• The Captcha test

    Bob typed in his name, email address and password and carefully read through the terms and conditions before clicking “accept”. The form disappeared and another page appeared.

    “Please verify that you are human” were the words on the screen. Below it, a check box next to the words “I’m not a robot”.
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  • Writing is like asking a girl out

    [NOTE: this blog post is an assignment for my online Grammar 101 course]

    Writing is like asking a girl out

    There are many parallels to draw between writing and asking a girl out. Actually not really, but since I couldn’t think of what to compare it to, I just took the first thing that came to mind. Let’s see how I can forcefully marry the two activities together.
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  • Gig #83: Barlai again

    Nothing much to add except that I’m dusting off my guitar again and have another show lined up for tomorrow. I’ll be back at Barlai again, and there’s gonna be some familiar faces in the lineup so it should be a fun night! Anyway, hope to see you guys there. Come show your love! <3

    The Barlai Open Mic is a brand spankin’ new biweekly open mic night which happens on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. Sign up by dropping us a message on the wall below or emailing us at shaneil.devaser@me.com

    The Barlai Open Mic nights this July are going to be a little bit more special. We’ll be collecting donations for the Mount Kinabalu guides whose incomes have been greatly affected by the recent earthquake. #sayangkinabalu

    2030 Gregory Srikrish Ramanado
    2045 George Susej Wong
    2100 Zach Sia
    2115 Ashes and Oak Trees
    2130 Ariff AB
    2145 Izzul Syafiq Mazlan
    2200 Ray Cheong
    2215 Ian Tai
    2230 Ruben Kelvin
    2245 Shaneil Devaser

    The Barlai Open Mic is geared towards solo/duo/trio acts with the limitation of one microphone input and one instrument input. Think intimate evenin’. 🙂

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    Date: 23/7/15
    Venue: BarLai
    Time: 8.30pm – 10.30pm