I have lived through my first chinese new year away from home. It wasn’t that big a deal, seeing as I never did celebrate CNY properly when I was in Singapore anyway. Mostly we’ll just go see my grandparents on both sides and then go watch a movie. I remember watching spiderman and music and [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Red Red Red
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambridge, cny, jardine, london on January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Got No Sole
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bush, iraq, shoe-throwing incident on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a shocking article in the International Herald Tribune today about Muntader al-Zaidi. You probably can’t place his name, or it more than likely seems completely unfamiliar. Yet he made headlines for about a week, got arrested and was the inspiration for quite a few jokes that everyone has heard by now.
Pretty Days
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambridge on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I forgot how much I love days like this. Days when the sunlight hits the college and the stone looks golden and brown and old and lovely. Then there are the porters who walk about in their bowler hats and dark blue coats, doing important porter-y things. It’s all totally fantastic. Today feels like somewhere [...]
Resolutions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambridge, going back, new year resolutions, winter on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These have been overdue for a week already, and so I resolve to deal with my new year’s resolutions moree promptly in the future. But that can wait until 2010. Being a highly capable and strong-willed person with no flaws to speak of, I have decided to set myself particularly challenging resolutions, as detailed below. [...]
First Post of the Year
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2009, Hamas, Israel on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I’ve realised that I haven’t blogged in awhile. Mostly, its the lethargy that has plagued me since coming back to Singapore. I don’t know whether it’s the heat, the fatigue from Michaelmas catching up with me or what. My homework is all done, but i haven’t finished as much reading as I’d like to. [...]
