you might want to marry my husband - yap swi neo (2021)

shamelessly nostalgic enlightening and tender. the writing is not perfect but it'll do in a pinch. a few of the stories are really rather superb - deceptively straightforward lovingly detailed and satisfyingly twisted. 

damn good read.

to have and to hold

through the seasons, with joy upon joy

and through sorrows unimagined unthought

from swirling storm to almond blossom

we rejoice, and rejoice yet again

and so we are thirty-one

quickie trippie

we do an in-and-out as the quarantine-free travel lanes open, HOM and i. it is smooth and unexpectedly pleasant if you discount the disproportionate number of tests we are subject to. for posterity, and for what it is worth, we have:

• a pre-travel PCR
• an on-arrival PCR at destination which we forget to pre-book and hence scramble to pay for
• an on-arrival PCR at home the next day (because quickie, remember?)
• and we have ARTs due on tuesday and saturday
• plus i have my work-mandated ARTs monday and thursday

the quickie will never be the same again.

but it is good, and a precious thing, to see the folks again, if only for a day.