Friday, December 15, 2006

with a deep breath, i...

there have been an immense need to write for the past few days, perhaps to make up for the lack of words over the last few months. i have stopped writing, not because i no longer live, nor think, nor process. i suppose, i stopped because i usually can't find the appropriate words to define my thoughts. and when i reckoned that i could, i let and watched the moment slipped. but today, this afternoon, i will make it known, watch my words form, and feel my heart skip a beat as they materialise.

sept, october, november were dramatic in a i really don't think i could go on working sort of way. i like my job. but i don't fancy the people and the situations i always find myself in. accusations, backstabbing and all those silly office politicking games come and won't go away. people need to cut each other some slack and be made aware that they will only go this far with fake distance learning degrees and inadequate amount of ethics and morals. i get so worn out thinking about work, more so, working. i'm too young to be burnt out like that. it too, baffles me that a co-worker of a certain skin color whom i was bestowed the utmost misfortune to travel with for work think it'd be a-ok to say to me that, singapore is after all, very asian if you bother to dig deep into its cosmopolitan shell. what did he think he'd find, very italian or, very mexican.

people.

december, however, has been slow, and mostly lazy. december is also about empty gazes and forlorn wantings to apologise for past hurts, mistakes, lies, abandonments, and for the person i used to be. the sighting of acquaintances known for years, the familiar faces and profiles of ex-lovers on certain networking community can be too much of a pain to handle. they weren't the ones who walked out. i, mostly did. and sometimes, like now, when i feel like picking up from where we left it, i didn't think it's possible, no more. and it is this exact awareness that hurts. knowing that it is not possible and having to just move on carrying the burden without being able to redeem yourself. but, that's just how it is, isn't it. a cycle.

i want, 2007 to be the end of that very cycle.
i've hopes, still, for better blue skies days.

and, you are still fantastically loved. so are, friends who are like family.


Wednesday, November 8, 2006

今天晚上

我们也只不过是落寞的一族。.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

just so you know

one day, i will be so fucking famous. (for all the right reasons, no less)

Monday, August 14, 2006

25th birthday

i turn 25 in 30 minutes.
i am suddenly overcome with a bout of nothingness.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006

this is what magic is made of

an excerpt from a book i'm reading:


"Dearest anvil," she would write to me six years later, "dearest deposed president of some now defunct but lovingly remembered country,
dearest to me, I can find no suitable words of affection for you, words that will contain the whole of your wonderfulness to me.
You will have to make due with being my favorite bagel,
my favorite blue awning above some great little café where the coffee is strong but milky and had real texture to it."


this is magic.

on a night like this

i just want to dance in your room, listening to barry white maybe and just dance.

in your room back home. where your lights are dimmed.
i wanna do just that.

Monday, July 10, 2006

so this is goodbye

it's maureen's last day today at the college. the moment she gave me a big hug after i said bye, take care, i will miss you, we both broke down and cried. that made up for all the tears we were fighting last evening at dinner.

i suppose my sadness is inevitable, after all, she's been a mentor figure to me for the past 15 months, always encouraging, always believing in what i can acheive. we shared good times together and often laughed at the bad ones. it upsets me greatly that there's a hint of possibility that she was let go. this utterly disgusting asian society has no place for honest people like me, maureen and felix.

it is precisely why, i need and want to get away. from people who want me to conform, to be part of this whole big ugly corporate culture, to be the hypocrite that i will not be.

the end is the end is the beginning.

Friday, July 7, 2006

a small award

i've won a small photography award, my first.
it comes with $500, a group exhibition at singapore arts museum and free mentorship, can't say i'm displeased.

this helps to smoothen the ruffled feathers from work.
wow.

Monday, June 5, 2006

moving and then, stopping

one good news and several other fatal ones.

i went out and got myself a new camera, something that i’ll be using for quite awhile. i’m enjoying the quiet moments with this new camera even tho’ i’ve not quite gotten a hang of it. the presence of a new one, however does not mean i love my little sony cam any lesser. if anything, i miss it even more. even if it’s just laying on the ground, inside my bag, next to my right foot as i’m typing. but that’s just how people are, right? they miss and they miss and they miss. and then perhaps one day, they’ll wake up and just decide that today, this particularly morning of which the air is ordinarily fresh and nothing’s different, will be the day that they stop.

the skip a string of heartbeats kind of stop. the put behind you and pretend that it never exist kind of stop.

the you think you can go on kind of stop.

and then some days, some months or perhaps, some years later, you’ll wake up again, and realise that, it did happen and it does exist, and that you’re really just too broken then to realise it.

too broken then, and still broken now. and you then, resume life, and its normalcy the way it is intended to be. moving on, moving further, and easily away.

the way it is intended to be.

normalcy. and then you will forget that you once lived before the skip a string of heartbeats kind of stop. the put behind you and pretend that it never exist kind of stop.

the you think you can go on kind of stop.

and you just kind of, stop, living.

Saturday, May 27, 2006

she, your eighty percent

your eighty percent and our awkward silence.

life seems to have finally happened and i'm not quite sure how to live it right. there's so much within this battered self and yet so much restrictions imposed, can't write, can't talk, can't think. i don't know how i feel about your eighty percent, is it really, eighty, or seventy, how about fifty, maybe that would make me feel slightly better, somehow. perhaps, perhaps, that sort of dependency is what you want and need and yearn for, always. and perhaps, perhaps, i should be

happy for you but, this drift between us, is, not, what, i, want.

two more weeks and i'm out again. perks perks perks. all these emptiness from within occurs after six pm everyday.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

the elusive you

of late night conversations, frequent hang-outs and random sighing.
it's not entirely possible to just walk away, or is it.

Saturday, March 25, 2006

seoul searching

sometimes i think this is it. and that i can no longer go on.
i'm feeling this right now. i don't exactly know how to deal with super tight deadlines and fatigue and every other thing.
also, i'm possibly the fattest woman in seoul.


how is it that every single woman i've seen so far is so skinny.
this is surreal.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

this evening

because trusting can be tiring, i've therefore decided not to trust anymore.

Friday, March 10, 2006

again, again, again

when the raindrops hit the concrete ground.

i've been haunted by that one line ' i don't know if i can live without you.'
all things, beautiful, lush and real will subsequently disintegrate into nothingness, leaving two hearts broken, unmendable and eventually dead.

and, today i realise, no matter how much i want to feel alive again for a particular someone, to have my heart in my mouth when i see you, i don't think i can ever handle yet another of that ' i don't know if i can live without you' moment.

some things are just unfortunate this way.
vulnerable moments are best savored alone in the comfort of my own blanket right before the day breaks.

i'd very much like to have a regular heartbeat, for now.
i think.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

my heart in my hand

of millions of stars and acts of spontaneity.
please, remember.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

oh procrastination, what a dear friend of mine

honestly, i feel like a pile of warm sluggish mud whose future will be, a pile of warm sluggish mud. not that i know how that really feels like but rhetorically speaking, i feel like that right now. and it is not a very dandy feeling.

Friday, January 13, 2006

this morning's realisation

this morning i woke up and ventured into a known and yet unfamiliar neighborhood, looking for nothing, only to discover that we were all born into endless suffering and persistent sadness of a sort.

mixed emotions

i want the ocean right now.