midnight revelations

There’s nothing like seeing your father’s hand pierced to the IV pole, his wincing face at every swab of cotton by the nurse changing his dressings, his body clothed in the gingham patient gown that forces you, the daughter, to realize the vulnerability of the human body, and the invincibility of your relationship. Choosing between [...]

Hello KL! And hello blogging!

I haven’t blogged a single time when I was in China, resorting instead to sending pdf files on mass email list servs because not only did I have to go through many different proxy servers to access my blog,( it was super slow), I was always unsure how my critical observations of Beijing and China [...]

the impact of sexual restraint

I read this from an article, which was certainly thought-provoking:

All this ties in with a discovery Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin made as long ago as 1934 in his study, Sex and Culture (Oxford University Press).

Having researched more than 80 cultures past and present on this subject, Unwin discovered that societies, which do not impose some [...]

The dangers of ignorance and Islamophobia

I am excerpting this from Sojourners’, go read the rest:
I Love My Name by Omar Al-Rikabi
It does not matter that the e-mail rumors about Senator Obama being a Muslim are false. For those who are all too ready to click the “forward” button have exposed their real thoughts and convictions of bigotry and mis-placed fear [...]

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bit by travelbug and L/American Politics class:

“Cuba seems to be lost in time, somewhere in the 1950’s. It’s not just the old American cars in the streets or the exquisite colonial architecture with peeling paint in Old Havana. Instead, it’s a sense that the world of modern tourism has somehow largely bypassed the Caribbean’s largest island. This mixture makes Cuba an [...]

a historical note

“Unlike their (evidenly more repressed) British counterparts in, say, India or Malaysia, the Spanish colonialists freely and prolifically procreated with indigenous women. ” Amy Chua 57 “World On Fire”
Which naturally resulted in more mestizos (mixed-blood people) in Latin America compared to the more rigid ethnic categories we have in Malaysia. Was it the Protestant breeding, [...]

So I searched ‘Malaysia’ in Wesleyan’s library holdings and the first book I see was a really curious one:
Title: The mak nyahs : Malaysian male to female transsexuals / Teh Yik Koon.

my last fall semester begins.

I have not written for a while because I have been swamped. And sometimes I feel that the words have been swallowed. They froth at the mouth and then they sputter into the dangerous calmness of the air around us. We are all such sentient beings, how many of us actually communicate ourselves though?
I have [...]

i finally updated

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