the personal blog of C.K.Koay
Irrelevant and self-serving snippets of my personal life.
Have you been getting calls that go, “I am calling to inform you that your resume from JobStreet has been received. Please contact me via WhatsApp”?
Normally, I’d ignore this obvious scam. But yesterday, I decided to have a little fun.
Continue reading “Scamming the Scammers”
Yesterday, I found myself in an afternoon meeting on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, fully aware that I needed to make my escape before 4:30pm.
Continue reading “Ramadan Rush in the Rain”
I took the girls to Petaling Street over the weekend, where they’ve transformed the old Rex Cinema into a fancy artsy hub called REXKL.
Continue reading “Rex Cinema: Reloaded”
The first time I meditated, the soothing voice on the app instructed me to picture myself sitting beside a road, watching my thoughts zip by like passing cars.
Seemed simple enough.
Continue reading “The first time I meditated”
Gaming is serious business. It’s now worth at least five times more than the movie and music industries combined.
I’ve loved playing computer games for as long as I can remember. It probably started in a dingy, cigarette-smoke-filled arcade on the upper floor of Federal Bowl in the early eighties. Bored out of my mind while my father and his colleagues enjoyed their bowling downstairs, I would plot my escape from those mundane evenings—one twenty-sen coin at a time—into the pixelated worlds of Pac-Man, Galaga and Space Invaders.
Continue reading “Life is a Game”
There I was, peacefully enjoying my Saturday morning coffee when my eyes landed on the Chinese New Year decorations still stubbornly clinging to my house.
Continue reading “On Permanent Display”