Layers

Take my time

To know the many layers

of you

Your past

The painter with his strokes covered up

The video editor with his hidden tracks

The writer and his shredded drafts

The science student with his dead lab rat

It is okay

To have a past

(Li) Yipeng

How is it,
Knowing your mom
Only through the words
of others on
how she lived?

Growing up
with a grandfather
responsible for
everyone else's
welfare

I believe film-makers / writers need day-jobs, so they get to meet interesting people to write about.

Audrey: He's flirting with so many girls at the same time loh!

Me: It's like applying for job what. You send out a lot of resumes and see which one get back to you lah!

Audrey: You think this one chat roulette ah?

Quotations on writing

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin


Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne (That's why copywriting is hard, I guess.)

What are they referring to, this love they have for you?
It does not make any sense to me.
I've sang these songs with them, in your house.
But why no love, why no love for me?

Favourite moment in "The Rain Man" ( 1988)

When Raymond Babbitt (Dustin Hoffman) leaned across to his brother, Charles Babbitt (Tom Cruise), his brother's forehead meeting his. Raymond had autism, and didn't enjoy body contact with people, and had difficulty expressing his feelings. This were one of the rare moments. And I thought it was a really sweet brotherly moment.