Archive for January, 2009

Gaza appeal

14Jan09

To help, please donate to the following emergency funds:
HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
‘Human Appeal International Australia is continually distributing over 11,000 hot meals per day to the [...]


Interesting, the things you see in an airport.

Unless you’re a romantic, believing in the magic of the airport scenes in Love Actually, then the reality is different. Nerves are frazzled, people are tired, usually from a restless night of packing and unpacking and keeping an eye and ear on the alarm. Families are no more [...]


‘Diam ubi berisi; diam besi berkarat’
(loosely translated, ‘the potato is silent from its content; metal is silent from rusting’)
- old Malay proverb
After my most recent and marked failure, I immersed myself into the workings of self-pity – I started studying to be a writer.
I’m turning 22 in less than two weeks, and my first novel [...]