My computer works again! Ah completeness ( Read more... )

Argh argh argh gotta go back to camp in the next two hours, just after getting home this morning from bloody guard duty. If only it were as easy to call down curses as the ancients could.

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I came across a poem in Malay by the poet Usman Awang in a collection of articles by Salleh Ben Joned, a Malaysian writer. According to Salleh, this is one of the few love poems penned by him, but it is so sensuously lush that I felt compelled to translate it. Hopefully, I haven't mangled the meaning too far, but if I have, at least I can claim the ( Read more... )

Going back to camp is never fun
So cursed am I to have been born a son
Or what else may I be doing
Go to school or make a living
But no I'm doing nary either one

Go back to army rot in bunk all day
Or charge up hills: there's no good middle way
My mind is slowly withering
Education become kindling
Burning up like so much chaff and hay

Today, I met quite a few people whom I've not seen in a while ( Read more... )

I'll be away from 10-27 June, training in Brunei. All you chums at home have fun, see you when I get back!

Since everyone else is doing this.. ;)

brandon seah --

[adjective]:

Benevolent to a fault

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brandon seah kwee boon --

[adjective]:

Like in nature to a banana peel

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Why do I get the weird ones?

The Canadian dollar is called the LOONIE?!?

An Unphonetic Phonetic Alphabet ( Read more... )