Saturday, October 30, 2010

bob, i've missed you

your breath is sweet your eyes are like two jewels in the sky

Cardamom flavoured floss! It's not the thin, cutting translucent sort but made of soft but tough thin cotton and it's super shiok. Cardamom explodes like stars in my mouth so everytime I floss I am reminded of India, the possibilities of being there and the impossibilities of being here. I'm exaggerating but add a semi- in front of possibilities and impossibilities. They're building a kampong here. (
http://www.kampungtemasek.org/)

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Email from Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Founder--

Dear Mary-Jane Leo Salty Thunder Bindi Galaxy-Ladybird Smithereens (Member No. 22588),

I'm sending this quick email out to members of the Cloud Appreciation Society based in Singapore to tell you about a new 'cloudspotting area' that will be opening there soon, and to ask if you might be interested in speaking to The Straits Times about why you like clouds.
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The society has just agreed that the new observation deck on the 56th floor above the ION Orchard shopping centre, Orchard Road, which is going to open to the public in January 2011, should be recognized as a Cloud Appreciation Society 'Official Cloudspotting Area'. This is because it is going to be a great location from which to enjoy the cloudscapes over Singapore. The observation deck will be called ION Sky and will include a Cloud Appreciation Society diagram illustrating the 10 main cloud types, to help viewers identify the beautiful skies that they are looking out at.
ION Sky will, in fact, be the second official C.A.S. clouspotting area in the world.

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This is bewildering. I don't blame them, but if they had done more research by living in Singapore for a bit, those innocent dreamy cloud-lovers may realise that ION is a symbol of the materialistic sickness that kills good things and via the infinite links of the world endangers the loving of clouds. Luce you said you understand, maybe I'm trying not to because it's HALLOWEEN.

I get so vehement I scare myself. Today it can be blamed on the chunks of blood falling out of me, but when it's gone there's nothing but to live outside the descending fog with a bunion aid splint. I'm going to have to get used to the frustration and bewilderment in my father's eyes everytime he looks at me.

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2 comments:

d said...

what's wrong with that?! should they have picked a place that's predictably 'innocent' and 'dreamy'? that would've been too clichéd you dont think? i actually think its awesome they chose ion. besides, why should it matter where you view clouds if all that matters to you are the clouds and not the fact that you belong to a GROUP of cloud-lovers?

mary said...

of COURSE what matters are clouds and not being part of a group of cloud-lovers, and you can see clouds anywhere and everywhere, but i still think them (since they exist though they don't have to) choosing ion is a symbol of something, and maybe some days i feel like opposing because some days you just want to be against the world, right? even if it seems irrational/snobbish/stupid. and some days you want to be right with the world, and some days you want to shout out and some days you want to hide away. maybe this is what this is about.