Friday, February 16, 2007

When everything is loud, it only serves to highlight that which is quiet; and so we move away from what we can hear, to drink in the audible stillness. In its own delicate manner, silence is perhaps more attractive than sound. Words left unuttered hang in the air long after the silence that threads them together is broken.

Happy CNY people! Today was celebrations. The usual lah, you know. 珲春 then concert where they performed the same old lines and the same old songs and probably wore the same old clothes as well. But then it was all so noisy and everything, later on everyone left for their primary schools. Was thinking if I should stay back to play football with them when Charissa popped out, but then decided not to. So sat and stoned with Ariel and Jocelyn(Pimple) and we took stupid pictures of us being buddhas etc. I didn't want to go home and be alone after that, so I went with Rachel to cut her hair at Amara and she has a tail (: Ate Subway. Left a message on the napkin for the next user so maybe s/he'll find out something.

I know what his story will be. Right now he's only holding out for something better. The place is undecidedly Chinese-New-Year-meets-downtown-salon. The trimmings fall into an indecipherable pattern, spelling out a destiny just waiting to occur. Later on, he will be talent-spotted when the salon sends him as a representative to a hairdressing competition, and he'll be asked to sign with some uptown place. Then one day when he's gained some reputation and all that, someone will call him up to say that David Gan was involved in an accident and there was no one else to do Zoe's hair so would he please come to the rescue? The hairstyle will then garner rave reviews in the sartorial section of the national newspaper, and he will become the new It-boy...
But all of it vanishes as each lock detaches itself from the nameless head of hair, floating down to obscure this fantasy.


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What should skin smell like? I think it should smell clean, like rain or cooked rice. Not a shampoo or a soap, because then what enchantment is there in a borrowed scent? Then there are different states of skin - the flushed excitement of anticipation cannot be compared with the Post-Shower Skin. People always want to smell like something else, so they spray on layers of musk and floral tones to disguise their own smell, but what they don't realise is that the most attractive scent is often the barest.

- the unbearable lugubriousness of Travelalone.
by @ 4:41 PM