I have just said
something
ridiculous to you
and in response,

your glorious laughter.
These are the days
the sun
is swimming back

to the east
and the light on the water
gleams
as never, it seems, before.

I can't remember
every spring,
I can't remember
everything--

so many years!
Are the morning kisses
the sweetest
or the evenings

or the inbetweens?
All I know
is ( Read more... )

There is a slow realisation in me that this time off, as frustrating and scary as it is, is beginning to do some good ( Read more... )

So New York won't happen till next year, something to do with the books and bonuses in Spring. I was warned about this by another friend so I half expected it. Still majorly bummed though ( Read more... )

Listening to M83's Hurry Up We're Dreaming. I love how a French ambient band has now reinvented 'pop' though some or most would argue it isn't really pop. Maybe not specifically the latest album, but their last one, Saturday=Youth definitely had a lot of pop synths in it. The first time hearing it, I imagined this must be how contemporary pop ( Read more... )

Today.

Did some cardio at the gym. Weighted chins, ended up pulling my neck, fingers crossed I can gym tomorrow.

Finished Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy. My Twitter summary was something like: Very good plot, fascinating magic system, insipid writing. Seriously nobody bothers to write anymore. The new writers are strong on ideas and plots, but ( Read more... )

So I've wandered back. Back geographically, back virtually, back metaphorically, back. To a much needed sabbatical from Shanghai ( Read more... )

Insomnia, solely my fault this time thanks to telling myself I deserve to indulge and enjoy late nights to myself on this break. Of course I'm gonna pay for it on the flight back to Shanghai tomorrow and the day at work ( Read more... )

Woke up to the sounds of construction, the smell of linen, and cold. The morning sky is a watery grey and as I import pictures into Lightroom, becomes a very soft diffused yellow, kinda like dipping yellow into a pot of murky paint water.

The stopover in Singapore was hot, humid, and good. Met up with Shawn and Danny at the Macpherson Kway Chap ( Read more... )

Woke up early today, went to the Chinese Visa Processing Centre. The Chinese Consulate has outsourced the visa processing and application, presumably due to the high-ish volume of people visiting China ( Read more... )

Everything is sold, still throwing stuff out ( Read more... )