All the things

that I want to do. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] -I want to study, and learn about lots of things. Some things, just for the sake of knowing them, and more things to be able to do them. Things like, getting around to the books that are still waiting...

The sunlight streaming into this room,

light that sharpens into a point, the shape of a window on the white wall to my side. The bright light that almost splits into a rainbow. How warm, how lovely. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - I wonder if we can have a composite motion sensor system for...

I have no desire to lie,

so I won't. But I am also afraid of hurting you - which is why I am careful. (At least, now, a week on, this is far enough that I can say these things without sending us into agony. My cold hands, my temperate voice, my body sliding into hibernation in this cold.) - I...

8 days a week

Is what I wanted today. But I know that in another world where there were actually 8 days a week, then it'd be an extra weekday and not a weekend. But still, I wanted an extra day today. What should we call this feeling, since it is neither regret nor desire? Neither warm or cold,...

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. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] Io scrivo e leggo, ma non ho sonno. Something like that. I was going to title this along...

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...