(Taken from Our Daily Bread, RBC Ministries, 17th April ’07. Visit www.rbc.org.) Near the village of Gevas in eastern Turkey, while shepherds ate their breakfast, one of their sheep jumped off a 45-foot cliff to its death. Then, as the stunned shepherds looked on, the rest of the flock followed. In all, 1,500 sheep mindlessly [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Our Daily Bread – “Herd Instinct”
Wednesday, 18 April, 2007
The Library@Esplanade
Wednesday, 18 April, 2007
The Library@Esplanade, Singapore’s first library dedicated to the performing arts, is truly a wonderful library. I’ve only recently been discovering the wonders of this library, with its fantastic collection of music scores and arts-related books. (Okay, now for some free publicity for the library…) For a small fee of S$21 a year (which works out to less than [...]
Vindicated!
Monday, 16 April, 2007
Felipe Massa I feel so happy for Massa for claiming yesterday’s Bahrain GP win. At least he proved that he has the ability to win races, after two really really disappointing GPs so far this season. He held on well to his pole position at the start, and managed to fend off the attack from Hamilton’s [...]
Exploring Sondheim
Friday, 13 April, 2007
One new item on my checklist of “Things To Do After Quitting” is to explore the works of Stephen Sondheim, widely-regarded as one of the most gifted writers of American musical theatre in the last few decades. I was doing some surfing a few days back, and you know how one thing usually leads to [...]
Jolly…Good Fellow
Friday, 13 April, 2007
As mentioned in one of my previous posts, Richard Jolly is one of my favourite writers. Richard Jolly writes insight pieces for Soccernet. Check out his latest piece on Manchester United’s 7-1 drubbing of Roma in Wednesday morning’s Champions League game. Rampant Reds rout Roma Surely it isn’t difficult to gush or wax lyrical over a game [...]
Work And The City
Wednesday, 11 April, 2007
Commuting to and from work in the city is like…participating in the massive wildebeest migration on the great Serengeti plains. The way the hordes gallop off the train in an enormous pack, through the station’s underground passageways en route to the office buildings, coupled with the incessant percussion of hurried heels (not unlike the galloping hoofs of the wildebeests), makes [...]
Overhead In The Lift This Afternoon
Tuesday, 10 April, 2007
Two guys talking about high-end credit cards: A: You know there’s a platineeeum card? B: Oh yah, the platineeeum card. Did you apply? A: Yah. Still waiting for them to send me my platineeeum card. There and then, I so wanted to blurt out “Look fellas, it’s either titanium or platinum…there’s no such thing as platineeeum!!!” [...]
It’s The Final Stretch!
Tuesday, 10 April, 2007
In the same way an F1 car streaks down the back straight before negotiating the final hairpin en route to the start/finish line at Sepang, I am embarking on the final stretch of my employment term with the first and only company I’ve ever formally worked for. This is my final week. … A good way to determine how much something [...]
The Importance Of The Piano
Monday, 9 April, 2007
You know how when you sing a capella as a small group, sometimes (or more often than not, actually) the whole group would all veer off-key in unison, and when at the end of the song you strike the original tonic note on the piano…you realise everyone had unsuspectingly gone off-course at some point in [...]
Bad Day
Sunday, 8 April, 2007
Argh. Ferrari was totally outclassed by McLaren at Sepang today. Totally humiliated. Massa got shown up by Lewis “only-in-his-second-GP” Hamilton. It was painful watching him trying (unsuccessfully) to pass Hamilton…and ending up going off-track. The Ferraris just didn’t seem to have the pace to mount a serious challenge for the race win. Alonso is a winner, period. I’d give [...]
