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Posted on September 26th, 2003 by jl
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I’m beginning to ask myself again, for the umpteenth time, why I have a blog? And what do I blog?

No clear answers at the moment…

Posted on September 26th, 2003 by jl
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I’m taking a breather from the internet and this blog - as revered as it is around here! There has got to be more to life than the virtual world, for example, shopping, novels, magazines, radio, television!

To be honest, I haven’t had much inspiration to write this past week, nor have I felt the compulsion to do so. I’m in a funny funk - as opposed to my depressed funk. There’s nothing really bothering me in my life at the moment, and yet, I feel out of rhythm, as if my cosmic connections aren’t quite … well… connected. I can’t quite explain it. Nor do I feel the need to. But that’s precisely the problem!

This week is turning out to be less brilliant than I had hoped, but it’s been lovely no less. I enjoyed the concert on Sunday afternoon at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas (DFP). The MPO has most certainly improved since I last heard them perform a couple of years ago. They were confident almost to the point of pomposity in Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony. It was a welcome rousing performance. However, they were not as good in Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations - I’d say they were competent at best, uninspiring at worst. This was probably attributed to the nature of the composition and the fact that it was the third time they had performed the work in as many days. I’m off to the DFP again this evening for a chamber concert. I’m looking forward to listening to Gorecki’s “Kleines Requiem“.

I had a pleasant evening last night at a birthday dinner in a lovely restaurant and there’s probably a (belated) birthday dinner to attend again this Friday. With any luck, A will take me out to a sumptuous dinner on Saturday before KL’s Gourmet Festival ends this weekend.

So yes, this is quite a lovely week. But that’s probably less attributed to the fact that I’m attending concerts and dinners (and all the extravagant shopping I did over last weekend which I’m not telling) than the fact that I’m home alone for a whole glorious week.

Posted on September 24th, 2003 by jl
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Carrie said in the first episode of the sixth season (also known as Episode 75: To Market, To Market) of Sex and the City:

If you have a bad stock, you could lose your shirt.
If you have a bad date, you could lose your will to live.

I add:

If you have a bad marriage, you could lose both your shirt and your will to live.

Posted on September 24th, 2003 by jl
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Taken from Reuters here.

Posted on September 24th, 2003 by jl
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