Thursday, June 4, 2026

notes from ultra processed people

1. Avoid flavourings. Means food is unpalatable without it
2. Upf tricks our bodies so it cant tell its full
3.upf aims to make addicts of us to sell their products 
4. Whole foods are best
5. Fewer ingredients are best
6. Emulsifiers erode stomach linings leading to inflammation
7. Artificial sweeteners are crap
8. Full fat full sugar better than the less version
9. Upf foods is half digested. Soft. Crunchy . Tricks the body in multiple ways. 
10. Avoid guam, msg, xanthum gum etcm.xanthum gum in particular can affect the biome for pple with a gene passed down related to colitis
8..avoid soft drinks.  Plain milk or water is best. Hm.thatd hard. No sweetened drinks..hm..
9. Protein bars are cow feed

Thursday, May 28, 2026

books 2026

2026 has been a time of reading little bits of many books
But i have finished some.  
And half way thru others

Completed: 

1. In the time of butterflies. By Alverez. Wonderful story of the struggle of the mariposa sisters in dominican republic. Didnt realise what cuba and fidel castro meant to the region under despot rule of truijjan something like that.  Why do countries fall to despot rule? Is every country ruled by a despot doomed to cycle after cycle of despair? 

2. Why Palestine. By Wahid. Powerful book. So many lines i had to underline. 

3. Me Before You. By jojo Moyes. Did not expect to enjoy it much but did. Loved the movie to be hoenst and read coz of that. 

4. Original daughter. Gewat singaporean book. Sisters. Adiption. Singapore. Beautiful 

5. Sunrise on the reaping suzanne collins. Quite lovely though i preferred the other 4.  Found it a bit artificial jis whole my one true love my love and all

In process
1. The albatross files. Breathtaking. Shifting sands under Singapore’s shores.  What a time to have been alive. I may have joined politics then haha if i could. 

2. Ultra processed people. Horror story truly.  Listening to it on my drives. 

3. Mary Oliver poetry. Balm for the soul

4. Vulture capitalism. Recommended by akshaya..powerful stuff. Speaks well to ultra processed people too

5. I want to die but i want to eat ttboektie. Almost finished this book as i was running a book club talk on it. Ha. Okay lah gave insight into how crowded it can be inside the heads of young people, even successful people

7. Was reading almost done with a new aravind adiga book. 

8. 7 moons. Started but not yet finished not even halfway. 

9. Wildhood.  Started it ages ago really must complete. 

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

day 21 prompt

Parsley prompt 

An object watching grave tragedy

Stoning on the ocean floor
The tides turn me over and over
Smoothening my rough edges 

Fish hide behind me sometimes
Other pick me up, 
use me for decorations 

Once a wave tossed me
With tremendous force
into the stratosphere

I flew in the whistling wind
with the fish and tortoises 
And trees and cars and houses and childen

Disgorged onto a street filled with water
I hit the ground rolling 



Sunday, April 19, 2026

i love you in tamil

50 shades of love in tamil

Anbu: all encompassing love
Paasam: love between parents and children
Nesam: love between friends, affection 
Kaadhal: romantic love

Tamil has shades 

No need to lean into simile
To describe how i love you 
Like the sea loves the sky
Or a mother loves her child
Or how i love a friend
Or what it means to show love to all

For this one word
Tamil has shades 

Kadhal for romantic love
Paasam for between mum and child
Nesam for between friends 


With Tamil

So inllll

Parivu: compassion
Kaamam: lust
Aravanaipu: care
Sakhi: friendship
Yekkam: yearning
Akkarai: concern
Piriyam: affection 
Pattru : devotion
Virupam: like

Luvu










Saturday, April 11, 2026

recent poems

1. When there are no rules
2. Grief is
3. The stories we tell ourselves
4. I see a photo of my father in law
5. Subtaraneean world
6. Simile poem
7. I shall write of tiny things

subterranean worlds

The subterranean world waits
Biding its time 
For earth to collapse on itself

Under the weight 
Of the cruel mindless foolish 
The rex thought itself mighty 

Never saw the trajectory 
Of the ball of fire 
Until it seared its feet its brains

Now we can see 
All.of us Cassandra 
Still unable to stop it

Earth pulses near its core
Maw open to suck us all in
Disgorge us into the pit of space

Start again 
subterranean thrust to the light 
Maybe we will be kinder wiser 

For a time

#jemstones #plscrit #spwm26day11
#SubterraneanPrompt



When there are no rules

you can sit down to pretend peace talks
then rain bombs on your conversation partner the next day 

You can kill school girls in a primary school,  
and the more and say oops

You can bomb a defenceless ship, guests in another country, 
watch them drown 
and broadcast it on big screens with beaming smiles

You say only the US can do this, 
you say it with pride,
 
We say it with horror
that only the US could be so morally bankrupt,
to sink an invited guest 
in another's home in international waters,
and boast of it as a victory, 
not the act of a spineless cowardly bully

When there are no rules

you can start a world war
because you are bored
or to make more money
or to distract voters from your fraud,
the fact you supported a man who sold children for sex 
or for no reason at all

We hold the American public responsible
For trump has never been false 
He proclaimed who he was
through words, through actions
You thought a man 
boasting of grabbing pussy 
wouldn't be different in other contexts?
And you vote him in not once but twice 
even after his thugs rioted in the capitol? 

You are responsible America

You who supposedly saved the world in world war two
are now leading us bright into world war three
together with your best buddy in blood, Israel

So the chief heroes and chief victims of WWII gang up to become the chief villains in WWIII

And this cycle
will only spiral to the inevitable
when we blow up the one planet in this galaxy 
that supports life as we know it, 
laugh in glee as we drown our selves, our bodies, our souls, our homes, 
our gift 
in self-destructive fumes