Digress, regress, progress

时而呆滞，时而后退，时而拐弯。

但至终，都会发现这些分叉路，都可以是前进。

又几个月

走啊走——

——就这么几个月。

Caffeinated entropy

Often I wonder why people stir the milk in their coffee or tea for more than ten times. Cling cling cling cling cling. How annoying.

That's overstirring. A good mixing can probably be achieved in less than ten stirs. That is, the distribution of milk particles in the coffee quickly becomes uniform over time and plateaus after just a few stirs.

Funny. A uniform distribution of milk particles is then the goal of coffee stirring. I couldn't help but imaging what happens to the milk particles when you cease stirring. Well, assuming the latte as ideal fluid and a closed system, do the milk particles perform Brownian movement? If so, then the distribution of milk particles over time becomes...random? Maximum entropy?

Hang on. There's a reason to keep stirring then. To keep the milk particles from becoming randomly distributed. To keep them uniformly spaced in the coffee, or tea. To ensure each sip are consistent in taste and texture.

Can't really blame the old man next table for clinging clinging and clinging now, can I?

他方

再多几步。
再多几步？
他方，才变成立足的港湾？

无妨。有你，就好。

【BNE → SIN】

抬头

过于专注于自己的小生活时，不妨抬头。

秋千人生

人生和秋千，一样遵守一起一落、一取一舍的原理。

and this is all life is like I think
you give what you can
and you take what you need
and then you move on
to the next giving and taking
and some give more
and some take more
and doesn't it even out in the end?
or do we shuffle off this earth unbalanced
leaning one way or another
into nothingness

Highway of lost hearts: heart of darkness (part two). Mary Anne Butler (2015)

Artist's Impression (or: Garden City in progress)

【新加坡】Once upon...west, Singapore

由西望东，一片发展、建设、人迹。
转过头来，还有西边吗？
再往西走，还有什么？
西边的尽头，是否还有无人登足过的沙滩？

清明、三月和朱自清

人长越大，日历撕得越快。朱先生随着三月飘去后，留下只是一张纸条 —— “把橘子都吃了吧，烟火蒸汽燃起时，又是上车赶路的时候了。”

【新加坡】人潮、人流

每个路人都各自带着一本厚重的故事，
书页 书叶翻阅的声音，
把我们冲刷到那广阔、未知的人海里。

MRT, Singapore. 2012. Fomapan 400.

Waiting

Are the children waiting for their adults
Or longing to become?

Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD. 2012.

A Multiple Exposure on Fun Fair

You stick your tongue out cautiously
to get a taste of life
snow or fire
they burn the same

Excerpt from Fun Fair (Radiotonic 2015)

他们

他们，是一个我们不多关注的族群。除了闹上新闻的冲突，大部分时间我们都忘记了他们在厨房、工地、工场、田园和厕所里的足迹和呼吸。

大部分时候，他们都只是静静地过活。

顿时，他们的存在，给人带来一股踏实感。

两种几何

新加坡有两种几何：规则的、不规则的。政府的体系、人民的情感。

还有一种几何：几何归家？几何客来？

【新加坡】公车

各种各样的人，各行各业，各走各路。

【新加坡】午觉

午觉这种奢侈，你多就没享受了？明天就奖励自己一次吧！

【新加坡】不同命

人海茫茫，路不同，命不同。

食为天

城市里，吃这一行是不会没得做的。民以食为天，不管外面档多么油腻和千篇一律，上班族一样得投降于外卖。

2015

除夕夜。

新的一年，我们仍然等待、盼望。在资讯发达的世界里，不断追踪亲朋戚友的进展。发生了什么事，而我，又要做个怎样的“2015 的我”？