MY CAR SLID INTO THE DRAIN and other stories

Yup that's my car. I had an interview in the Indonesian Embassy a month ago and since I couldn't find parking space, I side-parked on the narrow road behind, with drains at the side...and parked nicely between two tree stumps. But when I finished the interview and tried to get out, I kept hitting the tree stumps front and back. So after a few rounds of reversing and driving front just trying to get out, the car slid into the drain. There were many office people in collared shirts and ties, even Chinese, who walked by and ohhh ahhh-ed among themselves but no one helped me. Two Indonesian or Malay men in jeans and T-shirts stopped by to try push my car out and even hailed a passing CHINESE motorist to come help too. Nothing could be done and I had to wait by the road for about 40 mins for the tow truck to come. The tow guy saw it, scratched his head and said "Ah Moi, apa buat hingga macam ini??"

On the right is my Melbourne CG leader Geraldine Chow. She married Alex on 07/07/07 in Damansara Utama Methodist Church. They have been waiting for this day for seven years. Half of which was spent apart from each other and they still work in two different places, Alex in Sabah and she in Singapore. One of the most beautiful weddings I've seen- lots of tears, lots of laughter and alot of God.

I played futsal last month at The Star's company tournament with a team of fellow colleagues from various desks like Sunday Star, entertainment, weekender and education desks. I was the reserve and I played for...two mins? We lost at third round but it was a close call. That's us, after the game.

Oh and by the way, I'm dabbling in a bit of newscasting recently. Reading news off a moving screen with cameras in your face and lights glaring and sitting in the studio while pretending to shuffle papers kinda thing. No its not for TV and I'm still a journalist, but doing newscasting for The Star online...their news podcast. Go to http://podcast.thestar.com.my/ and see if you can find it. I'm no techy genius but if any one of you see me (one of the stories I read was on CLP examination fraud) and figure out how to download podcast, lemme know. Warning: I look horrible on camera without make-up. It was an impromptu thing and the MDs and bosses were watching.

and...............

Well. That's him.