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Continue reading →: Dear Blog
Dear Blog: You are my pensieve. I think Professor Dumbledore left you here at my doorstep by mistake. I’m not going to return you.
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Continue reading →: The Blogger’s Fairytale
Have you ever been in a situation from which you cannot see a way out? Sort of like Cinderella cleaning chimney soot and cleaning chimney soot and cleaning chimney soot all day waiting for either the fairy godmother or prince charming or least of all one of the seven dwarfs…
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Continue reading →: How to blog or not to blog that is the question
There are many ways that people seem to be using the medium of blogging. What I’ve been attracted to here is mostly the more creative and reflective blogs. By looking at them, I’ve learnt from what different folks have been trying to achieve through blogging. (In what follows, I’m not…
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Continue reading →: Signs of Toronto
When a city is walkable, there’s always people. And when there are people, they’re always saying something. It’s the din and the noise and the hustle and the bustle that make you remember you’re part of something bigger, something more than yourself. Being elbowed painfully in a crowd rushing to…
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Continue reading →: My Blog Readers
The internet is a nameless, faceless place if you want it to be. But all the same, it’s populated with people. Just like you or me. It’s like being on the road. Those cars seem to be trucks or sedans or tiny Beetles hurtling down the road but they’re really…
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Continue reading →: Text and nature at Niagara FallsWe got into the car last week and drove off and kept driving until we reached the Niagara Falls. Took about ten hours but never mind. We were rewarded for enduring the heat and the scorching sun:
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Continue reading →: On being Freshly Pressed
I had been nurturing my fledgeling blog for several weeks now when all of a sudden I receive this email from WordPress asking me to look out for my blog to be featured in the next few days.
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Continue reading →: My Blog AudiencePerhaps it’s because I’m still new to blogging that I haven’t lost the sense of wonder yet. It’s summer here and things are kind of nice late at night. I was sitting at my computer in a room with a big glass window. The city skyline was spread out in…
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Continue reading →: The Writer (Part 2)
Continued from yesterday’s post, predictably, “The Writer (Part 1)“ The writers were at work. The process of work seemed rather curious. It was a great big library in a great big school in a great big country where escalators went up and down a very spacious, gigantic room with a…
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Continue reading →: The Writer (Part 1)
In my wanderings through various cities and university towns, I encountered a strange creature called the writer (and its close cousin, the critic). I was told that it is an endangered species. The world does not need it much any more having advanced to higher levels of the human condition…
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Continue reading →: Cafes and the cityI’m writing this blog as I’m sitting at a café. Cafés have character and this has one. This isn’t a big name-brand café but a very successful one. It’s in SoHo right in the heart of Manhattan’s artists’ studios and big fashion stores. The café is fairly full of artists…
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Continue reading →: My Blogging Experience
Today, my blog will be about my experience of writing this blog. Not just about the writing of it but about my relationship with it–how I got obsessed with it, how I kept checking it, how a yellow little notification button bringing likes and comments made my heart skip a…
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Continue reading →: Random ways to accept rejection
In writing Excerpt: We really appreciated your piece. We think it has great potential. We hope you find a better fit. Excerpt with notes: We really appreciated your piece. [Writer of the piece is a boilerplate template hiding behind the royal we. No, it probably doesn’t have the eye to…
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Continue reading →: Writing me, myself, and I
“Seriously, you should listen to me,” says me. “I am the most brilliant person I know.” I know that my ideas must be good. I should know. I listen to myself all day. I make sure I catch ’em ideas before they escape. ‘Em ideas arise from one end of…
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Continue reading →: 7 Job seekers’ conundrums
You’ve worked hard. You’ve gotten a degree. And then you start looking for a job. You skim through thousands of job ads. You encounter buzzwords and concepts that whizz through your head like bullets. Each one is a paradox. Or a tautology. Or whatever.
I’m, Bottledworder. Always inhabiting the half-streets, catching paradoxes, thinking in greys, trapping the world in words in my bottle.
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