SG Fairy

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble Sheep a threat'ning horn;
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn, nor a threat, stain a beauty bright.

- William Blake (from Songs of Experience)


There's a reason why white lilies are my absolute favourite flowers.

I've this great book called 'Drinking, Smoking & Screwing - Great Writers on Good Times'.
Kinda self-explanatory, what the book's contents are about..
There's this really interesting poem inside that I'll like to share with you.


'When Man Enters Woman' by Anne Sexton

When man
enters woman,
like the surf biting the shore,
again and again,
and the woman opens her mouth in pleasure
and her teeth gleam
like the alphabet,
Logos appears milking a star,
and the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate
and the woman
climbs into a flower
and swallows its stem
and Logos appears
and unleashes their rivers.

This man,
this woman
with their double hunger,
have tried to reach through
the curtain of God
and briefly they have,
though God
in His perversity
unties the knot.

(1973)

It's 3.22am, my eyes are puffy and aching, the small of my back hurts, and I still have one more bit of work to do.

God, please give me the energy to crawl out of bed later.

Gotta press on...

So it's been a good nine months since I've blogged. Life just got very complicated and also, I got tired - I mean, after a day spent staring at the computer, do you really want to have to look at it again when you get home?

Lots of things have happened, some good and some bad.. it's a package. But I'm still alive and kicking and I guess there's nothing serious to complain about, especially when I'm sure there are people out there worse out. Who am I to complain about, for example, a cycling accident which has left me a scar on my right eyelid when there are people now in the Philippines fighting for their lives? Really does put things into perspective.

So why am I back? Well.. I had almost forgotten how useful a blog can be. Sometimes you don't really want to talk to anybody, yet you do need to talk - know what I mean? And that's where a blog comes in handy. I'm pretty sure I've lost all my 'followers' but I don't give a damn about that; in fact, it's better... it's my private little word again.

Of course I could have started a whole new blog but well, I've this thing about fairies.. and this blog and I have come a long way together. I'm so different now from the time I posted my first blog, and I think I'll like to continue evolving here.

I don't expect to write anything too intelligent. It could be something as meaningless as an observation about ice creams and happiness. But who cares? It's my world.

Welcome. Again.