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March 31, 2005
Drop a Tear in My Wineglass
Watching Before Sunrise, my favourite scene is when a homeless guy approached Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy for money. Instead of asking them outright for money, he asked them for a word and told them he'd write a poem with the word in it. If they liked it, they could pay him; if not, he'd bugger off.
They gave him the word "milkshake", and this is the wonderful piece he came up with.
Do you think I can even try to make a living like that?
Daydream delusion
Limousine Eyelash
Oh, baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweet cakes and MILKSHAKES
I am a delusion angel
I am a fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think
Don't want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we're going
Launched in life
Like branches in the river
Flowing downstream
Caught in the current
I'll carry you. You'll carry me
That's how it could be
Don't you know me (poet hands poem back)
Don't you know me by now
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Chocolate Men
"Who was that Cad you were talking to?" she asked Lata eagerly.
This wasn't as bad as it sounded. A good-looking young man, in the slang of Brahmpur University girls, was a Cad. The term derived from Cadbury's chocolate.
-Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
I'm trying to read the monster novel, A Suitable Boy. Thankfully, it feels like a smooth, easy read and Indian culture sits well with me currently. So yea, funny - Cads.
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Google does a Van Gogh
Nice. :)
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March 29, 2005
Cinephilic Wisdom
Cinephile Bill Heidbreder shares his yearning for love and companionship and sheds some wisdom on dating and life in NYT's delightful article. We last encountered Mr Heidbreder in Cinemania, a fantastic little documentary about 5 movie-mad New Yorkers.
A film date, in his view, is awkward by its very nature. "To like going to films, not unlike liking to read, involves a certain cultivation of solitude," he observed. "Even if you're on a date - unless you're with one of these idiots who wants to hold your hand through the whole film - you don't interact with the other person during the film. Which can be very frustrating to some people. They think they've spent two hours with you when all they've done is sit next to you."
Mr. Heidbreder took a sip of water, then continued: "I'm a very uninhibited person in a lot of ways. People who are into art, as I am, are very sublimated, and they're not very repressed. There's an important distinction there. A repressed person doesn't express his or her emotions. A sublimated person is very strongly driven by erotic desires," but it's not the desire to have sex, he said. "That's beneath the surface. But the desire is to create beauty or to experience beauty."
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And I hear that Bright Eyes is performing in Melbourne.
!@#$%^&!
Need to go back to Melbourne to listen to angsty band with super-angsty lyrics!
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March 27, 2005
Tea Madness
My method of unwinding these days is usually a cuppa hot tea, some new music and a book/magazine/surf on the net/chat with Shwang on MSN. And so, I've been in a tea-buying mood and friends/family have been kindly contributing to my stash too.
Soon, I will reach my Melbourne days when I had 17 varieties of tea to choose from.
Right now I have:
From Lipton:
1) Orange
2) Ginger and Lemongrass (o-so-calming!)
3) Jasmine Green
From my parents' trip in China
4) Suzhou Green Tea
5) Suzhou Red Tea
6) Suzhou Black tea
7) Longjing
8) Buddha's Tears (Jasmine-s0-fragrant)
9) Caramel Ceylon Tea(wonders of Dilmah!)
10) Vanilla Ceylon Tea (wonders of Dilmah!)
11) Japanese Sencha
12) Tie Guan Yin
13) Boh Tea (ha!)
14) Chai (Shan bought for me from Melbourne!)
15) English Breakfast (can we ever do without the basics?)
16) Earl Grey (see above comment)
WOW! Not bad at all. :)
Cuppa in hand: Ginger and Lemongrass herbal infusion to soothe the chilli crabs and to complement my lemongrass essential oil in burner.
I'm obsessed. ;)
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Technology gets scary...
I am but an old-fashioned kinda gal...so when I read this article and learnt that it will soon be possible to swap numbers by kissing, I was freaked!
"...Using RedTacton-enabled devices, music from an MP3 player in your pocket would pass through your clothing and shoot over your body to headphones in your ears. Instead of fiddling with a cable to connect your digital camera to your computer, you could transfer pictures by touching the PC while the camera is around your neck. And since data can pass from one body to another, you could also exchange electronic business cards by shaking hands, trade music files by dancing cheek to cheek, or swap phone numbers just by kissing..."
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Something happens. We cross a line, we open a door we never knew was there. It might never have happened, we might never have known. Most of life, maybe, is only time served.
