In front, the darkened sky; Below, the quiet street. Close my eyes, prepare to fly; This body now, later, meat.
A Little Less Timid
From The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro: [E]very now and then, he looks back over this life he's led and wonders if he didn't perhaps let certain things slip by. He wonders how things might have been if he'd been, well, a little less timid. A little less timid and a little more passionate.
Nostalgia
I was hit by nostalgia today. And as I thought back about my past, I realised how different my life would be today if I'd made a decision or two just a tad differently from what I'd actually made. I'm not saying that life would've been better. All I know for certain is that it'd... Continue Reading →
On the need to write, to write.
Words excite me. Really, they do. The prospect of writing something good tantalises me like the prospect of having good sex. My pupils enlarge; my breathing gets shallower; my hands get all balmy. But as much as I love to write, I haven't been writing lately. Probably because I've been finding that there's hardly anything... Continue Reading →
I’m so going to Iceland
I remember when I was younger watching a Bjork music video, in which I vaguely recall images of, among other things, volcanoes, large barren landscapes, as well as lots of snow and ice. I remember thinking how beautiful it all was, and how surreal. And I remember thinking, I wish I was there. It was... Continue Reading →
Running at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH)
I was standing at the traffic junction, waiting for the green man to appear -- halfway through my hour run, planning to head to Punggol Park, do a loop or two, and head home -- when I glanced across to my left the entrance of Buangkok Medical Centre. And decided to go in. Buangkok Medical... Continue Reading →
What is edonn.com really about?
Sometimes I wonder what edonn.com’s really all about. On the one hand I’m always longing for greater readership, hoping that perhaps one day there’ll be so many people coming to this website that I’ll be famous and, banking on that fame become really wealthy. On the other hand, edonn.com’s such a personal space that if... Continue Reading →
Back. And as a Married Man.
It feels like ages since I last wrote here. And I suppose that feeling's justified since it HAS been ages (almost a month!) Which is about as long as I haven't gone out for a nice, good run. And which reminds me, I haven't had a long run (anything over an hour) since my marathon... Continue Reading →
Burnout? Sure feels like it.
It's been almost two weeks since I last wrote anything here. Life's been busy, crazily so. Wedding preparations and work commitments have been overwhelming, and it seems that just as I've completed one task another two pop up in its place. In a way, I enjoy being this busy. I love having lots to do;... Continue Reading →
The Pursuit of Happiness
Eric Fromm, in To Have or To Be We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent -- people who are glad we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Donn, fragments 