The On-Call Syndrome

Each time your handphone rings…

Your heart rate gallops to tacyhardic rhythm
You stop breathing for a second or two
Your body jerks a little
And you go *GROAN* “Not again!”

Then you begin to assign a separate ringtone for the hospital call just so you won’t jump off your skin each time the mobile screams.
And you choose the one [...]

The sojourn

I went missing for a total of 5 days. In the Faraway Land, I was fed with useful and useless information, taught about the right and wrong and the “corrected wrongs”, bathed in truth and lies, clothed in garments of confusion and sent home with a weary heart, a million more unanswered questions which I [...]

The country I loved, am loving and want to love…

Let’s face it. The truth is Singapore is better than Malaysia in a lot of aspects. I won’t comment much about the government, national policies or politicians – sensitive issues; plus, the government, national policies or politicians are not my cup of tea. But in terms of local infrastructure, security, maintenance of national properties or [...]

Only in JB

Me        : What do you work as?
Patient  : Singapore
Me        : What is your occupation?
Patient  : Singapore
Me        : What do you do for a living?
Patient  : Singapore
No matter how you structure your question, the answer will always be SINGAPORE. Since when SINGAPORE becomes a job? Only when you start giving examples like factory worker, teacher, engineer, [...]

My first ten bucks

I came across a post by an ex-classmate about paychecks and her dad the other day. Somehow, it stirred some emotions in me.
When I was still a kid, then a teenager and still schooling and living off my parents like a parasite, I always dream about my first real paycheck and what I want to [...]