what Murakami talks about when he’s running

i picked up Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running today at Kinokuniya, primarily because of the sticker screaming 20% OFF! (followed by with another purchase in smaller letters), and it reminded of everything i like about his work – a clean, lucid narrative, with some powerful truths about life and [...]

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art of late

with about three weeks to my AS art exams, i have no direction and am to put it succinctly, screwed over big time. if you look at my body of work so far, it is a mish mash of creepy/oversexed/beautiful portraits all cliched in composition, whatever you want to look at, and there is no [...]

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the critics say

wrote instead of worked. i don’t write for months, and it all comes out at once.
the critics say
02-04-09
where are the chopsticks, they cry
the joss-sticks and temples and notions
of asianness, where are the in-betweens
of the third-culture kid, the rojak
and the kuey-teow and the noodles?
show me the kampungs and the muhibbah
and how wonderful it is to be [...]

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