No more Glassex please

I want three little elves when I am no longer young to wipe down my walls, polish the teak furniture and bake sweet-smelling cookies to celebrate Chinese New Year and Hari Raya.

I love my families but if i have to get up that ladder one more time for that spot I missed....

Respect

Born in Sri Lanka and trained as a lawyer in London, Jeyaretnam championed more freedom for ordinary Singaporeans, and wanted the Southeast Asian country to have a Western-style democracy. His repeated run-ins with the government alienated him from many Singaporeans, but he still pursued his cause and in recent years was regularly seen at the entrances of shopping malls selling his books to raise funds. "The PAP would like to let it be known that Jeyaretnam wants to destroy everything we've got here," he told the Straits Times newspaper in January. "All I want to do is to give the people a chance to live their own lives ... and not have everything dictated to them."

Thank you JBJ, for all you stood for. Your legacy will not be removed from Singapore's ledger.

(News article from http://in.reuters.com)

Imagine there's no heaven

It's International Peace Day today - Sunday, 21st September 2008.

Let's observe a minute of silence for those we've lost in battles fought hard and to pray that inhumane acts of war and terrorism may never reach our shores.

My favourite things

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel, so

bad.

mas que nada

Busy Busy Busy Busy Busy.
The more times this word runs through my mind, the more I will attract it.

Thus, I shall be busy NO MORE!!

Join a new organization - check.
Live independently - check.

And now, I breathe a little easier. Thank you everyone who's been stopping by.
What have You been up to the past month? Drop me a note beside this post ---@

Magic she wrote

The chronicles pf Harry Potter, to me and many others, are a source of inspiration. It is literature genius. Along the same line of thought, the common names of Harry and Potter, put together, have become a marketing institution too.

His creator, J.K. Rowling, delivered her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

It was a beautiful speech and I would like to share an excerpt here with you:

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s minds, imagine themselves into other people’s places.

Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

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I highly recommend you to click this to read the full speech and watch the video.

She really turns me on

I've been enamoured with Padma Laksmi for a while now. I read articles about her and gaze lustfully at her gorgeous photos in magazines and web articles.

I think I know why I'm so curious about this mystical Indian goddess. I always wonder, why Salman Rushdie? Why? I pore over every interview, looking for clues in the subtext...but deep down, I know. We all know. It was love, Watson. It was love.

Here are some juicy excerpts from past interviews:

While she has always been ambitious, she is more determined than ever to succeed as more than just the wife and inspiration of a famous man. “Being married to a giant cultural figure like Salman Rushdie, I want to earn my seat at the table,” she says. “After all, I was a published author before I met Salman. In fact, it was my publisher who introduced us.”
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"There's nothing useful about being married to him, though," she continues. "I think it works against me." Surely it must have benefits? "I do have it easy in that I can take business class instead of coach [economy], but I would have that if I was married to anybody."
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“I went to India one summer and I came back with boobs. I don’t know what happened. I went to the boob ration line.” Padma laughed. “Where is it written that a smart woman can’t also be stacked?” she once asked in a column for Harper’s Bazaar entitled “Do You Dress for Men?” “My agenda,” she wrote, “arouse from a distance the object of my longing.”
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Photos courtesy of http://www.padmalakshmi.com