Entries from December 2008
December 25, 2008
May Kashara
From Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, pg258:
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“You know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird…,” said May Kashara, clearing her throat.
“What?”
“If people lived for ever — if they never got any older — if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy — do you think they’d bother to think hard about things, [...]
December 22, 2008
Uncle
I’m actually an UNCLE TO MANY, MANY, KIDS.
NO, I don’t have many kids out of wedlocks, it’s just that, my family, being a typical chinese one (paternally), has connections that extend to multitudes of families.
An example would be, today, the NIECE and NEPHEW that came today, to my grandma’s place, are my… FATHER’S, COUSIN’S, CHILDREN, [...]
December 21, 2008
Astra
Let’s forget about those notes I wrote,
Looped ink lines on a folded note
My eyes I gaze, and stare and dote -
This can last forever I hope.
Spastic laughter, sick, creative humour
Just slightly more, or even two…(pauses?) I quietly clamour
Material, no longer I savour
It is this magic that lingers
Just let me talk to you. (please!)
Free me from [...]
December 20, 2008
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the lord
But you don’t really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing [...]
December 18, 2008
“The spirit of music as an art is not kept alive in our professional theaters and concert halls, but on the cottage piano of the dedicated amateur.”
- Richard Wagner
December 4, 2008
Condoms!?
Apparently, I’ve been failing to produce entertaining posts for almost months and thus, not living up to my blog description. Talk about bragging.
Still, I think my skin is thick enough, and I rule the world’s population of bunnies – and so, I believe I have every rights to brag. I am authoritarian, like er, Hitler, [...]