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Shekhar. “How’s that.” In Khari Khari. 2.20 (2007 Oct 15): 1.

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Lol. Not to be a bastard lah, but I’m doing a group project on language and narrative. Would appreciate if you could help us out with the survey!

Sorry for the Radio Silence but have been really busy with the random multiple things I’ve been doing since returning from India.

I feel there’s so much to say and not enough time to say it so I’ll just do it in point form:

1. My birthday celebrations last week.

2. Conducted a Creative Writing workshop at National Junior College. It was really cool; the kids were brilliant and I hope they all keep writing.

3. My multiple school assignments, which, though copious, have been really exciting (for me, anyway) because we’ve been doing things that I can really connect with.

   One example’s the Little India field-trip report thing; others are:

   • the SE1101E Group Project, which we did on Migrant Voices (I’ll post this in a separate entry), and

   • the EN3271 First Assignment called Full Tank! which I hope will be staged in August but let’s see how that goes.

   The rest are still Work-In-Progress, but they’re something along the lines of:

   • the EN5235 Final Paper which I’m planning to do on Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier” and its representations in a Filipino play,

   • the EN4241 Term Paper which I have not decided on yet but will possibly do on The Terminator and er something else that incorporates technology and dystopia (oh shit I just thought of it - Jurassic friggin’ Park! Hahahahahahahaha okay I think only like two other people will know why I am so amused, so yar),

   • the EL4221 Term Paper which I am definitely doing on the causal loop in The Terminator

   • the EN3271 Second Assignment which I have an idea in mind for now but will keep under wraps first.

   Yeah that’s about it for the academic stuff. Apologies for the intellectual wankerism, but just humour me a bit yeah? :)

4. Last but not least, Vusi Mahlasela at the Esplanade.

Yeah so, many busyness and not enough rest but I’m really having a lot of fun at this point in my life.

I think many people, especially those I haven’t met for a while, may be like: Dude, like what’s up? Why are you so happy?

Seriously, I’m happy because I’ve reached a very good stage in my life now and I know I’ll be heading towards an even better plane.

I’ve divested (or am divesting, or am learning to divest) myself of all the associated baggage of the past so if I may seem different in a negative way, I’m sorry.

I cannot always cling onto the vestiges or semblances of what may have seemed like happiness in the past, and I have made the decision not to anymore - the happiness is somewhere else, and at the risk of sounding overly-poetic, I’ve found the road to that happiness for myself.

So if I have offended anyone in the last few months with my decisions, I sincerely apologise, and I ask of you to please be happy for me as well.

Sorry ah, I think that was one of the most personal entries I have made in a long time, but I’m glad I did. A Farewell to Arms, and all that jazz.

So on a happier note, I’m off to watch The Terminator now!

My friend/VJ senior Derryn Wong, also of Ronin fame (their domain name seems to have expired?), wrote an article on me and Pooters in the latest (and last, I believe) issue of Piaggiornale.

Or just view the entire set here.

The story goes something like this: I picked up the previous issue of Piaggiornale (I read it, for obvious enough reasons, I suppose). After my stint at PIONEER, I kind of started looking at bylines, so I realised the articles were written by a certain Derryn Wong.

As luck would have it, I met him that night at Bang’s birthday party, so I asked him about the writing gig and jokingly asked him to do an article on me.

He said in his deep bass tones, “Sure, I’ll ask my editor”, and I guess you know the outcome of the rest of the story.

So NOW everyone also knows where the haiku came from too huh. No Seraphinas at the moment, I’m sorry.