April 2007
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about rain
I was about to post something about the rainy weather. About how it?s cold and I?m enjoying it. About how it made me want to stuff headphones into my ears or turning it up to eleven. About how I then decided to lock myself in the shoe closet and shoot a picture for the …
in my bag
They say that the contents of your bag say a lot about you*. So I?ve decided to empty it all out here to be probed. I thought pictures would be too messy so I illustrated the goods (from memory) instead.
Here?s the list:
1. A very tacky touristy pen, but it?s my favorite …
feet on the dash
I'm chewing on some pieces of dragon fruit. A part of me is nervous about tomorrow and another part of me is filled with anticipation. So I'm chewing harder.
I'm not fond of public speaking and it only makes it harder when I'll be sharing to a group of leaders?one of …
icky
I've been so busy these couple of days. I can feel my temperature rising. I worked 12 hours that day/night. Ickiness. It was my parents? anniversary last night and they decided to treat the family to a nice dinner and not go off on a date by themselves. I don?t know if …
post-its and indulgence
Post-its (drawing without looking)
1. I was drawing the sidewalk on Sunday evening for a friend?s anti-Valentine?s Day event (I'm not against it, believe me. But it was a request, what can I say?). It was an open-mike gig with a host of funny people. I like the last guy …
i will not be mushy
My colleague was lamenting how life is unfair. I think it?s true. Life is unfair because grace is unfair. Every day I wake up in the morning, that?s unfair. I have food on the table, that?s unfair. I get to hang out with children who adore me, that?s unfair. That?s …
impala
I had a sleepover at the children?s home on Friday night. We microwaved three bags of buttered and salted popcorn. Watched two cartoon movies. Laughed at ourselves. Finished countless bags of junk and sucked on a few lollipops. The kids broke their 9pm curfew and slept …
daddy's shoes
I was out with the family visiting my aunt this afternoon. She still lives in a superbly decrepit flat. And I really meant that; superbly decrepit. It?s far from clean. It smells of old rubbish and the walls are peeling and cracking, as though it?s an ancient monster …
et cetera
A few days ago, I received an email I sent to myself a year ago. It brought a knapsack and a trunk full of emotions. At first it was weird in an I-know-what-you-did-last-summer kind of way, and then I felt warm and almost teary. I also felt silly. But all in all, I felt …
empty handed
I had lunch alone the other day. I bought a box of fried vermicelli from the 7-11 below my office and ate it in the tiny room we call a pantry. Eating a RM1.80 meal in a tiny space can be pretty cozy. I got to read the backs of cereal boxes and found out that our large …
monday
Everyday my journey home from work finds me under a new kind of sky. The sun, cloud, weather and color differ from time to time. Sometimes I even get to see the moon, but this usually happens in the early mornings when the moon prefers to linger a little longer than …
tuesday
The weather is extremely hot today. It didn?t rain and the sky was rather hazy in the morning. So most people don?t enjoy conversations about the weather (I hear they think it?s shallow), but I like watching the weather forecast on tv. I think it?s as therapeutic as …
wednesday
Today is a good day to learn and enjoy.
I was doing some reading this morning about the Pentecost and grasped a little of what it meant to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. And the interesting part is that it has little (or nothing) to do with tongues but more of feeding …
thursday
It?s almost 5am and I should be sleeping, I know. And I'm sorry that it?s already Friday (for some) when I post this up.
Thursday was fun. I had a simple lunch: honey and peanut butter charcoal toasts, two soft-boiled eggs and a glass of refillable iced lemon tea. …
friday
The day started off all hot and humid. By the time I was ready to leave the office, the sky unplugged itself and released its weight of glory. My shoes were soaked and I had to roll up my jeans like a fashionable fisherman.
Fantabulous freak weather.
That?s my sister. She …
love is not a sasquatch
When I told the kids that we were going to clean up the park, they sulked. Bad idea. But it?s ok to be unpopular, I figured. So there we went walking to the park in a row and me looking silly with a huge black plastic bag tied to my sling-bag.
The strangers who were …
the blind will see
A friend sent me this the other day. I don?t know what it is like to lose one of my five senses. Without sight, the world seems stranger than it already is. I love taking photos and drawing and I don?t know if I will cease to be me if I can no longer do those things. Am …
fathers
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I was at flea market and saw many fake Rolexes and old vinyls. I haven?t got my turntable fixed and could not carry off a fake Rolex so all I could afford was a spiffy glass with little chipmunk illustrations.
I?m going to Cambodia at the end of this month. …
ache
I'm a bit unwell. I need more sleep and some pancakes. Some cheese will be great too.
(thank you, Josh)
port dickson
The beach was a lot dirtier than I expected it to be. My family would frequent this beach when I was younger and we?d collect hermit crabs and empty shells (I know, it?s not the smartest thing to do, but I didn?t know any better. So get off my back). But I didn?t see …