Wednesday, July 25, 2007

10 chipmunk years

had my driving license converted to Australian this afternoon

i was quite happy then, so i smiled for the picture.


but something happened during the take.

i think i smiled a little too wide.


inevitably i look like a chipmunk,


for the next 10 years.

Posted by nidya at Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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Friday, July 20, 2007

twentysomething

do you think people are more shaped by what they hear and see, or

do you think the things they hear and see

are more shaped by who they are?


I was walking home from work and found myself admiring a rainbow

just above the hilly turn of my unit blocks.

And I found myself thinking that it is kind of funny that I am still infatuated

by the same things I was when I was a little girl.

I still love rainbows.


And I still want Doraemon to show up from my desk drawer too.


Because when I said I wanted to grow up,

I did not mean every part of me.

Though I yearn for becoming an adult,

growing more fully into ourselves sounds more rewarding still.


After some serious House/Techno/Trance months,

I find myself once again enjoying quiet folk and breezy tunes.

After some serious girly necklace-wearing months,

I find myself once again wearing t-shirts, hoodie and converse sneakers.

And I like postcards very much, again.


Perhaps the things I have done,

the places I have been, the people I have met

they did not intend to change me more than I let them.

Like a part of a wonderful dance,

they just walk me to stretch and exercise and see.


Looking back at my twentyone was like all these mental exercises.

It was like eating a whopper burger.

So tasty, so unhealthy, so quickly munched,

I would do it again.


now twentytwo twentythree twentynine will pass o so quickly

but i want them to be full and fearless

fruitful and flavoursome

fun and fluorescent


the best decade yet to come

Posted by nidya at Friday, July 20, 2007

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Friday, July 06, 2007

peach plum pear

today was kinda lovely.


ate toast with butter and jam before i left

took a rainy walk to the station with an earful of songs, it was delicious.

so delicious that i am tempted to tell you about the colour of the winter sun

and the grey clouds and the intimacy of the songs

and how theyre soundtracking the people i passed by like in movies

how i wanted to link arms with them. kiss their cheeks.

but these things are hard to tell.

it just was a kinda sweet day.


jumping over puddles kinda sweet.


sweet how i could fog my heart out when i breathe outdoor

sweet how money is so tight, but i feel so taken care of

sweet how i look forward to Sunday to leave twentyone

feel like im holding my breath until


there are bad days when life seems bleak

and big and scary to face alone.

and there are good days when life seems big and promising.

the Newsoms Peach Plum Pear - listening days when things are changing

playfully. mysteriously. and urgently.


like today

it was peach plum pear.

Posted by nidya at Friday, July 06, 2007

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