.ivars gravlejs.

interesting artist who showed visitors to art openings porn in his hp:

http://www.ivarsgravlejs.com/pages/mobilevideo.htm

.moving house!!.

to: bedtimeeyes.wordpress.com

this blog will be used for taking note of vid clips/pix i like. :)

.dad caught a centipede today.

.nick vujicic.

.olafur eliasson.

.just be.

pressuring others to deviate can be as disrespectful as pressuring them to conform.

.a happy woman.

.daniel libeskind.

.wii at yin's.

in that room, 

we are the secret police caught in a crossfire with terrorists in an airplane, rescuing hostages and dodging bullets.

with the remote controls,

we are sonic, shadow, tails and knuckles competing in the beijing olympics, throwing the javelin and jumping on the trampoline.

after pressing a few buttons,

we are rabbits on the podium, dancing to hip hop and then, disco.

for a while,

we are not ourselves.

.felix dennis.

.poems.

A Poem [Nichita Stanescu]
Tell me, if I caught you one day
and kissed the sole of your foot,
wouldn't you limp a little then,
afraid to crush my kiss?

(from indrani)

Absolutely Last Poem to a Past Love [Agnes Meadows]
In Winter's cloudburst
We dodged raindrops
Like we dodged love.

So I found another umbrella
Under which to splash
singing, Gene Kelly style.

Now even the rain feels warm.

(from a link aik wee passed me)

.fr yj's blog.

"If only I live in a world
where people are more concerned with filling their minds
than emptying their wallets."

.rooftop night.

.wild is the wind in the sea of love.

benjamin button

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

i think the movie is a little cliche, and it didn't move me. but en passed me this while msning today, and the words are rather encouraging.

thank you.

synthesizer

this is awesome!

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

.ryanair.

http://www.b3ta.com/board/9222744
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7914542.stm

.got this in my mailbox today.

"Being an ideal Singaporean is hard. Singaporeans are implicated, on one side, by the state’s aggressive goals for national development, which demand from them ever-increasing productivity in full-time and formal employment and which require these in return for access to social goods.1 From the opposite direction, they are compelled through policies—which again involve social goods—to aspire to particular forms of families that are supposedly traditional but that in fact require all sorts of modern orientations and habits. Singaporeans are compelled through a series of state mechanisms to work hard, full time, for many years of their lives, and to do so while also marrying, having children, ensuring that their offspring are upwardly mobile in an increasingly competitive middle-class society, and eventually making sure that their elderly parents are cared for (preferably within their households) and that they themselves have enough money to live comfortably in old age."

.balzac and the little chinese seamstress.

It isn't an everyday affair that a book affects you. A good book keeps your mind in sweet captivity, cajoling it to go on a wild flying carpet ride in an imagined world. Then, like a voyeur, you swiftly rub shoulders with familiar people you would never meet, and experience the emotions they might have felt. All these, right in your very own bedroom, and on your very own bed.

Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (a pressie from t) is a book that reminds me of the power of words. It tells the story of two youths sent to a village for "re-education" during mao's cultural revolution. There, they fell in love with a seamstress, and acquired a suitcase of forbidden life-changing books that fed their hunger for ideas. It's an account of how literature opens the mind to possibilities, and how, when coupled with reflexivity, can undo the invisible chains that hold one enslaved. At its last few pages, i was unsure whether to laugh, or to cry.

The book, reading the book, and the person who first brought up the book in a conversation, remind me that the mind can be free, even if the body is not. as long as the mind is free, there's a chance that the body can be too.

...

My thumb is still blue-black. with dark purple nail polish now. it hurts so much that i couldn't sleep properly at night. thank goodness my fingernails aren't long, else i'll look like a vampire right out of some b-grade chinese horror flick.

.she.

She runs around, looking for the answer,
But the question, it hasn’t arrived.