Archives: 2007 February

I went back to Ipoh yesterday. It was for my sister’s housewarming.
Housewarming? True to the word. Ipoh was SO warm, much more than Petaling Jaya.
Worst still is, the house is facing the afternoon sun. In the evening when everybody gathered in the living room, it felt like we are being roasted.

After the relatives left, we [...]

There has been quite a bit of controversy over the use of pan-asian faces on our local advertisements, lately.
Lets look at the few faces which we had become familiar with.

Elaine Daly (Eurasian Chinese)

Marion Caunter (Sorry. I can’t get her parentage)

Aishah Sinclair (Malay English)

Stephanie Chai (Chinese Italian)
After looking at these photos, it bears the question:
Does advertisers [...]

I read in the newspaper that the authority is considering water rationing.
This is really an ugly word … rationing.
Have we reach that stage? Have they stop the leakage of 40% of our water? If not, then maybe they should start mending the pipe rather than victimized us.

How should we conserve water in our house?
Whenever this [...]

I was listening to the radio, and I found this story to be pretty interesting:
If you originally have a hairstyle like this

While you are in a hair saloon, you found this poster, and decided that this hairstyle would look nice on yourself.

You proceed to ask the hairstylist: Will you be able to do it?
She answered: [...]