Posts Tagged ‘dreams’

i spent the better part of yesterday on the bed in a fit of anaemic dizziness, and could not even roll around to comfort myself because the slightest movement meant contending with nausea and a spinning room.
so i had to be contented with keeping my eyes tightly shut, and entertaining myself with strange dreams about [...]


it doesn’t get any easier.
i shuffled along orchard road uncertainly after the movie today, not quite sure where to turn. part of me wanted to just stroll down the street, staring at the lights, the people, the cars; part of me wanted to dash home in a cab; part of me wanted to walk into [...]


fighting back

27Oct08

i feel almost normal for the first time in two weeks. there are remnants of physical discomfort, and the world is wont to start spinning at the most unpredictable moments, but for the most part, i’m back. at least, i hope so.
because too much work has piled up in the meantime. shampoo bottles to be translated [...]


i haven’t thought about shakespeare for a long, long time now, although his works were one of my favorite parts of high school literature.
but mortality issues always call to mind shakespeare, and hamlet in particular. that famous soliloquy of his… i have a love-hate relationship with it, both repulsed and annoyed (just make up your [...]


… i decided, instead, to blog.

my first pop concert! colorful and noisy and absolutely awesome! misia is an amazing singer on stage; much more so than on her recordings, in fact. she had boundless energy, singing and dancing and jumping and running on stage; we felt breathless just watching her. and her whistle tone…! i [...]


the cloying smell of lilies. the sad, pleading tones of stabat mater. the comforting breeze that speaks of impending rain. my senses reel as they attempt to assimilate all these to make a coherent whole, but what is the point? this is our world now – the postmodern confusion that finds harmony in dischord.
i am [...]


just as i was swimming happily in confused dreams about the female P having psychic powers (she actually was a professional medium and had people coming to ask her things about their fortunes. and she found my lost earrings!), choir uniforms that i had neglected to send for laundry, and living in a big house [...]