Monthly Archives: February 2008

Heaven

It’s been more than eight months since I first posted about my new apartment (now not so new lah). I had just moved in at that point, and ecstatic to finally have a place of my own — just for me, me, me, me, ME. Plans were afoot for a housewarming (mostly by friends and

This Sea of Us

Sigur Rós by James Jean How do I know that you are the One? I see around me couples who have been together for years, some married with mortgages and kids, some who run businesses together; others separated by distance due to dilemmas of work or visas, yet knowing that this distance, this separation, is

Hide and Seek

Seven Virtues by Sarah Avayou Munich Summer. Der Englische Garten. Munich is part of the Old World, but it’s a new world to me. It’s summer, I’m a young foreign student and it’s time for fun, to be outside, lazing and frolicking in the sun. You have chosen to meet me at the Schönfeldwiese; you

Always, the Joy

‘Couple on the Beach’ by Bianca de Blok Valentine’s isn’t about chocolates or sweet wine or red roses. Valentine’s isn’t about expensive restaurants that you’d have to make a reservation a year in advance simply to get a table (and this with “connections”). Valentine’s isn’t about greeting cards — pink, cute and marshmallowy. Valentine’s isn’t