attempt #1

 
time clutched in a baby’s fist,
tiny fingers      tiny nails
touch the vastness, unaware
 
of its power:
s t r e t c h e d
like infinity on an unknown plane
to be filled with people,
places,
things
here today and gone tomorrow
carried by the ebb
and
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        l
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Mas Selamat T-shirt: What will they think of next?

3 weeks ago I wrote about how Facebook groups help in the hunt for Mas Selamat in Singapore, with particular emphasis on the group Instant ORD for Mas Selamat Capture. The creators of the group, 20-year old Ashwin Tiwari and Ray Ninnan Panicker, have gone one step further by printing 100 T-shirts with Mas [...]

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haiku: being lost

marching to drumbeats
that follow no stoccato –

she feels nothing

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social media brekkie fun

Calling all bloggers, podcasters, twitter users, youtubers, Facebookers, etc
Do you feel extremely guilty when you don’t blog for a day? (I’m looking at you, Amelia!)
Do you feel a constant need to check on Twitter and update about anything and everything?
Do you feel like Facebook is the answer to all of life’s most important questions? (ie. [...]

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haiku: just let me sleep

ringing, dinging bell

my sonorous sleep is broken

like a lover’s heart

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On fictional journalism and Jack Nicholson

Heath Ledger died on January 22 2008. Esquire, like many a magazine, decided to write a piece on his life and his death. Esquire, unlike other magazines, adopted a stylistic manner of writing, a confessional “how I lived out my final days” in the words of Heath Ledger. Except that it was written by aspiring [...]

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Confessions of a frujchaholic

I’ve been a really bad blogger these couple of weeks.I haven’t been updating as much as I’d like, I’m behind on my blog readings (and my RSS feeds look a right mess) and I’ve even been missing in action in the twittersphere too.
Yes, I feel very guilty indeed.
I could offer some excuses as to why [...]

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Blogger Brewer-Hay to eBay’s rescue?

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how eBay’s small sellers are angry and frustrated by recent fee changes initiated by new CEO John Donahoe that favour the power sellers. I predicted that a revolution seemed imminent. eBay seems to agree with me, going by their recent decision to set up a blog [...]

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swede dreams are made of this

Michel Gondry’s new movie, Be Kind Rewind is making waves, and not just in the cinemas. A quick search in Youtube shows the growing popularity of “sweded” videos: cheap, homemade videos parodying/paying homage to popular movies, just like the characters in the movie (Jack Black and Mos Def) do. Sweded videos are characterised by tacky [...]

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haiku: fast life

chasing days and dreams
and leaving myself behind
oh duplicity

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