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“I steal your thunder then I try to bolt”

Guys: you guys assume to much and do too little. If a girl catches your eye – make the MOVE. Stop assuming she’s too good for you or wouldn’t want a scum like yourself, the point is that you try.
All we need in this world are [...]

A new era begins. I put on my new shades. I could see the both of you in the fingers – a similarity I find comforting. He’s where the both of us go now, when you touch my cheek in the privacy of your car. He’s sometimes there in the corner of my eyes [...]

and this is one of them that I always repeat. Maybe I’m just bored at work. Maybe I want to validate my life. Maybe, I just love the word maybe.
15 years ago… I had my first taste of ‘mean girls’. The kids at school said I am a ghost, and they isolated my table from [...]

“You leave the cereal in the bowl and you don’t wash your mouth when you leave for work.”

You guys missed out many things in the train. Yesterday, a girl in headscarf, dark skinned like a butch hockey player, spoke a melodious Hokkien (or something) with her friend. She has a soft voice, the kind [...]

Our loss has grown up. No longer our back hurt from lifting her toddler heft up, our arms are well defined from carrying her back and forth the huge distance between us. The breeze hits our chest and we feel it, cold. When we both sat side by side the sidewalk bathed [...]

When my cat licks herself, the sound is like a cellphone keypad being pressed. I’m at home late in the night, wilted from a delayed flight that was supposed to carry me back home 2 hours earlier. In retaliation, I ate 2 plates of maggi goreng extra pedas taknak sayur dengan cili giling in the [...]

Your anger makes you want to be a better person: You do not want to be your father.
Slowly, I close my eyes as you kiss the knuckles on my hand, when yours have shattered so many bones. You are sorry for the incidents now.
You teach me so many things I could never comprehend – how [...]