July 2011
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YB
Me: Your dad called me 'girl'. What.
Prakky: Where do you think I get it from?
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Money
I enjoy getting my pay. Once my claims come through, I think I’ll get a third tattoo.
I decided to do my usual get in, get out shopping thing. I hate shopping. I bought a large camel-colored bag (now I need a large black one) and a pair of black flats. I bought a nice pair of flats somewhere between ochre and fulvous, and a pair of kitten heels in a dark fawn (it takes so little effort to...
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. And until now...”
– Sean Augustin
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Christ
Me: So what's it like dating a girl who isn't smarter than you?
R: It's nice. More relaxing.
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Scorpene
So I’m happily sitting in MACC, talking to that journalist who I don’t like because she reminds me of somebody I don’t want to like. And she’s actually a very nice girl, I am amused to discover. Writes fanfiction, wants to be an author (sigh), has slightly odd dress sense and speaks like she’s repeating lines from a film – on the whole a very nice girl.
And then this whackjob sitting next to me...
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“They say bad things happen for a reason, but no wise words are gonna stop the...”
– The Script, Breakeven
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Science
Okay, so off the top of my head I started jotting down the museums I’d like to visit. The Louvre, the British Museum, the Met, Tate Modern, the National Galleries in Washington and London, MoMA, Musée d’Orsay, Centre Georges Pompidou, Galleria Uffizi, Museo del Prado, Rijksmuseum, the Smithsonian, the Vatican Museum, Museo Nacional De Antropologia, Hagia Sophia, the Hermitage in St...
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“She’s just sibuk-ing. A lot of people like that kan. Usually when you...”
– Kitty
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Day 23: Two Characters You Wanted To Get Together...
What sacrilege is this? One doesn’t question Joss’ choices.
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“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
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Corruption
Me: So when I was at MACC I met this kind of crazy girl who wanted me to send her regards.
Boss: What do you mean, "kind of" crazy? She's full-blown crazy.
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Shall
So I just realized that I’ll be giving up my Pepto-Bismol laptop in a few days. Back to pen and paper, then… Or the Blackberry. Never mind, it’s good training for my triumphant return to online media (cue the 1812 Overture).
I am getting anxious, what with all this waiting. Never mind. Think faster, think deeper, think further, think more. It will come.
My brother is leaving...
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that...”
– Ernest Miller Hemingway
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Keep
People don’t get used up or run out, a comment stated. I hope that’s true, even though I don’t believe it. I do think people can get used up, finished.
But I hope that what he said applies to writing.
And maybe even though I have no talent, if I just keep hammering away I’ll get somewhere.
A colleague loaned me The Metaphor’s Preface. Although I’ve always...
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“Do the adult thing and tell him to suck his own cock, provided it’s big...”
– Sana
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Just The Girl
Me: What about the 'and the more she ignores me / the more I adore her' bit?
Anon: Umm no. The more you ignore me the more pissed off I get.
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“So what? Marriage means nothing these days. He called you ‘honey...”
– The Kiddo (via vladimircollectsceramicunicorns)
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Day 22: Best Xander-centric Episode Day
Haha, this is funny because I’ve made no secret regarding how much I adore Xander.
But the problem with choosing an episode totally about him is that there are so few. Mostly (as is the case with Potential and Into The Woods) the episode is about someone else until he swoops in with the most killer line and steals the show.
I’ll have to go with this one.
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“I ate six Pringles and then fell asleep. That’s how we party at...”
– Anand Pillai
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Issues
Reading blogs, and a mere twelve-word sentence can make me grin like a fool. I really admire writers with a distinct voice, the question of talent aside.
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Rumah
So I decided to bite the bullet and spend the weekend at home (which, I’ve come to realize, means Sungai Buloh, Jalan Ampang, Tambun and Brunei), and it’s been good so far.
I mean, now that my mom is speaking to me again (for some reason about Bersih 2.0, general elections, and which politician is an asswipe) I figure it won’t be awkward.
