I recently had a few hours free, aight.
[oh btw, just a little warning: hip-hop rapper speak ahead...or a bad imitation thereof]
5 were spent waitin’ for Ashraf, Alfred and DJ Taraz to finalize the toon and muzique (how am I doing so far?).
3 were spent shootin’ at the local eatery.
Let me give you the low-down of [...]
Archive for April, 2009
The Freak for the Teh Tarique
Posted in Inanimate But Alive, Muses, Now where do I put this?, Recipes for Creativity, tagged mamak, music video, teh tarik on 30 April 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Jack Sparrow of Dogs
Posted in Inanimate But Alive, Muses, tagged dogs, marriage, movies on 28 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
I can’t keep this secret inside any longer… One of my ALL TIME favourite films is… SOUND OF MUSIC!
There, I said it. Now nothing will surprise you.
Last Saturday I watched 2 films that made my sad and happy hormone glands work on overdrive, each pumping alternately in quick bursts, swelling my arteries and capillaries, turning [...]
Terpesong
Posted in Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged bully, childhood, children, education, justice, school on 27 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
Alayna, one of the most brilliant and radiant young school-going ladies I know, does not answer essay questions critically and with creative abandon. Why? “I’ll get a big ‘x’ and ‘terpesong’.”
Ahh…that word brings back memories of my own schoolhood.
Terpesong…
There is not a single good person I know who was never at least once terpesong. Sit [...]
Flattened
Posted in Everyday Heroes, Now where do I put this?, Spirituality, tagged big questions, death, difficulties, illness, sickness, Spirituality, suffering, terminal illness, tests on 20 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jolene was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Soon after they did an MRI and discovered little spots in her brain, liver and bones. As far as the best professionals could tell, her fate was sealed. She was not supposed to last more than a few months but it’s 4 years on now and she’s [...]
Really, how are you?
Posted in Days of Solitude, Everyday Heroes, Muses, tagged cancer, healthcare, love, medicine, mental health, nursing, patients on 17 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At about 11pm every night, just as the other patients are falling into a deep sleep, Susan would get out of bed and start making a racket.
She would walk up and down the halls in the ward, talk to people, disrupt the work of nurses and prevent the ill from a restful recovery sleep. Her [...]
I’ve been thinking about divorce.
Posted in Days of Solitude, Now where do I put this? on 13 April 2009 | 5 Comments »
Why are so many of my friends separating, some just a year or two after getting married?!
So I’ve got this theory.
The generality of people I know live for themselves. Herein lies the tragedy lies.
We want to develop ourselves, educate ourselves, so we can take care of ourselves, pamper ourselves, accumulate for ourselves, ensure security for [...]
Ah Keong – catch and release
Posted in Muses, Now where do I put this?, tagged fisherman, generosity, love, secret, small town, suburban on 7 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sometime last year the number of people living in cities, for the first time in the history of the world, was more than the number of people living in rural areas. As it looks now, this trend will continue indefinitely.
I’m all for progress, well-managed urbanization and all but really, there is nothing like a small [...]
What the world needs now is…
Posted in Days of Solitude, Now where do I put this?, tagged change, peace, positivity, war on 3 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am not trying to time this with any significant event in our country or the world’s history.
I know many people are lamenting about the fate of the world. Today, more people just happen to be lamenting in Malaysia.
It’ll pass.
We’ll adapt.
Life will settle into some form of fluxing-stupor again.
Perhaps.
But why not send some good vibes [...]
The Eurasian Sensation
Posted in Muses, tagged balance, balanced life, life to the fullest, multi talented on 1 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A leading art practitioner once told me when I was 19: what’s the point in living a balanced life! My friend next to me added: yeah Manesh, it’s so boring!
I was confused.
All the while I had striven to strike the right balance in life and found it so difficult and here these 2 ‘wise’ artists [...]
