in aeternum

I figured it out; aka SNS for the anti-social

2012-02-14T22:39:00.005+08:00

Facebook is for posting stuff you want friends to see, 'like' and comment on. And games.Twitter is for geeky outbursts. Wry observations. Living vacariously through famous people's tweets. Responding to friends. Complaining about public transport.Livejournal is for community-stalking and collective flailing. Also a goldmine for linguists who study fandom lingo and acronyms.Blogger is for long

Time out of joint

2012-02-14T21:54:00.003+08:00

I wonder if the book was in any way an inspiration for The Truman Show?That's one of my favourite movies.

Passage from my favourite book...

2012-02-02T22:42:00.003+08:00

...so I'm just going to put it here for future reference (and not have to search through old entries):"You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them?

Three Things; TMI

2012-01-30T20:40:00.001+08:00

I did this on FB in 2009. Thought I'd do it again, just to see what has changed.Three Things You Want To Do Before You Die:1. Live in a big city elsewhere for a while2. Get a PhD3. Something I wouldn’t have thought of, but with someone I love and trust.Three Names You Go By:1. Jinx2. Jinxiepoo3. JXThree Screen Names You Have Had:1. prettyboy2. malfoyette3. jinxiepooThree Physical Things You Like

Just noticed this interview with Tommy Koh

2012-01-18T14:58:00.006+08:00

"Table Talk with Tommy Koh: Telling the Singapore story to the masses" by Cheong Suk-Wai published on 9 August 2011.What caught my attention was this little snippet (emphasis mine):CSW: But children here are still not allowed to fail.TK: But we have got better; you now have so many role models of people who did not prosper academically but found themselves in the Institute of Technical Education

Date a girl who reads redux : Date me! I read!

2011-12-14T23:15:00.005+08:00

[Because I'm a girl who reads but doesn't write and has to resort to being derivative.]Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.I read. I love to read. I'm an equal-opportunity spender,

Who needs style when you have substance?

2011-12-09T15:57:00.005+08:00

A look at my laundry basket (which needs to be cleared soon before unidentified lifeforms emerge) shows that I've been wearing variations on the same theme:1) Tank/racerback or ginormous loose top or both; and2) Skinny jeans; with3) Converse high tops, usually black.With exceptions of hoodies (I NEED MOAR HOODIES!) for freezing libraries and that one event with a dress code *cough*, that has

Look what the cat dragged in...

2011-11-05T21:13:00.006+08:00

And by cat, you know I'm talking about the pretty kitty known as Tommy.This waste of makeup was inspired by Tommy Joe Ratliff (and Adam's awesome hair):And I did this, since it's been a long time since I put up a vlog:

Business of Heritage Conference 2011

2011-10-08T00:21:00.005+08:00

Before I lose all motivation to write about it...Edit: So I did lose motivation to blog. This post was started on the 8th and continued on the 29th!This year's conference felt more substantial to me, I guess because the organisers invited museum professionals/practitioners from the Smithsonian and the Australian Museum to talk on the theme of "Running World Class Museums". Last year's speakers

While searching for images to use as desktop backgrounds...

2011-10-03T23:32:00.005+08:00

Look what I found!Proof of my Tommy Joe Ratliff obsession. Description under the image is apt.

Rilke?

2011-10-01T12:09:00.004+08:00

It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as

You're Culture Curious

2011-09-27T10:49:00.002+08:00

(It's official, I've reverted to those post-quiz-results-on-your-blog days circa 2000. They didn't include the wedding cake topper! It was my answer for the question: "Which issue are you most passionate about?" #duh)Modern in your thinking and fun loving in your outlook on life, you are on the pulse of what's hot and you are not afraid to push the boundaries in the name of style and creativity.

So I went to do one of those quiz/meme things

2011-09-26T21:22:00.003+08:00

Your rainbow is strongly shaded black and red. What is says about you: You are a passionate person. You appreciate mystery. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you. You may meet people who are afraid of you.Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.That last sentence, I don't like it too much. :( I'm a shy little thing, who'd be afraid of me?But yes, I do get

In my own world

2011-09-25T11:42:00.004+08:00

I love the author and I think this is a wonderful description:Tommy's world was centered around time that belonged to himself only. He forgot about everything. It was his, and he didn't need anything else. And this made him a sucky boyfriend. Adam had seen girls cry because Tommy didn't need them, didn't ask anything from them, didn't feel like he wanted to even have a life with them. Not because

Bizarre doesn't even begin to cover it.

