Chet’s Chatter

Sheesh …

Posted on 22 June 2006 @ 09:25 in General

Summer Solstice 2006 came and went and I forgot about it until this morning.

Michelle Yeoh’s sister

Posted on 21 June 2006 @ 06:19 in Being Silly, General

I always get this reaction when I tell people I went to university with Datin Michelle Yeoh’s younger sister who was my senior by a year.

She doesn’t have a sister.

Same reaction I got from my sister when I mentioned it over dinner yesterday evening. My sister also said “she has only one younger brother.”

I went on to explain that Grace Yeoh is actually Michelle’s cousin, but their fathers are blood brothers, which (to the Chinese) makes them almost sisters. Their Chinese names are very similar, too – Michelle’s is Choo Kheng, and Grace’s is Choo Leng.

And how did Michelle’s name come up during dinner? The previous evening, I was channel surfing when I saw that TV3 was showing Police Story 3, starring Jacky Chan and Michelle Yeoh. The second half of the movie was shot in Kuala Lumpur. I’ve seen it before, but enjoyed it again when I stopped my surfing to watch the movie that evening. She’s very good, and has brought a fair bit of limelight to Malaysia. Positive limelight, too.

You go, Datin Michelle.

And hi, Grace!

Janis Ian, Storyteller

Posted on 16 June 2006 @ 13:07 in Janis Ian

Well, she’s already a storyteller through her songs. But Janis is also a published fiction writer, particularly in the science fiction genre. She has also edited a book Stars, featuring original stories based on her songs and written by well-known science fiction writers.

And now she has just published a new short story online called “Mahmoud’s Wives”. Go read it, you won’t be disappointed.

Boss’s son

Posted on 15 June 2006 @ 02:16 in Being Silly

I think most parents who have their own businesses often dream of passing it on to their children one day. My sister and her husband probably think likewise. In fact, their son, my nephew, did work in the family business during the long holidays while in university, but they were smart to assign him to the factory away from the main office (so he didn’t get special favours). After graduating last December, my nephew did not join the family business straight off, but was looking for a job elsewhere. I remember asking him if it was because he felt the staff in his parents’ office might give him special treatment, and he said yes. Now, having worked elsewhere for a couple of months, he’s joined the family business. I asked him what was his position in the company – boss’s son? Wot a silly aunt he has.

*:lol: at own joke*

Travels

Posted on 10 June 2006 @ 23:19 in Travels

Found the following from midnight lily’s blog (where I’d gone following her link from a comment she left at the Bibliobibuli’s blog, and decided to create my own:

visited 11 countries (4%)
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