oh duh. i kept wanting to check out the detusche bank collection at the singapore art museum but i forgot and now it's over.

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humans work by being in two states - stuck in a moment and whizzing by with full concentration and no thought for the moment - i think we work best if we are aware of the need for both dualities - creating and experiencing both depth and expanse.

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golly! time for a new diary - since 1999 and now i'm finally on the last page - but alas i find nothing i like whilst walking through bookstores and stationary stores. my favourite journals to write in are from paperchase, particularly the ones with rubber covers and graph paper insides - they open well, flip well and are nice to touch, and graph papers are a good ambivalent state between blank surfaces and lined surfaces. maybe it is time for a change - go lined - only the paperchase ones that borders currently stocks have such big spacing between the lines - who writes so big? i like to mash my words together till the page looks like a curly-wurly pattern with irregularities.

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whilst i really like the moleskine range of notebooks, they're really too pricy. i might buy them if they were triple the thickness for the price. i especially like the graph paper type. however, i do think the reporter notebooks will be fun to write in. did hemingway or matisse really pay so much for their notebooks?

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one of the best ways to journal is to the music of beautiful soundtracks - it digs you deep. these days it's the Il mare ost on repeat.