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Thursday, September 27, 2007

I'm in the middle of Middlesex now, this novel written by Jeffrey Eugenide. I won't be able to forget this author's name because Eugenide makes me think of Eugene. Very much the same way I think of insecticide, spermicide. Oops.

Anyways. There is a passage I really like in the book.

"It was a little like Into The Sands, with Claude Barron, which she'd seen a couple of weeks ago. In that picture Claude Barron enlists in the Foreign Legion because Rital Carrol marries another guy. The other guy turns out to be a cheater and drinker, and so Rita Carrol leaves him and travels out to the desert where Claude Barron is fighting the Arabs. By the time Rita Carrol gets there he's in the hospital, wounded, or not a hospital really but just a tent, and she tells him she loves him and Claude Barron says, "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the colour of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you." And then he dies."

I don't mind watching a film like that. Where for once, the main actor dies. Where there's no fake happily-ever-after which we know doesn't exist in the real world.

writing at 12:51 AM

Thursday, September 20, 2007

I started bleeding after reading a book.
No wonder I've been feeling so fat and ugly lately.

writing at 5:18 PM

Sunday, September 16, 2007

The hardest person in the whole to forgive, is yourself.

//

She's so brave.

writing at 7:13 PM

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Which of the following best describes Philosophy?

1. The laborious discovery of the obvious.
2. The laborious discussion of the pointless.
3. The art of brainal gymnastics.
4. All of the above.

writing at 12:49 PM

I was sleeping when the bed started shaking. It was as if somebody was jumping or pushing at the mattress. And I kept bobbing up and down. I thought I was sleeping on an artery or something, so I flipped to my other side. But I was still bobbing, like on a water bed.

Unable to sleep I opened my eyes to see the hanging light swaying lightly on top of me. Awakened by the same thing my Dad was first to point out it might be an earthquake. Immediately I thought of hiding under the table, but that felt a little stupid. It wasn't like some magnitude 8.5 earthquake! Just weak tremors. Singapore is safe as safe can ever be.

"Singapore is located in an area sandwiched by the Java trench in the west and south, and the Philippine plate and trench in the east. Thus Singapore is located in a seismically stable zone, free from earthquakes. Most of the shallow and bigger earthquakes are in western Sumatra and Java because of the deep subduction zones to the west-east and south-north of the Java trench. Earthquakes that occur near Singapore are usually deep earthquakes and weak."

- National Environment Agency (NEA) of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources

Do you know what's the best way to counter an earthquake? Start shaking about so that the effect cancels out.

writing at 8:24 AM