Archive for the 'Rant' Category

This is not good.
I’m feeling the effects of the trip to Florence and IT IS NOT GOOD. Reminds me of when I returned to Singapore after being in Cambodia for a week. Basically spent days pissing and moaning about how shitty the Singapore air is, how tiresome the crowds are, how grotesquely capitalist and hedonistic [...]


Too Much?

08Apr07

To elaborate on what I meant when I said that people treat us me differently depending on if he’s with me or not:
Without, old people love me – I was jogging in the park on Thursday and an elderly couple paused in the middle of their afternoon walk to cheer; shout words of encouragement, smile and wave, pretend that [...]


Time in the Animal Mind
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: April 3, 2007
Several recent experiments suggest that animals can visit the past and future in their minds, in ways similar to humans.  

From left, Adam Jones/Photo Researchers; Luke MacGregor/Reuters; Esteban Felix/Associated Press; Will & Deni McIntyre/Photo Researchers
Scrub jays, left, seem able to plan for the future in experiments, hiding [...]


Seriously?

18Mar07

Just what we need. Another asshole.
Homosexuality May Be Based on Biology,
Baptist Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 16, 2007
The president of the leading Southern Baptist seminary has suggested that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay orientation would be biblically justified.
Seriously??!?!?!


Me and my big mouth.
The day after I casually remarked “I don’t remember the last time I was ill”, I wake up feeling like my bones are too heavy and my skin is burning up. Despite that, we decided to go to new breakfast place near the river. Since the trams come a lot less [...]


Fact: Cats will eat/claw-to-death small creatures that capture its fancy.
Fact: Cats climb really well.
Fact: Carton boxes do not make good cages for two little chicks.
Fact: If the cat kills the two chicks, it will not be her fault. It will be yours.
Fact: If you kick my cat and chase her out of the house, I [...]


Christmas is coming, or rather, it seems to be here already.
At least it is, in the cafe where I have my regular fix.
They’ve dressed everything up in greens and reds. The styrofoam cups, the bannisters, the shelfs, even the baristas. Only, they don’t look thrilled to be “Santa’s Little Elves”. Everyone was a little grouchy [...]


Grrrrrr..

08Nov06