Nicoll Highway collapse.
what big news.
suddenly there’s news, finalement.
one of our most major construction incident so far. inevitably, singapore slips and falls on the rare occassion. it was surprising that the section looked surprisingly clear of vehicles. wonder if the drivers all had time to react. a few token deaths, light casualty rate for the severity [...]
♦ 6
In the beginning there was the Big Bang, and that was a very long time ago. This is just a reminder of this evening’s extra performance. You can still grab a ticket. In brief, the encore revolves around the creation of the performance’s audience. And in any case, without an audience to applaud [...]
my everlasting sorethroat, which sprung into action last tuesday, has finally shown signs of relenting. after popping lousy SAF lozenges like sweets, after finishing more than a box of expensive Difflam Lozenges. rather amazing that it kept up for so long, and even more amazing that i did not develop a fever, as i fully [...]
♦ 5
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he’s a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang [...]
♦ 4
Like enchanted mist the panorama rises, through the mist, above the mist. The Neanderthal’s lionised half-brother clasps his brow knowing that behind his primate’s forehead swims the soft cerebral matter, evolution’s auto-pilot, the protein festival’s airbag between mind and matter.
Maya - Jostein Gaarder
♦ 3
The cobweb of family secrets has stretched from the micropuzzle in the primeval soup to the clairvoyant lobed-finned fish and advanced amphibians. Carefully, the baton has been carried on by warm-blooded reptiles, acrobatic prosimians, and gloomy anthropoid apes. Did some latent self-perception lurk deep in the reptilian brain? Did no eccentric anthropoid ever get [...]
Mahler’s Symphony Of A Thousand
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
When: 29 & 30 May 2004 (Sat & Sun), 7.30 PM at the Concert Hall, Esplanade
One of the greatest musical extravaganzas ever written, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is scored for eight vocalists, double chorus, a boys’ choir, and an enlarged orchestra. The Latvija State Choir and the China Children’s Choir [...]
Trivia | In our lifetime, we wear out and regenerate:
228 intestinal walls
25 skin covering of lips
18 livers
8 tracheas
6 bladders
amongst others.
-a book in kino.
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Chapter 25 - The New Acquaintance Described
Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.
He was a man to whom memories were an encumbrance, and anticipations a superfluity. Simply feeling, considering, and caring for what was before his eyes, he was vulnerable only in [...]
it was with a certain resignation that he lived out the last moments.
A fragile dream broken.
Seated there in the crowd, awaiting the message that never arrived.
A deep perplexed unhappiness,
with a view of absurdum,
tending towards giving up hope.
Silent, waterless tears
