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| Singer George Michael under observation for head injuries Posted: 21 May 2013 08:22 AM PDT  George Michael performs on stage during his "Symphonica" tour concert in Vienna, September 4, 2012. — Reuters picLONDON, May 21 — British singer George Michael remains in hospital under observation for head injuries, five days after a car accident, his publicist said on Tuesday. "I can confirm that George remains in hospital but purely as a standard precaution for observation because he suffered some bumps and cuts to his head. But he's making good progress, he's fine and he's really looking forward to getting home," the spokeswoman said. British media have reported that the 49-year-old former Wham! front man fell out of a car he was travelling in on the M1 motorway just outside London during rush hour - the latest of a string of recent accidents and health scares. The tabloid Sun newspaper interviewed a woman who said she had skidded to a halt after the singer fell out of the vehicle in front of her, and that she had used her car to shield him from other vehicles. "There was a nasty cut on his forehead and the back of his head. There was blood all down his face and on his teeth," the Sun reported driver Katherine Fox as saying. Last year, the "Careless Whisper" singer cancelled a tour of Australia due to "major anxiety" brought on by a 2011 battle with severe pneumonia in Vienna, where he was treated in intensive care for a month. Michael has sold an estimated 100 million records over his career, but in the past few years has hit the headlines for his personal life more often than for his music. In 1998 he was arrested in California for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public toilet. He has also had a number of run-ins with British police for possession of narcotics, and served time in jail for driving under the influence of cannabis. — Reuters |
| Posted: 20 May 2013 07:53 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — "You takkan faham. You bukan saya!" — Parah And isn't this true of all arguments, that they start because we don't understand them, because they don't understand us. You would never understand, because you're not me, you're not my kind. We think we do, sometimes, that we understand each other, and that we can see and feel what the other is feeling. We live together for years, and we believe that we have reached that sacred place where we can finish off each other's sentences. But then the fight comes, and you blurt out to me what we've truly known deep down in our hearts, "You're not me, you'll never understand." "Sekarang aku rasa aku lebih faham. Tapi sebenarnya lebih yang aku faham, lebih yang aku keliru." — Melur, in Parah It's easy to say, of course, that we should be more understanding, that we should always think for the other, that we should imagine what it's like to be wearing someone else's shoes. But who doesn't know, it's easier said than done. We try, we do try so hard, and when we make little steps forward, we feel like we should take a short rest, a breather, and give ourselves a kind pat on the back for having made it this far. We've progressed despite the odds stacked against us, and we feel that it's progress enough. So then why does it seem like we're drifting further away from where we intended to go? The more we aim to understand, the less we truly do. The more conscious our decisions to be at peace with the other, the less at peace we are with ourselves. "Kita dah jauh merayau." — Melur, in Parah.
"Tak boleh selalu aja nak mengalah. Kita dah terlalu banyak mengalah." — Hafiz, in Parah. It's starting to feel like the never-ending story. We fight and we drift and still we don't give in. But maybe that's how it is, and how it should be. For really, how many of us even truly understand ourselves to start with? The fights, the arguments — they're clues for us to find out about who we are, and how we see the world. We can choose to look without and put the blame on others without shame, or we can choose to look within and dig deep into the recesses of our hearts and ask those difficult questions. Do I truly understand you? Do I even understand myself? And maybe, just maybe, we will realise that we don't, and maybe it's not so important. "Kita kawan, kan?" — Parah. After all, PARAH read backwards is HARAP. * PARAH, written by Alfian Sa'at and directed by Jo Kukathas, is showing at Damansara Performing Arts Centre from May 16-26, 2013. For more details and tickets, visit www.kakiseni.com |
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