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Last year, back in November I completed Nanowrimo. I remembered telling myself to take a break for one month, and get to editing the draft once the new year begins. Well it’s March, almost April in fact, and I have not edited the draft at all. Granted, work and real life came into the equation
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A bottle of Hennessy, by the poolside, 3am in the morning. Bless and Nic and I were talking about whether we would rather be someone’s temp or home base. Are you a person’s escape? Or are you the ‘at-the-end-of-the-day-I’ll-still-return-to-you’ person? Also, Tori Amo’s Sleeps with Butterflies is a perfectly apt song of this temp/home base
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Started work at a new company Did a zombie movie Did a zombie flash mob Cameo-ed in a TV commercial Took part in a photoshoot for Life! Graduated from Murdoch University Went to Melbourne Went to Perth Went on the Great Ocean Road Visited the 12 Apostles Drove on the Great Ocean Road Pierced my
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Come as you are, as you were as I want you to be As a friend, as a friend as an old enemy And I swear that I don’t have a gun No I don’t have a gun No I don’t have a gun
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Nicholas was older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories. Once every year they forced him, sobbing and
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Dusk arrives earlier in Melbourne than it does in Singapore. We are walking along Collins Street and the fading sun lends a golden glow. It’s getting darker, and it’s getting colder. I zip my jacket up and wind the scarf around my neck. I am not yet sick of the cold. We find a table
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I look around, sometimes I stare I think back now and then, I hope you know I care I walked away that day, trying to treat you right But you were on your track, it was me turning back, I left you freezing outside I like how retrospectively sad this song is. I love the
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Some post-mortem about Nanowrimo. Found this through Howalt’s blog: Wordle, a word cloud generator that you could use to generate word clouds of just about anything. You could use it to see what are the most commonly used words in a blog, a website, etc… and in my case, I used it to see what
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Me: Have you heard of this song called Gloomy Sunday? Brother: No.. why. Me: It’s a scary song! It’s known as the Hungarian suicide song. It is said that many people committed suicide after listening to it. Brother: Oh really? Me: Ya! Wiki it. Oh wait, let me send you the link to the Wikipedia
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