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May.17.2013
I live in a country that's not really a reading country. So the question of why I read is a fair question to ask.
Though we're taught the basics: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, reading for pleasure is something that's, well, not really done. Countless times, I've been told by classmates...
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May.14.2013
Little brown birds keep on tweetering outside our windows, I wonder what they are talking about. The sky is milky-grey, at the far distance, thunder rumbles. A little later, I'm sure it'll rain again. I can hear the ruckus the mouse makes as its searches for nibbles in our compostables trash can. I...
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May.12.2013
I didn’t intend for my “birthday celebration” to become prolonged. I turned 22 a few days ago, last 6 May. But since it was a Monday and I had midterms, I had to wait until the weekend to see my friends (whom I haven’t seen for about two years). This coincided with a meeting/casual talk I had with...
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May.08.2013
Open a book, sort randomly through the pages, stop and read. The passage can be treated as some sort of augury, a sign, or an explanation to your current state.
I learned about the lonesome game of sortes virgilianae, not incidentally, from a novel by Graham Greene: " Travels with my Aunt". ...
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May.07.2013
A former professor of mine, in his status post, said that when you arrive at the crossroad of your life, you shouldn't be afraid.
As yesterday, 6 May, was my birthday, I think I've come upon the crossroad of my life. Maybe the more apt expression would be "at the intersection", since I live in the...
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May.03.2013
After reading A.S. Byatt's "The Matisse Stories", I scanned the new acquisitions shelf in my college's library once more and found a book of poems by Cyril Wong, "Straw, Sticks, Brick".
Cyril Wong is a well-known Singaporean writer and, in my opinion, an excellent one at that. I appeared along...
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May.02.2013
Spent from writing a poetry collection, I've decided to foray into photography.
Purely for sharing, and for whatever interest it might raise, I've put up a small image gallery of my photographs in black and white. If you wish to see them (and, quite honestly, I hope that you do), please click...
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Apr.29.2013
Though I'm an Art Studies major (with my area of concentration on Art History), I admit that I don't read a lot novels dealing with artworks (and Art History, for that matter).
I do read ekphrastic poems. It was a habit I cultivated from required readings of the Iliad and Divine Comedy:...
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Apr.24.2013
I first encountered the expression "onion skinned" in my grade school textbook. It means being very sensitive and easy to hurt. Because onions have thin skins. But onions also have a lot of layers, which can mean that there is more than meets the eye with an "onion person". Also, some onions are...
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Apr.21.2013
Something beyond conception happened today: it rained (however, briefly) in summer. In the Philippines, we do have the concept of unang ulan ng Mayo (first rain of May) where we "welcome" the monsoon season by playing or bathing under the rain. My yaya believed that children who played and...
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Apr.09.2013
There's always the challenge (or the habit) of fitting objects into the smallest space possible. This isn't a difficult feat for objects as simple thing or material. Though if I considered the memory attached to the objects I have, it would be safe to say that I'm running out of space to put things...
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Apr.03.2013
When I think of going back to nature, I suppose that it doesn't only mean an afternoon walk in the park or a day's hike outside the city. In the place where I live, urban and rural intertwine. Somewhere in the outskirts of our village, I've seen a rice field, while in the horizon there are the...
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Mar.29.2013
Living in a country with 1,700 islands kind of gives me an unlimited choice of where to go when I want to have my quiet moments. Of course, I can't go to all of them and the three major islands are very populated so "quiet moments" are hard to find, someone will always barge in on...
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Mar.24.2013
Many things are turning and I think they’ll be reflected in this blog post (and those which will follow). Before I begin, I think it would be proper to figuratively undress (that is, to reveal my true nature) and introduce myself. My full name, the name for which I’m more commonly known is Zeny May...
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Mar.20.2013
Just a quickie: it’s a few days until the launch of Eastern Heathens: An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore, edited by Ng Yi-Sheng and Amanda Lee Koe, design and layout by Winnie Goh, and published by Ethos Books.
My work had the opportunity to be a part of the anthology and I am...
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As painful as its consequences may be, the fall itself comprises a sort of joy.”
—Benjamin Huang, A Cup of Fine Tea: "We"
About Zeny May
I was born on 6 May 1991. Educated at a convent school for elementary and high-school, a hotel school (I lasted only a year) then transferred to the university where I'm currently taking up Art History.
I've been published in a few online journals and print...
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Zeny May’s Favorite Books
Ocean of Words, Brothers, Beauty and Sadness, Prayer for Owen Meany, morning in the burned house, Breakfast of Champions, In Praise of Shadows
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