warm, welcoming, nice, friendly. The landscape is gorgeous. So many...
September 2010
1 post
i think nobody wants to get jiggy tonight but us.
August 2010
1 post
I find Singapore similar to a theme park. The path you walk is designated, not allowing you to deviate. The activities are well contained in specified spaces and places. The “system” are laid down for the people “to ride on a specified track”, just like “It’s A Small World” ride in Disneyland. Everything happens in a highly predictable manner. Most of the...
July 2010
3 posts
Great architects are not democratic, they’re authoritarian. They exert themselves in a such insensitive way to their surrounding Perhaps that’s why Chandigarh failed, Brasilia failed, and Koolhaas’s Seattle Public Library also doesn’t do very well. Not to forget the EMP Building, also in Seattle, which performs very poorly and does not fit its urban context. It’s...
My sister-in-law wrote: Isn’t it amazing how little kids are so fascinated by the littlest things that barely catch our attention? Every chance he has, my 3-year-old son takes the time to stop and look at flowers, trees, butterflies, ants, spiders, grass, birds… even some funny-looking rocks. To encourage his communication skills, I often ask him about the color, size, and other...
To continue with our previous posting of “mediocre service” in singapore, somehow this week we were all cursed with getting bad service all the time. First, when we were having pizza hut in Jurong East. The waiter forgot to get his notebook to take down our orders, and even that, he still repeat our orders three times, and never get it completely right! Then when the meals came, he...
June 2010
5 posts
Last weekend we experienced two contrasting treatments as customer. The first instance is in Akashi Japanese Restaurant, Citylink Mall. It’s an upper-middle-end type of restaurant ($20-40 perperson), so we kinda expect the service to be up to par, or to have Japanese kind of friendliness and politeness. To our surprise, the service turned out to be really crappy. All the girls who works...
Yesterday morning i saw three baby birds lying dead on the grassy ground near jurong east mrt station. They were very young, the feathers haven’t even grown. Apparently they fell from their nest, which was built at the edge of mrt platform, 10 meters above the ground. Death, what a sad scene to start my day. By this evening, the dead birds are no longer there. Maybe stray cats ate...
If I am undefined by the mainstream, then I have to set out to define myself, and present myself to existence.
I met the friendly bus driver when I boarded 191 bus from CSC to Hang Jebat. Apparently he still remembers me as a frequent rider of his bus on my way home. He insisted that i need not pay for the bus fare! I’m touched by his friendliness, and we started to chat a bit!
Muslim WakeUp! Main seems to be an interesting site. I haven’t had a chance to really read it, but it seems that it’s a quite open-minded Islamic site, quite liberal. This is my first impression because there is an article in the website quoting Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, who argues that Islam do not condemn homosexuality. I’ll read more about this website later.