Philip Larkin – The Old Fools
What do they think has happened, the old fools,
To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose
It’s more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools,
And you keep on pissing yourself, and can’t remember
Who called this morning? Or that, if they only chose,
They could alter things back to when they [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Old Age
Posted in Personal on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On blogging
Posted in Back to school, New media, Personal on November 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
A few months ago, I wrote a post on blogging that generated more attention that this entire blog had since its inception. I think I provoked very strong responses which I actually did appreciate. And some good did come out of that. That is good.
Recently, there was a lot of controversy around the whole issue [...]
When I was 17 …
Posted in Back to school, Personal on November 5, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Have you even heard the song “It was a very good year”? I am not sure who the original was. The famous version is by one of my favourite singers of all time, ‘ole blue eyes’ Frank Sinatra. More recently, it was done by Robbie Williams who I actually like a lot as well. Didn’t [...]
Banana man
Posted in Back to school, Personal on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of you mentioned something I haven’t heard for a long time. You mentioned the idea of a banana to describe Singaporeans like me who in spite of looking outwardly ethnically Chinese, can’t really speak much Chinese. You know, the whole yellow outside, white inside thing.
I first heard it used rather derogatorily in Primary school [...]
What is your purpose?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just caught the rather strange musical ‘Avenue Q’. For those of you who don’t know, it is an NC16 musical with ‘adult themes’ and basically puppets not disimilar to the Muppets we all grew up with. With catchy songs like ’The Internet is for porn’, and the promise of puppets doing things children are not supposed to see, how could [...]
