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Friday Noon Musings

Noise Yuandong’s back in Toronto. And the noise level at home has definitely increased. Makes me think of how John’s been saying that he looks forward to me returning home and ‘increasing the surrounding noise level by a few decibels’. I egg him on, just like Yuandong eggs Wanting on. Wanting was so happy about […]

Age Issues

Issue #1: Aches & Pain Had a conversation yesterday that reminded me of the time I went through an ergonomic phase. Before John left me his PC, I used my laptop all the time. In my final undergrad year, I started having more chronic muscle tension in my neck, shoulder and back. So I decided […]

Ech.

Just got back from dinner. Don’t bother going to Queen’s Mum ever.  Dinner with 20 philosophers was…interesting. But everytime I spend social time with this group (i.e. the non-Singaporean community of my Toronto existence), I am struck by how alien I feel despite the fact that there is much I can talk about with them. […]

Melting!

It’s HOOOOOOOOOOT in Toronto! *gasps* Ok, so right now I’m cooling my heels in my comfortably air-conditioned bedroom and sipping a tall glass of deliciously cold Second Cup Earl Grey. I know I’m better off than many of my Torontonian friends who are baking in their apartments (especially those with west-facing apartments). :P I was […]