I don’t make a habit of cursing the rungs of the ladder that got me where I am.
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Archive for the ‘other people's words’ Category
designer love and empty things
Posted in other people's words on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
and even when your hope is gone, move along move along just to make it through.
Posted in musings, other people's words on January 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Notes from my handphone:
I thought about how betrayal doesn’t always come accompanied by fanfare and drama. It’s not like a chinese tvb series with plot twists and high stakes and blatantly two faced characters. Sometimes betrayal is quiet and casual, perhaps even unrealised by the traitor. It is words unthinkingly dropped, confidences casually betrayed.
I never [...]
twilight and feminism
Posted in on being a bookbitch, other people's words, wtf posts on January 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I just finished reading Twilight and I was going to write a long, ranty post on all the things about it that I find extremely disturbing. Then I did a quick Google search and realised that people have been there and done that already.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-seltzer/twilight-sexual-longing-i_b_117927.html
http://thechicktionary.com/post/60724571/twilight-as-fundie-girl-wet-dream-lit-spoilers
http://psa.blastmagazine.com/2008/08/16/twilight-sucks-and-not-in-a-good-way/
http://psa.blastmagazine.com/2008/08/23/twilight-a-follow-up-and-a-promise/
Who in their right mind would allow teenage girls to read this [...]
i’ll be waiting, all there’s left to do is run
Posted in cheer up emo kid!, other people's words, the future freaks me out on December 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I’m standing there
On a balcony of summer air
On nights like these, when my hand is this close to reaching out, I think of all the things that have stayed it. A woman once wrote that the best advice she had ever [...]
i know this much is true
Posted in goodbye melbourne, half-way happy posts, other people's words on December 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’m not a naturally optimistic person. For me, the glass is half-empty, the silver lining looks more like lead and if this is the best of all possible worlds, I don’t see how that’s a good thing. So yeah, really, I’m great to hang out with. =)
But I flew to Adelaide lately, by myself, and [...]
if you leave, don’t look back
Posted in goodbye melbourne, other people's words on December 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
If you leave, don’t leave now
Please don’t take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then we’ll go our separate ways
We always had time on our sides
Now it’s fading fast
Every second every moment
We’ve gotta make it last
I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won’t let go at any price
I need you now like I [...]
the best thing
Posted in other people's words on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Paul D”
“What, baby”
“She left me.”
“Aw, girl. Don’t cry.”
“She was my best thing.”
Paul D sits down in the rocking chair and examines the quilt patched in carnival colors. His hands are limp between his knees. There are too many things to feel about this woman. His head hurts. Suddenly he remembers Sixo trying to describe what [...]
what I believe
Posted in musings, other people's words on November 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I believe that the core of philosophy is the promethean desire for knowledge.
I believe that we strive for objectivity, whether we know it or not. All philosophers begin with the assumption that there is a fundamental truth that can be attained and that this truth will in some way or another be common to all [...]
alea iacta est
Posted in other people's words on November 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i am a rolling wave without the motion
a glass of water longing for the ocean
i am an asphalt flower breaking free
but you keep stopping me
release me
release me
