Today, I changed the rating for “The Predatory Wasp of the Palaside Walls” by Sufjan Stevens from 3 stars to 5 on my iPod. The song started at the exact moment when I stepped through the parking lot between my block and the one next to mine and looked up at the night sky. It wasn’t the ugly red that I see in Singapore usually, but was instead a beautiful and soothing black, with a few stars sprinkled here and there. And at that time I wished for a moment that my cigarette never end, so that I could just stand in the cool breeze and stare at that sky forever and not have to go... 

Its the middle of the week, and its kind of random, but I thought I’d blog about a particular thing that I really really want to own. If you’ve ever watched Cowboy Bebop and you remember the very first scene…then you’d remember a very cute tune playing on a music box. Its a music box version of the song Adieu, composed by Yoko Kanno and is called Memory. So what I want is this…a wind-up music box that can play that tune. You have no idea how indebted I’d be to anyone who finds that for me. I’ve wanted a music box like that ever since I first heard that... 

A lot of stuff has transpired over the past two weekends. In fact, if you were to consider all the small little things happening here and there as variables to a larger equation, then this weekend would be a product of all that. Basically, this weekend shall be a weekend of many changes. Only time will tell whether they’re for the better or for the worse. That aside, what started off as a horrible Friday, with me getting drenched from head to toe waiting for a cab to go to the Japanese embassy, only to find that they accepted Visa applications in the morning…ended on a nice note. Alcas,... 

Terrible Indian food. Good Italian pizza. Terrible pool shots. Losing my cool and snapping for the first time in over 2 years over a small thing (last time I snapped like that was at my ex). Drinking party. More smoking. Multiple…too many horrific mental images. Seeing someone foam from their fucking mouth for the first time. Cab home. Numbness. Tiredness. Insomnia.  Read More →

Yesterday, Pari and I went to the Keane concert at Fort Canning Park. I got off work early, Pari got off work REALLY early and we both reached there at around 5:30pm. I had bought the tickets a really long time back, so we had VIP tickets with special entry and shit ! Anyway, when we reached, we were horrified to see a queue of 15 people. 15 people only??! Out of embarrassment, we actually made an about-turn and marched to the Singapore Museum nearby (which actually turned out to be a very cool discovery for us,come to think of it) to pass some time. We returned at 6. The crowd of 15 had grown... 

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I attended my first wedding in Singapore yesterday. James, one of my LEAP mates got married to his secondary school sweetheart at the M Hotel. Although I was rather quieter than usual, I was secretly enjoying myself. Watching two people who’ve been together for 11 years and getting married finally makes you feel a little warm and mushy inside . I guess they’re very lucky to have found each other when they were so young. James gave a speech in Mandarin later on and even though I couldn’t understand a word of it, it was undoubtedly very emotional. I also unexpectedly ran into one... 

This weekend was spent watching: FLCL (the entire series) Patlabor : The Movie Gunslinger Girl (the entire series) Mushishi (12 episodes down) Anime overdose really. I think I’ll do another post on Mushishi later on.  Read More →