Tue 12 Sep 2006
This is what I call good product display.

In a local bookstore. I found Vincent Ng’s latest book – showing himself extremely cut and ripped and very half-naked – next to Ng Yi-Sheng’s anthology of stories about gay men in Singapore. I suppose the Vincent Ng will attract the right customers who will then notice the yellow book and hopefully purchase both. Hurhur.
If anyone does buy SQ21 let me know? There are stories in there about personal friends of mine and I’d like to read them.

I’m not sure what my mother would say (after rousing herself from a dead faint) if she could see the way we cook in hall. I already try my best to be healthy – I use olive oil, and sparingly – but when you’re frying Spam in it, it’s not like my judicious use of oil helps much in the health factor. Mmmm but fried crunchy cubes of Spam taste so good.
I’m not even going to talk about Xiaomin and how she drowned us in cream pasta loaded with a huge chunk of butter and whipping cream. Ack my arteries, which I swear I could feel constricting just by looking at her cook. After awhile I hardened my heart (hurhur, funny pun) and stopped thinking about it because hey, it did taste good :/
Atherosclerosis here I come.
[8 bends in the road]
That guy Yi-Sheng, isn’t he some sort of ACS-bred genius? I think I’ve seen a play that he wrote. It was pretty good, considering that he wrote it at the tender age of 17.
Yes, ACS Gepper if I’m not wrong; and also my senior from the CAP program (Creative Arts Program). My favorite memory of him is him performing his performance poem titled “I Want a Loud Poem” if I’m not wrong. Delish.
BTW, SQ21 isn’t abt gay men in Singapore. It’s about gay men, lesbian women, and one straight mom with 2 gay sons.
It’s a really good book :)
Yeah, the straight mom with 2 gay sons? The older son is my brother’s ex-classmate and I used to be quite close to the younger one.
Hey Jadeite – just came across your blog. Heheeheehee… wonderful observation. I have a feeling we’re just in the same section because they’re both new Singaporean non-fiction books, but if they cooked up a secret marketing strategy behind it all, who am I to judge?
I’ve posted a link to this entry on my SQ21 blog. Hope that’s ok with you!
Hey Yi-Sheng :) Sure, no problem!
hey hey!
well you don’t have to wait for your friend’s copy to read the book, you can borrow a copy from the Pelangi Pride Centre on Saturday afternoons http://www.pelangipridecentre.org/ or even your local NLB community library…. they have 3 copies each, available to the great heartland public!!! enjoy our stories!!!
One would wish they also had copies of Vincent Ng there… hurhur