On shaky ground

When reality hits with such severity, it takes an elephantine effort to believe in better times ahead, especially for a hopeless pessimist like yours truly. Normally one who is continually enamoured with Barack Obama, I cannot help but pay attention to what the critics have to say this time.

Parting is such sweet sorrow…

… That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

For four years now, leaving Singapore is infinitely worse than saying farewell to Sydney.

A brand of affection

22 pieces of information about Vanessa – some embarrassing, some astute, some rather meh; all are true:

1. She has a crush on James Franco.
2. It is safe to assume that she likes ’em scruffy, to the point of unkept.
3. She is a History whiz.
4. The extent of her untidiness parallels my degree of fastidiousness.
5. I only look like the older sister; she is, without question, more disciplined, sensible and level-headed.
6. She constantly makes me look bad with her frugality and well-maintained nails.
7. She takes her guitar lessons seriously, as with everything else.
8. Despite never having a boyfriend, she gives surprisingly profound relationship advice.
9. She has almost unreachable expectations of the opposite sex.
10. She tends to exaggerate, or leave out important nuances, when she tells her friends about my zany behaviour.
11. She does not eat beef and rarely consumes carbohydrates.
12. We used to have eruptive arguments, often addressing unrelated issues, mainly because we never back down and hold out with “I’m not going to let you have the last word”.
13. She answers to ‘Poo-Neh’ – try it.
14. When our family joins a holiday tour group, she is always the first person to make friends with the other members.
15. She loves Las Vegas for its sleaze.
16. The excessive amount of perfume she uses fumigates our bedroom every morning.
17. She has an eclectic taste in music.
18. The only time she is louder and more vulgar than me is when Roger Federer is playing.
19. She has a wide range of facial expressions, most of them laughable.
20. Her ears are susceptible to infection.
21. Before I underwent LASIK in July 2008, she was the only one in our family who did not suffer from severe myopia.
22. She turns 22 today – HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

The stars in the sky

I may be single, but being a girl stereotypically means I am a romantic, no matter the circumstance.

Working relationships

Life can be so pedestrian at times that you’d rather it be a stage… Or a set. Then again, reality’s dramatics might provoke a desire to be directed just so one is relieved from doing any decision-making. And on the most banal level, at least the hours in the cinema give a sort of escape.

Shot by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, the inspiration and imagination, in front of and behind the camera, that are responsible for the films that move us.