alright, one day after the prelims and i'm starting to feel restless. I WANNA GO OUT!!! I WANNA GO WALK AROUND IN A CROWDED STREET WITH STRANGERS RUSHING OFF TO PLACES AROUND ME!!! I WANNA GO SOMEWHERE WITH BEAUTIFUL SCENERY, PEACE AND SERENITY!!! I WANNA GO SOMWEHERE I'VE NEVER GONE BEFORE!!! (note: i don't wanna go to Hell)
ok la, i'm being a typical ungrateful human. when there're papers to mug for, i complain about the lack of lerisure time. when the papers are done with, i complain about the lack of things to do during the abundance of leisure time.
shucks.
i shall think about something else then. like. gluttons' outing on monday. i was hoping that we could go pig out at a buffet place, like mel's suggested swissotel and raffles hotel buffet lunches. but we are trying out korean food at far east instead. i hope that place is good, cos lotsa korean-themed restaurants opened up here to take advantage of the korean wave and its legions of fans, so the food isn't exactly nice but people still keep going back. anyways, i'm looking forward to a day out on monday! and tuesday and wednesday! if anyone wants to go out, please call me along! can go eating, drinking, walking, sitting, shopping, spa-ing, stoning, loitering, window-shopping, movie-watching, arcade-playing, pool-playing, and whatever else singaporean youths like to do.
right. and i'm attempting to bake something tmr, so i'm going to bukit timah's fairprice FINEST to shop for ingredients tmr! i can't wait! i've been seeing a lot of ads for that outlet in the papers, how it has gourmet butchers and wine sections, chocolate counters, and a WHOLE lotta stuff that you rarely find in NTUC elsewhere.
hold a sec, lemme wipe off that bit o' drool here. there, that's better.
and i shall TRY to make something non-chocolatey, since siqian already is. maybe lemon-y, or fruit-y, or something nice-smelling..
ok, before i bore you with additional information that has no impact on you whatsoever, i had better change topics.
errrrrr.
i have nothing to say. i'm scooting off now, bye! have fun rotting and accumulating dust!
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
okaaay, i can't resist coming back here for one last post. i honestly can't get my hands off the computer after not doing so for like almost a quarter of a century.
and i shall post pics of Atlas again! meifen says Atlas looks cute with the blanket draped over him. haha thanks.
here he is, looking forlorn with the Elizabethan collar on. he looks like a lamp, and not a very bright one at that.
he likes using his paw as a cushion. and miscellaneous objects like his chew toys, a ledge and even someone's thigh, to rest his head against. he has this REALLY cute habit of squishing up against someone when he sits down, it's like he must make sure he's touching you so that he'll know if you get up and leave.
and he has absolutely NO sense of smell. either that or he's sleeping too deeply. ... either that or he's dreaming about something, maybe he's dreaming of a slice of pear in front of him, and he THINKS it's a dream, so he doesn't wake up to check if the aroma was real. either that or he has absolutely NO sense of smell.
he looks sad. right?
WRONG! how can anyone be sad with me around?!?!
haha, he's just moody cos i waked him up from his beauty sleep
and i shall post pics of Atlas again! meifen says Atlas looks cute with the blanket draped over him. haha thanks.
here he is, looking forlorn with the Elizabethan collar on. he looks like a lamp, and not a very bright one at that.
he likes using his paw as a cushion. and miscellaneous objects like his chew toys, a ledge and even someone's thigh, to rest his head against. he has this REALLY cute habit of squishing up against someone when he sits down, it's like he must make sure he's touching you so that he'll know if you get up and leave.
and he has absolutely NO sense of smell. either that or he's sleeping too deeply. ... either that or he's dreaming about something, maybe he's dreaming of a slice of pear in front of him, and he THINKS it's a dream, so he doesn't wake up to check if the aroma was real. either that or he has absolutely NO sense of smell.
he looks sad. right?
WRONG! how can anyone be sad with me around?!?!
haha, he's just moody cos i waked him up from his beauty sleep
YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH man!
i can't believe it's ALL over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
words are not enough to explain what i feel right now! but nonetheless i shall attempt to put down in words and preserve the inexplicable and tumultous emotions that are swirling around my mind.
