26 September 2008
1:07 AM
moving!
http://wordsinpaint.livejournal.com/i guess i'll still occassionally update this blog, seeing as it's been with me for at least 4 years...pei yang gan qing already xD plus i've gotten so accustomed to the blogger format/template/style etcetc. but that'll be my main blog. cyaaa and add me! :)
18 September 2008
2:13 AM
people come and people go.
but why'd you have to go.
16 September 2008
6:57 PM
math is giving me an annoying headache, and so i shall continue on a post that i embarked on >2 weeks ago but never found time to complete (note of caution there - it's gonna be a long long post.)
HIGHLIGHTS of my past 2 weeks :D
1. macritchie nature trail! monday 1 sept 08
entirely spontaneous, planned less than a day earlier whilst we were studying in church (where has become my most productive mugging place ever, save - sometimes - school).
met pearly in at 8 in the morning, took a bus down to the macritchie busstop to wait for eve. whilst waiting we sent seeyue a very typically-p-and-c(pearly and cheryl, not private and confidential)-fashioned birthday message that went something like:
"good morning seeyue. happy sweet sixteenth. heehee. stay happy, be merry, don't be cranky, be wacky. (which btw, seriously amused pearly and took us a lot of time to type, haha). we wuv you!"
not to mention, we added about 10 of the same SonyEricsson animated smileys, hit the Send button at the same time...you get the idea.
eve came, we found our way to the route leading to the tree top walk (which was our initial plan), but...
after allowing ourselves a few minutes of dismay and "ohmytianz are we lucky or are we lucky", we decided to go ahead on the nature trail anyhow (: talk about spontaneity. i love you two man.
so we walked, and talked, and walked, and talked, our conversations ranging from absolute randomness (heart-shaped leaves and 'backpacks are the new in-thing' and people and things), to deep issues like life,
environmental destruction, nature, God...
we enjoyed the silence:
stopped for a few self-shots here and there:
occasionally we sat at some of these benches to listen to the sounds of the forest, admire the greenery, soak in the fresh and crisp air, immerse in nature. and these were when we had our really memorable heart-to-heart talks and serious discussions (:
we got really fascinated over even the littlest things:
"take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints."
this one was especially well-phrased:
(to be uploaded - my com decided to hang >.<)
pearly and i have made plans to go ecotourism-ing one day(s). we're both geog students and hardcore nature-lovers, and proud of it :)) short-term plans are to hike up bukit timah hill, visit the primary forest section there, visit chek jawa, sungei buloh, walk along the kent ridge walk from vivo to dover, and of course, get to the treetop of macritchie :) yayy pearly i can't wait!!
some hilarious moments include our discovery of eve's bimbo side xD
"how do they manage to water all the plants in the forest?"
pity i can't remember the other 2 really really retarded comments/questions she raised. (haha i love you cuz.)
and some attempts at artistic shots haha!
(again, to be uploaded...)
it was the awesomest way to start the holidays. nature, silence, 2 of the best companions in the world, time away, time in tranquility. i think i've talked about this in my shorter previous post already, so enough on that :) on hindsight, we didn't miss anything not going on the treetop trail. after all, we could always - and we will - go after exams :D
in the end, what could've been a less-than-an-hour's walk turned into a near 4h walk (: just because of all the stops.
(more photos here - this is more of a note-to-self haha don't mind me.)
after that i brought them into our school - windy benches! - to mugg. and i was reading about Global Structural Landforms but could hardly concentrate, heh. anyway, eve's shot of our school canteen made me miss the school compound over the holidays. hahaha.
and now, i have to pause for dinner. i might not be back that soon to continue this post but that's 1 major event in my life recently. there's looooads more! i will be back! ((:
05 September 2008
10:37 PM
"to get away from these books"this night i contemplatetonight i sit in pensive silence,
listening to each drawing in of breath
and the post-its rustling in the breeze.
this is a feeling of having something
removed from my heart,
an emptiness, a longing.
seems like tese books trace my paths.
newspaper cuttings, notes, pens and pencils,
words, words, words.
me and my irrational cravings;
a mind wandering like a freely-moving particle
in mid-air.
they won't stop reminding you about
A's - portfolios, records, bright-shining CV's and
"leaders of tomorrow".
and those who harp:
children in Africa have no education.
most of them yearn to.
'be thankful.'
'i am thankful.'
'you can never be thankful enough'.
i am thankful, but
is there no end to this?
we hardly question the dreams we chase.
i only wish to lie in a meadow,
watch prety butterflies,
and taste fresh air;
or roam the streets at night,
letting the crisp air dance on my skin,
telling me what freedom is.
it's nature that beckons us to pause,
nature that frees us from the bindings of books,
shows us what it's like to live.
and to hear the stillness of the night
and listen to your own heartbeat,
forgetting the world
is all it takes to remember that the
essence of life will never be found in print;
but only in the intricacies of God's creation.
still, even this i write here is penned;
will we ever escape?
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tonight is one tree hill therapy night. i didn't study anything at all today, save population pyramids. oh and i did pw this morning.
"it's really gonna take some time, peyton. you guys went through something really traumatic."
"yea but what if you have finals, and you can't sleep, and you don't have time?"
