Archive for April, 2006
20 Apr, 2006
I’m Off to Brunei
To anyone who knows me, or any regular readers out there, I’m off to Brunei for the next two weeks or so. Will be back on the 8th of May.
Until then, you can either a) visit my friend’s sites, or b) go through my archives.
You might want to re-read my favourite posts too (which can be found on the right of this page). They have been edited (tightened the language a little, added a little here and there), and I think they deserve re-readings.
And if you haven’t checked out any of the downloads, now’s as good a time as ever. The downloads can also be found on the right of this page.
Until then,
Donn
20 Apr, 2006
The Eternal Sunset
“How beautiful it all is!” she said, smiling with delight at the sight of the setting sun.
“It is, isn’t it?” he replied, giving her hand a little squeeze.
“Oh look,” she said, pointing to the bird that landed in the water in front of them, “it’s fishing.”
“It’s marvelous, honey. Marvelous.”
“Oh how I wish this moment would never end!”
Her smile gone, she gave out a wistful sigh and pulled her hand gently away from his. She then cupped her hands, as if in prayer, looking forlornly at the setting sun.
He put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close.
“But, honey, if it never ended,” he said, “it wouldn’t be as beautiful as it is. Everything’s got to end sometime.”
She looked at him and smiled. She felt the truth in that statement, but continued wishing the moment would never end nonetheless.
“Do you think He will forgive us?”
“I don’t know, honey. I don’t know.”
“We tried. We tried… so hard.”
“Yes we did, honey. We did.”
The sound of the waves softly caressing the sand, the red sun setting in the champaign-coloured sky — it was all so beautiful, so perfect, quite unlike the rest of their lives.
Then they drew their last breaths, and eternalised their sunset.
18 Apr, 2006
An Ode to the Ellipsis…
Oh ellipsis, ellipsis…
How beautiful you are!
Three little dots that
Stretches so far!
A pause…
A continuation…
A censor…
An omission…
You do it all,
My beautiful Ellipsis.
You sometimes even
Replace the f…ing asterisk!
Three simple dots can lead the imagination
to places words can never reach.
You make lessons possible
for children that adults can never teach.
Children want to know what f…ing means,
And so they ask their parents.
Yet parents when asked,
Turn away in fear…
But add a little context in a newspaper story,
Omit some letters with you,
And the meaning of f…ing
becomes quite clear…
You can be used to signal a beginning,
As in Once upon a time…
Or used as a signal to an end,
As in And so he shot the mime…
Whatever you do, dear, dear ellipsis,
You make life so much easier…
For writers all over the world,
Ellipsis you are a dear life-saver…