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Long Time No Blog

I know, it's been a while. Funny how time flies when you let a series of little things sorta overwhelm your schedule until you find that it's 2am and something like 15 weeks since you last blogged.

I'm settling nicely into HK, enjoying the cooler weather and smaller spaces, and re-learning the joys of doing a lot of walking. There some nice new people, there are some nicer older friends and work's keeping me busy. I'll try to be more regular here.

But enough about me. Here's a sampling of some of the fun things I'm enjoying.

Here's the awesome Annie Lennox and her new single "Shining Light". Loving this.



You might have already read about and heard Christian Bale's on-set meltdown with the Director of Photography for his new movie, Terminator: Salvation. Here's the meltdown mixed into a pretty kicking dance mix that I want to download to my IPod.



And Lego continues being cool in the age of Obama.


You can see more here.

And speaking of Obama, I love this piece from Fox News on the touchy-feelyness that has come to characterize America's First Couple.



For the uninitiated, fisting is quite an extreme display of affection.

And finally, I catch myself missing KL every now and again.

New, New, New

It's so refreshing and reassuring that after 8 years of America's bullying, insular ways, things will change. It's long overdue that America catches up with the world. Long overdue.

I don't know about you, but being biracial and working in a multi-cultural environment, and having lived away from Singapore and traveled a fair bit in the region and beyond, I find it sad that some Americans have no idea whatsoever about the world out there. And still think that that's perfectly alright.

Fortunately, my American friends are far more enlightened, worldly and with it. Heck, all my friends are with it!

In unrelated news, I misplaced my passport in Hong Kong and I'm back in Singapore for a few days to get a replacement. Within the space of 2 months, I've moved to a new home, started a new job, made new friends, gotten new HK & Singapore ID cards, and now, a new passport.

Evidently, I do new in a big way.

Delayed No More

I guess it had to happen sooner or later.

I did a 1-night stopover in Singapore to collect my replacement ID card and then spent the weekend in KL to run a few errands (bank & medical stuff)and hang out with some of my friends.

It's been 6 weeks since I moved to HK in what some might call a bit of a rush. Maybe it was the intense familiarity over the weekend - dinner at Way Cheng's, drinks at Twenty-One & Frangipani, buying a bunch of catfood at my former usual store cos it was way cheaper - or simply that I hadn't had time to truly process the move, but as I made my way to the airport this evening for the return to Hong Kong, I was slightly overwhelmed with the feeling of deja-you-don't-live-here-anymore. And it felt so sad.

I just felt strange about leaving a city that I had called home for 6 years with no fanfare, no farewell. KL had given me a whole wealth of professional & personal experiences, and I made some very good friends. I had not said goodbye properly, I guess, and just did what I had to do to re-establish HK as my homebase.

With the start of a new moon, and my increased and exciting new workload, and the news I received this evening that a friend,who's a couple of years older than me, had had a heart attack this morning - it looks like it's gonna be anything but mundane over the next few weeks and months.

I'm so not a mourning person. And maybe that's the problem.

Too Funny, Too Painful!

Impressive, Part 2

This is the sort of political language and frankness that needs to come back.



At least the rest of the world will feel that America can take care of in-house business before policing the world.

The Voice Of Reason

Colin Powell is just simply impressive!