September 2011
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Day 10: Write the first 10 songs on shuffle in...
1) Who’s That Chick? - Rihanna
2) Psychobabble - Frou Frou
3) Art House Director - Broken Social Scene
4) Science of Fear - Temper Trap
5) Marry the Night - Lady Gaga (I’M A WARRIOR QUEEN LIVE PASSIONATELY TONIGHTTTT)
6) Black Coffee - All Saints
7) Don’t Blame Yourself - Andrew Belle (a possible nod to Aaron *cough*)
8) Pity and Fear - Death Cab for Cutie
9) Love on Top...
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Day 9: Education
Sorry assignments (and new tv shows) had me trapped last week!
Evidently since my parents are paying an obscene amount of money for me to go to school here, they think it’s important and I’ve been brought up in a culture where it’s necessary to share the same sentiment; to be on a paper chase since entering primary school; to be constantly reminded that, despite what the...
August 2011
18 posts
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Day 8: What I ate today
Boo, this is no fun to do during Ramadhan because I often eat very little.
But anyway:
A plate of fried macaroni
Grilled Lebanese sausage (no sex jokes plx) with Turkish bread
2 spoonfuls of Nutella
1 scoop Cadbury Crunchie ice cream (best honeycomb ice cream ever)
What I really wished I ate:
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Day 7: 5 Pet Peeves (that make me stabby)
1. HAIR ON THE BATHROOM TILES. HAIR ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR. HAIR ON MY FRICKIN’ CARPET. I guess this only applies to _______. I love her but girl just has terrible, terrible hair that drops everywhere. And she doesn’t bother to pick them up and throw em in the bin. I have to do it for her.
If you’re thinking “For f-’s sake Ilyana, it’s just HAIR, stop whining and...
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Day 6: Your views on mainstream music.
Dude, half of my shiz is mainstream LOL. I don’t understand why people get so anti-mainstream music sometimes. HELLO, all your indie bands will eventually become mainstream k so shut up and admit you cried listening to Adele.
Cos everyday I’m shufflin’
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Day 5: Things you want to say to an ex.
Dear Ex-boyfriend,
Our break-up has given me immeasurable joy and happiness. My only wish is that I didn’t have to go through 5 months of hell, crying and wondering if I hadn’t done this or said that, that we would still be together. But I suppose there is no shortcut to getting over someone you thought you’d spend your entire life with. I’m glad we made the mistake...
You Learn.
After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a...
“There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies...”
– Washington Irving
“There is no feminine analogue to ‘national service’; if there were, the most...”
– Consuming the Nation by Laurence Leong, National University of Singapore
WTF SINGAPORE Y U SO TWISTED??
Note: Strange quotes is what you get from me when I’m up at midnight reading research papers OTL
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Day 4: Bulletpoint your day
7am: Alarm rings. I wake up feeling well-rested but groan when I see the time. I’ve completely missed my 5am breakfast. And I’m starving.
7.30am: After some serious huddling beneath my bed covers + snuggie, I decide to finally do some work. It’s been an entire weekend of SLACK for me so in order to appease my guilty conscience, I read the readings for this week’s TV &...
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“If you want to see the girl next door, go next door”
– Joan Crawford
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Day 1: 5 ways to win your heart
Know what I like and dislike.
Because if I like you just as much, I would be furiously uncovering your favourite movies, music, food, the little things that make you tick. Plus points if you can do the above with stealth and surprise me with your extensive research.
Have an opinion.
I’m a girl. I’m genetically required to make an issue out of everything I see, read or hear about. I...
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That sorta perfect emo poem ;p
I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel...
July 2011
6 posts
On writing.
Next I took what I call the shit course. It was at one of Chicago’s most famous universities, and it was taught by another well-known author. The first day, he swaggered in, looked at us with contempt, and said, “What makes you think the shit you write is worth reading? What makes you think the world needs to hear anything you have to say?”
This teaching style was common at that...
Carmen Dell'Orefice, Paris 1957
At some angles, I think she looks like Irina Lazareanu. A hauter, more attractive version obviously. The irony in this is that Irina is about 50 years younger and can only dream of aging as gracefully as Carmen.
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Rain Thief
Emerging
from the make-believe, she radiates
quiet violet.
Opening her arms
her scent crystalizes,
diamonds carved into waves
curling, curling across fantasies.
He studies her
a fraud falling backwards,
snatches her scent,
greed permeating this villain,
the catalyst.
Her fingers grip
the end of his storm.
Nails scraping through layers
Of buffalo grass and damp shoes.
But he soon...
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Charlotte In response to Sofia Coppola’s film, Lost in Translation (2003).
Crumpled sheets and a hotel with no name. He leaves her with a kiss that bruises her knees. She looks below and sees the city, Atlantic lights playing with red blue pink orange gold. It has a different smell from her New York but tastes the same. Urban trees bear the same fruit, packaged under a different name.
...
April 2011
3 posts
“You’re waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where...”
– Mal
They’re showing Inception this week in Hollywood, can’t wait for it!
March 2011
4 posts
“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the...”
– Dylan Thomas, 1951
Lovers
Their love is not perfect but 25 years ago, he said to her, “We’re flawed but I will seize every minute to be with you.” Today, they are still working things out. Sometimes he sleeps on the couch and there are days when she doesn’t utter a word. Then there are flowers hidden in the bathroom sink, in open sight and the iciness disappears. She has fallen again, she...
“You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a very long time that actually...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
February 2011
3 posts
Don't try to outbitch me.
Aunt: Nice wallet! Prada? *shaking head while opening* where is it made in?
Fatin: Aiyah just check inside, confirm made in China lor.
Me: Isn't that where your wallet's from?
boyisamonster:
‘the only person standing in your way is you. it’s time to let her go. lose yourself.’
black swan (2010), darren aronofsky
15 days left and I’m begging for reasons to...
January 2011
6 posts
September 2010
11 posts
boyisamonster:
you left me in the dark.
the...
