Another lingering poem

We did not choose vs we chose not to.

If a boy must wonder

It took my breath away when I first read it on the tube.  More so, after seeing the Chinese name.  Cantonese British, I had thought.

I finally hunted it down today, and found out to my very pleasant surprise and pride that Leon Yuchin Lau is a teenager from Singapore.  He is one of the »Foyle Young Poets of the Year in 2009.  More of his works »here.

As I have said from time to time here: it is entirely possible for someone with black hair to write well in English.  Well done, Leon.

Red blue yellow

Darling, look into the camera

Jerry of »Giffard House at Winchester, and a dad too frozen to venture out.

I highly recommend this beautifully-restored B&B btw. Talk to me about it.

Strikeout

Summer afternoon in Munich (hic)

Pearls and lavender

Patina at Dachau

Dachau was a very difficult place for me. (Which may explain why I have put off sorting out the photos for such a long time.) It is not comfortable to come face to face with mankind's capacity for cruelty. It is equally not comfortable to realise that it is not just "them", but it could very well be us who are complicit in such cruelty.

»This is Dachau.

South Kensington station, -2°C

Camera-phone series #21.

The hood and the flat

Camera-phone series #20.

(Good old Sony Ericsson alongside the BB Bold)

Frosty Oxford Street

11 am last Saturday. New haircut, scrambled eggs from Flat White, carols on a quiet Oxford Street... Heaven.

(1.30 pm. Heaving. Can't wait to escape.)

Camera-phone series #19.

Earlier than me

7.46 am, 0°C.  Someone was out earlier than me.

Camera-phone series #18.