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Protected: Dear Skinny Girl – An Angry Fat Girl Poem
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Pantun Wajib – A Poem (with translations)
‘Pantun Wajib’ means ‘Compulsory Poem’, in reference to the tradition of concluding speeches with pantun. If you’re unfamiliar with the term or form, a pantun is somewhat like a ruba’i but with an ABAB rhyming scheme. I’ve always wanted to write some when I find an appropriate subject matter, then I realised that there’s plenty…
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The BillionGraves Project
For a long time, I’ve had a fascination with graveyards and have visited a few around Kuching, wondering about the people buried there and what their stories were. Old graveyards like St Joseph’s Cemetery or the small graveyard on the grounds of St Thomas’s Cathedral date back to the days of the Brooke administration, with…
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Hashtag – An Angry Fat Girl Poem
Performed at ‘Shades of Art, 9th Edition‘ at Bing! Green Heights, Jan 11. Text of poem below the cut.
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No Spend September – Week 4
Week 3: Sept 22-30, 2010 Budget: RM135 = RM15/day Actual: RM138.65 I need to point out that this is a 9-day ‘week’ because there’s two days leftover and I originally decided to take a break early in the week but decided that won’t be fair because the total funds allocated include all 30 days. The photo…
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No Spend September – Week 3
Week 3: Sept 15-21, 2010 Budget: RM105 = RM15/day Actual: RM86.90 I’m pleased to report that there wasn’t an epic fail this week. Maybe just a RM2 regret, but who’s counting? The sandwich in the above photo is what my typical lunch looks like. It’s called the Special Giant Croissant Sandwich which I picked up…
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No Spend September – Week 2
Week 2: Sept 8-14, 2010 Budget: RM105 = RM15/day Actual: RM92.70 Remember how I said I’m good at thoughtlessly spending on entertainment? Yup. In the middle of a game trance on the first day of the second week, I went and bought a casual pack at RM31. Yes, I enjoyed the game I was playing.…
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No Spend September – Week 1
Week 1: Sept 1-7, 2010 Budget: RM105 = RM15/day Actual: RM105.85 Let me start my No Spend September (NSS) updates with my epic fail of the week. A McValue meal comes at the lovely price tag of RM12 something. I’m gonna round it off at RM13. And then I ordered the Groovy Lime Sunday, which…
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No Spend September
Coming across No Spend Month over at Small Notebook was timely. I thought I was doing pretty well getting my spending and saving under control but I fell off the wagon big time the last couple of months. I’m going to Hanoi and KL in October, and I’m still paying off my credit card bills…
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The Priests – An Interview
This is one of my favourite entertainment pieces. I remember how easily this one came because I feel so profoundly moved by their music and from speaking to Father Martin. This is also probably my last entertainment pieces before I went over to the news desk. L-R: Father David Delargy, Father Eugene O’Hagan and Father…