Just for laughs and levity.

Humorous how-to-answer the annual CNY big Q

To be or not to be – A single’s soliloquy

It is a sad thing and it is true. People always seem to gibe more at single ladies than single men. It is a terrible thing to go through especially when you are the target of the gibe, however self-assured you may be about your singlehood. It doesn't feel good to hear the tone of [...]

All about love…?

One of the oldest age-old debates - the tug-of-war wrangle between love and sex.E started talking all about sex (not literally).And now it's time to yank at the other end of the rope.The thing about love is... What is love?(I would like to briefly apologise for the perpetual questioning in my writing these few weeks.)It got me [...]

What exactly is a relationship?

(This post contains spoilers for the movie Her. I recommend that you watch the movie first.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4 If you can overlook the fact that Joaquin Phoenix has been styled to bear remarkable resemblance to an Indian man (for reasons unknown), the movie Her is terribly haunting - not the striking Indian man resemblance, but its exploration of [...]

The double sex standards

Sex equality still remains a concept that has not materialised in many areas. More women are able to enjoy access to more rights in life now because of the foremothers who fought against sexual discrimination. There is not much dispute, at least in our society here in Singapore, that women are as deserving as men [...]

Who should THE ONE be?

Reading Anais Nin recently has got me thinking about the question. Even though she remains one of the most prolific (? I don't know how to describe her precisely) lovers documented in literary history, she was very often confused and bewildered by the most perplexing question in the world of relationships - the grand question of [...]

Crack open the Can of Worms

Whenever I think about the ugly dregs of one's unpleasant history, no matter how much time passes and how much one may think one has already gotten over it, I always have this imagery in my mind of a can of worms. Of course, the inspiration for that imagery no doubt originates from the saying, but [...]

40 Days Postmortem

So, the exciting project that was 40 Days of Dating. Lots of food for thought, because, let's face it, there's not that many people out there who are willing to try out literally in a social experiment the very trying notion of platonic friendships. Many people are willing to just accept the alleged impossibility of [...]

Not alone in this – this is how we should live

This is in essence what I have been trying to describe. Mr. Roman Krznaric has put things so much more eloquently: We can navigate these difficulties of love — and enhance its joys — by grasping the significance of two great tragedies in the history of the emotions. The first is that we have lost [...]

The Annual Splendid Snow

It's the time of the year again, when WordPress seizes my blogging soul with the scattering of snow down my laptop screen in the realm of virtual logs. I hope that made sense. Watching the snow drift down the image of the cityscape that is the background of Sky Singularity now, I feel a profound [...]