Digital executive (wow, that sounds proper!) based in Singapore. Chinese Singaporean, amateur musician. Other homes include Los Angeles, CA, Boston, MA & Oxford, UK.
Passionate about arts/culture (music/film/TV), travel, food, global affairs, social justice & faith.
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Passionate about arts/culture (music/film/TV), travel, food, global affairs, social justice & faith.
Any opinions expressed here are her own; they do not reflect the views of any organization that she is or has been a member of.
Recommends: Global Voices | TED | NPR | This American Life | La Blogotheque: Les Concerts a Emporter | Daytrotter
- Suuz: (to me) You seem like more of an LA girl than a New York girl.
- Mark: ...What is an LA girl?
- Suuz: (points to my bare arms—I'm wearing a tank top) Like that lah. New York is everything bao (Mandarin for 'wrap') tight tight.
- (Mark: ... )
3rd September 2011
Notes: 3
- (Anisha is over at our house for lunch, and I'm introducing her to my housemates, Elisha and Eric.)
- Me: (unsure) Hey, Anisha and Elisha sort of rhyme...
- Elisha: (deadpan, looking right at me) They do. They end the same way.
- Me: ... (cowering from the English major)
- Eric: (singing) You say Anisha, I say Elisha...
- Ellen: It'd be nice to be with someone in the same city - a foreign concept.
- Tom: It'd be quite hard to be in love with a foreign concept. I'm dating a German idea: Bravery. Last week, I broke up with Liberty of the Individual
- (How Tom comes up with these things, I will never know.)
- Limmy: (commenting on Zoe, sitting up in her white-sheeted/duvetted bed) See, Zoe looks like a cloud!
- Elliot: Yeah, cloud. (looks at Zoe accusingly) BRINGER OF RAIN.
- Coryn tells us she's going to be away next weekend to attend her little cousin's bar mitzvah.
- Elisha: Are you going to eat babies?
- Coryn: No, because there won't be enough babies to share.
- Elisha: You so selfish!
- (Not funny? Try imagining it being said in fake Italian accents, because that's what they've been doing for the past 15 minutes...)
- Coryn: (venting frustration; she's a fencer) Argh! How can people not know what a counter-attack is!
- Elisha walks in, just in time to hear this. He suddenly mock-roars and attacks the kitchen counter.
- Elisha: Rarrrrr!!!
- I bend over in laughter.
- Coryn: (confused) That's not a counter-attack. No one's attacking you. You're just attacking the counter... (she finally gets it) Oh.
- Cue three-person laughing fit.
- (Elisha comes home at 3am. The lights in our house are still very much on; both Coryn and I are wide awake, glued to our laptops.)
- Elisha: What is wrong with you two?!
- Limmy: It's all Coryn's fault!
- Coryn: It's all Limmy's fault!
- Elisha: You both go to sleep really late, then you get up at the crack of dawn and walk around, dreary eyed, like zombies...
- (I don't know if Elisha said anything else, because at this point, I am in stitches.)
- Anonymous: Is it free?
- Anonymous 2: Of course it is! How weird would it be if it wasn't -
- "Hey, let's have dinner - my treat! YOU pay."
- (cue me, dying with laughter.)
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