Tag: Navel Gazing
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For the road
Gratititius Grotitious Grastistitious Nice Chiobu Photo Work these few weeks has been a series of days driving around the island, all over the place, for short meetings where sometimes not much gets achieved. And then you realise you actually spend more time on the road than at the meetings. Sian. Looking for the right driving…
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Reeling
Funny how a day after I blog about the house I used to live in, my mother calls and tells me that the house we’re living in right now, well, she’s just sold it. Twenty-five years I’ve lived here (excepting eight in Australia), and I’ve got a couple of months to decide where to move…
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Bungalow by the sea
Pasir Panjang Days: One of the concepts that never made it off the Tourism Board’s drawing board of national symbols? (See Cory Doctorow’s Flickr Set of Haw Par Villa). “412 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 5.” That was how I used to recite my address to anyone who’d ask me where I lived. I must’ve been…
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Give nothing, want nothing, have nothing
So the boys who delivered the flowers were a bit late, and got a bit lost, even to the point of sounding really frantic on the phone as they asked me for directions. But they got there, and I was really happy. So what if they were the cheapest bunch of 99 roses I could…
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Dedication
I recently attended a wedding, and it was the most beautiful wedding I have ever attended. It was held at someone’s home, and it was simple. There wasn’t much by way of ceremony except for the exchange of vows/dedications. The wedding couple was as beautiful as they have always been, when I’ve had the chance…