June came and went. I noted its passing briefly on the 1st of July. When I look back in later years, I will find a large hole in my life where Science erased1 June2. 1 Please note segue. Thank you. 2 Would be funny if my name were June.
And probably don’t exist anymore… A real Kopi Tiam, with lau ah pek’s talking about horse racing at the top of their voices. A true Hawker Centre, with ka-chuak crunching underfoot, where the food is served on colourful melamine plates that you throw in a big wash basin after you’re finished. Plastic chopsticks in a […]
aka How akatsukira would spend her last day on earth. Breakfast: Roti prata Tau huey (sweetened bean curd) Soya bean milk (see above) with you tiao (chinese churros) Nasi Lemak Teh Tarik (or even just ginger tea) Teochew porridge Taiwanese porridge Dan tart Soon Kueh Chwee Kueh Kaya on white plastic bread Bak Kut Teh […]
Academic research is pretty much funded by investigators panhandling, using the medium of grant applications. These suck up more than 50% of ones effort in times of poor funding. I’d like to propose a new method of grant applications: the 140 character limit Tweet. Dear Funding Body, Plz gimme sum munny. My lab iz broke […]
Californian sunsets are spectacular, originally uploaded by framboise. Posting photos from Flickr to fill the gaping hole that is my blog. @kcirtapu took over my camera, handed me the dog, and told me to take a hike. This is the result.
Unravel me, i missed a stitch, i’m now at the end of the row, a constant pain. My first attempt at yarn-based crafts was an unmitigated disaster. Back when I was a wee lass, my mother gave me a crochet hook, some garish pink acrylic yarn, and told me to crochet up a round coaster. […]
It’s 2 years to the Superbowl Sunday when we met Queen Kirinopolophagus. She was, and remains, a super-dominant, passive-aggressive, eternally-shedding, attention-seeking, loveable, loyal, luscious, ludicrous specimen of Canis lupus. Here she is on her birthday: And she’s knackered from chasing balls on the beach here: Here’s her looking a little worried (she remains fearful of […]
Not having grown up in an earthquake-prone country, I feel somewhat unsure whenever one happens. Not that I’ve noticed many since moving to LA 3 years ago; only the two 5.0+ “moderate” earthquakes in recent months. Even so, I’m never sure it’s really happening. During the first one in July 2008, I was at my […]
My dearest blog, My sincerest apologies for not staying in touch. Here’s a cute photo that the P-man took on the first day of 2009 to make up for things. The subject in view is a noren of one of the many images¹ from the collection of Ando/Utagawa Hiroshige‘s ukiyo-e for One Hundred Famous Views […]
Not just for wars past, but also those ongoing .
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