The Rooster Coop

"Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent - as strong, as talented, as intelligent in every way - to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key to his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse."

- The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga.

Little Willow

Karbala.

"They would have brought you down for the same reason they massacred them"

Faisal Tehrani.

"Be wary of Faisal Tehrani," said she, "he's a Shiite propagator"


And they'd call you a Sunni propagator.

Long, Windy Road Home

4 days in Melbourne, 6 days in Melaka, a day in Labuan, and 3 days in Kota Kinabalu.

I have seen a universe outside my consciousness for quite some time. And it is a timely reminder of my existence across these just as much as my current one. Am I older, wiser? I shall not ascribe. Poorer, certainly.

Previously I have dawned upon a supposition that maybe, nowhere is home. But home, as I learned, is as much a product of one's attitudes, of one's willingness to fit in rather than a willful resignation.

I have lost any sense of articulation, you see. And I end up saying things which make little sense to me, even now. But worn out I am, at last, and I could wish for little else besides for time to pass me by, until it's time for me to come home.