Month: March 2005
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How bout the blooming petals?
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~Jelaluddin Rumi Now, how about the mass flowering that’s…
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The singular’s weekend life
It’s been a very, very hard week. And that’s all I will say about the hard week. I’d much rather talk about something else. But unfortunately, after the very, very hard week, I didn’t have the energy to go out and enjoy myself and as a result find things to talk about. Instead, I stayed…
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Bodily Mass Index
Was it Thursday’s Straits Times front page (this link and the whole website it points to will self-destruct in.. wait… now?) that got everyone fiddling with their mobile phone’s calculator to measure their Blubber Mass Index? There I was, this whole week, getting worked up over the gays cause AIDS issue and the why nobody…
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How Mr Miyagi got his name
I don’t know karate but this is how I got named my nickname. It’s a much better nickname than what the South African rugby player, Chumani Booi was called last weekend when his team played the New South Wales Waratahs. It won’t stick because too many players are called Black Cunts, apparently. Back in my…
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2,460 new cases the reason to ban outdoor parties?
You read it here first. Because you won’t find it on Channelnews Asia because it’s not important. You won’t find it on ST interactive because you’re not subscribed to it. There were 2,460 new cases of dengue fever and 61 new cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever between January 1 and March 12 this year, so…