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spiritual FLACC

  The voice you hear in Ramah is inconsolable.

besi-moruk

 铁面无私: 形容公正严明,绝不因徇私或畏权而讲情面。 "iron-masked and without self": strictly impartial (idiom) So this is the taste of iron; the irony is that integrity is what tears you belly to sternum. One flapping half is the leader, brow furrowed, making the hard but rational calculation; The other, the breast-beating sister - friend, hating both selves for the choice that we just made. It's like a DNR talk, which is like a breakup. It's oversteeped tea, it's Kubler-Ross spiralettes, it's us-not-you platitudes. It's passionfruit and sun-juicy mangoes trampled, burnt to cinders, bitter, moruk.    

happy birthday Singapore

Song intro'd by SK. And appropriate to the occasion, I think.    (There is also a quite lovely NDP song this year, but this is not about that.) Almost half of my working life has been spent in the majority world. I recognise that I am a citizen of no mean city. And I am grateful.

Happy-ness