Browsing the blog archives for January, 2008

Pure

Last Thursday, I ‘dragged’ KK to Prive for the official launch of Dominic’s charity coffee table book titled ‘Pure’. Inspired by his late, altruistic mother, Dom decided to honour her memory by putting his energy [and talent, if I may add] into a project he feel would capture the real spirit of charity, and thus the [...]

‘Fight or Flight’ Response

I don’t really know how or where to find the strength to fight it.

Time to Say Goodbye

There’s something to be said about methodically clearing out your desk while everyone continue to work.  What an emotional roller-coastery week, with so many things happening one after another. It is always difficult to say goodbye, no matter how ready a person is should be.  But well, this is a choice that I have made… [...]

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Rachmaninoff!

This is the song that did it for me. Chiaki plays a Rachmaninoff piece with the orchestra.

Nodame Cantabile

One day in Nihon, sister and I were watching the telly where there was a variety show introducing the J-dorama, Nodame Cantabile. It seemed interesting so we plugged it as a to-watch show once we return. Nodame Cantabile: Shinichi Chiaki [Hiroshi Tamaki], is Momogaoka College of Music’s top student. Born into a musical family, he is [...]

Let’s Become Lost Children Together

And so we did, in Studio Ghibli, Mitaka.

That Old Hurt

I thought I’ll never write about you again. I was surfing online shopping sites, admiring earrings and bracelets, when a thought came into my mind, unbidden. That moment when I found out your bracelet slipped from my wrist to be lost forever, somehow at the back of my mind, I knew I would be losing [...]

Meet the Katenas

Our Tokyo stay was a wonderful one, despite all the late nights early mornings lackofsleepdarkcirclesgroggydazedays.

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*Gasp* Air!

“I do not believe in love at first sight,” I told sister some weeks ago. That was then. “But I believe in physical attraction at first sight.” so I AM totally crazily topsy-turvily intensely insanely passionately uncontrollably wildly head-over-heels in LUST LOVE ok fine, not love, just LUST with…

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Get Out of My Face(book)

The thing with social networks such as Friendster and Facebook is that you will find lots of strange unknown people adding you to their friends list. Starm|st, being the anti-social person she is, decided to arm herself against such people by upping the privacy mode for these networks. In her facebook account, people who are [...]

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