Yes, I’m way behind in getting my hands on this since the book was launched in August 2006, and I only bought and read it today.

It’s a very easy read, very colloquial, which makes its form very apt for the content, for the stories [sort of like True Singapore Gay (coming out) Stories] are very very real.

It’s not pro-gay, but pro-acceptance — of who you are and who the people around you are. The stories also demonstrate how allowing others the chance to accept you as you are may prove to be the best thing you can ever do to make your life fulfilled, instead of building the mountain of lies like the one I’ve been piling up on these years to protect the truth about Sam and I from my parents and the extended family.

“…in ten years time, I’ll be 38 years old, not young anymore. And [my father]‘d be 68, well into his twilight years. If by then, he can’t acknowledge me and my other half, if we can’t all be happy together, then that’s just sad.”

I don’t know if it’s the easy way out for me to shrug it off and postpone telling my parents until after graduation, because I can jolly well postpone it to after I find financial stability, after I find a place of my own, after this or after that — will it really make a difference to their ability to come to terms with it?

I don’t want them to leave this world without my being honest with them.

So now, I can either leave the book on the living room table to speak volumes on its own, or stash it in some corner of my cupboard hoping they won’t (or will?) pry when I’m not around.

I’ve had a crack in one of my molars for more than a year already, but I recently found the tooth-coloured filling done last year to be worn out, causing the crack to widen and deepen (to my gums), meaning now not only do i have to redo the filling, but add a crown to prevent the tooth from splitting. Paid $90 today for consultation, xray, and the filling. Crowning will set me back another $500! @?$%! I’m super reluctant to part with such a large sum of money for just a small white thing.

So folks, don’t chew so hard on things, and never pull stunts like trying to use your teeth to replace a beer bottle opener one too many times. Hefty price to pay.

In Beverly Hills, there’s a cosmetic dental surgeon in Beverly Hills cosmetic dentistry “providing complete smile makeovers using advanced dental techniques including painless air drills, miniature cameras and digital x-rays.”

Creating a beautiful smile, if you’re not blessed with one,  is really costly.

        It’s time to get moving and, at the very least, clear the path to the bed.

update: (picture removed due to subject’s protest)

Posting this via my N95. How cool’s this (not referring to the pic la)? Test test. Cheers to more mobile blogging!

I decided it’s time to be in the know, time to have some know-how.

It’s been two months since the accident. Now that I’m back in the surroundings where we met it’s weird how the memories only flood back now that you’re gone. I look at your number on my mobile phone and remember how I wouldn’t take the initiative to contact you in the past, and how much I want to now.

I know I still have your letters and locket locked up and I want to look at them but I don’t know how to. When I was away I thought I would want to look at them the moment I got back to my room but now it’s one of the last things I want to chance upon.

When I look around in Bishan I think I saw you but it will never be.

One day I will read through all your letters and remember you best for the sincerity that most people don’t possess.

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Reuben’s niche number: 533

Mandai Columbarium, E208

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I’m going home, i’m coming home, today today today!

Hello Hello!

Can’t wait to see everyone again! Feels like it’s been such a loooooooong time already.

Here’s a preview of what you can look forward to seeing for 1 month while I’m in Singapore:

Squareface, at her heaviest and roundest ever, but still full of crap, and guaranteed to supply you with more sickening expressions and laughable stunts.

See y’all real soon!

I’m going! Just booked bus tickets and a hostel bed, packing off now. One more week of burgers, cold weather, and friendliness till I’m on my way home!