Butterfly Day/Juggling Day/Juneteenth/World Sauntering Day/Pepperfest (Oklahoma)/Summer Solstice Celebration (Utah)/Strawberry Festival (Massachusetts)/Wildflower Festival (Washington)/Oyster Festival (California)/Hollerin' Contest (North Carolina)
2004-06-19 @ 9:02 p.m.

There's fireworks going off again, third night in a row. Went to the library in Jurong East today, and was bowled over by the number of books by Nabokov they have. Quite tempted to read them all, and pursue a course of study pertaining to Nabokov's works. The range of self-teaching books for languages is a lot wider than most libraries I've been to, too. Anyone interested in picking up Slovene? Turkish? Russian? Ben and I were discussing a rather interesting idea. It all started off with the idea of my being multilingual, and how I can take advantage of that by becoming a diplomat. (With the government paving the way, of course!) Somehow, we went off-tangent, to the idea of diplomats sowing their wild oats in the country they were sent to. I quipped that there could be one child for each language/country. Then I had a brainwave! Why not let the diplomat have a gay assistant? (Hey, this was Ben Woon that I was messaging. You can't blame me for coming up with that idea!) So the whole thing's evolved into the germ of an idea for a new script, strictly for entertainment. Not likely to meet with much approval from the authorities, let alone get staged. Morally deficient, they would say. Speaking of scripts, is anyone interested in collaborating with Ben and myself on a lesbian take on Antony & Cleopatra? It'll be a much more productive way of spending your Mathematics lectures, I promise...

This week:

Watermelon Days (Georgia)