Don't answer that. I think I'm still sorting things out: how to "properly" live life, what to do tomorrow, how to be the best person I can be, how to not make you mad, etc. How to survive holidays and festivals, and crowds and warm weather. Also: how to eat well, how to find time to exercise, how to bake bread, how to read philosophy on the bus, ( Read more... )

Survived a four hour jam at Tuas, (stopped for some kaya toast at Macchap), and finally arrived in Melaka. I'm more than a little sad that the beach (pantai klebang) is completely gone, reclaimed for industry and now dotted with half-hearted palms. High-rise condominiums are springing up along Bukit Rambai, and I'm beginning to feel modernity has ( Read more... )

I'm avoiding sleep and thinking of things to do in one week. School is out, but here's where the real work starts: the coordination of group projects, term papers and national competitions you're forced to enter, for "credit". The meeting with various people you work with on human rights issues, food projects, journalist assignments, social ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, i'll be returning to Melaka for the first time in two years; in the (short) twenty-two years of my life, Melaka has not changed. I say this metaphorically: we now have traffic lights, proper bus services, more malls than the fingers on one hand, and concrete pavilions on the beaches. But you know what i mean: I can walk down Jonker Street ( Read more... )

I guess the beauty of a platform like this is that I can post a fragment, pick it up later, play with it, or put it under a hat and hope it finds its way to panama.

I always seem to be restarting my blog, and my life. (No) thanks to numerous labtop crashes, I no longer have archives of anything I've written before the year 2006. I recently found my old Naruto fanfiction (for kicks you can read them here); I honestly don't think I've had this much fun writing stories since. That phase may be over. Nowadays, I ( Read more... )