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BuySingLit Festival 2017
Happy me! I stocked up my personal library with some local Singaporean literature at the BuySingLit Festival 2017 at Gillman Barracks in Singapore. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed myself in the weekend of activities dedicated to Singaporean literature, browsing the books, listening to local authors, talking to publishers and receiving book recommendations from them. It was awesome!… — read more
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Pablo Neruda #15 to #20
I’m sorry I didn’t quite make it to the finishing line and managed only to post up to #14 before I ended up in Beijing, China on February 7 for a business trip. As we all know, almost everything is blocked in China and that means I couldn’t finish what I started. I’m sorry… BUT,… — read more
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Pablo Neruda #14
Here’s the 14th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—XVIII./Oh the black cross of a ship./Alone./Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet./Far away the sea sounds and resounds./This is a port./Here I love you. — read more
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Pablo Neruda #12 and #13
I missed posting for yesterday, so here’s the 12th and 13th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—XIII. I who lived in a harbour from which I loved you. The solitude crossed with dream and with silence. Penned up between the sea and sadness. Soundless, delirious, between two motionless gondoliers. — read more
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Pablo Neruda #11
Here’s the 11th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—XII./You gather things to you like an old road./You are peopled with echoes and nostalgic voices./I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated/ that had been sleeping in your soul. — read more
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Pablo Neruda #10
Here’s the 10th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—I./I was alone like a tunnel. /The birds fled from me,/ and night swamped me with its crushing invasion./ To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,/ like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling. — read more
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Pablo Neruda #9
Here’s the 9th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—XVI. /In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud/and your form and colour are the way I love them./You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips/and in your life my infinite dreams live. — read more
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Pablo Neruda #8
Here’s the 8th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—XV./As all things are filled with my soul/you emerge from the things, filled with my soul./You are like my soul, a butterfly of dream,/and you are like the word Melancholy. — read more
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Pablo Neruda #7
Here’s the 7th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—X./Stories to tell you on the shore of evening,/sad and gentle doll, so that you should not be sad./A swan, a tree, something far away and happy./The season of grapes, ripe and fruitful season. — read more
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Pablo Neruda #6
Here’s the 6th counting down to the celebration of ♥…—X./We have lost even this twilight./No one saw us this evening hand in hand/while the blue night dropped on the world. — read more