Man1 needs food. Without food, he is hungry. The longer he is deprived of food, the hungrier he gets.
Consider an extremely hungry man who is constantly surrounded with food which he can see but cannot consume, because the food is simply not his portion. To the hungry man, what he sees are not a temptation [...]
I am feeling an inexplicable mixture of anger, sadness, and hopelessness this very moment. I do not know, but it seems to have arisen out of the background noise of a conversation with a witty taxi driver about Singapore, an article by Nur Dianah Suhaimi on Malays in Singapore, conversations I listened to between a [...]
They say you can tell someone’s personality within the first 30 seconds.
We think you can tell about a module within the first 30 minutes.
If the face of Islam is a woman of reddened lips, thick blue eyeliner, and artificial eyebrows, then let me not be a part of it.
The assertion of a ‘Singaporean Muslim identity1’ (possibly as apart from other ‘Muslim identities’) already contradicts Islam’s spirit of universal inclusiveness. I believe this to be a fine example of [...]
It is not realistic for something that is exposed in the open and not guarded properly to not attract wanton attention. In case some among us are not very well-informed, the last time I heard, ‘in public’ is not synonymous with ‘at home’. It is perhaps only responsible that we guard ourselves, if not for [...]
Watch: Girl-Girl Nude Shoot from ANTM Cycle 2
I thought modelling had something to do with showing off clothing and fashion. But with modelling of such a variety, where there is absolutely no clothing or fashion involved, where the whole purpose is to show off the “sensual”1, there can be no doubt that it is just [...]
An essay has confirmed my hunch about current economic progress: that it is simply not sustainable. This quote sums it up:
Kenneth Boulding gave the field of economics a healthy dose of self-criticism. “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world,” he argued “is either a madman or an economist.”
Exponential growth [...]
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
It’s tearing up inside of me
Every day every hour
I wish that I was bullet proof
—”Bulletproof… I wish I was”, Radiohead
Why, you think, do they call it a burning desire?
Because it really burns you, and consumes you. You, your life, your mind, body, and soul. You will not fall asleep without thinking about it, and neither will you wake up without it being the first thought of your day. You really are on fire.
And when [...]
When I was on my way home this evening, my iPod, on shuffle mode, played songs that coincided with my mood:
Rufus Wainwright - Across the Universe
Travis - Closer
Alamo Race Track - Life Like Fire
Third Eye Blind - I Want You
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Lisa Ono - Besame Mucho
Oasis - Don’t Go Away
Closer:
Keep waking up (waking up)
Without [...]
