you fall in love
over a phone call
in the backseat of the cinema
reading whatsapps at 1 am
at a candle lit dinner
or when you're the first to hear about their day
you fall in love
every time you work out
or take a good shower
sit down …
Am I doomed
To an existence
Where you
You, you, and you
(Yes, I know you're all the same—
though it took me a while to catch on)
Will be near enough to see
But never to hold?
Always tantalisingly close
But no cigar?
To check up on
After a …
Nobody reads this blog1. RSS readers are dead, Kottu's stats page makes me weep, and I don't dare post these things on social media. So that leaves me at my most comfortable—a good old conversation with myself.
There is beauty in solitude. You only truly begin to appreciate …
Twilight
I have been on a Makoto Shinkai binge this week. Even though I am usually very selective and sparse with my media consumption, I had the fortune of seeing Kotonoha no Niwa (Garden of Words) at Malinthe’s the weekend before last, and I was hooked. 5 Centimetres per …
It doesn’t go away. None of it does. No matter how kind or forgiving you are, the stains of the ‘bad times’ stay on like fountain pen ink on white fabric, refusing to budge. All they need is some mild reoccurrence to go full-on #ThrowbackThursday
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Am I a bad …