If you’re wondering why blogging have been rare, it’s not because I don’t like you. While generally, that has been a pretty good excuse, the Internet connection in my new place sucks so bad that I just caught myself chanting, “send, send, send (swivels chair, arms flagging in the air) send, send…” to an important email (it got sent, two hours later).

But I can’t really put all the blame on SMU hostel: Singtel kinda has a monopoly on the area. Though with the rent, the same amount of rent where I can rent an entire double-storey terrace house just off Jalan Telawi, Bangsar, only S$8 of it each month goes to Singtel. Cheap doesn’t even begin to say it.

And right now, homing pigeons seem to be faster and more reliable, but as luck would have it, Singtel has a monopoly on that too.