Entries from June 2008

June 25, 2008

All in All is All We Are

To my little bro,
After all that’s happened, I’m just really sorry that you had to experience this terrible onslaught of brutal cowardice and insanity. To be singled out unaware and unjustly hassled and beaten can be quite a drag, I know. And though it takes some bravery to strike back, remember that it takes an [...]

June 24, 2008

Finding Meaning…in the Crane Wife

And under the boughs unbowed
all clothed in the snowy shroud
She had no heart so hardened
All under the boughs unbowed
Each feather it fell from skin
‘Til thread bare while she grew thin
How were my eyes so blinded?
Each feather it fell from skin
And I will hang my head, hang my head low
And I will hang my head, hang [...]

June 19, 2008

Blinking with Yawns

Not another vid again. But I’m so darn tired and bored and a whole hogwash of melancholic. And this Sufjan ditty is so hauntingly beautiful. Sorry.

June 18, 2008

In the Dark

Just when I was gazing on the probability of heading up to KL to catch their gig, I get this downer update. And now it’s a toss whether they’ll consider doing the asian show here. These plans; ya try to keep it, but it comes and goes -

June 16, 2008

Knock Knock!

This has got to stop. Can’t a bloke have a peaceful solitary read without these sudden crazy knocks on the head by fresh books springing across the room? I’ve barely started Chatterjee’s Weight Loss and what should come slapping hard against my temples but The Enchantress of Florence. And flapping reviews like, This mesmerizing novel, [...]

June 12, 2008

Wincing the Week Away

Suppose I become neutral to the harrowing facades?
Suppose I penetrate these corporate layers with frankfuckin answers?
Suppose I tell it like the hell it is?
Suppose I watch them burn?

O Weekend, Weekend! Wherefore art thou Weekend!

June 5, 2008

Raise High the Hope-Beam

Yay!

June 2, 2008

Sea of Blues

Gotta post this cause it’s simply hilarious and, in a certain way, politically prophetic. The pic comes courtesy of my pal Henry. ‘Wah Piang Eh!’, by the way, loosely translates to, ‘Oh Damn It!’. Only proves that there are some exclamations that, for the full impact, should stay in their original unadulterated form.