I usually leave new links in discreetly on the sidebars: you know, stealthy promotion of other people writing about their lives?
After some serious thinking, I figure it was time to spread some serious link-love. I don’t know if these links would be your cup of tea, but they have meshed well into my reading digest, so here goes:
Good Morning Yesterday
Written by Mr Lam Chun See, whom has witnessed the country’s independence (and the same age as Dad), he tells stories about the country’s past. Would anyone have ever thought that our country transportation was once a diaspora of operators, with cockroach infested buses, speed-happy drivers, and gang-affiliated bus conductors?
Or that KFC used to be a full-fledged restaurant, along with A&W?
Present Simple
Badaunt is a New Zealander who took up expatriate teaching in the Land of the Rising Sun. Read about her daily exploits with interesting Japanese students, as well as sagas with their Senseis. Experience space-time rips and her favourite pastime: books.
Sparklette
Veron is a web designer (though I don’t know whether she does it for a living, or as a side-job) with a craving for visiting restaurants in Singapore. I get treated to saliva-inducing photographs of food, and reviews that just makes me want to go down there - right there and then!
The dull glint of chocolate on desserts is enough to drive a chocolate-fan crazy. Thanks for keeping me off-diet!
Hole In My Head
Another food photographer! My platoon mate until he disrupted from full-time national service for his studies, gonococcus takes enticing photographs of the food that he partakes, as well as his well-known love for his DS lite; as well as draw attention to embarrassing things that I write (all right, it wasn’t that subtle after all).
If you’ll ever notice, there is a common trend in all the recommendations today: Food! I wrote this while waiting for lunch to come, so my recommendation is biased towards eye-catching food. More link-love to come when I feel like writing about it again!
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I space out whenever I have any spare time. My mind is a blank slate on my way to work on the bus, holding the same expression until I see my friends, or hit my bed.
Even till now I have no idea whether this is a normal phenomenon, or even whether other people have this problem. I did try to solve the problem one day, by grinning all the way to work. While there was a change in the reaction around me, I felt weird to encounter a sudden clearance around me. You probably would too, if a bizzarely curly-haired person with a blank expression suddenly decided to grin, and hold that silly face until he alighted from the bus.
That experiment aside, I plugged into my mobile phone for music to distract me whenever I commute. You see, I am used to having something to occupy my mind - having it clear like a suddenly unblocked nose makes me feel unnaturally.
You could argue that since I was aware that I was spacing out, that meant that I wasn’t really focused on nothing. I don’t know: maybe the problem is my pre-occupation with the prospect of having nothing to think about? That is quite related to my internal wrangle with whatever happens to thoughts once death occurs.
I couldn’t quite handle the thought that there would simply be emptiness where thoughts used to be, nothing where the five senses used to experience. That makes me not an atheist (obviously), since I believe in reincarnation. Being reborn again is less frightening, though it raises some heckles when you see that you have to go at it all over again (been there, done that: but not knowing it - again!)
It can be as mind-boggling as the crux of Life, the magnitude of dreading work multiplied a few hundred-folds, yet as simply managed as keeping your mind busy. When you are living your Life, and your thoughts do not idle, you tend to roll with the flow of time, rather than pondering over the Inevitable. Is this why retirees spoil their grandchildren rotten? To keep their mind off the passage of time where work used to dominate in their timespace?
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