Now that we’re stuck indoors with nowhere to go, the sunny weather that we’d been having for the past week or so had begun to feel like a personal affront. As in: what right did the weather have to finally be pleasant when we can’t go out to enjoy it, such as on a tennis court? So I was really happy when the weather reverted to its default self: ( Read more... )

I have spent the last two weeks, including weekends and evenings, working practically non-stop on my freelancing work. Today was the first day I finally had a bit of a breather, though I have deadlines coming up again soon. The plan was to make substantial progress on my other freelance job which I find dreadfully boring and thus cannot motivate ( Read more... )

E left Singapore last night. It was his first time in Singapore--in Asia--and he stayed with me at my parents'. We were also in Hanoi for six days; I was there for a conference, and we spent the rest of the four days sight-seeing. The flu that he infected me with, after he'd fallen prey to Hanoi's unspeakable pollution, makes me wish that we hadn't ( Read more... )

I have given up on the side project because it had proven itself to be an unnecessary and additional source of stress; mostly because I knew that I didn't have the time that I needed to dedicate to it to do it justice. Getting back to the review/conference to tell them that I could no longer submit the piece was a relief, so I definitely made the ( Read more... )

Half-Marathon TrainingIn a way, it was a good thing that I ended up doing my longest run of the training plan, and of my life, in Singapore. This is because running 17.5km at 5.20am on Tuesday definitively and incontrovertibly drove home the stark difference between English and Singaporean climate. Namely: the former allows me to run at an average ( Read more... )

I'm at the law faculty now, meaning to work on my rejected section 377A article, but I have just finished Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson while having a sandwich and I am so moved by the beauty of the prose that I cannot quite put it out of my mind yet to focus on the law/philosophy stuff ( Read more... )

I woke up on Monday morning feeling angry and spent all of Monday feeling angry. On Tuesday, I woke up feeling deflated and spent all of Tuesday feeling deflated. On Tuesday, I went to Bould Brothers in the morning (by 'morning' I mean 11am) to have coffee and read Marilynne Robinson's utterly beautiful Housekeeping; and I came across this passage ( Read more... )

Today has been one of the best days I've had in weeks. Having finished and sent off my Chapter 1 to my supervisors; having sent off the first volume of the Cambridge International Law Journal to the publisher last Friday; and having survived chairing a session of the Cambridge legal and political philosophy yesterday (over which I was, as usual, ( Read more... )

A sense of directionless pervades my days in recent time. I attribute that solely to my woeful lack of reading. I have spent the past month re-reading ‘England, England’ - which makes no sense because it’s one of my favourite novels and it’s not meant to be a long read. So this really just means that I have not been reading at all.

Forgive the ( Read more... )

For the first time in quite a while, I am rather enjoying being single. To be more precise, I am enjoying the perks of being single - of going out with different people and having interesting conversations...and sometimes, feeling a strange physical attraction to someone whom I wasn't really super keen on before I'd met him ( Read more... )