We own this language and it owns us back
Aunty Lilly got all excited on Sunday and yelled up and down the terrace house, waking Uncle Albert and my cousins with: Ben’s face come out newspaper! Ben’s face come out newspaper! Ben’s face come out newspaper! My grumpy cousins grunted their replies, hoping she’d leave them alone so they could go back to sleep. […]
The day’s wider than it is long
It’s only a work day. But it’s been tiring nonetheless. I’m not a loser if I come home, log on, and see this in my email inbox. Definitely not. Surf stop: SomethingStickyThisWayComes iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: Man of Constant Sorrow – Dan Tyminski, Soggy Bottom Boys – O Brother, Where Art […]
Camillus Parker Bowles? Dowan!
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains, I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways, I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests, I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans, I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard… OK lah, not half so dramatic. But […]
Starry Night
I don’t remember many other names now, but I was numb from fatigue. So were Foong, Selvam and Ho Yeo as we lay on the top of our Armoured Personnel Carrier. Foong asked why. I said I didn’t know. Ask the stars. A lot of them tonight. I must have been numb from fatigue, because […]
A dunno go where dunno do what weekend
Once a while, you get one of these particularly bleah weekends where work has occupied your mind so much you don’t know what to do when you finally get a break. So, online, on MSN IM, as you would when you finally get a break, I was asked, ‘So how? Go out? Where?’, which started […]