Forgive me for the uninspired post title and the mediocre photographs, I am currently embroiled in an academic nightmare (World Literature Essays), and the camera (Zhe Xian’s, which I have borrowed) lens was godawfully grimy. I am at a loss to explain how he managed to smother so minute a glass surface with the oil [...]
Next to the train station, or rather, running across and under it, is a large canal with surprising biodiversity; no matter that the murky water that runs sluggishly along its course toward the sea is briny and tainted with countless brands of consumer pollutants.
This is what the people jogging by crinkle their noses at - [...]
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Barack Obama’s Epic Win:
The historic nature of Obama’s victory is portrayed in racial terms. But Obama will join William Jennings Bryan (1896), Woodrow Wilson (1912) and Jimmy Carter (1976) as one of the rare Democrats nominated for president in the heady first years of their appearance on a national stage. Five years ago, Obama [...]
I was having a hasty and unhealthy dinner at a fast food restaurant when the lady opposite me who was there with her entourage of 7 year old daughter, inexperienced maid attaché, and baby in a stroller advised her daughter on the evils of coffee consumption (I’ve taken some liberties cutting out her Singlish, of [...]
Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself why is it that some people in the library
1. Play Metal Slug on their laptops with the speakers activated, whilst simultaneously blocking the aisle with their stretched legs
2. Put their five-toed-socked/bare feet on the couches, contorted in what must be rather uncomfortable poses that nevertheless take up an [...]
Beneath an acacia tree, you watched the Singapore dawn burst from a tropical sea.
Who are you?
What do you dream of?
Was it you I saw in Rome? You sat by the Trevi Fountain in your Sarong Kebaya and cast a single coin.
What were you wishing?
Now, aboard this giant Boeing I see you again. You bring me [...]
I have a predilection for Internet memes, as everyone knows, but I don’t usually succumb to posting any references to them on this blog. Truth to be told I prefer the unabashedly inane sort so commonly found on message boards to the tedious radio button selection / random factoid generation that characterizes most blog memes. [...]
I should write haiku
exclusively forever
then Kyle can’t complain
