Category: Thoughts

  • Down with the sickness

    Down with the sickness

    It’s been awhile since I last fell sick, and even longer since I blogged about it. I guess it’s kinda pointless to write about being sick anyway. There’s not much to say. I’m on meds, not really in the mood to write, but fuck it. Just write anyway because I haven’t hit 5 posts this week.

    If there’s one thing that sucks about being sick, it’s probably having to run to the toilet every 15 minutes or so because you can’t contain the shit (heh) inside. Anyway, I’m on drugs for my fever, cough, flu and sore throat. On a side note, why isn’t flu spelled as ‘flue’? I seem to automatically type flue on the keyboard for no reason.
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  • Face down receipts

    You know, one thing that has puzzled me for the longest time is how mamaks handle their receipts. If they don’t stick it in a cup or fold it up, they always hand it to you face down. And one of the first things you normally do is flip it the right way up to see how much the restaurant is going to extort you for that piece of fried chicken. This isn’t a rare occurrence or something strange that happened once in my life. It happens all the time.

    I can’t think of any reason why they would want to put the receipt face down. It’s not like it’s going to make the meal any cheaper. The numbers don’t change. Are they aware of the exorbitant prices they wrote down that they’re too ashamed to hand you the bill face up? And that by the time you finish turning the piece of paper around, they would have already walked away?

    I’m not complaining about the prices – after all I chose to go to that mamak in the first place. So why hide the price? No other restaurants seem to do this. Hell, you’d be hard pressed to get a bill in the first place if you eat in a Chinese restaurant that wasn’t serving “tai chow”.

  • Songs, Straws, and Celebrities

    Songs, Straws, and Celebrities

    One of the most frustrating things I experience on a frequent basis is hearing a tune or song in my head and not knowing what it is. I’ll spend hours of my day trying to figure out what it is. Even in today’s connected world, it can still be a chore.

    You don’t know the words to the song (or worse – the song has no lyrics) and you’re left with a barely recognizable tune which you hum out – usually in the wrong key and nobody can help you to figure it out. Soundhound can’t recognize your shitty humming, and you don’t have the words to Google.

    And then sometimes you find a song that sorta sounds like what you’re looking for, which satisfies you for a bit, and then you realize that it’s not the song you were looking for. Or it turns out to be a song you didn’t like in the first place and it was stuck in your head just because.

    Usually, you’ll forget about the song by the end of the day. But a few days later, another song will take its place.


    From all the years I’ve been alive, one thing I’ve noticed in every fast food restaurant is that nobody ever takes exposed straw from the straw dispenser. EVER. I’m the only one who takes it.

    I get that people think the exposed straw is somehow dirtier than the other straws inside the dispenser, but is that really the case? Who’s to say the straws inside aren’t just as dirty or even dirtier?

    I’ve yet to get sick from using a straw. Until then, I’ll be saving myself presses and extending the lifespan of the straw dispenser.


    Why do girls say it’s such a waste whenever an actor is hot and gay? It’s not like they had a chance with him in the first place.

    If a hot actress is gay, guys think it’s a bonus. lnny