Posted on 30 April 2007 @ 01:10 in The Working Life
I’ve finished filing my income tax returns for 2006 and it was done online. But I haven’t submitted it yet cuz the form refused to let me fill in the amount of scheduler tax that has been deducted from my salary over the same period – a crucial piece of information required to compute the actual amount of tax I have to pay out of my own pocket. And tomorrow – or rather today – is the deadline. Somehow, I’ll need to find the time to get over to the Income Tax Department to sort this out this electronic malfunction. But I’ve also been invited to lunch with two gorgeous creatures … so how, ah?
Updated: Mon, 30/04/07, 10:50 p.m.
It wasn’t an electronic malfunction, but a case of aging eyes missing the all-important scheduler tax box. 
All’s well now, my tax returns have been filled, and the damage is not too bad … in fact, not bad at all.
As for the lunch, it was cancelled as one of the gorgeous creatures had come down with food poisoning.
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Posted on 28 April 2007 @ 22:10 in Pictures
At this month’s month-end literary events.
First up, red shoes at the MPH LitBloggers’ Breakfast Club in the morning:
Sharon’s right (with the fancy nail polish) and Chet’s left (in her much-loved chunky Crocs).
Next, an almost solid red T at the Seksan Readings in the afternoon:
Oops … Kenny looks like he has a growth at the back of his head! Sorry, man.
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Posted on 27 April 2007 @ 07:39 in Women
At the special 2-hour “Idol Gives Back” charity show yesterday evening, comedian and talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres, announced on air that she was personally giving US$100,000/-.
Now the cynical part of me immediately thought “Yeah, yeah, I bet it’s tax exempted.” But does it matter? It’s still US$100,000/-. And it didn’t sound staged; she was babbling on and suddenly it came out. Plus she was looking visibly touched by the various video clips that were being shown as part of the show.
Way to go, DeGeneres.
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Posted on 24 April 2007 @ 23:01 in Books
Original list submitted to Starmag’s book poll (in no particular order except as I remembered them):
House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
Wild Swans, Jung Chang
The Talisman, Peter Straub and Stephen King
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid, Willyce Kim
After an email from Daphne Lee who asked for another title to replace Wild Swans (because it’s non-fiction and therefore does not count), here is the revised list (arranged in the order of when I read them):
Early 80s
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
The Talisman, Peter Straub and Stephen King
University texts
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Late 80s
Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid, Willyce Kim
Looking at the list, it looks like I haven’t read a book since the last 80s! Of course, I have. It’s just that when I was thinking of what books I consider all-time favourites, I decided recent reads have not stood the test of time. Maybe in 10 years or so, Paul Auster’s Oracle Night and Paul Coelho’s The Alchemist might make it to my list.
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Posted on 22 April 2007 @ 22:47 in Books
I’d received an sms that Dina Zaman’s I Am Muslim is #1 on the Top 10 Non-Fiction List at Borders. And since I was in the neighbourhood, I dropped by to snap a pic:
Also spotted at the same bookstore, Kam Raslan’s Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato’ Hamid Adventures:
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