Novo: What I used to blog about

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

What I used to blog about

I used to blog quite a hefty bit. I remember writing 'prolifically' when I was doing my honours thesis, and the blog served as a sort of appertif to actual writing.

Reviewing my blog archives recently, I realise I probably wrote better on my blog than my actual thesis, which was a marginal disaster anyway. I have my favourites... and here's one of them. This was written just before a road trip to Australia with my closest friends while we were still undergrads, hence the reference to poverty and killing kangeroos.

"I hope I don't endanger the kangeroos while I'm there.

And I hope I don't blow the backpacking budget there, if not I'll come back and probably resort to selling Kau Lak at my void deck.

Oh. I don't have a void deck.

Have you ever wondered WHY "VOID DECK"? A "deck" that is "void"? Duh. A Canadian friend of mine, when told to meet at the "void deck", thought we were going for a cruise on a ship.

Why can't it be just "Level 1", "Ground Floor", or "Empty Space"?

Void Deck.

Can you imagine the Kau Lak fella selling his Kau Lak in the "void deck", and that he has never known the meaning of both of those words?

"Hey I'm going to sell my roasted chestnuts in that arbitrary level of nothingness".

I guess when I come back I will be the first to know. My Kau Lak will be quite Zen. Roasted Nuts from that Plane of Nirvana."

posted by Ben Tan @ 12:37 AM

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