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  • the things we do for love

    I don't know what surprises me more, that people are strange or that I spent most of my life wondering if I was normal. I just read an excerpt from an article a friend mailed me, about international tourists choosing G…

  • ...wonders

    i've been paddling around, it's been a crazy month for me. actually, it's pretty much been a crazy year. Two birthdays define my professional career. One was my 23rd, I had to go for counselling practice and I met my fi…

  • finding your tribe

    We drove by threeboys looking out at the sea on the middle of the bridge, andI couldn’t help smiling and thinking “someone’s making a memory right now.”That’s true of the times I see big groups of young or old peop…

  • Stands in the firing line

    What I write now is not the original words, but I put it down differently because I get the strange feeling sometimes that the CIA is scanning my weblog. OK, I am kidding, it's just my guilty conscience because I was go…

  • First Love

    (little boy in love): "What better age to be in what better place in the world!"This movie is so cute!!! Except for the feeling off and on that the narration was a shade more adult than child, Little Manhattan is "aww"d…

  • ...andthe cops came runningThe cops have come running for randomthings like being on the beach after midnight (always a little diceyif they’re a little drunk by that time to get through the long watch) but …

  • Tags the world

    A) First, recommend to me: 1. a movie: 2. a book: 3. a musical artist, song, or album: (B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. (C) Respond to the bel…

  • Over Dinner

    Me: “He was a really naughty boy, Iremember that. Could get away with everything.”Papa: “Boys are like that.”Me: (incensed because my father was a verywell-behaved boy) “What rubbish! Mrs. ___’s sons are some…

  • Everything

    You're the line in the sand when I go too far. Papa:“When you get married, catch hold of the other person every third day, and makehim sit down and just say “Talk to me”. Let him say whatever he wants, andafter…

  • I don't think it's about extending your hand so I can climb into the boat. I think it's about turning around instinctively when you're with someone to see if they're doing fine. I don't think it's about facing the worl…

  • You

    “And now our love’s floating out the windowOur love’s floating out the back doorOur love’s floating up in the sky And heaven, where it began Back in God’s hands.”At My Most Beautiful, Everybo…

  • Quietly

    ChildShe leaves the room of adults conversing inthe darkness and stands surveying, on the porch. There’s someone sitting on thesteps and she sends out a laughing aside, but slowly, her eyes take over andshe…

  • When Making Up is All the Fun

    Currently Watching: “Whenever I fall out of love, I go jogging.It takes away the excess water and I have no tears left to shed.” (ChunkingExpress) That scene where he leaves behind his reminder from the past, and …

  • The Missionary Position

    I’ve always loved monks. I never reallyunderstood the attraction, I just put it down to their smile, how pure andclear it is, like you can see their hearts opened up to the world.Twenty-five years into the wo…

  • A Good Year

    “Forgive my lips.“They tend to find joy in the most unusualplaces.”Funny. I wrote a story that said the samething about my feet. It also involved a boy and a pool. I wonder if Peter Mayle and Ishared th…

  • 08 08 08

    Lots of people are getting married today because the date's good-lookin'.

  • Smells like romance

    Every day my dad drives my mum to her classes and I hop in because it’s my only ticket to town. Dappled light and green boughs. That’s the only thing that saves this place. I actually have a list of things that get me th…

  • Me and John (though he doesn’t know about us - yet)

    I have several songs of John Mayer thatstart and end with the entire female population of the globe yelling. But thenhis voice comes clearly over the ‘phones, and I know it’s some other girl he’ssinging about but i…

  • Poses a Question

    In Bruges was asurprise. Darkly funny. I think Colin Firth was too much a star presence for meto connect to his character too seriously.The question I’m not sure the director wasasking comes in the last scene. …

  • quickie

    Twelfth grade was really enlightening for me. One of my classmates had a secret penchant for writing the world's best porn novels but was too scared his mom would find them. I think I saw televised gay sex for the first …

  • It was a dark stormy night

    I had the most hilarious train journey home. I paid two porters an exorbitant Rs 200 because I had no time to argue, and to top it all, just as I was climbing on the train, my right shoe gasped and fell beneath the train…