why wy?

The days of ugly authors are over.A gorgeous woman was being interviewed on tv this morning, and she was promoting her third book. Her name is Tara Moss, a horror writer I think. I remember horror writers used to look like Stephen King, all geek and glasses. The intellectual, mysterious expression is also popular, see Salman Rushdie or Philip Pullman. Now these guys are good writers, but definitely not People's Most Beautiful People. Tara Moss, definitely. Are authors to be the next sex symbol?

Real life has been overwhelming busy - we went for the singapore seminar that terry organised, got invited out to dinner twice, went for aikido, had my car repaired etc etc. In the meantime, the handover happened (sidenote: handover is a bad choice of words I think, it echoes Hong Kong) to the tune of musical chairs. The DPM is now PM, the PM is now SM, and SM is now MM. There are even worse acronyms thrown up in the reshuffle, like MCYS (Ministry Community Development, Youth and Sports) and MEWR (Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources). Mewr is kinda cool, but brings to mind stray cats, and MCYS just sounds like... cyst. Not the best of mental images.

Onto a far more pleasant thought - chocolate. Just made the perfect, good enough to be served in a cafe chocolate cake, thanks to a recipe in the papers and joe's skill with the beater. And it's even got a rich dark chocolate glaze. Don't think I'll make it back home though, mom's kitchen is sugar-free and joe doesn't have an oven.