Greenhouse

These days have been so surreal. There are a tide of tangled emotions that won’t be sorted out- relief, loss, hope, regret…on the one hand, I’m glad her suffering is over…on the other, I miss her so much.
It’s hard to answer when people ask, “How’re you feeling/doing/holding up?”
“Okay…” I say… I smile. I don’t feel [...]

“Abide with me, fast falls the eventide…”
My grandma’s wake is in St. Theresa’s Church (next to Mount Faber in the Bukit Merah area) in the Chapel of Repose which is next to the main church building. It will be on until tuesday- there will be a Christian service at 8 every night and rosary some [...]

to go to sleep

The Heart Asks Pleasure First
by Emily Dickinson
The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
My grandma passed away last night…I believe that the very air around me right now is filled with [...]

oh god how beautiful…

it is at moments after i have dreamed
by: e.e. cummings
it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eyes,
when (being fool to fancy) i have deemed
with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;
at moments when the glassy darkness holds
the genuine apparition of your smile
(it was through tears always)and silence moulds
such strangeness [...]

I came across this in an email I wrote about six years ago-
I especially love the last line…if I close my eyes, and I am doing so now…like typing with my eyes closed…I can practically feel the canyon wind blowing through my hair. It’s a night dark wind…of distant spice and faint fires and rustling, [...]

Too much to share

Firstly, isn’t this romantic?

It’s one of the entries in a project titled “Loveletters” that’s currently on display in ad spaces all over Stockholm.
Then I came across this strange photographer…okay I wouldn’t say strange but certain out of the ordinary. Cig Harvey (gosh what a name! it hardly sounds real) takes beautiful shots of women in [...]

A Scintilla Temporis

If only I could take such wonderful pictures I would be a very happy girl.

Joseph Zbukvic

My favourite watercolourist (thus far) is Joseph Zbukvic, a Slav who now resides in Australia and paints there. I found him whilst foraging through my mom’s vast art book collection…I love the way he injects mood into all of his paintings, something that I’ve always found hard to achieve…even the Singapore greats like Ong Kim [...]

Night Ride Across the Caucasus

As I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
There has been so much death around me recently, all manner of death and dying. A husband with three young sons, an elderly Irish priest, a sickly grandfather, and [...]

Happy Birthday!

I wish I had the words to say how much you mean to me and what a wonderful person you are but everything seems to fall short and sounds unutterably cheesy in my head so…Happy Birthday…because for one day, I wish that you be blessed with all the happiness that you’ve brought to others and [...]