Letters

"You wrote "It would be wonderful to want to believe in God. The aimlessness of living is too insane." That is the creative artist—a penalty of the creative artist—wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us plain people just accept disorder (if we even recognize it) and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky."

I love this passage from a letter written by Ursula Nordstrom to the incredible Maurice Sendak.

Letters are so so precious. 

I'm back from Myanmar and will write about it soon so stay tuned!

Loving Annabelle

When I was an undergraduate, I loved going to the University library to borrow films, just because. And I really miss that. So I have been trying to watch a film a week.

Just caught a really beautiful and tragic film, "Loving Annabelle". It may be a little clumsy but I love the simple, straight-forward story-telling. Love is love, whatever the form. A tale of forbidden love set in a rigid Catholic boarding school where nothing that is not black and white is ever accepted. In comes the outwardly rebellious daughter of a senator, who later proves herself to be a gentle and sensitive soul. Her presence disrupts the orderly ways of the school and breaks down her poetry teacher's pretense to normalcy. 

What I liked is the the film never victimises either character. While both are powerless to the attraction of the other, they are both complicit participants.

"What you call sin, I call the great spirit of love, which takes a thousand forms"
-From Madchen in Uniform, the German film that it was based on. 

Back from Da Nang

As I left Da Nang airport for home last Wednesday, I remembered how one year ago, I left home for Da Nang with plenty of bravado, a sense of adventure and a desire to learn to dive. And how I eventually met an equally adventurous Thai lady who stuck with me throughout my stay in Hoi An and who is still in touch with me now. I enjoyed the freedom of going about on my own, choosing to do what the heart fancies. Yet single travellers face a whole set of challenges, especially single female travellers.

Gorgeous ain't it? 

Do you enjoy travelling solo? How do you curb pangs of loneliness?

Da Nang airport has changed so much in just a year. It has abandoned the dingy open air concept and adopted a modern glass façade. Pity the glass house effect this time of the year though. Sometimes I wish for the plates to move overnight so that I can wake up in a cooler climate!

Living it up while in Vietnam. Accommodation in Singapore is expensive !

As the plane took off,  I sat among the clouds, floating where the wind blows. The invisible force. From the window seat - the privileged view - I saw the yielding land beneath the fluffy white layer. Fatigue kicked in but sleep eluded me. And I sought temporary solace from Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things".


Will share about my work trip to Jakarta and the weekend getaway to Kuala Lumpur next!

Work trips

Is it already June?!

Time passes so quickly and we are already at the mid year mark. June used to be a happy month when I was a student as it was (and still is) the designated month of school holidays. This June however, is packed with back-to-back work trips. Good thing I had a short weekend getaway to Kuala Lumpur just before departing for one of them. 

Can't quite wait for July when I can start travelling for fun again!