2 min readNever has this Beatles song been more relevant. I received my tax bill this morning. It was a bill for too many thousands. I was perplexed. I didn’t think I was making that much money to warrant a high tax rate. I scrutinized the notice from IRAS, the tax authority in Singapore. Something did not…
Author: TM
Life in the Time of Covid-19
3 min readNobody in the world could have predicted the predicament we now find ourselves embroiled in. 2020 offered hope that it was going to be more promising than all the years passed. It seemed like it had the makings of an auspicious year anyway – repeating digits, turn of the decade, et cetera. Yet, the news…
The Gods Must Be Crazy
3 min readIt felt imperative to me that my inaugural post on this new space is an ode to the city that cradled the birth of western civilization as we know it. Much of our daily lives is influenced by classical Greek teachings, though we might not be conscious of it. The democracy largely enjoyed by many…
2016 and All its Quirks
8 min readThis will be long. Might be long. I don’t know for certain yet. If you happen to be reading this, I hope you read it to the end. I can’t guarantee you will find any moral lesson in my writing. It will probably contain a ton of anecdotes from my (mis)adventures this year, mostly concerning…
On A Grander Scale
2 min read Last Sunday was the 5thyear anniversary of my graduation from UP. The day prior, just as fittingly, I met up with my best college buddies and wandered around our vast campus gleefully reminiscing the years we were there. I insisted on going back because I needed a retreat, a dose of something familiar, a…
2015 Sign Off
3 min readIt is four and a half hours until New Year in the time zone that I am in. It would be less than that when I finish this entry. I feel compelled to type up a blogpost to wrap up the year that has been. My conciliatory way of bidding the year farewell and coming…
Capping off Summer
2 min readOn Labour Day weekend, I flew to New York with my friend Matt. The trip was so spontaneous that I had no other plans aside from basically just tagging along with him. He was there to visit coffee shops and has agreed to hang out with me if I didn’t have anything to do. However,…
Chronicling Summer 2015: Part 3
5 min readDating George Monday came (July 20th). My flight got in at around eight in the morning and a friend from the wedding hooked me up with a ride home. I can’t sleep well on airplanes for some reason so I was probably only asleep for two of the entire eight-hour journey. I am not to…
Chronicling Summer 2015: Part 2
4 min readThere is a cliché heard many times over that goes like this: When a door closes, a window usually opens. Or something like that. I cannot be bothered to google the exact proverb. A window has opened for me right after Montreal but as of this writing, that window may as well have been shut…
Chronicling Summer 2015: Part 1
4 min readLest I forget and want to be reminded. Summer of 2015 is by far the most eventful and most unforgettable of all summers I have had. It begins in July, on a weekend trip to Montreal that I decided to book a month earlier than I initially planned because you know, love. Or so I…