Petition

Please do take some time (only a few seconds) to sign this petition for the immediate release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who is believed to be held captive by Palestinian militants. Simply click on the image above and you’ll be taken to the appropriate page on the BBC website. There is a link on [...]

Wuthering Heights

In my attempt to catch up on some classic literature, after finishing Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, I opted for Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The first time I came across this novel was, strangely enough, in one of the HKCEE Chinese set texts (HKCEE being the Hong Kong equivalent of GCSE). Renowned Taiwanese writer Bai Xian-yung (白先勇), [...]

The title

The right-minded amongst you might well want to know what hallucinogenic drug I was on when I came up with the title of the blog. To be honest, I simply searched for the randomest combination of words. Being my typical pretentious self, I decided to bring in a reference to Greek mythology – Sisyphus was [...]

Fridge lurrrve haikus

Thought I’d share some of my highly inspired/inane fridge poetry here. My housemates bought a magnetic love poem set a few months back, and I was invited to contribute. The following are a few of my offerings (photos courtesy of Lou and Alex):

A fourth one, which wasn’t photographed, went like this:
Blood, arms,
Bodies, eyes,
Lay alone, apart
All in [...]

Who am I

Now that the world barely exists outside the so-called blogosphere, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to assert my existence, however insignificant.
Having recently uprooted myself from my adopted home town (Cambridge) for the last seven years and a half, and deserted various friends to return to my genuine home town (Hong Kong), this will hopefully [...]