Bene Diction is right when she says that each blogger comes at issues from his/her own background and culture. I know I do. After reading the above-mentioned post by her, I wondered if I had been unwontedly insistent or too...
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that my own story would set off a controversy. I see it as borderline blasphemy. - from a post at Bloggenspiel She mostly feels that my story makes God too "human" or "ordinary"....
A few weeks back, I blogged about Project Petaling Street. Initially, the portal only cached the few founding members' blogs. Now, a Beta Test is being conducted to see what happens when more blogs get involved... I was not planning...
Recently, one of my friends received a special gift from her boyfriend: a pair of diamond earrings. If you knew both of them, you'd know that this is a sign of his commitment to her. I watched my friend's excitement,...
Good grief... Late last night I switched the template and CSS to those that Jonathan has been designing for me, and everything suddenly went haywire. That's one of those times when I really wished he and I didn't live in...
DO NOT, on any account, watch Lizzie McGuire. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, do not... go anywhere near that movie! Y o u h a v e b e e n w a r n e d. I went for...
I should be getting my beauty sleep soon, or the sight of me will be giving the other bloggers nightmares at the bloggers' meet tomorrow. I'm such a chicken that I even contemplated not turning up, but I'd given my...
Boy, I needed two days to recuperate from the bloggers' meet. Just kidding! The meet ended at around 12:30pm, but I hung around in Suria KLCC (a shopping mall - we'd met in Dome café) till about 4, got home,...
I hereby designate July the Not Much Money Month. What with one thing and another, my budget doesn't look too healthy. So yesterday I went to the supermarket and stocked up on cans of tuna - the idea is to...
Last week, I sat down at a computer terminal in the office and stared at the colleague at the next terminal, who was wearing a thick sweater. "I feel obliged to warn you that I have a very bad cold,"...
Misrepresentations, mistakes, and misquotes... the bane of journalists. :) Both Aizuddin and Najah have blogged about InTech's INFOSOC story, which they say contained a few errors and left out some information. So I thought I would write about what it's...
Some of the Malaysian bloggers are planning to go clubbing tonight. Ahh... that is SO not my thing. :) I've been conspicuously silent as emails have shot back and forth, suggesting possible venues. It's not that I have any objections...
Consensual sex between a young man and his underaged partner is NOT the same as statutory rape. This was the finding of the Shah Alam Sessions court in the case of a 21-year-old man who admitted "raping" a mentally-retarded underaged...
If I didn't know better, I'd swear Dad had read my blog. Especially this post. I received a letter from him in the mail yesterday. Yes, an honest-to-God snail mail letter. Dear Ping, I am writing this to help you...
Two things, both directly connected to this blog, have happened this week - one concerning workplace ethics, the other concerning professional conduct. They've made me wonder what kind of impression I'm giving my colleagues and my bosses at work. What...
This is appropriate, after agonising about trying to change. My life is a mess. After forty-five years of trying to follow Jesus, I keep losing him in the crowded busyness of my life. I know Jesus is there, somewhere, but...
Yesterday heralded the arrival of a new housemate. (One of our housemates was transferred overseas by her company, so we had an extra room available.) I'm excited coz this new housemate is Chinese-educated and therefore I can practice my (pathetic)...
People complain about spam all the time. Bloggers complain about spam too. What frustrates me is that sometimes we practically invite spam without realising it. How so, you ask? You have a blog. So do I. We put our email...
Been feeling very... displaced today. Lots of things to do, but can't concentrate. Just very numb and restless. I even searched Google for encouraging blog. Pathetic, eh? Then my mobile phone rang late at night. "Ah, a friend," I thought....
You know that story about the Malaysian guy who cut off his, erm, "member", fried it, and ate it? I've seen the story mentioned in a fair number of blogs over the past week. But today I read the report...
I got SMS! I got SMS! I mean, I got an SMS from New Zealand! Rachel Cunliffe, a fellow blogger, sent me a text message this evening. Isn't it cool?? We were communicating "real-time"!!! It just feels like one step...
A few Malaysian bloggers and I are going karaoke-ing tomorrow. I've never been, you know, so when it was suggested I jumped at the chance to, uh, expand my limited scope of experience and garner new skills. What, you mean...
I'm thankful for the friends I've made online; through their blogs and the ensuing discussions & sharing of each other's lives, I've come to realise that I'm not alone. Life is a journey we make together. It truly IS an...
Ahhh... karaoke. I think I've been like the frog under the coconut shell (katak di bawah tempurung, a Malay saying) - always living in my own little world. Perhaps I SHOULD worry about being insular after all... As I half-expected,...
The thing about girls is that sooner or later we always end up at The Depilatory Talk. Now, I came into this rather late because I simply didn't care about the subject untilI went into my "desperate" phase in 2001...
Yippee! Hani thinks my hair is pretty! (Not quite the same as if Ash had thought so, but we all know men can be so blur... hehehee) My hair has a mind of its own. It's wavy, it goes all...
If I ever drop by a blog that uses Enetation's commenting service and am able to leave a comment, I should buy a lottery ticket because that would obviously be my lucky day. Grrr. So if you use Enetation and...
Received a gift from Rachel through the mail today! Wow. I still find it hard to believe, even though I'm holding it in my hands :) [Thanks, Rachel! :)] Recently, as Idlan says, "I feel like my life is one...
Are all bloggers scrambling to get to the top of the blogging ladder? We all want more people to read our blogs, more people to comment, more people to quote us. I know I always hope for people to link...
I turn 25 next month. It feels significant. And not because of the quarter-century thing, either. After all, there's all that hype surrounding "Sweet Sixteen", not to mention turning 21 and supposedly entering adulthood & freedom (yee-ha!), symbolised by wearing...