No matter the class, race, or culture. No matter the place, time, or situation. The capacity to feel loss, to fear death – perhaps not in itself, or that of oneself, but that of others, and other things – and to love. These are central to what it means to be human.
Sitting there in the [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Fragility, frailty, fate and fear
Darkness
I don’t think I’ve managed to clock so many working hours across consecutive days, including over the weekends, since I started working. Not complaining, for I rather enjoy it, but there is only so much I can sustain before feeling burnt out. I hope I can be forgiven for having a ??? in the only [...]
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The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not… yet, I [...]
Headless Gallus
It’s kind of redunculous that they’ve completely dug up the roads running through the front porch and driveway of our office. Impassable, unwalkable, for there’s no road left. Heck, there’s no ground left. It’s like a waterless moat. Or a ladderless trench. The only way to get to work these days is to slip through [...]
Of music
… give me a proper melody that’s been written by one of our great composers any day. A song by Schubert or a nocturne by Chopin, something that will make the hairs of your head stand on end! The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked [...]
T/W/Q piccie
Left: 4th June; Right: 17 June
T/W/Q
Perhaps as an effect of its fall onto the car, or perhaps as a result of having recklessly swallowed one too many mealworms, the bulbul’s left side is a little quirky and it has developed an unsightly kink in the neck. “Is the bird ok?” – everyone would ask. In its default state, it is [...]
Sniglets
The dicey moment when you should introduce two people but can’t remember one of their names: whomnesia, persona non data, notworking, mumbleduction, introducking
The realization of the perfect riposte three hours after the argument: hindser, retrotort, afterism
The momentary confusion experienced by everyone in the vicinity when a phone rings and no one is sure if [...]
Heritage-twitching
“Insert swiftly, remove completely” has become our unofficial motto, a play on the instructions displayed on a carpark ticketing machine. Get in, shoot, get out; another one down, a tick on the checklist of 100+ selected heritage sites. Time is of the essence, but speed is not always possible!
From having been apprehended by campus security [...]
Googbility
I’m still using a N73 but my Palm has long since died. Too lazy to acquire a proper PDA and to conduct the prior appropriate research that accompanies one such purchase, I merely stuck to my dying Nokia and have been loading it with one feature after another. With it, I can open and edit [...]