"well then hope for your old friend to tell you that life just kicks you around sometimes. and it scares you, and it beats you up, but, there's a day when you realise you're not just a survivor. you're a warrior. you're tougher than anything that throws you away. "
- brooke, oth 4
"the people i admire are the people who carve a life for themselves after their dream dies." nathan, oth 4
10:37 AM
GLOBAL WARMING ON THE RISE!! read this, it's tragic:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080904/twl-arctic-ice-shelf-1be00ca.htmlhttp://www.avaaz.org/en/sos_small_islands/?cl=123646744&v=2099 (please do sign it, i won't use emotional blackmail though.)
and on a different note, talking to janice is uber uber fun:
JaNiC3 : Freeezingggg says (10:41):
today i just learnt a whole new lot of terms about non-verbal communication.. you'll hear words like haptics; olfactics; gustics; oculesics; chronemics; vocalics; proxemics; objectics
JaNiC3 : Freeezingggg says (10:41):
like a science in it's own
and i still remember our msn convo quite a while ago...
JaNiC3 :: blog says:
i know this is random, but i got diarrhoea today
(she spelled diarrhoea correctly!!!! *thunderous applause*)
JaNiC3 :: blog says:
sian
★STREET. cheryl is down with flu ))): says:
hahha
★STREET. cheryl is down with flu ))): says:
its okay i <3 randomness
★STREET. cheryl is down with flu ))): says:
yeaa we can share our sorrows over bodily dysfunctions xD
JaNiC3 :: Quotes Cheryl: " yeaa we can share our sorrows over bodily dysfunctions xD" says:
HAHAHA
JaNiC3 :: Quotes Cheryl: " yeaa we can share our sorrows over bodily dysfunctions xD" says:
bodily dysfunctions
JaNiC3 :: Quotes Cheryl: " yeaa we can share our sorrows over bodily dysfunctions xD" says:
QUOTE OF THE DAY
i slept at almost 3am this morning cause i was talking to her! getting a "sneak peek" at uni life (in her terms), and talking a bit about worship too.
talking to senior youth (oh crap, i'm one myself now haha) really gives you a very different perspective of the world. really enlightening (:
04 September 2008
4:34 PM
"Be joyful always;
pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
"
The One who calls you is faithful, and He will continue to be faithful." 1 Thessalonians 5:24 (International Standard Version)
thank you
jeremy for a timely reminder :)
holidays have been pretty great so far, mostly spent mugging though with sufficient breaks for phonecalls/short outings/naps/happy stoning/diary updating, and mostly productive days :)
highlights (get it get it? you have to HIGHLIGHT this to read it!!! xDD) were, of course, monday morning's macritchie outing with eve and pearly, mac's breakfast yest and dinner tonight with my mum,
insightful phone conversations with jeremy (not to mention the
explicit eye-opening snippets of life on tekong transmitted back to 'real' life over here which i learnt about xD), and (hopefully), a night cycling trip this friday night.
this is the reason studying isn't all there is to life. even if you're a student in singapore.
fun is possible, fun exists, you just have to go out and get it. (discount the fact that some of us here equate studying with fun...)
(cheers to cheryl theories :) )
i think, honestly, this has been the best year of my life, without doubt. thanks to
all of you, even if you don't know who you are!
:D
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as for you, i hardly believe anymore that you care about me or even have any semblance of a desire to talk to me. i don't know what i've done/not done, but for some reason you seem to be more than happy or at least, willing, to shut me out of your life, to which i will not show any objections if that is what you truly want. i just want you to know it hurts, and i wish i knew why you're doing this. or perhaps, whether you even are aware that you are, and most importantly, whether it's of any matter to you.
03 September 2008
1:35 AM
thank you eve and pearly for every single of our endlessly fun, hilarious, entertaining, productive study sessions in church.
for the undeniably lovely people you guys are, for the beautiful heart in each of you, for your maturity in thinking and just for being such wonderful company all the time without fail. i love it how we're so comfortable with one another despite the fact that we can't actually call ourselves "close" friends - or perhaps now we can (:
thank you especially for yesterday's early morning macritchie outing, every moment of it brought pure joy. nature sure works in wondrous ways, and i'm glad we shared that experience.
and i absolutely love talking to both of you, we just clique, by some act of nature God and it's plain awesome (: there were so many things we talked about yesterday that i'll never dream of even mentioning to anyone else, simple because i know you guys can understand them in an entirely different light, which i gratefully appreciate.
those moments sitting/stoning/talking on the benches (benches?) along the trail whilst staring at the almost-unbelievably still water were priceless (:
nature's so so so terribly beautiful, it's a pity too many of us don't notice it.
i'm looking forward to our next outings (after exams! :/) to the treetop walk (we will not commit the same ultimately foolish mistake again, hahaha), sungei buloh, chek jawa? (if possible) and bukit timah? :))
and pearly! i mean it we MUST go eco-tourism-ing one day :D i can't think of any better person to go with than you. haha. you and your retardedness and lack of sense (at all!), etc. (:
I LOVE YOU EVE AND PEARLY!!
22 August 2008
1:45 AM
Heart of Life - John MayerI hate to see you cry
Laying there in that position
There's things you need to hear
So turn off your tears and listen
Pain throws you heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No, it won't all go the way, it should
But I know the heart of life is good
You know it's nothing new
Bad news never had good timing
But then the circle of your firends
Will defend the silver lining
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No, it won't all go the way, it should
But I know the heart of life is good
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good
I know it's good
this one was especially well-phrased: