September 2009
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“‘D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said....”
– from ‘The God Of Small Things’ - Arundhati Roy
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In a week (1)
The good:
- New dress! <3
- Finalised project plans for my BMedSci for next year with Professor R.
- Randomly bumped into the child psychologist masters student and his girlfriend on the train home from the city one night (after dinner and coffee with friends). He’d only met me twice briefly in clinic but he remembered me enough to say hello! I actually walked by him the first time...
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Squarepants
Spongebob: What do you usually do when I'm gone?
Patrick: Wait for you to come back.
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“You’ve only seen the title-page of my happiness.”
– from ‘The Professor’ - Charlotte Bronte
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The whole sha-bang
The days are getting longer - even the curtains of rain don’t fool me. I can sense it in the formation of mornings, awoken so early by Canon In D.
Recent days have been long and draining for no reason. Perhaps fatigue plays a factor but I suspect it’s a small one. I don’t want to see anyone. I don’t want to go anywhere. I just want to catch up on sleep endlessly, like...
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Strange wind
Jacqueline: Last night a strange wind entered my room in Hong Kong, and the door was shut and the lock broken
Melissa: Huh? Strange wind?
Jacqueline: A sudden big wind. My mum was in the room and my dad was outside. My father had to get a repair person to fix it.
Melissa: Scary. Do you believe in ghosts?
Jacqueline: Do you think it's a ghost?
Melissa: I don't believe in ghosts. Maybe it was just a big wind. :) Besides, what would a ghost want with you?
Jacqueline: Sometimes they just pass by.
Melissa: But how come they opened your window and broke your door lock?
Jacqueline: So that the key I have now would be unable to open it. Maybe it's telling me not to go home.
Melissa: Stay in Australia! :D
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“Remember your humanity.”
– Dr. Shaun Tampiyappa (addressing medical students in forum).
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Abortions, lost girls and the lives of others
Until last week, I had always been pro-choice without thinking too much about it.
No abortions are done in public hospitals. However, what we do surgically for a woman who has miscarried and retained bits of the dead tissue inside her is actually exacly the same as what we’d do to terminate a pregnancy in a woman who does not want to have a baby. (We also do the same procedure to confirm if...
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“And they say: There is nothing but our life in this world; we live and die and...”
– from ‘The Qu’ran’, 45:24 (those who’ve stopped their ears and eyes to Allah). I’m not religious but this passage moved me.
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Koop Island Blues Koop The truth is, we were much...
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“With photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all...”
– from ‘Photography And Fascination: Essays’ - Max Kozloff (via ache)
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Sleepy rambling
It’s 12:31am now, admist the shambles of my room. Laundry day has been and gone and the floor is piled with what couldn’t fit into the smaller-than-usual washing machine. I’ve even sorted them vaguely into colours, more a whim than anything technical.
Twenty minutes ago, I was looking at photographs of the past while trying to pick out a good photo to promote myself for a...
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Monte Zee Avi
Mood: whimsical.
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The house of women
I have been getting up between 4-5am for a few days now, irritable and diminuative. The world at 4am seems both surreal and bedrudging - cold, dark, the smell of morning mixed confusingly with street lamps and a high-lying moon, too high in the sky to be comfortable. I’ve become more impatient, more demanding if at all possible.
Twilight’s a strange thing. There are people and cars...
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It's so brutal
Sudha: I saw my first vaginal delivery and was like, I'm definitely getting a caesarian when I have my baby. And then I scrubbed for C-sections..
Melissa: And you're definitely doing vaginal births?
Sudha: ...and I'm definitely adopting.
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions...”
– from ‘Sputnik Sweetheart’, by Harumi Murakami
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Shapes that don't fit
Something isn’t right.
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Spring
I woke up to the chipper sound of birds and a woman laughing. The sun was painting stripes across my sheets and from the gaps between my second floor venetians, I saw blue sky. I flew into a complete panic.
What time was it? Did I somehow sleep through the morning, inadvertantly standing up someone?
I checked my phone: the later half of 7am. This must be some kind of mistake.
I checked again....
August 2009
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“Happy girls are the prettiest.”
– Audrey Hepburn (via iamblessed)
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Toast me, butter me, bite me...I'm yours! →
The cutest web comic I’ve seen in a while.
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