VINOD: (...) He had all his points thought out. Number one, number two, number three. He had all the elaborations planned. Part one a, part one b. He wanted a fight. He wanted a win. [pause] He wanted a hug.

-Haresh Sharma, Off Centre.

Last night I found out that I'd lost my favourite jacket. It was a tan and grey windbreaker - I've worn it in all the theatre productions I've ever been in. It kept out the cold better than any other windbreaker I've owned, and had pockets at just the right height for my frozen hands to keep themselves snug. Its loss hurt me more than I'd have ( Read more... )

I went to church this morning for the first time in a long time. The sanctuary was freezing, and I perched on the edge of the pew, hugging myself to keep warm - trying half-heartedly to sing along to old, familiar hymns. God, if you're reading this, I swear I wasn't just there today because prelims start tomorrow. You know me, and you know how I'm ( Read more... )

( The following is an e-mail from the past, composed on Friday, March 23, 2007, and sent via FutureMe.org )

I went down to the Ethos Books fair at RI today, and bought No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry together with Alfian's A History of Amnesia. I haven't bought books for a long time; I don't know why I stopped. I don't know why I stopped reading, or writing, or doing anything that I used to love, really. Maybe after 'A's.
( autobiography. )

The void deck beneath my flat was cordoned off today when I came home from school; a small blue police tent stood outside, flapping silently in the afternoon breeze. A lone police officer noticed me and let me through into the lift ( Read more... )

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD.

I'm done with this.

My father bought back a strange dessert today - tang yuan in tau huay. It tastes surprisingly good - the ground peanuts in the tang yuan kind of overwhelm the milder taste of the tau huay, but it's all good. I've been making an attempt to try new and different kinds of food lately; I realize that I haven't really eaten around Singapore much, ( Read more... )

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