People are more important than places

18 août 2007

The MRT files

MRT in Singapore stands for "Mass Rapid transit". No one has a clue what that means though. In Taiwan it stands for "Mass Rail Transit", which a little more sense. God only knows why they couldn't call it a metro or underground just like everywhere else....

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18 août 2007

Parting

Remembering There are threads of old sound heard over and overphrases of Shakespeare or Mozart the slenderwands of the auroras playing out from theminto dark time the passing of a fewmigrants high in the night far from the ancient flocksfar from the rest...

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17 août 2007

flush hour

Here I am at the multimedia centre, sitting in front of a documentary on the history of japanese cinema with Wyatt. Back in the fifties, even onscreen kissing wasn’t allowed. Sex was an extremely personal affair. We’ve finally planned to have a nice dinner...

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15 août 2007

VLOG @ national day

Last Thursday was national day, the day that celebrates Singapore's independance from Malaysia. Singaporeans being their patriotic selves, anticipate this day with unquenched anxiety all year, so when the moment finally comes the entire population heads...

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14 août 2007

FAST FOOD NATION

Before and after arriving here, I have been many times encouraged to by proud locals to try out the local cuisine. We’re supposed to be really excited about it because this is such a “multi-ethnical” place, with such a wide variety of foodstuffs. These...

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13 août 2007

Short Message Service

The gang and I have been exercising our thumb muscles lately. So I thought I might let you imagine what these last few days have been like through extracts of my sms inbox. A clementi tu prend le 183 ou le 96 pui le a1 ou a2 ! A tte ! Did u not have to...

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12 août 2007

VLOG

Hope everybody's enjoying what I'm uploading these days. Here are a few videos taken with my phone (hence the crappy quality) and camera. One is my arrival in Singapore, another is Wyatt, Andrew and Myself testing these weird vibrating machines at vivo...

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9 août 2007

Facebook Rocks

Special thanks to Andrew Chan for taking and posting these pictures, especially since I don't usually take pictures of myself. Me eating seaweed This girl, (god forbid) likes Hooters Wyatt and I deep in conversation The Dudes (Pete, Loïc, the dude, Andrew...

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8 août 2007

2007 : a Singapore Odyssey

Sleep. Deep dreamless sleep. Finally. I discarded all administrative business early on Monday, I signed up at 9, and received an answer one hour later. I have to attend five modules this semester, which is supposed to be very heavy. We'll find out soon...

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8 août 2007

Most of the time

Quiero que sepas una cosa. Tú sabes cómo es esto: si miro la luna de cristal, la rama roja del lento otoño en mi ventana, si toco junto al fuego la impalpable ceniza o el arrugado cuerpo de la leña, todo me lleva a ti, como si todo lo que existe: aromas,...

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6 août 2007

to kill a mockingturd

It's early. These last few days have been eventful.I got up early on Friday to get to NUS by 9 am, but I was jetlagged and couldn't sleep Thursday night; so I was stuck in limbo all day. The meeting at NUS was crap, I wasn't in the mood for cheering and...

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3 août 2007

fear and loathing in S'pore

The plane. Tired. Thank god I slept on the plane. I usually have to elbow-wrestle my neighbour for my fair share of the armrest, but this time a 3 year old kid sat next to me. After 15 minutes of flight he bundled up in his blanket and slept until we...

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