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.
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Rex Cinema: Reloaded
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 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.
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Cheryl asked me to put on a movie for her to watch over the weekend. This is so rare an occurrence that I briefly considered if I should buy a Sports Toto lottery.
It all started earlier this year when a movie was released– one you’ve probably never heard of. And yet, it’s within striking distance of overtaking Avengers: Infinity War as the sixth highest-grossing film in history.
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I was still wrapped in my blanket cocoon, phone inches from my face, when I saw a news clip that made me rub my eyes in disbelief. There, in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance were locked in what could only be described as diplomatic theater of the absurd.
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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.
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