walking past a flat, taking a peep into the inviting open windows, and finding a big polar bear sticking out of a baby's cot. i could go back to infancy right there right then, and sleep - snoring, untroubled, in a sea of furry animals ( Read more... )

so i have more or less wasted the whole of today. but it feels necessary to get this off my chest before attempting to do any half hearted studying. i suppose there's something to learn from every fall, something to reflect upon from every 'gek' moment. it's useless attempting to swim in this bitterness, grappling with a perverse sense of anger ( Read more... )

48 days to exams ( Read more... )

The piano stood quietly on the wooden stage, though alone but not lonely - for we watched it with anticipation. There is potential in its 88 contemplative ivory keys. When the lights dimmed, and sea of audience stopped fidgeting, casting their eyes to the same direction, he entered. No announcement, just him alone, as if walking into a practice ( Read more... )

bleeding spiral arteries. shedding with the painstakingly built up endometrium functionalis, resigned at the fate of another oocyte wasted. the human body is a peculiar machine, indeed.


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We emerged from a randomly chosen exit of Invalides station. The night was colder than I would have liked, the luggage a little clumsier than I had imagined when we packed that afternoon. There was a smell of foreignness. Empty streets, bright (search) lights scanning the misty skies, overwhelming statues on pedestals overlooking what seemed like ( Read more... )

"Discuss the relationship between economic growth and health improvement and draw out lessons for developing countries who wish to improve population health."

2 hours of online research and half a massive bag of M&Ms later, I actually found an article written with the exact title. (hmm so we are gravely warned against any form of plagiarism, but ( Read more... )

i wish i could be less needy.
to walk out of the door, accompanied by my own shadow,
bravely, cleanly.
i was the strong one:
cavalier, perfectionist.
but there is a void,
a misaligned blank
whenever i close my eyes.

another exam over. painful, but over. i can only hope that one day my intellectual deficit can be repaid, and that i can actually genuinely feel SMART again. haha, nostalgia ( Read more... )

NEULOOK!

(directly ganked off the standard layouts. i'm still a complete noob at all those HTML design thingys eh? what gives :D)

anyhow, the reason why I'm back here blabbering again is two-fold: 1) i'm on the verge of transdifferentiating into a bunch of Substance P dancing along the spinothalamic tract to the ventral posterior nucleus of my ( Read more... )