Career Change

Today is an important day, that marks the end of my first career which lasted 6+ years. Apart from the potential loss of a few friends out of my colleagues and clients (I'm a lazy bum who do not try to keep in touch with old friends deliberately), I do not feel any regrets or depression leaving the job and the place. I guess it is not a good fit for me with all the meaningless procedural red-tapes, office politics and the general lacking of good leadership and team cohesion. Bottomline: I'm happy to have left.

My new job starts next week, and I look forward to it as it is something very, very different from what I did for the past years.

The Ice Cream Gallery

Found a local ice cream store called The Ice Cream Gallery, located at Eastwood Centre, Bedok Road. The store is small and has only a few seats, so it's mostly takeaway, which gives a fake impression that there is no crowd but the ice cream sells really fast. The auntie selling the ice cream is pretty friendly.

Have tried Blueberry Cheesecake flavor and I like it. Bought back 500ml tubs of Lychee and Summerberry flavors and they're pretty nice too, though a bit too sweet. There are many other varieties available, and they seem to be producing new flavors every now and then, such as Red Grape.

I wouldn't mind visiting the store more often, except that it is at a rather secluded location and quite far from home. But I do recommend it to folks living at Bedok/Tanah Merah/Simei/Tampines area. Oh, there's an apple strudel store just around the corner as well.

Post Comments

Gonna re-enable the post comments function and see how it goes. If we get too much spam again we'll disable it again :\

Sweets For My Sweet

Sweets For My Sweet is one of the few local variety shows that we are catching currently. It features some pretty delicious looking deserts and food in Singapore and we aim to go and try those that we like, and hopefully blog about it after our food tasting sessions.

Book Review: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I actually found interest in Neil Gaiman through his pictorial books, which I would sometimes browse in bookstores but kept resisting to buy any. Cheapo me. Then later I found out that my cousin also likes his stuff, including his fiction novels. That is when I started to consider reading these books.

American Gods is the second Neil Gaiman book I bought. The first was Anansi Boys, which was more lighthearted, less wordy, and more quirky. American Gods is a pretty condense fiction novel, that combines fantasy, religion, horror, sci-fi, romance, suspense... into a lengthy, but by no means boring, story. This is also why the book was nominated and awarded in multiple fiction categories. It's like a very well thought cocktail of unknown but tasty mixture.

The book can be read as it presents on the surface, or it can be read with its subtle messages within. I suppose it is like watching The Matrix movies, different people finding different philosophical deductions out of the show and thinking a bit more about life. Well, I suppose American Gods will do well as a movie too, assuming some capable director fancies it.

I have a mess of thoughts upon finishing the book, none of which are clear or have conclusions. But I guess one point that is apparent throughout the book is the ever-revolving of all things. New gods replace old outdated gods. New life appears after death. New insights after a sacrifice. Time doesn't stop and wait for anyone or anything. You either move forward and adopt to new things and hope for changes, or you fall back and become obsolete and be forgotten.

Oh, the books also talks about coin tricks, and how to con people to earn free money. Pretty neat ideas in there.

Conclusion, American Gods is one of the very good fiction books I have read, but not for the fainthearted, the religion-fanatics, or the confused.