[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you, [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you, [looking at myself] it's over.
Southeast Asian news be like:
Malaysia: "POLITICIAN ARRESTED FOR INSULTING ISLAM"
Indonesia: "12 VOLCANOES ERUPT AT THE SAME TIME"
The Philippines: "CHINA CUTS ALL TIES AFTER NAVY CLASHES"
Singapore: "driver suspended for watching porn while driving"
Wow. Everyone should read this 1983 article by Roald Dahl. Every word of it. It's literally the same fucking shit as now, with the same kind of impunity, only now it's even much worse. He called it. He fucking called it and they just ignored him and called him an antisemite.
Singapore likes breeding custom orchids and a diplomatic hat trick is to name them after visiting VIPs. One favourite morphology is the Dendrobium Margaret Thatcher -- it's the most twisted (and sexy[?]) orchid I have ever seen.
is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?