Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Breaking Internet Silence
Yep, I’ve been more or less Online-Incommunicado for 11 days. The reason is the boring one; once The Wife arrived, I moved from the Old Friend’s pad to a little bed n’ breakfast (I’m still amazed that after putting up with me for nearly a week, we’re still friends) which claimed to [...]
Last Night
Just watched Clerks II and strangely feel as if I’ve grown up a little bit by watching it. But I loved it.
And this is the last night without The Wife. She got on her plane hours ago (or so goes the theory) and should be enduring the most horrific part of the [...]
Crime Has More Color
One of the interesting contrasts between Singapore and Toronto is how they handle crime. For example, in Singapore, we lived in a “colorful” part of town. That’s not to say it was a particularly bad part, but there’s more potential for conflict of the illegal kind in our area. [...]
Caller ID Is There For A Reason
Mental note to self:
The next time the phone rings in a your Old Friend’s home, do NOT just arbitrarily pick up the phone and say “Hello, [Old Friend's Last Name] residence, the mistress isn’t in, how can I help you?”
Especially do NOT do this when the other person on [...]
Oh, I Remember ThisToday I stood stunned for a few minutes outside in the morning as the snow fell and tried to remind myself I actually grew up with this.Other than that the rest of the day was mostly preparing for some articles that still need to be written for GameAxis (and are due very, [...]
Seeing The CityMorning was spent having brunch at some amazingly charming little restaurant called “Noon.” Where I met the Old Friend’s newer friends. They were a very easy going, extremely likeable bohemian style artsy couple and with any luck I will get to know them better, because they just seemed like two really nice people [...]
Toronto Day TwoNot much was accomplished due to the fact that I have an insufficient number of valid pieces of government approved ID, so that kind of squelched the whole “Hey, let’s open a bank account” idea I was nursing. But a little bit of shopping was done and it looks like the next [...]
First ImpressionsThere is that lucid period in my head right now, the one that’s two states past exhaustion. Was the trans-Pacific crossing long and painful? Yup. Was the stop in the American airport similar but with an added dash of paranoia? Oh yeah.However, stepping out of the Toronto airport in a [...]
Sayanora Singapore
And, after over ten years on the Island That Common Sense Forgot, I now bid contradictory government policies, shameless elitism and a fear of failure so pathological it has its own reality distortion field, goodbye. That’s all you get out of me, Singapore.
I’ll dearly miss the people I’ve met and befriended here.
But [...]