June 2010
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Hairy Reflection
A trip to the hair salon is always a gamble, and always a moment of reflection.
Just like the casino, you step into the hair salon, hoping to strike it big and have that moment of eureka! with your new hairstyle. Achieving that perfect hairstyle, however, is just like striking the jackpot. No matter how little or how much you pay, that one perfect hairstyle is so elusive and more often than not,...
May 2010
3 posts
“Yes, that’s right, they can’t be friends. Unless both of them are involved with...”
– When Harry Met Sally (via poeticheartache) (via dyn-yn)
Man-Eating Cats
Haruki Murakami simply has this “laser-like clarity” in verbalizing our exact thoughts …
“Izumi was ten years younger than me. We met at a business meeting. Something clicked between us the first time we laid eyes on each other. Not the kind of thing that happens all that often. We met a couple of times after that, to go over the details of our joint project. I’d go...
Strings Of Many Colours
Somehow these paragraphs from Haruki Murakami seem to jump out at me; here, sex is not depicted as vulgar or excessively erotic - rather, there’s almost a form of abstractness; abstractness about sex hidden deep in the recesses of the mind. Because most of the time, man is so fixated on eroticism as something explicit, and not something implicit.
“After she finished crying, usually,...
April 2010
1 post
Romantic love, demystified
(from the SC1101E Making Sense of Society lecture notes at NUS) Peter Berger shows how our idea of romantic love can be demystified: (Social condition predisposes one to fall in love in the first place)
“We assume “that men and women marry because they are in love. There is a broadly based popular mythology about the character of love as a violent, irresistible emotion that strikes where...
February 2010
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January 2010
4 posts
I feel more comfortable talking to strangers than...
myorganizedmess:
(via runawaytrain)
Bold the truth (reblogged from thejaded)
Bold the truth
I avoid some people on purpose I’ve thought about cheating I hate the way I look most of the time I actually like the way I look most of the time I’ve been swimming in an ocean I’ve been swimming in a lake I have a sibling I have pets I’ve been on vacation recently I love meeting new people I am insanely shy I’m on a sports team My best friend is a boy I play a musical...
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"If you're feeling naughty you should wear ... a...
This girl just enjoys lapping up all the attention eh? And no, fading into oblivion is definitely not on her cards.
Anyone in Singapore would definitely have heard of this notorious Miss Singapore World 2009 winner, who was stripped of her beauty crown after being found guilty of credit card fraud charges.
And just last week, news surfaced of her being the brand ambassador for Espire Condoms.
...
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NOBODY deserves to be molested, dammit!
The blogosphere here in Singapore is currently abuzz with circulated images and videos of a lady (pictured above) being molested and groped by 4 men at the New Year Countdown Party in Sentosa. Click here to watch the video.
That aside, netizens have been voicing out a myriad of opinions regarding the molestation incident. There have also been speculations of the lady being a...
December 2009
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2009 In Review #3: Final Words, New Moments
So this is the last part of my reflections on the year.
Indeed, I am blessed to have had the opportunity to travel the world and open my eyes to so many things around me.
New friendships gained from my exchange programme in Mannheim, and also from my classes here in NUS.
For the most part, 2009 has been a huge bed of roses.
But those roses are also accompanied by the thorns.
For reasons which...
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2009 In Review #2: Europe is our Playground
On the 3rd of February this year, I boarded a plane bound for Germany. I was about to embark on an exciting chapter of my life; travelling to Europe for the first time ever, living abroad for 6 months on exchange, and living away from my family for the first time ever.
Germany was my gateway to Europe, and Europe was my gateway to the world. 2009 has been the year of the most extensive travels...
The Charlatan?
You think so? ;)
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Singapore Idol: The Political Stage of Language,...
So the public has voted … and the new Singapore Idol is Sezairi.
Male. Malay. For the third time in all three competitions.
“This competition is flawed! So sexist and racist!” Sentiments that are currently being echoed on Twitter. In fact, as we speak, singapore idol and sezairi are in the top 10 trending topics there.
For the record, I texted “2” to 43657 ie. I...
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2009 In Review #1: Azlyn's Summer OST
Yes, we know that summer in Europe/North America has long come and gone and in its place, a harsh winter; I heard that in certain parts in France and Germany, there wasn’t really a white Christmas, but rather, a Christmas filled with slush from melting snow. But here in Singapore, you can almost say that every day is summertime for us. Even in the midst of this monsoon season, the sun always...
The Green Un-Manifesto
The Copenhagen Climate Summit draws to a close today, but my sentiment is that all nations have not reached a satisfactory agreement on carbon reductions, as well as responsibilities on individual carbon emissions. Not exactly what you’d call breakthrough then.
Yes, climate change affects ALL of us - that, we cannot deny. But whether or not we, as individuals, rise up to the challenge to...
The Not-So-Relationship
I write this entry with the grave danger of generalizing, maybe even on the brink of being judgemental. I foresee having many daggers thrown my way, or maybe not given that this blog is mainly for my private space anyway, and traffic is rather negligible.
Anyway, my girlfriends and I had a good chat last night for a few hours - talking about the course of our lives, our past … and...
Post-exam liberation, Orchard Road, 1st Dec 2009
Headband - Diva
Dress - BonitoChico
Leather bag - Burberry
Heels - Deichmann (Germany)
Tried on this pair of red suede leather pumps at Bershka - I want them! :(
Jinglin, my buoy :)
Welcome to the jungle!
Outings with friends, working on the L’oreal Brandstorm case, a slack internship, preparations for my sister’s upcoming wedding … December looks set to be a...
Financial Romance Fundamentals 101
Tia, on dating men from this particular country:
“Low profile, but high profits. I like.”
Hahahaha!
November 2009
8 posts
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Der erste Gedanke
The first thought. The first post.
This blog will be a purely experimental platform; I created this on a whim, and somehow I’m filled with this sense of betrayal towards my other blog, _astral, which I’ve had since 2003.
But I feel that my writing/blogging mojo has somewhat stagnated, and perhaps need a revival of sorts, and maybe this revival comes in the form of a new blog,...