About
Health and loved ones and happiness and rest and sleep and warm meals and good conversation and books to read, the smell of Chinese ink, travel, pen and paper and index cards, a university library, dongding wulong, a meaningful career, touch and warm towels that smell of sun, letters and postcards, sunshine, nice glassware, a foot bath in warm water followed by a foot massage, plants and sunny gardens, organised drawers lined with tissue, learning new skills, kissing, fruits every day, lots of tea, almonds and pecans and walnuts, pretty Stila eyeshadow, a change of seasons now and then, music to listen to, sunny smelling laundry, time to myself, dancing, warm golden lights and candles, smelling good, colour-coded files, good things on the radio, swimming, Just A Minute, big fluffy towels, tofu and watercress and seaweed and more tofu and dimsum and scallops and other shellfish and warm chocolate cake and rendang and laksa and dumplings and jiaozi and gelato and crabs and salmon, peaches and golden plums, cherries and raspberries and cream, an array of shelves, occasional champagne, fireworks about three times a year would be good, high windows, a silk comforter, sleek cats in the garden, steady investment returns, no geckos please.
& also occasional swearing.
Balcony people: Rawls, Goh Keng Swee, Martha Nussbaum, Ruth Simmons, Elaine Scarry, Amartya Sen, Paul Brand, Toni Morrison, S Rajaratnam