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I spent about 45 minutes this evening writing my first entry in a while in Notepad, just to lose everything save for the last bit which I took a picture of, when I pressed ctrl+s by accident and the programme froze. The reason I write my blog entries in Notepad is because the LJ text editor crashed one too many times in the past, and I liked the ( Read more... ) -
Covid-19 Blues
As I'm not one to go into a panic about things that cause panic in many others, I haven't been too worried about the Covid-19 situation. I ran the half-marathon in Cambridge against my parents' pleas for me not to; I took the Tube without a mask (though wearing a mask doesn't help that much); I basically lived life as usual ( Read more... ) -
Cambridge Half Marathon 2020: SUB-TWO FUCK YEAH
On the one hand, I achieved my goal, broke the two-hour barrier ( Read more... ) -
2019 in review
So. I had forgotten about this. Or rather, I remembered that I hadn't done it in moments when it would have been inopportune to sit down and do it; and when I was sat down, I forgot to do this. Since I don't feel like doing anything brainful tonight, I thought perhaps it's finally time to get round to this.
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Joaquin Phoenix is My Vegan King
This morning, I sat through three hours of the Golden Globes just to watch five minutes of Joaquin Phoenix. While his acceptance speech for Best Actor (Drama) was simultaneously everything and nothing that I'd expected, I did wish, when it was past noon and I'd done nothing, that I'd had the sense to turn on the telly at, oh, 11.30am, given that it ( Read more... ) -
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I'm still coughing, my nose is still runny, I still feel weak. I am sick of being sick. I have not exercised since my 6km run on 12 December, after which I promptly fell sick (has it only been a week? It feels like at least two), and I feel like I am going insane. Normally, I exercise six times a week, and I suspect I'd manage more if I actually ( Read more... ) -
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E left Singapore last night. It was his first time in Singapore--in Asia--and he stayed with me at my parents'. We were also in Hanoi for six days; I was there for a conference, and we spent the rest of the four days sight-seeing. The flu that he infected me with, after he'd fallen prey to Hanoi's unspeakable pollution, makes me wish that we hadn't ( Read more... ) -
Two Important Decisions
Wow. It is incredible that I did not write in here for the whole of October. To be fair, nothing much really happens in my life. My typical day consists of gym/running/some sort of exercise, reading, going to the library, and doing some sort of writing. Oh, and cooking. And washing. A lot of washing and cooking. Sometimes I watch something on ( Read more... ) -
On How Not to Write
I have just completed a five-day short story writing course at Faber Academy, which was more fruitful and helpful than I had anticipated. My biggest take-away from it is characterisation: knowing who the character is as a fully formed person, knowing what he/she wants, putting obstacles in his/her way to create conflict, and letting these things ( Read more... ) -
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If I was expecting the thesis submission to suddenly open up a flood of clarity, of posivity, of purpose, then I was sorely mistaken. In the end, it all seemed somewhat anti-climatic, and it doesn't help that I haven't stayed in one place long enough to truly settle back into a routine that gives me a sense of purpose. Namely: a writing routine, ( Read more... )