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!
yeah that pretty sums it all up.
haha, i kid. but really la, i don't know what to feel.
first, i'm overjoyed that the 2 torturous weeks of prelims are over.
second, i'm extremely tired from surviving 3 weeks on roughly 4 or 5 hours of sleep a day, and short irregular half-naps.
third, i'm sad that school's coming to an end.
fourth, i'm starting to feel worried over my prelims grades, projected grades and university applications.
fifth, .......... did i just say that i'm sad school's ending?!?!
anyways, the start of today, or more directly speaking, during the chem paper, was absolutely terrible. i'd give it a straight 1.5 rating. then things got better as the gluttons went out to orchard! then my day shot up to a 4! could've been a 4.2 if i weren't so exceedingly tired. had lotsa fun talking to ah meng, mf and mel about uni and career stuff later on too. i can't believe i might possibly be leaving everyone here for uni in about 5 months' time! it seems just yesterday that i was like a teeny primary school kid with absolutely no worries or cares about the future (except probably what i was gonna have for lunch the next day).
i don't even know what to type la. i feel so mixed up now! but i guess majority of what i'm feeling now are good vibes! i was walking back home just now, around 7pm. the sky was quite dark, but not exactly real night-time darkness yet, and the street lights were on. the way back was almost void of human life, except for a few random people reaching back home from work, coming out of their cars. so i was practically alone, walking along. and i felt so extraordinarily HAPPY and a gigantic idiotic grin just spread over my face.
MAN, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE FEELING THAT WAY!!
and i love walking around orchard with absolutely no aim and no sense of hurry, no appointment to rush off to, no notes to finish mugging by tonight. i love LIVING LIFE, if i'm making any sense. i love walking, and seeing, feeling, hearing, people walk past.
and by the way, Quietdrive's "Time After Time" totally ROCKS! it's addictive i swear!
and i shall heave myself back on track, to the topic about Post-Prelims Syndrome. YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!
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i can't believe it's ALL over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
words are not enough to explain what i feel right now! but nonetheless i shall attempt to put down in words and preserve the inexplicable and tumultous emotions that are swirling around my mind.
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!
yeah that pretty sums it all up.
haha, i kid. but really la, i don't know what to feel.
first, i'm overjoyed that the 2 torturous weeks of prelims are over.
second, i'm extremely tired from surviving 3 weeks on roughly 4 or 5 hours of sleep a day, and short irregular half-naps.
third, i'm sad that school's coming to an end.
fourth, i'm starting to feel worried over my prelims grades, projected grades and university applications.
fifth, .......... did i just say that i'm sad school's ending?!?!
anyways, the start of today, or more directly speaking, during the chem paper, was absolutely terrible. i'd give it a straight 1.5 rating. then things got better as the gluttons went out to orchard! then my day shot up to a 4! could've been a 4.2 if i weren't so exceedingly tired. had lotsa fun talking to ah meng, mf and mel about uni and career stuff later on too. i can't believe i might possibly be leaving everyone here for uni in about 5 months' time! it seems just yesterday that i was like a teeny primary school kid with absolutely no worries or cares about the future (except probably what i was gonna have for lunch the next day).
i don't even know what to type la. i feel so mixed up now! but i guess majority of what i'm feeling now are good vibes! i was walking back home just now, around 7pm. the sky was quite dark, but not exactly real night-time darkness yet, and the street lights were on. the way back was almost void of human life, except for a few random people reaching back home from work, coming out of their cars. so i was practically alone, walking along. and i felt so extraordinarily HAPPY and a gigantic idiotic grin just spread over my face.
MAN, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE FEELING THAT WAY!!
and i love walking around orchard with absolutely no aim and no sense of hurry, no appointment to rush off to, no notes to finish mugging by tonight. i love LIVING LIFE, if i'm making any sense. i love walking, and seeing, feeling, hearing, people walk past.
and by the way, Quietdrive's "Time After Time" totally ROCKS! it's addictive i swear!
and i shall heave myself back on track, to the topic about Post-Prelims Syndrome. YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
and another thing. just when i think the human race is absolutely doomed to stupidity and atrophy, with idiots running countries and morons causing their own destruction, i stumble across miracles that prove me wrong. these miracles can be simple daily acts of wonder that show me that the human spirit may not be so dead after all, or they can be extraordinary gifts bequeathed to us plebians and evoking feelings of tremendous awe and humility.
firstly, i dunno if i've mentioned this before, but there's this boy in my neighbourhood. sometimes when i'm walking atlas or jogging in the evening, i meet him along the way, walking his dog. he walks his tiny little Daschund, while his maid will be pushing his grandmother in her wheelchair. the way he walks (he bounces every step), that huge smile on his face and his happy tone when he talks to his dog, haha, it really catches me all the time. he has down's syndrome by the way. and everytime i see him, i just unconsciously break out into this huge silly grin and i think about the daily miracles that exist around us.
then, there are times where people of pure genius and brilliance pop up. like daniel tammet. go research on him to see the astounding things he does. then you, like me, will wonder WHAT ON EARTH brought a great mind like him here. then your next thought will be, what is the purpose then, of his appearance on earth. and after that, you might probably question, what is he like as a person? imagine what thoughts run through his mind, as he wakes up at 7am in the morning, brushes his teeth, walks to the nearby cafe for a coffee and steps into a pile of dog poop maybe. what about things like politics, love or magic, what does HE think about those? how does he react when he sees a 35-year-old stuck on a maths question?
