Once or twice a year, the flu bug strikes. Today I woke up with aching muscles and a fevered body. I crawled out of bed, sent an email to my colleagues and slept in the rest of the morning.
For me, the flu is a 4-step process:
Sore Throat - an inflamed tonsil normally indicates […]
Another animated cartoon? Featuring super-heroes and evil villians? There’s not much that hasn’t been depicted on the silver screen before.
Yet, The Incredibles stands out from the crowd for many reasons. It is produced by the talented team at Pixar, who had in collaboration with Disney previously made the successful Toy Story and […]
Phi - the Greek alphabet that denotes the golden ratio. It is a fixed mathematical ratio that has been associated with aesthetically pleasing shapes, which is what Huntley’s book, The Divine Proportion, attempts to describe. This ratio permeates various geometrical structures and has been linked to pleasing shapes (as identified through […]
This weekend, the Harvesters (a Scripture study group I’ve been attending) had our annual retreat. It was a preparation for Advent as well as a chance to reexamine what we’ve been doing to see how we could “Welcome Christ into Our Lives”. I prepared some reflections, and so did JL and AT. […]
I picked up my new car today. It’s a zippy little Toyota Vios with a 1.5l engine in a bright red chassis.
There’s something special about taking posession of a new car: unwrapping the plastic that covers the driver’s seat, being surrounded by the smell of new leather, opening the bonnet to see a spotlessly […]
We had a company meeting today, with the usual corporate updates and questions from the audience. There were the usual questions about when were we expected to go public (as all startup companies aimed to become).
What was notable was the answer. Our CEO himself declared that if we did make it to IPO, […]
Yes, I admit it: I have not seen The Godfather until today. Not in my 34 years of existence. Of course I have heard about it many times - its immortal quotes are part of our collective culture (i.e., those of us who live on a diet of American movies) - but yet […]
Today’s Gospel reading was Luke 21:5-19, where Jesus foretold the destruction of the Temple. I attended Mass at the Cathedral, and Fr Adrian Anthony explained how the readings following up to the feast of Corpus Christi (the end of the Church Calendar) focus on the passing of this world. This Sunday’s reading was […]
My sister and her husband visited Singapore today. Its the Hari Raya long weekend in Malaysia too, so they decided to drive down with my favourite nephew, Arjuna.
The good thing about living in Aquarius is that people come to visit sometimes because of the amenities. The pool at this condominium is excellent - […]
Another translation of the New Testament? Why? Don’t we have enough Bibles already? I would not have paid any more attention this book, except that I noted Lattimore’s other works.
Lattimore’s background was interesting primarily because he had a reputation as a translator of Greek classics. He has translated most the […]