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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:59:44 GMT

The Stray Cat

Sunlight fragments
Upon broken glass,
Tarmac heats
The soles of passer-bys.

Alongside a graffiti-stained wall,
She plays slowly
With a lank clump of hair,
Pawing as it sways
To and fro,
To and fro
In front of her.

Her feet move
Restlessly in outlines
Of the Bear Star, the Sun Sign and UFOs --
Signs only she knows
Behind the creases of her eyes.

Her can clanks.

She bobs
Her head, moving side to side
to the honking of the cars;
Her mud-colour coat
Swallowing its body.

And then, the stringy hair
returns as a funny swing;
To and fro,
To and fro,
To and fro.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Wed, 31 May 2006 08:19:51 GMT

Yesterday, I needed a school uniform from an all boys' school.

Desperately.

Becca was initially suppose to bring her brother's and we settled that the night before, so I had a gorgeous coma of a sleep, being relieved that everything had finally fallen into place. But the next morning, a message came.

Her brother had given away all of his uniforms already.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Somebody save me.

So there I was: 7.45am in the morning, bleary-eyed and a little panicky, headed for work and playing the role of a sardine in the morning-rush crowd. (Make that a very flat sardine.)

And every time a schoolboy would pass me, my treacherous unfocused eyes would snap to clarity and I would feel like stripping the boy of his uniform there and then.

It's not because I'm a pervert. But you've got to understand. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Yes. You had me in the top right-hand corner. The Boy in the bottom left-hand corner. Boy in white button shirt with starched colour and navy/khaki/white long pants. Me, cracking my knuckles and looking intently at the uniform on The Boy.

Resist.Resist.Resist!

Hell. Sometimes I'm psychotic, I swear.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Sun, 07 May 2006 09:34:15 GMT

Last month was a crazy April! Exams, preparations (or the lackthereof), props-shopping, backstage crewing, rehearsals and now, what looks set to be a damn good holiday! I can't wait :) and yet at the same time, I dread some parts of it.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:40:33 GMT

double mushroom swiss
on a day with sore throats
and tired eyes and smiles.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:54:20 GMT

" When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with when we grew up. 'A policeman or a fireman or one of those guys who works with high-tension wires.' "

" I liked the idea that a part of one's body might be though of as lazy -- not thoughtless or hostile, just unwilling to extend itself for the betterment of the team. My father often accused my mother of having a lazy mind, while she in turn accused him of having a lazy index finger, unable to dial th ephone when he knew damn well he was going to be late."

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:26:19 GMT

MELANGE
a triple-bill Stageit production
17th February 2006, Friday

SHAL THE STAR!!!!!!
and her two fans.
hehehehhehehehhe

IE group: "Where's Wally....& Uni?"

Ah-fine. they think they're very sexy and they laugh at me that I can't do
the patented Nabs-pose. fine fine fine. they're all sexy. phwoar.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:25:30 GMT

term break is ending.
In half an hour.
(I know this is such a wimpy thing to do but...)

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, February 20, 2006

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:47:20 GMT

alright! easter looks set to be good
despite the exams,
because cynthia's coming back!!!: )

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:53:27 GMT

13th Feb '06, Monday: PATRON's DAY & ESKI BAR

Korn & Glot(his older brother) suddenly popped up in Singapore.
Had mid-terms the day after and a ton of things to do
(esp. Shal who had the play as well)
so only managed to show them around campus for a bit
before going to Eski Bar at around 10++ for an hour,
then headed down to Arab St. for shisha/sheesha(?)
where shal & mel stayed with them till late.
Left early, dad wasn't too happy. Had to come back
early on sat too(zac's birthday) so that was a bit of
a bummer.Especially since isaac's such a close friend.
Or used to be, until everybody got too caught up with
their lives, I guess.

Eski bar was so cold. Sub zero temperature.It's amazing
and stupid that people would pay to freeze. Which was
what we did. Which makes us idiots. But it was funny.

They serve a smashing mushroom soup though.
Or maybe just cause it's pipping hot and lovely
in contrast to the temperature.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:23:56 GMT

This little piggy went to the market,
This little piggy stayed at home.
This little piggy had roast beef to eat,
This little piggy had none.
This little piggy went : "Wheewheewhee!"
All the way home.

"Aloysius! How many times must I tell you? If you want to stay in the pen and not carry the smelly muck back from the market, can you please, please, PLEASE for heaven's sake at least TRY to DO something? I don't know, take out the dirty straw from our bedding, do some PR with the chickens, build a better brand image for our kind on the internet or... whatever! Just stop LYING there and WALLOWING in the damn mud. It's because of pigs like you that we get such a bad rep for being lazy and dirty."

"............(snort).........(mumble).......(turns over to sleep some more)...."

"ALOYSIUS ALFRED PYGMALION THE SECOND!!!!!"

"Aw, shut it Bartie, I'm trying to eat my roast beef here. Just leave Aloy alone. It's not like we were born to do anything else. Haven't you seen those nice colourful charts for the farmer's kids in their studyroom? It has a picture of one of our kind, and a rather pretty piggy too if I must say.."

"As if I could stop you."

"Figure of speech, my dear brother, figure of speech. Anyway, I'd rather fancy her if she wasn't so... flat. So. It says P-I-G, under her neat little trotters, and it goes on to define us as : Large pinkish mammal; usually found in mud wallows; Traits: lazy, smelly and fat."

"It's a pile of rubbish and you know that."

"I understand my dear broth-"

"Shut up with the 'dear brother" before I whack your snout in with my groceries here."

"Fine, my rude brother. It is rubbish, but if that's what those ignorant two -leggers expect, why should we try to change it? Just live within the expectations and life will just be fine and dandy."

"Fine and dandy??? Fine and dandy???!! Get too fat and you're going to be the next one on that dinner table. Have some ambition for God's sake!"

"Like?"

"That's not the point."

"I thought so."

yikes.got to leave the house now.