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Coming to Life
It's been a while and I've been dormant for a long time. Life's too short for excuses, so let's just say I've wasted enough of it being asleep. I want to wake up now. I want to write ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Inception (SPOILERS after the cut!)
INCEPTION ( Read more... ) -
Robin Hobb and Maeve Binchy
After giving Robin Hobb's Soldier's Son trilogy a pass, I was starting to wonder if my memory of her Six Duchies and Liveship series wasn't quite what I thought it was. It's a horrible thing, I admit, for a fan to doubt a writer she admires. I mean, I thought the Liveship trilogy was pretty much perfect. Not even GRR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire ( Read more... ) -
My First Publication
And here's the link to my story, Hunger, over at this month's issue of Expanded Horizons.
http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=1389
A friend said it was apt for Mother's Day and you know what, I think it is. The story is about, at its heart, a mother's love, and what she will do to protect her kids, even if she becomes the worst kind of ( Read more... ) -
On Pain
Today I read my usual weekly numerology column and it advises me to let myself feel.
But right now I am too busy to feel much. I am so numbed out by busyness that often the only thing that reminds me I'm alive is that dull low sensation of emotional pain. It's very mild, caused by no one and nothing but my current constraints. I don't notice it ( Read more... ) -
My Sister's Keeper & Whale Rider
I watched the movies My Sister's Keeper and Whale Rider today, and found that I enjoyed them. Whale Rider I expected to like, so that was not a surprise really, but I found My Sister's Keeper to be better than I expected it to be (and in case you're wondering why I'm watching movies I don't expect to like, it's for a curriculum module I'm working ( Read more... ) -
AussieCon 2010
WorldCon this year is held in Melbourne, Australia from 2 to 6 Sept 2010 and I wish I could go! I've got invites from three Odyssey classmates who all have plenty of room in their homes for us, and it's so tempting! After all, AussieCon is the closest con there is to Singapore and I'm told it is the most fun out of all the cons.
However, it looks ( Read more... ) -
30 this year
I'll be turning 30 this year and my friends and I have been musing over this upcoming milestone in our lives since the beginning of the year. We'd just be pretending if we said it wasn't a big deal, because in all our hearts, it is. Not in the "omahgod, i'm a failure!" way, but in the sense that all of us had certain expectations of ourselves and ( Read more... ) -
"It's been a long, long time coming...
...but I know, a change's gonna come..."
If you haven't seen me around these parts lately, it's because I've been working my ass off for the last four months or so juggling various freelance projects. My family's been going through some rough patches in the last six months, and my mind has been heavy with trouble.
After coming back from Odyssey, I ( Read more... )