Notes from a Simulated Underground
Archive for Life
4 comments • Marocharim • July 29, 2010
When I was young, I knew everything. When I was young, I argued with theories. I thought that my intelligence was the weight of the argument. There was the compulsion to drop name after name, theoretical concept after theoretical concept. I argued with the contempt and impunity that can only come from someone not old [...]
3 comments • Marocharim • April 12, 2010
A size-36 waistline and a beer belly should be enough reason for anyone – yes, including myself – to take up a sport. Fritz and Eloisa suggested wall-climbing, which me and my girlfriend Jam were more than eager to take. She’s much more fit than I am (if you take up vice, you’re anything but [...]
Marocharim • March 1, 2010
Choose life. Choose sports. Choose a reasonable distance. Choose a comfortable pair of running shoes. Choose a singlet, cap, running shorts loose enough to wick away moisture but tight enough to keep you from chafing. Choose a number. Choose the dramatic angle by which you cross the finish line. Choose amber-colored sunglasses to keep the [...]
4 comments • Marocharim • December 21, 2009
I took a walk along the seawall by the Mall of Asia, and looked far out into the water. Despite the rank smell of trash and seawater, the bay looked serene. The big mall and all its cheery Christmas lights cast reflections on the water; much as I hate malls and open bodies of water, [...]
Marocharim • December 16, 2009
I’m sure that the recipients of this year’s Gusi Peace Prize – the greatest by-god WHOO holy freaking awesome award for peace on the face of this planet – deserve it, but the unheralded champion of peace and harmony has always been the neighborhood panciteria. On those nights where I go home very late from [...]
There are things I'm afraid to tell myself. Instead, I choose to reveal them the world. In sickness, in spite, in all unpleasantness, even in disease. I'm a babbler, a ranter, a writer: neither spiteful nor kind, neither rascal or honorable man. Neither hero or vermin.
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