Poetry

Pep Talk

Friday, February 19, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Pep Talk

Sophie Muir recently made history by not only becoming the first Australian long track skater in 16 years, but is also the first ever female long track olympic speed skater. We’re pretty proud of her. But it takes more than just a pretty face to get into the olympics. Literally thousands of hours of...
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Christmas Post

Thursday, December 24, 2009
By Daniel Yeow
Christmas Post

Well what have we here, is it that time of year? oh my, how time, it has flown! so give us a smile, it’s been a long while I hope as a person you’ve grown… what me? I don’t know, I’ve got nothing to show all I’ve done is skate round a little but life it is such, I did...
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Two Drops

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
By Daniel Yeow
Two Drops

They met strangely facing one to another, each from each side up the slope, towards the peak racing neither knowing another, nor trying to hide gripped by dizzying height they spoke: “I was pushed” the left one said “my colleagues and I, under pressure trapped escape was easy, from underground I was led more and more tunnels to fill a map and out...
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Don’t Miss Your Train

Thursday, October 1, 2009
By Daniel Yeow
Don’t Miss Your Train

it is lonely i stare into the belly of the beast column by column, only ribs, no guts a sliver of silver slips ‘tween platforms thunder shakes, rattles, screeches passes without stopping a light flickers like a candle a warm distant dream in the cold city is it mine? I do not tempt fate it grows, it glows, pupils dilate struggling to swallow light the thunder...
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To MB or not to MB

Saturday, December 6, 2008
By Daniel Yeow
To MB or not to MB

My application for photo editor of the Spec… that never made it (note: MB = Managing Board) To MB or not to MB, that is the question, whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous deadline, or to raise eyepiece to eye, finger to shutter, and by opposing, expose one. To die, to...
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2007

Monday, December 31, 2007
By Daniel Yeow

I weathered the storm of the previous year and in some good company I was here found to welcome January without a fear My feet finally returned to solid ground from abstract worlds to which my maths had taken me aloft and in many equations drowned Relaxed anew, my mind it hath awakened and to far-off lands I found my gaze...
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What in the World Rhymes With “Freedom”?

Sunday, December 23, 2007
By Daniel Yeow
What in the World Rhymes With “Freedom”?

This poem was sent to the members of the cuai-board email listserv as a christmas card and may have been influenced by the alcohol that inevitably accompanies christmas gatherings. To all my friends in amnesty I write to you with festive cheer for from semester, we are free so closer still to your degree but come with me, we’ll...
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Some Final (Silly) Words

Monday, December 17, 2007
By Daniel Yeow

This poem was emailed to all the students in W4400 Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change in the fall of 2007 during a particularly frustrating late night of pre-exam study. To all my friends who with me share The burden of this final act I call you now, to come, to dare And through this haze, this...
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Andrew Kwok’s 21st Speech

Thursday, September 22, 2005
By Daniel Yeow
Andrew Kwok’s 21st Speech

I felt it was kind of strange being asked to give a speech for Andrew here today, I mean, I’ve only really known him for about two years. C’mon, hands up, who here has known Andrew for longer than I have? Yeah, I see quite a few hands, in fact, there’s hands all over...
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SSLC Report for Metric Spaces

Saturday, May 14, 2005
By Daniel Yeow
SSLC Report for Metric Spaces

620-311 Metric Spaces is a third-year mathematics subject at the University of Melbourne taught by Kris Wysocki. The Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC) conducts surveys and provides feedback to the department to help improve teaching. The report is typically read aloud to the class near the end of semester. Question 1, oh what fun, I’ll...
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The Weather

Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:36
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
12°C
current pressure: 1003 mb
humidity: 96%
wind speed: 14 km/h SW
sunrise: 6:37
sunset: 18:51
 

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