the vietnam photos are out and I'm still not done with 2005's! ok so it shall be on turbo-mode while I still can.


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I walked briskly from the bus-stop along the shophouses. a rather old man in a blue shirt turned his head to his left and looked at the glass display, but all the same, I recognized him in an instant! surprise sprang before pleasure, so I murmured (rudely!) 'chiam see tong!' and he looked up, and smiled ( Read more... )

I take back my words; yet another redeeming point of vietnam is hanoi. I don't quite know how to express my admiration for that city, so I shall hold it back till my photographs are developed.

have to get on with the rest of last year's (!) pictures, ( so here they are. )

this week in numbers:

14 hours sleep in 5 days
>20,000 words
1 wrist suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome
3 lovely, lovely friends stayed till 7am with me
22 hours sleep in 1 day
1.5+ hours of singapore gaga
2 more essays
almost 25

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march 2005

italian coffee at the rooftop cafe of the rinascente and I was offered this stunning view of the duomo.


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too many waterfront features and charming coloured boats in italy, so here's a fastforward to morocco. I went through these photographs again because the architecture professor today was using his photos of rabat as some indication of 'nodes' and 'paths' in urban design and theory.

( tiles, sea, italian boys )

1. 'tis a good season indeed. I will be having free dinners and lots of dessert. congratulations to the four of you (and lina too ( Read more... )

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