The Complete Short Prose

The best MSN conversation ever

2008-05-14T12:15:54Z

Canadian guy who is not black: I'm gonna get my black friends to beat you up. I'm gonna get my black girl friend to come and beat you up. She's big, she's gonna hurt you. You can't out-hustle the hustler. Mari.am: In my language, you are what is c...

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Late night recollections of Hanoi

2008-04-12T20:08:35Z

I should be sleeping now because I have to wake up early but my brain is still quite active. I was lying in bed just a while ago trying to let my thoughts run their course and into the darkness but instead I ended up with the urge to write. I was ...

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Fiends

2008-03-20T18:50:01Z

It's just hit me that I've been having a lot of conversations lately about friends and friendships. But I suppose I've been having these conversations all my life, ceaselessly. Forming, strengthening, breaking, re-forming alliances. You never real...

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Too good

2008-03-10T16:54:21Z

So much for never writing again. It's occurred to me that the last time I felt blissfully happy, without a care in the world, was on the second day of our Halong Bay jaunt. It was morning, we'd just woken up, I opened the door of our tiny room on...

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The worst ending to a trip

2007-12-18T06:01:11Z

Lianyi had been sniffling and coughing a lot and suffering from an on-and-off fever since Halong Bay. That was Tuesday. We thought nothing of it, just kept plying him with Panadol and Strepsils and their Vietnamese equivalents. On Saturday I foun...

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This is love

2007-11-16T16:46:23Z

She.rnice went for a gynae check-up, not because she was feeling any pain, but just to be on the safe side. The doctor scanned her womb, printed the film and told her to take them down the hall to another doctor. As she walked down the hospital c...

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Sessions

2007-11-10T13:37:41Z

Director U-W.ei Haji Sa.ari during the talkback session after Wan.gi Jadi Sak.si, on the Majapahit royal: "Dia kan datang sini. Kat sebelah ni. Dia lepak sini 6 tahun. Ada anak..." At the Earshot café where the waiter/cook said his name was "Ital...

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Sing song, see girls

2007-07-26T14:44:26Z

Today my boss warned me about spies within the corporation and the government reading my blog, so of course I immediately felt compelled to blog. Let's see... ok I'll start with how we terrorised the lone Christian at dinner last night. F: I've ...

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Nice day

2007-05-23T15:57:12Z

Someone said the nicest thing to me this morning. She's an ex-colleague, who recently switched from radio to the main national broadsheet. I've always liked her; she's always so calm and composed, she has the best voice of anyone I know, she goes ...

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msn roxx

2007-05-15T15:26:11Z

boy genius: mak kau nick kau r-rated sial boy genius: mentang-mentang dah kahwin mindBLOWinglove: it's all in the mind baby mindBLOWinglove: otak kau yang kuninggggggg boy genius: i'm the one yang otak kuning? who's the one with the dirty nick? mi...

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