something else, plan to run an errand, but never got there…and at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.’
These couple of days, perhaps I was unusually idle, I start to ponder over the idea of friends. Earlier in their marriage my parents used to have friends coming to the house. Over the years of their lives, perhaps family life and career start to take centerstage, they start to drop off from one another’s lives. Then, in [...]
I love this brevity of moments, of transits, what lingers in your tongue between the yes and the no, the woman holding the pregnancy test kit, the student waiting for the ‘A’ levels result slip, me willing the recipezaar.com southern cookies to be baked perfectly.
japanese designers have so much to offer with their innovation, lush almost sensuously blight imaginations in their designs. In a world that is as bizarre as it is mundane, all of us need a little childhood reminder.
Shinto Katoh
Yoshitomo Nara
Ai Yamaguchi
the idea of parenthood does not come easily for most. eventually most of us succumbed to the love we have for the little ones that pop out of our wombs, the very essence of pleasure and love.
Su inspires the quiet acceptance and the tender embrace of parenthood, which is so rare in this age of [...]
No Pulitzer or Man Booker list, these are my favourite reads:
1. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s wife
(love has an end, we are merely mortals. Superb)
2. Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
(haunting, well written, more than mere adultery. love tries to conquer all)
3. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(love despite infidelity, lightness and burden of love)
4. [...]
‘I feel for Prudie, she’s married to a complete Neanderthal’
According to an article that i have read recently, research has found that there is a 50% increase in the incidence of breast cancer for women who:
work the graveyard shift
this is possibly linked to the hormone Melatonin (a cancer fighting hormone that is released at night when sufficient darkness is detected)
So, for your own benefit:
Sleep [...]
The Essence: (as lifted from the book)
1. How to revive dull skin- Chemical peel (an acid solution applied to the face to remove the outermost layer of skin)
2. How to restore skin elasticity and reduce ruddiness- Laser skin rejuvenation (high intensity pulses of light work beneath skin surface which is absorbed, then the skin will [...]
“When I first opened my eyes, it was as if I were living someone else’s life. After an extremely long time, this began to match up with my own life. A curious overlap this, my life as someone else’s. It was improbable that such a person as myself could even be living.” (Murakami)
