IT'S A PANDAN LIFE ...!

Okay, times have changed and so has my list of hunky guys - God's gifts to my imaginary Planet Rakish - where yummylicious hunks rule (and covet my delicate sensibilities...)! 1. Josh Holloway. Yup, you're still my No. 1! 2. Go Se Won Encik Park Yang Hebat...! 3. Jang Hyuk You can be my Slave, and my Hunter...! 4. Takashi Sorimachi Here's one of the reasons I look East! 5. Joe Manganiello You can have my True Blood anytime! 6. Takeshi Kaneshiro Another Japanese gift to women! 7. Patrick Dempsey Yes, ain't gonna tire of this McDreamy..! 8. Daniel Wu Yup, you're still in the list! 9. Lee Byung Hun IRIS me!

No, I don't wanna clear the air on the issue I don't wanna sacrifice my peace of mind I don't wanna face reality But most of all... I don't wanna rock the boat Because the boat is all I have. Yes, I guess I'm stupid I'm a dreamer I keep up an easy facade But most of all... I'm a repressed romantic Because I'm good at holding back.

Muse: My maid wants to work for other people when my dad is no longer around. Me: Huh? Why don't you just continue to employ her? Muse: Me? Whatever for? I can take care of myself. Me: Ok, then let her work for me... Muse: *incredulous tone* What do you need a maid for? Me:  [Choose the best answer. The right answer can be found at the bottom, scroll down.]                    A.  Err... you know how I don't fancy doing housekeeping. I 'd                 rather cook  than do that kind of chores....           B:  So she can take care of my kid (or kids) when I go to                work...                                                              .                                                              .                                                              .                                                              . Answer: A. This was the answer given. B. This is the real answer (in my head).

Pandan is exiled from government service, forced to sharpen her critical thinking and emotional endurance for three years. A typical day in the life of Pandan would entail her sitting at a desk either at home or at the library in the heart of the city, engaging in dialectical monologue with the likes of Karl Marx, Greg Garrard, Edward Said, Lawrence Buell, Aijaz Ahmad, Pablo Mukherjee, to name a few. In between this commonly-perceived intelligent undertaking, she also juggles thoughts of quitting her job, dying, and retiring early. She has keen interests in literature, Korean culture, culture, traveling, performing arts and history. A recent event that happened in the country, coupled with unintelligent news-reporting in the media, have resurrected a storm of  patriotism in her inner-self as well as helped her revise how the current Malaysian society has evolved. Politics fascinates her actually but that does not mean she harbors an ambition to get involved in it. Pandan also consid

Me: I wanna retire early. Maybe at 50. Muse: *in incredulous tone* What for? Watcha gonna do? Me:I wanna stay home. Bake cakes. Read all those great novels I've bought but don't have time to read. Muse: *even more incredulous, laughs a bit* You wanna stay home just to read??? Me: Yup! *starts imagining picking up her kids-to-be from school*

We never know the worth of water until the well is dry ~ English proverb A recent encounter with environmental ethics left me thinking about the distinction between instrumental and intrinsic value; value being the worth one attaches to something. A thing is considered to have instrumental value when it becomes useful to other things. Land, for example, becomes useful when it can be worked on. On the contrary, a thing has intrinsic value when it has value in its own right, regardless of its usefulness to other things. Forests, for example, have intrinsic value because they have value in their own rights, not because they serve as the sink for CO2, they provide timber, they are homes to the indigenuous people and so on. Our anthropocentric conditioning has made it hard to look at things intrinsically. We don’t have to talk about forests to understand this. Take a person who befriends someone because that someone is rich and knows all the right people in the industry. Take a wife who acc