Never has the synonym for pigs been made this unpopular. For days now, it’s (alright, to be fair, it and ‘flu’ are an item so they both appear together) been gracing our news pages, FaceBook statuses, Twitter updates, and email warnings. Whenever anyone sneezes, someone would go, “Oh no! Swine flu!” Although that term is [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Conversation as an exercise of minds
I embark upon discussion and argument with great ease and liberty. Since opinions do not find me in a ready soil to thrust and spread their roots into, no premise shocks me, no belief turns me, no matter how opposite to my own they may be. There is no idea so frivolous or odd which [...]
Singapore Blue Plan 2009
The latest (Draft) Blue Plan has been released! From the IYOR08 blog:
The Draft Blue Plan is a proposal to the Government and people of Singapore from the members and organizations that form “International Year of the Reef (IYOR) 2008 Singapore” – interested members of civil society concerned about the conservation and management of Singapore’s coral [...]
Earth Day visitor
Pea blue (Lampides boeticus) on my parents’ bed.
Unbearable Lightness of Being III
Tereza kept stroking Karenin’s head, which was quietly resting in her lap, while something like the following ran through her mind: There’s no particular merit in being nice to one’s fellow man. She had to treat the other villagers decently, because otherwise she couldn’t live there. Even with Tomas, she was obliged to behave lovingly [...]
Buloh blues
The moment I began the tour this morning, I knew that I was under-performing. It was one of my worst sessions in all these years. The hoo-ahness wasn’t there, and it never came. I didn’t even bother trying hard. It’s just not been a good day… distractions, thoughts, dread in my mind, and I was [...]
Seahuskying
Even while on solid ground, I still feel as if I’m riding on gentle waves. Clocked up about 12 hours out at sea during the past three days – either at the helm (working towards a powerboat driving licence), getting my bum numbed on the crewseats, or trying to track and shoot terns with the [...]
Light is everything
A lone, wild bioluminescent mushroom as the naked eye sees it. Taken with a 30-second exposure, not too long ago.
On vanity II: Progress
I fear that I will personally lose by the change. My mind does not always move straight ahead but backwards too. I distrust my present thoughts hardly less than my past ones and my second or third thoughts hardly less than my first. We are often as stupid when correcting ourselves as others… … I [...]
The mozzie that landed on Semakau
On a grid chart of Singapore waters that was laid out on our desks during the course. What were the odds?!
