I have always had a vicarious love-affair with snow, even before my fingers had ever brushed it, or crushed it into soft balls, or handled great crystalline blocks of it to fling over the distance. Funny, how snow, present everywhere in every form, pervasive in the very air around us; that unattainable and precious crystalline [...]
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Snow
Posted in Introspection, Journeys on August 28, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Inbound
Posted in Fiction on August 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The passenger liner hurtled on through the faux-blue realm of hyperspace, bound inexorable for the centre of the universe. Within its cavernous interior thousands of immigrants, returning citizens, and transit passengers sat and mingled and ate and slept – or did the equivalent of their species – the normal hubbub of sapient activity so native [...]
Equatorial Night Lights
Posted in Journeys, Life on August 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I had the fortune to be able to witness (from a reasonably clear vantage point, to boot) the New Caledonia fireworks display for the SFF.
Truly a spectacle, I should say, more so because I don’t think I’ve ever seen fireworks up close before, feeling the urban crush of others around, the mass of people [...]
A Story of Temptation
Posted in Fiction, School on August 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
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Chpt. XII : The Japanese Pay Babu A Visit
He was in his shop when the Japanese came for him.
Blue afternoon, sun beating down. The heavy drowsing air casting a pall over weary patrons. Babu reclined on his wooden chair, idly shifting coins around on the table. Nearby his bottles of water shimmered wetly in [...]
Hahvahd
Posted in Journeys, Life, School on August 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I never thought I’d say this, but I really do miss our small island nation with no natural resources. It’s been a month and a half now, and the lack of “lah”s and “nehmine”s, coupled with bloody American spelling, is getting to me. Unforunately, while there is another Singaporean here, she’s from UWC and is [...]
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Posted in Commentary, School on August 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Midmorning on Saturday, chemistry practical laid out in the process of exquisite compilation. It is strange, to say the least, how doing something as conventionally frustrating as a practical report can be so cathartic an experience. The very nature of the report requires extensive didacticism and serene, precise organization. The very normalcy of such a [...]
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