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Archive for February, 2009

Beijing Blocking

WordPress is blocked by China, so will be using http://www.leeyee.blogspot.com for the next few months, until I get back to Malaysia in July.

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For some reason, it can’t quite sink in that I am leaving (again!) in about two days.
Where did summer go? It disappeared in a flurry of flavoured smoke and whiskey, conversation and silences, late nights and hot days. As usual, it seems like such a long time has passed, from that [...]

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Every chinese new year, I watch my extended family come together. The more I watch, the more detached I can make myself feel, until I find myself marveling at how such a strange assortment of people have been put together by a combination of fate and coincidence to become this thing we call a family. [...]

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are we human, or are we dancer?

There is a place in Turkey where the air never stops moving and the world never makes a sound. An ancient place, high up in the mountains, a look-out point from which you can see the land around for miles.
I’ve never been able to recapture it, that feeling of stillness and soaring height. At the [...]

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Me (while surrounded by a blizzard of government forms and official guidelines): How the hell did your friend manage to decipher all this goddamn red tape?
Sister: Oh, he paid someone to do it.
My first thought: you can pay someone to do all this for you??? My second thought: Hallelujah, you can pay someone to do [...]

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