And it is pretty good, so far. My mom...
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Charles Bukowski
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do...
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“Walk on the ocean, step on the stones.
Flesh becomes water, wood becomes bone.”
– Toad The Wet Sprocket, Walk On The Ocean
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Day 21: Best Willow-centric Episode
Naturally it would be from Season Six, but I’m torn between Grave and Two To Go. Although Villains and Tough Love were pretty damn fantastic as well.
In fact, no, I’ll rethink that one. It’s probably a toss-up between Two To Go and Villains.
That said, Villains had more power, more grief, and some fricking amazing acting.
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Uncharitable
So I trip over to R’s Facebook page and all I can think is whoa, this chick has hit the bigtime.
And she’s clearly entirely cognizant of that fact. This reminds me of Cole’s berating me over dumping a economist (of the Central Bank, no less) and taking up with a poor journalist (although his financial affairs were not an issue, his insanity was).
But to accuse the girl of...
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“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in...”
– Adam L Gordon
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So Much Conviction
Me: You going on Saturday?
Boss: Yes.
Me: What about Thursday?
Boss: Yes.
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Absolute
This place may never truly be home, but I will try. I do try.
My Malay is not as bad as I pretend it is, probably not even as bad as I think it is. My vocabulary may be lacking now, but I spoke the language fluently (so well that coupled with my features, I was frequently asked if I was Indonesian) less than five years ago.
I wonder what happened. It’s hard to believe that I was at one...
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“I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness,...”
– Unknown Confederate Soldier’s Prayer
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School
Furthering studies, what does that even mean? I’d like to think I’ve learnt more as a two-bit hack for a third-rate portal than I could at one of the finest graduate institutions in the world.
I wonder sometimes why I ended up here, despite my insistence that I have the best, my demanding nothing less than world-class. My hobaggery. But every time those sort of thoughts pop into my...
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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein. I’d do well to remember this.
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Polar
I wish I were good at math and logic and computers. I wish I spoke French and Malay fluently, and played the piano well. I wish I danced better.
I wish I knew how to be silent.
Graduation was last weekend. I wonder if I should have forked out the RM700 for a smelly robe made of synthetic fabric, laughed with people I don’t really like and eaten crappy hotel food. You only graduate once,...
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“I’m just not big enough to forgive you.”
– Larry Gray, Closer
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Hachiko
KJ: Next time you want quotes from me, please ask my press secretary. Think you know him.
Me: Dax?
KJ: No, Shannon Teoh. Good guy.
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“Aiyah gurl. Your organisation, they wouldn’t know lead if it poisoned their...”
– Anon
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Day 20: Best Spike-centric Episode Day
WHAT A GOOD QUESTION.
Okay, so I love love love Touched. I wanted to cry. What a guy.
I also adore Something Blue and Pangs. And The Gift is amazing but it’s definitely not Spike-centric.
In fact, there are very few purely Spike-centric episodes (tsk tsk). At any rate, I know which one I love best.
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“It feels like it’s gonna be okay,
It feels right, it just feels that way....”
– Emma Lahana, True Love
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Stanford
I think that money will be getting in the way, and I will not be leaving.
I already have a back-up plan (even though my heart of hearts is going but, it’s STANFORD) and I’m just trying to keep in mind that He is saying “wait” so he can give me the best in His own time.
Have I tried? Yes.
Have I tried my best? No. I don’t think so. Because if I’d tried my...
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“The rain looks like it touches her
But it doesn’t, her 100 yen shield....”
– Ilyana Idros, Charlotte
June 2011
55 posts
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Hakka
El: So are you a practicing Chinese?
Vinod: What the hell is a practicing Chinese?
Stephanie: How do you practice Chinese?
Nantha: Makan babi.
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Peranakan
Me: So if you had to join a party –
Stephanie: I'D JOIN A RAVE PARTY.
