Monthly Archives: October 2006

notes from Buffalo

Right now in buffalo, it is like as if a big natural disaster just struck. The whole city is crippled now. No power, no gas (heat) for over 100,000 households, including my own. Utility company cant fix power lines because … Continue reading

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dumped on

My brother in Buffalo lost power and heat early this evening. He somehow found his way to campus and is okay for now. Though it looks like he might not have power until early nextweek. Which I doubt, but that … Continue reading

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Autumn

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning “no.” And tonight the heavy earth is falling away from all other stars in … Continue reading

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brinksmanship relativity

Help me out here with this line of reasoning, okay? Post 2001, there was a step up in the rhetoric that the crazy motherf*cker Saddam has WMDs and will have no qualms about striking. This went on for oh.. I … Continue reading

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Guest Blogging: Uncharted Territory

“…furnish me, instead, with the drama of raw kampung vegetables dipped in sambal; the concerto of a breeze chasing sparrows across yellow acres of padi; and the unique novel that an illiterate, young farmer will write in my womb with … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Paul Hunter

Paul Hunter, young snooker star, passed away on October 9th following a battle with cancer. He was 27. BBC has a tribute in pictures. Snooker has lost not only a young champion but a figure who’s brought in new fans … Continue reading

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geram

everytime I go to the grocery store I forget to buy Milo

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fillerrrrr

Cause i’m brain dead and a little airhead… ARE YOU: 1. A cuddler? Sure. If you shower first. 2. A morning person? Ugh. But I appreciate the rare days when I’m up and at the kopitiam before the rest of … Continue reading

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Alex wins, Michael concedes

Last night, early this morning.. too late into the night, too early in the morning a red car blew an engine and I screamed obscenities much too harsh for anybody’s ears. Especially my sleeping neighbours’. Michael Schumacher, leading the Japan … Continue reading

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Is that your lightsaber… or are you just happy to see me?

a.k.a. Why Apple Is Sexy Is More Ways Than Thought Possible. Hello readers, all seven of you. Remember when I was so tickled (pardon the pun) by the iBrator ads inspired by the colorful iMacs and iBooks from many years … Continue reading

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trivial thinking

Anybody read Lat as much as I do? Does the news of the exploding bus compartment remind anybody of the tempoyak meletup cartoon?

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MAS won’t fly to NY anymore

Beginning January 15th 2007 Malaysian Airlines will cease operating its KL-Stockholm-New York flights. I don’t even know what to say to that. I mean, I *really* don’t know what to say to that. Two steps forward, three steps back.

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not that I plan on seeing it

The Boston Globe shreds The Last King of Scotland into pieces but praises Gillian Anderson (I think): The only person in the movie with any sense is a blond Gillian Anderson, as a doctor’s British wife, last glimpsed on a … Continue reading

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recognize, beeyatch

“The upside though is that maybe now my students will pay more attention to me.” George Smoot, on the benefits of winning the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics together with John Mather. The two of them are, according to this … Continue reading

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next: separate checkout lines for the sexes

From The Star today: Women to test women learner drivers KUALA TERENGGANU: From March next year, women learner drivers taking the highway code test will be tested only by women testers. Road Transport Department (JPJ) director-general Datuk Emran Kadir said … Continue reading

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