The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
53 – …she grew into an ordinary, witless woman, trying to find a reason for every calamity and failure, as if the world was explainable and life would have to make sense for one to continue living.
55 – …he was then thirty-two, still too young to understand how limitless men’s desires were, or the absurdity of such greed.
99- …the only way to live on… was to focus on the small patch of life in front of one’s eyes.
99 – Life was unpredictable… and eating and sleeping were among the few things one could rely on to outwit life and its capriciousness.
103 – Seeing is not as good as staying blind…
103 – Why do we have to live without backbones?
106 – There are many ways to know women… Marrying one is the worst among them.
Temasek 1 You and Me 0
When Ho Ching, Temasek’s CEO describes her company’s investments as “the family jewels”, I keep wondering “whose family?”.
i thought we were the human race, but we were just another borderline case
a certain Beevi wrote in to Today asking that hugging and kissing be banned in MRT trains.
while we are at it, let’s ban stupidity as well.
here in the dark, in these final hours
In (Edward) Hopper’s day we wore tight clothing and held each other close, saying nothing, dancing slowly, shuffling a few inches this way and that, feeling possessed, possessed by feeling. People preferred feeling to sex.
best advice i heard from hotel security
if you’re pissed drunk, naked, outside a hotel corridor trying to identify your room by trying every door and have nothing but a small napkin, don’t use it to cover your offending member.
instead, cover your face.
the guys laughing by the cctv can’t recognize you by your penis later.
they sure will remember your face.
but i eat meat what
Most herbivorous boys lack self-confidence, like to spend time alone, and use the Internet a lot…
if we got together we’d be causing a commotion
ST on strippers in hen parties:
His fees start from $400 a performance, depending on requests, such as posing as a policeman, fireman or – perhaps something you would only get in Singapore – as an irate neighbour making a noise complaint.
so many virgins, so little yen
According to a government survey, more than a quarter of men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins; 50 percent of men and women in Japan do not have friends of the opposite sex.
you mean apart from having a stuffed pillow for a girlfriend
I can’t eat meat because of my diabetes. I’m just an unlucky guy.
but it is fiction
Nonfiction… is essential in uncovering the lies. But it is fiction that reveals the truth.
Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009)
I do not believe that human culture can ever reach a perfect synthesis of its diversified and incompatible components. Its very richness is supported by this very incompatibility of its ingredients. And it is the conflict of values, rather than their harmony, that keeps our culture alive.
what a playful headline
Sraits Times Headline: “Ming Yi bent over backwards for Yeung”
there is nothing else to do
Ghulam Nabi Azad, India’s Health and Family Welfare Minister:
If there is electricity in every village, then people will watch TV till late at night and then fall asleep. They won’t get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity there is nothing else to do but produce babies.
Frank McCourt (1930-2009)
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
you can reject life or you can exaggerate
The impulse to exaggerate the significance of what we are doing, far from being an intellectual error, is really life itself coursing through us.
Jonathan Clements’ 7 key beliefs about money
Jonathan Clements’ 7 key beliefs about money (just for fun, pick a word in each sentence and replace it with woman):
The Myth of Financial Expertise
In I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi mentions the following examples to support his idea that expertise can be overrated (text from other sources).
i pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room
In the introduction to his mammoth 1980 collection, The Stories of Ray Bradbury, he recounts his misery when playground teasing made him stop collecting Buck Rogers comics. Unhappy for a month, he eventually realised why:
“I went back to collecting Buck Rogers. My life has been happy ever since. For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction. Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticised my taste in space-travel, sideshows or gorillas. When such occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
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