Lest we forget

One of the richest countries in Asia is seeing a dramatic rise in the number of people turning up for free meals.

For the third straight month inflation in Singapore is at a 26 year high at 7 and a half percent.

That along with soaring food costs and wages staying the same is forcing many Singaporeans to tighten their belts.

Al Jazeera's Laura Kyle reports.

Been really stressed at work. I must get back to writing again.

Should really hang one of these up one day

I really need/want a beer this evening.

Scribbles.

Permanence, however, is not one of beauty's more obvious attributes; and the contemplation of beauty, when it is expert, may be wreathed in pathos, the drama on which Shakespeare elaborates in many of the sonnets. traditional celebrations of beauty in Japan, like the annual rite of cherry-blossom viewing, are keenly elegiac; the most stirring beauty is the most evanescent.
-Susan Sontag, "An Argument About Beauty"-

In the midst of it all

Reading list for July 2008

1. Readings - Michael Dirda


2. The Stone Gods - Jeanette Winterson


3. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan


4. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks


5. The Unbearable Lightness of being - Milan Kundera


6. Bound to Please - Michael Dirda