why wy?

Via Mr brown, grace chow had a sad blog about losing her fight to cancer. Turns out she is a former philosophy honours and masters student from NUS too, which is maybe why her name sounded so familiar - I must have seen her name on a door or her thesis.

Mr brown also posted a touching (or manipulative) chain e-mail making the rounds. Great reading, especially the mistranslation "You are the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs'', and the readers' comments after.

I seem to be in the company of babies, my best friend's kid Delia, and the tots virginia treats. It got me to thinking, I don't really know that many lullabies. (one of the mums I saw was singing to her kid in mandarin.) Songs that i know all the words:
1) baa baa black sheep
2) lullaby baby
3) bohemian rhapsody
4) some parts of ziggy stardust
and that's it. I used to know eternal flame cos we sang it a lot when we were 12. It's not looking good for any future offspring I may have.

There is a survey in the papers today, about more and more people being sleep deprived. 42% of people become grouchy without sleep, which explains my personality.
About five years ago, over lunch, we came up with the idea of a sleep room, with alarm clocks, in the office. Now, they are seriously thinking of setting up sleep booths in the UK, somewhat like the locker hotels in japan i expect, for people to grab an hour of shuteye. So i shall say it here first, when sleep booths become common place, it will be the next mile-high club. Doing it in booths will be cool. but maybe not for people with big bones.