beyond burma

I just had dinner with prof at the nice, trendy restaurant at the guild house. Returning to nus on a sunday reminded me of the days holed up in the library, reading up on Burma for my paper on the drug trade there. A year had passed between those stuffy days in the library and now. Burma - the country, the people, the politics - is now tucked away like the volumes of FEER in a corner of the journals section - even as the clash between the junta and democracy continues to still rankles.

And its true we are immune
When fact is fiction and tv
And we sing the rebel tune
when indifference is our real enemy
...holding on to peace hard-won
till death itself is undone
Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2 (bootleg in my ipod)

japanophile

I found Janice Tay's blog today. Her Letters from Kyoto column in the Saturday papers almost always makes me wish I was her, living in the land of samurai and geisha and writing about it with such poetic charm every week.

I want to go to Japan again.

恋爱ing-五月天

Someone told me the songs I've been listening aren't very healthy for the psyche. The depressing nature of late is wholly unintentional and Mayday shall help to make amends with this cover originally played by cutesy band Wang Fu. (or is it the other way round?) :DDD

Goodbye

The Chair

Just hanging around.

Wu's Pandas

Wu Guanzhong's pandas, splashed across the bus, caught my eye yesterday. Now I can't wait to see them at the museum!

The Red

Woke up this morning and fiddled with facebook on my ipod when I saw this tee design. Yeah, I love the colour red.

Lovers in Japan

This post is just an excuse to put up Coldplay's Lovers in Japan. I've never been a fan of the band and I think this video would have been vomit-inducing if the four swaggering stoned middle-aged men were not in one of the world's biggest bands right now. haha.. No, really, this song is really good - especially the lush guitars that conjure the image of two lovers running down neon-lit Tokyo...