Don't you know me by Now?

• Mother and Daughter From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (572 days old)

  Coming from Taiwan, my mother and I share a very close relationship like everyone else. But the cultural backgound enhances the peculiar - to western eyes at least - elements in the relationship betwe… more

• Dissatisfaction, disaffection, and disenchantment From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (578 days old)

  Is this just going to be one of those mornings? Because then I have to steel myself to face it and to fight it. What to fight? Easy, to fight the urge of beating to death someone from the office so fa… more

• Maasai Marathon From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (580 days old)

  HAVE YOU DONATED?? I know that I have. I wondered whether I could afford to donate £100.00 for their cause of raising between £20,000 to £60,000 for clear drinking water in their… more

• Send in the Clowns From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (580 days old)

  Isn't it rich?Are we a pair?Me here at last on the ground,You in mid-air.Send in the clowns.Isn't it bliss?Don't you approve?One who keeps tearing around,One who can't move.Where are the clowns?Send i… more

• Winston Churchill: When you think you're going through hell, keep going From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (581 days old)

  I was contemplating Edinburgh, but there is also the Canterbury half marathon in the same day! Guest organised by the 209 events. It sounds soooooooooo charming!! I love Chaucer, and needless to say, … more

• Get a Job, Get a taste, Get a thought, Somehow get a Life From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (582 days old)

  I don't know about you guys out there, but I am at work right now, just finished my lunch break, and am contemplating my lack of talent!!  Now, this isn't a plea for reassurance or attention seek… more

• Snow in April From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (586 days old)

  Who would have thought eh? Snow in April... in the legends, a wrongly accused widow asked there to be snow in June to prove her innocence. And lo' and behold, on the day of her execution, there was sn… more

• Kites... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (587 days old)

  I woke up, and saw snow. It was the strangest feeling... I was dreaming of kites, or rather, attempting to fly a kite. Had a strange conversation about kites yesterday. Strange because it was somethin… more

• The Journey back... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (852 days old)

  And so I started running again.  The beginning was tentative, and I don't know why.  I had run for many years, since 16 when I grew overweight and my health-conscious parents got worried… more

• Oh please please please... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (859 days old)

  This is borderline painful, I am right this minute in front of my computer and watching the Men's final, Wimbledon 2007, I have the television on mute as I can no longer bear it, at times like thi… more

• T'is all one... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (890 days old)

  It's been a long time since I got onto my own blog, alas have since become one of the people succumbed to the charm and ease of facebook, friends who I thought that I had lost were found agai… more

• something terrible and wonderful From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (920 days old)

  It's the terrible and wonderful life of someone rather ordinary, everyone becomes ordinary and extraordinary at the same time in a big city like London. I remember that line from Sweet Smell of Su… more

• Coming Back... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (937 days old)

  I just saw Volver by Pedro Almodovar today....I am ashamed to admit that I knew nothing about cinema outside of Hollywood up to the age of 19.  I simply never encountered an environment in which … more

• everything for which I am grateful... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (967 days old)

  I am grateful for his affection I am grateful for his love I am grateful to my parents, for everything that they did, they do, and they will do, for their love, their unwavering trust, their faith … more

• The long track along the yellow earth... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (986 days old)

  The flowers that lined that particular path are black, they are roses, black, velvety petals, and in a moment of curiosity, I bend down to one in particular and gently move the petals around, a shaft … more

• When all is said and nothing's done... yet... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (988 days old)

  Waking up and looking over and seeing a face that rouses such hunger in you is an endlessly seductive thing...  you want to whisper his name, you feel him reaching over with his eyes still closed… more

• Undimmed... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (991 days old)

  "I am still big, it's the screens that got smaller!!"  declares Norma Desmon, played with such gusto by Gloria Swanson.  Of course, la Swanson didn't spend her later years … more

• IN THE NAME OF... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (993 days old)

  It took me many years to finally get round to watching "Three Colours", too long, but at least I have seen it and now own the DVDs.  Oh what a journey that was??!!  I missed the ma… more

• Innocence From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (994 days old)

  I was at work yesterday, my boss gave me this trade magazine to read, just to keep one informed of whatever is happening.  I came upon an article about Arrow, who will be releasing a 4-disc set o… more

• the now... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1002 days old)

  To my horror, I found myself again feeling discontent and down, though everyone gets down every now and then, my reason is irrational and trivial. Only now that I'm logged onto my blog, do I feel lik… more

• the now... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1002 days old)

  To my horror, I found myself again feeling discontent and down, though everyone gets down every now and then, my reason is irrational and trivial. Only now that I'm logged onto my blog, do I feel lik… more

• what Adrian thinks... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1008 days old)

  An art tutor with whom I work with frequently made an observation the other day that surprised me very much. I have always commented on him losing the weight that he couldn't afford to lose in the… more

• and it's Tuesday... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1012 days old)

  It's strange, because I work part time in the office and my working days start on Tuesday, Tuesday always feels like Monday to me. It's very cold again, which is reassuring. The climate is chang… more

• the return of the narcissis... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1014 days old)

  Nice thing happened just now... signed into my e-mail account and found another blogger had invited me to join his blog as a friend. I was thinking that, that posting.. "A mini portfolio" is… more

• a mini portfolio... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1018 days old)

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• And when things finally turn round... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1018 days old)

  Power of thought... isn't it amazing? I never thought that the dead end in which I found myself would ever be resolved, but there you are. Not only are things returning to peace, sort of, there is e… more

• the becoming... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1020 days old)

  It was a very interesting, enlightening chat I had with a dear friend of mine in the cafe after the Sunday dance class. It was Cafe Nero at Seven Dials in Covent Garden, a very regular hang out for s… more

• Inertia From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1022 days old)

  Just read the new entry in my best friend's blog, missing him terribly, David David, my evil twin when it comes to art-housey, pretentious, pratty films, films that have no narratives but so beautiful… more

• And then I saw you From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1031 days old)

  And then I met you, and all the pride came crushing down as I knew that that was all a front.  Your eyes looked into the danger with such openness and honesty, that I felt my power draining away,… more

• and now... From kirastus in Don't you know me by Now? (1031 days old)

  aaaaaaaah I should feel better after that big rant on a certain career in my last entry, and I do... in a way. But as Philip Roth writes in The Human Stain, I made a friend, and the world's malice… more

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