“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky We would…
Saturday Swim
“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” – Sylvia Plath Awake at 6.00 am and running on about three hours…
Departures – Kuala Lumpur
“Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.” – Lao Tzu The term is done, and we fly out tomorrow. I feel like a wine, but the flight is early, and I am reluctant to travel hungover. The situation resolves…
Serene Sunday
“He remains as calm at the endas at the beginning.” – Lao Tzu I can’t remember the last holiday Sunday that didn’t begin with a shadow of dread for Monday. Sleep in. Sunday means no gym. Breakfast and prepare the recycling. South Korea is serious about recycling. Every Wednesday afternoon and Sunday morning we bring…
Weekends
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” – Chuck Palahniuk I wake up at a reasonable hour without a hangover. If I had to choose between a hangover and wine, I would choose wine. Gym and breakfast. It is raining,…
Hangovers
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung I am dreaming of truffles when the alarm wakes me. Is this a hangover, or am I still drunk? Feels like both. I can’t believe I forgot to turn the alarm off. 5.20 am is an unacceptable time to be awake after a night…
Slow Days
“I have no doubt that time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” – Henry David Thoreau Sleep in. The weather has changed. Overcast. We head to…
Who is Driving?
“I think corporations are living things. They’re very alien to us and hard to recognize, but they’ve convinced us to give them religious rights, give them political power, give them movement, and they can disappear and reappear elsewhere. They’re psychopaths” – Chris Ryan I have always been intrigued by the concept that Governments and Corporations…
Autumn Arrives
“And I roseIn rainy autumnAnd walked abroad in a shower of all my days…” – Dylan Thomas We slept with the windows open. No air conditioning and no fan. Waking late to a chill in the air. It rained all night. Except for brief periods in Europe, it had been three years since we have…