This is a snippet from Wikipedia about the Qing Dynasty in China. Poet-slaying dynasty ( Read more... )

I'm sorry I have been absent so long. I feel I've lost a bit of soul in the time I've been away from cyberspace, but that could just be growing up.

I really really really never anticipated it to be this difficult. I think I may kill myself when I start to actually ageAnyway, because I'm sure everybody is interested in my emotional and ( Read more... )

I drew things today after not drawing for a long while! I did this after reading a bit of Midnight Days by Neil Gaiman, who never fails to inspire. Yay Neil.

They are, once again, sunflower-themed.

This one is called "But where is the Sun?"


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I'm at work right now and they are making me do lots of things ( Read more... )

A shot from what feels like forever ago, taken by Lane's uncle Beret.


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So here I am, at work, writing up a qualitative paper summary on a powerpoint on attracting US$3 billion Foreign Direct Investment to the Philippines. Yes, tedium. Except suddenly I want to write a poem and I am neither premenstrual or particularly self-pitying (my usual preconditions for waxing poetic) but the lines sort of wrote themselves anyway ( Read more... )

I'm back in Manila! It is so sweltering hot here, I can barely breathe. Otherwise, home is sweet indeed. So what's going on, everybody?

Lane and I went to watch Arcadia by Tom Stoppard last night at the Court Theatre. It was amazing. If my love for Stoppard hadn't already peaked to impossible heights with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, it has now. The play covers a delightfully breathless spectrum from sex to physics and math and chaos theory to Byron's love life to ( Read more... )

A notebook paper doodley-diddle:

"The Great Escape"


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