2011-09-12T17:27:00.002+08:00

So I had a little dream last night...I WAS GETTING MARRIED. (I should probably write about the coop meet-up yesterday but this definitely tops it. Sorry, dudes.)It felt so awkward! Before the ceremony, we were talking to each other politely - and you know me (on second thoughts, maybe not when it comes to this), I don't do polite nor disinterested nor distance, not when it comes to my own

The blog is dead, long live the blog!

2011-09-04T17:42:00.004+08:00

Wow, there's so much white in the new Blogger interface. I remember the very first interface Blogger had. There was a lot of blue, much like Tumblr now - come to think of it, Facebook and Twitter use blue too. Is it a neutral or universally-pleasing colour in design or something? Why not orange or pink? The split screen showed an editing area and a "live" view of the entry, and the templates

On archives

2011-07-29T10:40:00.004+08:00

The question of the archive is not, we repeat, a question of the past. It is not the question of a concept dealing with the past that might already be at our disposal, an archivable concept of the archive. It is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise, and of a responsibility for tomorrow.The archive: if we want to know what that will

Shoes and guitars - things a girl can't have enough of.

2011-06-24T22:57:00.006+08:00

I swear I own only sneakers and high heels. (Okay and two pairs of slippers and a pair of gladiator sandals.) I bought a pair of black sneakers yesterday! So excited about wearing them out tomorrow.Still thinking about the guitar though. I definitely want an electric guitar, but I'm not sure if I should "upgrade" my acoustic as well. Then comes the question of which electric guitar to buy, and

She knew money was an illusion, but she also knew that she needed food in her hardly illusory belly.

2011-06-11T23:47:00.003+08:00

"Inglorious" by Joanna KavennaThe tone in this novel is pretty detached, but I feel that it works even better this way since the protagonist seems self-centred but at the same time, lost. Okay I'm only 50 pages in, so I should be reserving judgment...This passage stood out, though, because job-hunting $&*#!*ing sucks.Whatever they might all say, she had really been trying to get a job. She knew

Finished reading "Joystick Nation" by JC Herz

2011-05-30T17:50:00.003+08:00

The 1997 book's a bit dated, but the discussions on the history and evolution of videogames as well as arcades are still quite relevant. AND SO FUNNY, I was laughing out loud on the train. Didn't really see if people were looking at me funny because I was too absorbed in the book.Personal computers simplified the requisite record keeping and took RPGs out of the closet by adding graphics, so that

Just read "Literacy and Longing in L.A."

2011-05-25T13:31:00.004+08:00

It starts with that quote from Borges:"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."How could I not love it?This novel by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack has so many elements I love - bibliophilia, the glitz of L.A. (thank Adam for that), witty bookstore people, single (okay, technically separated) woman NOT living in a messy one-room apartment, name-dropping everywhere, and

Currently reading "Zero Degrees of Empathy" by Simon Baron-Cohen

2011-05-22T19:59:00.006+08:00

This book caught my eye right away; it comes right after I told a newspaper intern how great museum docents should have empathy for their visitors and historical empathy towards, well, historical figures and the periods that they've lived through.It also comes after I read articles on schizoid personality disorder and avoidant personality disorder. And before that, I was reading up on Asperger's

Date a Girl Who Reads [a response]

2011-05-20T18:05:00.001+08:00

[I love these things! Thanks, Mel.]Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s

You Should Date An Illiterate Girl

2011-05-20T17:11:00.002+08:00

By CHARLES WARNKEDate a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Take her outside

FLUFF

2011-05-13T02:39:00.001+08:00

YAY it's another high school AU. Speaking of high school, I just watched Glee!prom. FM(Singaporean)L, I'll never have a prom like that. Nor the college years. Nor living in a tiny apartment in the city after graduation, looking out my window (or hey, the balcony) with a steaming mug of cocoa in my hands (no wine), mesmerised by the bright lights outside and incessant city sounds in the background