Too busy (1) wrapping up term (2) jostling with others in the library and (3) making travel arrangements, my thoughts are as scattered as my term-paper-writing.
# Angeline Jolie causes a stir in a Mumbai train: You know, I cause a stir in Indian trains all the time too. Not because of my beauty — because of how much of a mess I cause, trying to _geh kiang_ (be clever) by eating curd and rice with my hands.
# Case of the Mongolian beauty blown up in Malaysia (special: police and ruling party ties suspected): Still unbelievably tragic. A summary: pregnant Mongolian mistress of political analyst close to the administration and the police disappears, is apparently shot and then blown up by explosives. Even Suria dramas can’t do any better.
# Daily Show: Best piece on Ted Haggard ever. EVER.
# China passes one dog policy: China is one helluva confused country. Eat them. Ban them. Build “public toilets for dogs”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3970000/newsid_3974500/3974563.stm. Eat them some more. With this one dog policy (having more than one is illegal, so is having a dog taller than 35 cm), the new status symbol for the accomplished in China is all set to be: move to Singapore, be a rambling lecturer, have more than one kid (and more than one dog) and a suburban flat.
# Panda Porn: in an international conference on panda breeding (don’t laugh), Chinese expert recommends playing recordings of pandas mating to other pandas, hoping they will follow suit. Hmm.
# I’m in the Brunei Times: Except for the last bit which makes me sound morbid and weird (the author has explained that editorial oversight is behind that), I quite like it. Papers seem to like publishing pictures of “me on camels”:http://flickr.com/photos/skinnylatte/190877928/, causing the unfortunate ‘camel girl’ epithet which is hardly true — I’ve only been on a camel _once_ and it was the last time. (Z says she took all those pictures and went to all those places, so why doesn’t anyone ever interview her? “Err, because nobody knows who you are, how you look like, or how to contact you maybe?”)
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mean comment abt Z!! :) she’s a sweetheart ;)
i have 7 more invites for macheist – lemme know if anyone wants..
cheers!
“People like you make it hard for, quite frankly, people like you.”
Priceless!
You should see The Word segment on The Colbert Report right after the Dems won the Senate. That’s pretty good too.
does Z look like I’m-so-jealous-you-got-to-kiss-her kind of way when saying this, hehe :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c8P4yL7BEPE
That’s the link.
that was a lovely photo of you. gosh u make me wanna go backpacking. =P
u mentioned a laos trip in dec. be sure to go to Vang Vieng, a relatively short bus ride from Luang Prabang or Vientiane. It was my favourite place on an Indochina trip this May. Amazing scenery, very chill.