Oh good, the damned thing is finally up.

For even more information of what it is I'm spending my time on these days, go here. I'm quite pleased with how the whole site turned out, myself. While you're at it, check out my company's website as well, of which I also had a considerable hand in, hah! (Thanks also to Daniel, Ben, Wooi Leng, Richard, Agnes and of course website designer Khoo Teng Hooi. Couldn't have done it without them.)

So yeah, no point hiding it anymore, I guess. I'm the assistant editor of Penang Economic Monthly, a 64-page magazine about socio-economic issues relating to Penang. Distributed and sold nationwide, with a cover price of RM10. Surely you've heard of us. (...right?) I do... whatever it is assistant editors do, plus quite a bit of writing. No ranty-political drivel, no matter how much you or I might miss it. Quite a bit of travelling (at least initially), plus meeting some pretty interesting people for interviews and such as well. It's a pretty sweet gig, and though my dream job is still making comics that have tons of explosions in them, I'm quite pleased with where I am right now.

So, yeah, the blogging thing. No, it's not quite dead yet. I actually thought it was, until I happened to go to Blogger. They've got some funky new designs that I really like and just had to try out. I like how it looks now, simple and no-nonsense, but still easy on the eyes. We'll see how it goes.

For now though, the majority of my non-professional writing is done on... Twitter! I know, I never thought I'd do it, either. Never got the feel for it the first time I used it, but now it's ridiculously addictive. Plus everything you write has to be short and sweet, so there's much less pressure to churn out the essays I usually indulge myself in. Forces you to be concise. I like that challenge. That's pretty much where my train of thought is these days.

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Met the chief engineer of Penang Bridge the other day with my boss. Interesting guy; he and his wife are very generous people. One of my favourite things he told us was that the projected budget of the bridge had been RM800 million. By the time they finished, it ended up at RM740 million. Imagine that happening today.

We interrupt this extended period of non-blogging to bring you some shameless self-promotion

Because some loser got himself published on Malaysian Insider:

It was a Thursday, and Loh-Lim Lin Lee was buying fruit in the Penang Botanic Gardens. The next thing she knew, a man drove up to her on a motorcycle and began scolding her furiously in Hokkien: “How did you allow these monstrosities to be built?” He gestured, but Loh-Lim knew exactly what he was talking about.

Okay, technically it's an article from my gig at Penang Economic Monthly, cross-published at Insider because they have, like, x1000000000 our readership at PEM, but who's counting, right?