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Last night was Saint Joseph’s Institution’s 10th year reunion of the graduating class of 2000. It’s really hard to believe it’s been 10 years. I suppose unlike the majority of the other guys, it doesn’t feel that long to me because I’ve been involved in Scouts since I left and visiting the school was virtually [...]

It’s late but I do want to blog about 2009, so up first: Christmas! The guys met to buy lots of groceries at Cold Storage, followed by a massive cookout for one of our better self-made dinners yet.

We tried out hands at mojitos – Johnny manually crushed the ice and mint leaves together to great [...]

Toffeenut lattes really bring me back, like four years back to my first term in SMU where people like myself, Eric, Zal, Dorothy and Wanida would be holed up in the then-fishbowl-for-a-studio studying and go on coffee runs (complete with triple shot lattes on some days). And until today it’s a shared thing that we’ll [...]

What used to be (Pre-Wedding):
The Warmaster and his faithful medic.
Now (Post-Wedding):
I remember when that “last online” was measured in hours, not days.

Today, in a casual discussion with my SJI friends, Shun Wei pointed out something that I guess I knew, but when such feelings are internal, you can self-rationalise and justify them away. But hearing it observed and interpreted by a friend makes it all the more real.
It reminds me of a similar situation last year [...]

Remember that post about traveling alone? I’m glad for four days out of my entire exchange experience I wasn’t traveling alone, but with one of my oldest and dearest friends, Chloe.
I still think traveling with people you don’t know well enough, can really kill either or both people involved. Luckily we’ve known each other for [...]

It’s been a couple of days out of Kingston and I’m always so aware of how much noise and people there are in big cities like New York compared to the small town of Kingston. I really miss that.
But I also miss my friends.
It’s not like friends haven’t changed over time. Friends in primary school [...]

So last weekend was spent East in Montreal for a trip with QSEAC (Queen’s South East Asian Club) and it was pretty fun! I had originally planned to go to Montreal for the weekend anyway because the Jack’s Mannequin concert was on Friday (more on that in Music Mondays this week), so it was a [...]

I’ve been here a week and it has been nothing short of awesome. I didn’t intend for it to be this way, but somehow I’ve ended up mixing with a lot of the Asian kids here from Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan and Taiwan. Now before you give me the whole “what the [...]

Here’s a little backstory: Chloe’s been a friend of mine for the last.. almost 10 years. We have weirdass quirks and mutually embarrassing moments shared between us. Here’s the latest amusing exchange:
chloe; says:
oh and my dad is buying tic on the same flight as you!
chloe; says:
still the same as the one you gave me right?
chloe; [...]