- Graham Swift, Day of Light
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To live a life fulfilled
Album of the week: The Very Best of The Smiths - The Smiths
Book of the week: The Light of Day - Graham Swift
Movies to Finish: Before Sunrise, The Incredibles
Days to go to gym: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs
Things to do:
-Get SIFF tics
-Get Freud & Dora tics
-Decide on new hobby
Message of the week: I am an island.
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March 24, 2005
Tennessee Gone Wrong
Despite the bad reviews, I would kill to have the opportunity to catch this play on stage.
Maybe I should write to Beatrice Chia.
Heh.
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March 22, 2005
SIFF Wishlist
Ok. So I've looked through the SIFF bible and this is the list of the films I want to watch.
1) Samaritan Girl(with Readymade)
2) Appleseed (got the tics)(with melb boys)
3) A Time to Live/A Time to Die
4) City of Sadness (DVD instead)
5) Cinevardaphoto (with dogboy)
6) Our Music
7) Far Side of the Moon
8) Wilby Wonderful
9) Save and Burn (Hey - it's a movie about libraries!!!)
10) The Five Obstructions (A kind soul lending me DVD)
11) The People of Angkor (with SC)
12) Tarnation
Schedule permitting, time permitting, I should be catching everything except for being totally torn between Our Music and Tarnation. I have a hunch Shan might badger me into catching Writer of O (hey, she's still holding my Story of O!) and if any of the films catches the interest of the other half, I'm so there.
I know I'm slightly evil, but part of me wishes that the other half will be on one of his business trips(No..not leave for his posting, just biz trip k?) during the duration of SIFF. That would make life alot easier. KEKEKEKE
And so erm, if you want to catch any of the movies (that I'm not already catching with other people), do drop me a note asap.
So there you go. April be a busy month.
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March 14, 2005
hurt
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
-Tears For Fears
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March 09, 2005
Silver
This is fantastic. I fell in love with it once I smelt it. Want to buy for my man so much but we ain't gonna be on the same land much and I'm not gonna let no gal smell this on him.
Perhaps I'll just get it for myself. :)
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More Memory Tricks
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A Second Chance to Love
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Memory Tricks
Am currently re-reading Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans. Ishiguro writes very tenderly, there are nuances in his writing that has to be savoured, not devoured. He loves memory games and for Ishiguro, memory is something that has to be dug up from the deepest recesses of our minds. My memories float up - from time to time, the ones I least want to revisit. But reading fictitious memories, is definitely a good way to take my mind off work.
Am tempted to re-read the rest of his stuff before I embark upon Never Let Me Go.Perhaps that'd be what I'll do.
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March 05, 2005
The 18th Singapore International Film Festival
Hold your breath. :)
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Let Me Go
Somehow or another, news of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel made me hyperventilate.
-digs out When We Were Orphans to re-read-
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March 02, 2005
The Fame Connection
In New York City, it seems that it is cool to boohoo to any connection with any form of glam or fame. NYT's journo, Bob Morris, writes a heartfelt confession that he really wants a super-high-profile inconvenience to boohoo about. Because anybody who is somebody complains about the fame connection.
In Singapore, I have friends who get awestruck at every minor celebrity -connection. I also have friends who shun every celebrity-connection and badmouth incessantly about these "celebs". As for me, I guess I don't really care who you are until I know you personally and I like you.
Ok, I lie. If you produce fabulous work, I am likely to be just a little awestruck. But it's all subjective, ainnit?
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Delivery Ettiquette
I do apologise for paying a 30-dollar bill in coins, having no small change and taking a long time to find my bills.
But now I know it's alright to answer the door in my towel. ;)
Oh well, unfortunately, I don't think this article speaks for local delivery boys tho. Anyways, I think we need more delivery in Singapore. Miss those days where lounging at home for an entire week doesn't mean starving.
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No Art is High Art
Well, in this postmodern age, it seems that art is not for the hoity-doity anymore. Art is for the masses! And the masses watch reality TV!
pfft.
Posted by lainey at 05:51 PM | Comments (0)
Isolation by Ipod
Daryl is very wise to point out that the iPod iSolates. Ever since I've gotten my iPod, I have ceased calling friends up for a quick catch-up while waiting or commuting. Neither do I really care when I have to wander the streets downtown alone or run some errands on my own. I am happy in my own music - in my own world constructed by my iPod.
No doubt, such a social concern was probably raised when the walkman first hit the market. But, imagine - a world of 2000(and possibly more) songs, boredom doesn't come that easily and isolation takes a longer time to run out.
So, yes, I'm very happily insulated by my music of late. But not so isolated that I can't meet up with mr wannabe-toff for catchup and Pimm's. Now, did I get those terms right? :)
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