If we got good things in proportion to

however much we have suffered, then last Friday has wiped out my universal credit. - If the good things of these two weeks are to be paid back with the vengance in the week after, then, I will confess that I am afraid. - I have much faith that that is not how the universe...

Half her face hidden in those voluminous sleeves,

a performance, plucking the strings of her pipa. And maybe I can be the seonbi in the robes of not quite blue and not quite green. - Io scrivo e leggo, ma non ho sonno. Something like that. I was going to title this along the lines of the opening of the poem below. To...

They blow through the case readings

like the wild wind does, echoing through the hollowness of a forest. - Someone mentioned to me that it feels like the readings never end, we only had the rejoinder that in the lecture, our three hours worth of case readings are equivalent to three minutes of air time. The three minutes are double-counted as...

(To my younger sibling) “Are you with me,”

Is Professor R's catchphrase and bless that heart. I am with you and not. With you in spirit and ideology and thinking but not there in passable skill or writing or even speed. But I do not suppose that they do not know. We should in fact suppose that they know we do not know....

The feeling after eating raw shallots,

when we do like them with satay but it makes our tongue numb. Not a great feeling, but it does taste good, sweet, even. So perhaps that is what the next five years will feel like. To pick it because we want it and enjoy it. I hope to enjoy university! Writing this knowing that...

Diluting the opposition vote,

and other theories in Singapore elections. - Sometimes, we wonder if Singaporean politics are really quite so different from politics elsewhere in the world. But having it better is not a legitimate reason for others to silence whatever complaints people do have. Since democracy allows people to complain. Dictatorships instead, kill their detractors. I've always...

Over time I don’t want to forget,

what it is that is worth whatever that we do. - In another world, where life is truly a game, I hope it will not be pay to win. Unless it's paying it forward with kindness. - On a slow morning in a slow month, listening to a piano I cannot play with the sunlight...

Racing against the tide to be the wave

breaking up into pieces and the seafoam rushes over your head since bubbles filled with air are, well, less dense. - No pictures of the tomatoes today, I'll think another week about how to best organise the three pictures. I already transplanted some of the seedlings into their final pots - one trough and one...

Counting and losing count

of days spent in repetition but still, good days. - Here's a picture of the tomato plants from yesterday, Day 24. As one can see, they're a bit leggy and some are a little bit yellow. Nothing water and time won't fix, I hope. Daily I have to rotate the egg carton because they grow...

In ten years when we’ve graduated and

already started working, I want to remember this feeling. - You're not a word-sy person, so I wouldn't tell you to read this: for me, it is enough to know this inside our own heart and to be able to smile at you knowing this. We try to show it through action, and so I...