Ramadhan Kareem

I always look forward to Ramadhan and Eid al-Fitr, even though I am not a Moslem. I remember when I was young, my mom used to make kolak pisang (banana compote); a sweet soupy dessert made with palm sugar, coconut milk, pandan leaves, slices of banana, sweet potatoes and the best part is kolang kaling (sugar palm fruit). Sometimes, I added a good chunk of bread there - I know I can be weird at times .

Thumb Wars

I found this befitting description from here, that I pasted below:

“For a few minutes everybody is typing away. A silence falls over the group and we all engage in a mass thumb-wrestling competition between man and little machine. Then the moment passes, the BlackBerrys and iPhones are reholstered, and we return to being humans again after a brief trance.”