wootsome

Don't you just love/hate that feeling of having 50,000 things on your mind, all set to go and you're all uncertain and fuzzy - which one first? Like time's ticking away, you're so busy yet here you are your imaginary tentacles unable to grab at anything and time's still ticking away. So you get nervy and overstrung stressing yourself out with thoughts how you are wasting your life away not making better use of it.

I'm having my 50,000 things moment right now, amid workload, personal projects, articles that tell me I'm probably going to die young in china regardless if I'm hooked on cigs or not, and remind me that I can't slack on my own teeny-scaled philanthropy more likely efforts measured in man-hours not involving copious amounts of greenbacks plus the image of peres from this afternoon's news - unwielding and stubborn - floating in my head. I wonder how he can talk about not punishing palestinians as a collective whole then make a mockery of democracy with israel's stance in dictating palestinian politics.

Either I've got this superduper sense of smell or I've just about proven true how females experience heightened sensory awareness when in proximity with objects of desire. I'm inclined to believe it is the latter though because I've never really taken much notice of scents unless if they are foul. Yet in recent months I find myself even more attracted to boys I like just because of the way they smell. Their cologne never fails to get me every time - strong clean refreshing almost minty scents mostly.  I've no idea which brands they were but I know I like em verymuch. An accidental whiff my way would evoke just about everything I like about them, ah bahh potent weakness! I think I'll go check out new perfumes at the airport duty-free store on my way back home next month I need a change from my chanel no. 5 I want to smell nice too. My current shortlists include echo by davidoff for women and be delicious for men by dkny, heh! yeah I'm looking at colognes as well, probably something light not too woody or citrusy.

With the market all set to close in a few days' time, tourists now catch a rare sight of stalls opening beyond their usual closing time (8pm) and cheaper wares. Another scam of sorts once more because the middle kingdom is more than famed for its publicized implentations and actual outcomes i.e. karaoke nightspots to close at 2am/ we can still sing till dawn if we want to, xiangyang market to close down/ hawkers are busy telling us where they will soon be moving to. So don't bother rushing down to xiangyang these few days if it is imitation totes you miss because the stalls will soon magically reappear elsewhere albeit in a dispersed and smaller scale. Hurry along if it is the (currently quite so humid) atmosphere instead, then again I don't think I'll miss the organized touts and pestering buzz of "look-ke, look-ke. you want dvds?" much.

I love my new place yet I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to moving away, chef neighbors aside. I know I'll miss the delectable streetside delights in my current neighborhood. sniff!

Date: Jun 16 - jul 25

Time: 10am - 9pm daily

Venue: epSITE, level 1/b1, benetton building, no. 651 huaihai zhong lu, shanghai 200020

Admission: Free

For more details, click here (in chinese).

I was there with my sister last night. Zeng managed to capture his subjects and their environments so successfully that it is almost as if we were there witnessing it all, not an easy feat considering we've all had our experiences trying to tell futile travel tales to not-so-excited friends back home.

By myself, about two weeks back. I successfully resisted the urge to purchase a vintage camera, it helps actually that I didn't have enough cash in my wallet.

like that bit of emptiness you feel an hour or two after the exams have ended

you were so looking forward to it yet when the day came you were at a loss 

the bitter aftertaste of an anticlimax isn't quite so unfamiliar

cold hands, a pounding heart then you asked yourself how come you now feel that twinge of uneasiness as you wait for your date to arrive?

why are you not so eager to see him as you thought you would be?

like when I finally had the chance to switch cellphones with my sister I didn't feel like it

the black doesn't look as gorgeous as I've always pictured in my mind or in other people's hands:

a case of hankering after what you've lost or what you can't have

same for cellphones, exams and boys - it seems.

Venue: instinc, 23 emerald hill road