My Grey World

I, like many other people in the whole world, am sometimes peeved by the way my parents still treat me as a baby. Thankfully they don’t call me up at night and ask me whether I’ve eaten anymore (ugh, so Asian!), but they still feel that they have an authority over me to decide some [...]

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish that I had gone to a “specific” school. If you go to a medicine school, you become a doctor. You go to a nursing academy, you become a nurse. Go to a teacher’s institute and you become a teacher. And yet I go to SMU and soon enough I’ll hold [...]

We’ve heard a lot of cliches around this : you are what you eat, you are what you wear, you are what you do, etc etc. But are you really what you listen? And do you define what you listen by how you define yourself? I’m pondering about this since my choir (visit SMU Chamber [...]

I think I just wanna write this post as a public service so that people will stop the misunderstandings that the language that Indonesian people use is called “Bahasa”. “So, do you speak Bahasa?” “Er… Yeah?” You see, people, the word “bahasa” actually means “language” in Indonesian. Bahasa Inggris means English language. Bahasa Cina means [...]

I realized I haven’t really ushered in the new year 2010 and to me that’s like a customary tradition on my blog. Yeah, right. Like you have any tradition, Sylv. Anyway, this year shall be a scary year for me. A lot of transformation will take place this year. I’ll be 21, legal for everything, [...]

I’m appalled at the amount of adultery and disrespect of marriage messages actually found in popular TV series. And why oh why, I ask, does it have to be on my favourite shows? Warning : this post may contain spoilers of Grey’s Anatomy, Glee, and Gossip Girl. So I just finished watching Glee ep 13 [...]

As cliche as it may sound, it’s true. My years in SMU (and possibly Singapore) is ending. In approximately 7 months, I will receive a fancy-looking scroll, take photos in my big baggy regalia, and throw my square hats to the air. When I first came to SMU, I was 17. I thought I was [...]

Drafts written, saved, and never being looked at again. Logged in, logged out. Pages seen. Inspiration came, inspiration gone. A month has gone by! What can I say? Same as you, I’m effing tired of saying I have no inspiration, and that I’ll write some other time, some other day, like years from now? I’m [...]