Fabulista Says: P.S. I Love You

It was an ordinary afternoon. Therefore, it was inevitably peppered by a movie and then followed by gossips over coffee.

Since the movie was “P.S. I Love You”, the topic was inevitably nudged along the same subject as the movie.

How Would You Say “I Love You”?

If I have to think about it, doesn’t it make it synthetic? Shouldn’t such a declaration be spontaneous? Gosh, how Victoria-Beckham-plastic-confession-overacting-assertion do we have to be?

So plastic fantastic aside. How would we like best to know that our love is accepted? Tradition has it that a ring should be used to symbolize that. Unavoidably then, it led us to the question, which ring would be the best choice as both a symbol and a declaration.

Perhaps I am mellowing. Perhaps, let’s face it; I am getting old. It is entirely possible that one does get sentimental as one gets on in age. I found myself quiet, catching myself with an almost instantaneous, “It doesn’t matter…”

The reason being, it really doesn’t matter anymore. While I used to obsess over a Tiffany & Co. classic six-prong solitaire set in platinum. I realize there are more important things in a relationship than a piece of (albeit dazzlingly beautiful) carbon isotope.

My Ring

So I thought my ring shall not have a brand.

My ring may not have a rock.

My ring may not be tangible.

But my ring shall bear a name.

My ring shall carry with it a promise.

How Do You Know?

When you know that you have to hold them close so you can breathe and live. When you know that you have to let set them free as well because you love them too much. That is when you know.

Of course, I still love the T&Co. six-pronged solitaire. But now, it is a superficial representative of the subject and not the subject itself.

Fabulista Seeks: A New Desire

I have found my dearest in a deerskin Prada. I found a new life in a new LV. Now I will seek to discover my next love… in my next Loewe.

Get ready to discover the Loewe Maxi Amazona black on black, suede and leather tote.

Luxury refined then redefined.

Meet the Maxi Amazona.

Fabulista Wishes: Abundance! Prosperity!

This New Year, I wish for lots of happiness. The ones that eluded me last year, I want them all to rush to me like a hurricane. I want a torrential pour of joy like manna from the sky on a clear desert night. I want a tropical monsoon of bliss, exhilaration and ecstasy. Emotionally, physically and financially.

喜悦来不尽 财源鼠不完

Fabulista Questions: Race = Religion?

My counterpart living in a sunny island, set in the sea recently told me about a controversial, fanatic headmaster who banned all non-halal food from his school's canteen. This was his rationale:

"We decided to make the whole canteen halal to provide a common eating space for all our children, whatever their race," Imran (the headmaster) told the newspaper.

But what I'd like to know is, since when was one's ethnicity the same as one's faith? Since I worship LV and the Prada, does that make me French? Or Italian? And for that matter, is being French (or Italian) an ethnicity or a faith?

Or am I just a Beautician?

Fabulista sighs: James McAvoy

James McAvoy - my always tragic hero. Sigh... ...

Fabulista speaks: Never an Absolution

‘Atonement’ slit into my reality like a million pine needles, with the tenacity of a bone crushing meat grinder. It was melancholy as a tangible force, a tension pulling on the weighted plum.

I sat in the theater a full 10 minutes after the show, mindlessly watching the credits roll. Externally numb, internally churning on the power of the spoken word. The toxic suggestion of a tainted mind, with imaginations running wild.

Some actions are too microscopic; too inconsequential relative to the aspirations they carry.

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ATONEMENT

I died.

An empty, childish summer rage.

I kissed a thousand shameless dreams.

A naivety misconstrues an innocence.

A vision tinted by jealous sight.

I died.

A million jealous rage.

Your regrets a trickle.

Your atonement a sliver –

A convenient fee.

An empty, futile impotent fee.

- Idunexst (VIP)

Trouble in Paradise...

A LITTLE BIRD told me that the cute soldier, featured below hails from an elite local institution. The former teen-actor ('former' already? How the mighty have fallen...) is best known for his role as a rebellious teen. The little bird also divulged that the said establishment takes pride in the divine ethics it claims to instill in all their hothoused merchandises. They must have missed out on this one... or is it a case if art imitating life? Or the confusion of what's real and reel. The clichés are endless.

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TELEVISION viewers know him as Phua Chu Kang's nephew, Aloy. But actor Marcus Ng Yi Loong was at the heart of a real-life courtroom drama yesterday.

A full-time National Serviceman, Ng was appealing against a subordinate military court ruling, after he had been convicted on two charges of insubordinate behaviour and conduct to the prejudice of good discipline.

On Feb 28 last year, Ng's superior at Nee Soon Camp's SAF Medical Training Institute called Ng and another serviceman into a room to address them about an earlier incident.

After reprimanding the other serviceman, Second Warrant Officer Saraswathi told Ng, who had asked, "Why me?", not to question her orders.

Ng became angry and accused 2WO Saraswathi of picking on him.

Both raised their voices.

Afterwards, Ng confronted her outside the room and their two-minute exchange drew the attention of Master Warrant Officer Ger Ah Kee.

Seeking to defuse the situation, MWO Ger put his hand on Ng's shoulder.

Ng rudely shrugged MWO Ger's hand off by moving his shoulder aggressively.

Later, Ng was sentenced to seven days' detention on each of the two charges, with the sentences to run concurrently.

The 22-year-old appealed to the Military Court of Appeal, making the case that the Court Martial judge, in convicting him, had erred in law and in fact.

Ng's lawyer Wendell Wong said there were conflicting accounts from eyewitnesses, and called the sentence "manifestly excessive" and "crushing for a young serviceman", while citing other cases where servicemen were given fines, a reprimand or letter of warning for seemingly more serious offences.

In response, Singapore Armed Forces prosecutor Luke Tan argued that the Court Martial's finding of guilt was based "on sound and established legal principles".

The five-member panel of the Military Court of Appeal, chaired by High Court Judge Justice Choo Han Teck, agreed.

They dismissed Ng's appeal against his conviction and sentence on the charge of insubordination, even as they reduced Ng's sentence on the second charge to a reprimand.

This means Ng still has to serve seven days' detention.

This was not Ng's first brush with military law. Last October, he was convicted and fined $1,000 for two other offences of disobedience and non-compliance. Lawyers were also hired for him at the time.

Ng's mother, Mdm Florence Tan, told reporters she has spent $80,000 on legal fees.

She gave her son a hug before he was led away to begin his detention.

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