and then you might probably come back to the thought about WHAT ON EARTH brought a great mind like him here. is he here to tell us about the limits of the human mind in interpreting various phenomena and warn us not to get cocky? after all, he's stumped quite a few 'experts'. maybe he's an anomaly in the world? some technical glitch occurs and, PLOP, a paragon of intelligence and brilliance surfaces in some hospital.
it amazes me to think that things like these occur in this world of materialism, violence, ignorance, indolence, delusion and stupidity. without them, we would be such a boring race.
firstly, i dunno if i've mentioned this before, but there's this boy in my neighbourhood. sometimes when i'm walking atlas or jogging in the evening, i meet him along the way, walking his dog. he walks his tiny little Daschund, while his maid will be pushing his grandmother in her wheelchair. the way he walks (he bounces every step), that huge smile on his face and his happy tone when he talks to his dog, haha, it really catches me all the time. he has down's syndrome by the way. and everytime i see him, i just unconsciously break out into this huge silly grin and i think about the daily miracles that exist around us.
then, there are times where people of pure genius and brilliance pop up. like daniel tammet. go research on him to see the astounding things he does. then you, like me, will wonder WHAT ON EARTH brought a great mind like him here. then your next thought will be, what is the purpose then, of his appearance on earth. and after that, you might probably question, what is he like as a person? imagine what thoughts run through his mind, as he wakes up at 7am in the morning, brushes his teeth, walks to the nearby cafe for a coffee and steps into a pile of dog poop maybe. what about things like politics, love or magic, what does HE think about those? how does he react when he sees a 35-year-old stuck on a maths question?
and then you might probably come back to the thought about WHAT ON EARTH brought a great mind like him here. is he here to tell us about the limits of the human mind in interpreting various phenomena and warn us not to get cocky? after all, he's stumped quite a few 'experts'. maybe he's an anomaly in the world? some technical glitch occurs and, PLOP, a paragon of intelligence and brilliance surfaces in some hospital.
it amazes me to think that things like these occur in this world of materialism, violence, ignorance, indolence, delusion and stupidity. without them, we would be such a boring race.
woah, i just read beedict's blog, and there's so many points i agree with! lol great minds think alike.
anyway, point is, he talks about singapore culture, especially regarding qualities that EVERYONE chases after blindly. like leadership. EVERYONE wants a leadership position, EVERYONE thinks you should be a leader, EVERYONE lauds this way misunderstood quality and blindly worships it. you're lousy if you're not a leader. you suck if you follow in someone's footsteps.
i used to be very quiet see. okaay, i still am now. my primary and secondary school report cards ALWAYS said things along the lines of "sweet, smart, cheerful, but needs to participate more in class and speak up". all these 'mild' qualities my parents couldn't appreciate, they only saw the part about needing to speak up, and express youself, or take the lead and be bold. i ALWAYS got irritated about teachers asking me to speak up and my parents asking me to speak up. nowadays it seems like being quiet is absolutely WRONG and everyone should just blatantly express whatever thought comes to their mind. who cares if that just ends up creating this gigantic chaotic world of noise and half-formed ideas? like leadership, where there must be good followers, the world needs good listeners too. so some people who think their oh-so 'creative', 'bold' and 'daring' should just stop deluding themselves and start learning other important traits like listening and reflection as well.
i especially dislike locals who go abroad to study, then they come back with fake accents and say, "the system there is SO different. singaporeans are so meek, singaporeans should be more creative!"
firstly, ditch the fake accents.
secondly, there's nothing wrong with being a good follower.
of course, things must always be done in moderation la. just like a leader obssessed with power becomes a tyrant, a follower who simply blindly obeys becomes a doormat. there are skills involved in following too y'know.
anyway, point is, he talks about singapore culture, especially regarding qualities that EVERYONE chases after blindly. like leadership. EVERYONE wants a leadership position, EVERYONE thinks you should be a leader, EVERYONE lauds this way misunderstood quality and blindly worships it. you're lousy if you're not a leader. you suck if you follow in someone's footsteps.
i used to be very quiet see. okaay, i still am now. my primary and secondary school report cards ALWAYS said things along the lines of "sweet, smart, cheerful, but needs to participate more in class and speak up". all these 'mild' qualities my parents couldn't appreciate, they only saw the part about needing to speak up, and express youself, or take the lead and be bold. i ALWAYS got irritated about teachers asking me to speak up and my parents asking me to speak up. nowadays it seems like being quiet is absolutely WRONG and everyone should just blatantly express whatever thought comes to their mind. who cares if that just ends up creating this gigantic chaotic world of noise and half-formed ideas? like leadership, where there must be good followers, the world needs good listeners too. so some people who think their oh-so 'creative', 'bold' and 'daring' should just stop deluding themselves and start learning other important traits like listening and reflection as well.
i especially dislike locals who go abroad to study, then they come back with fake accents and say, "the system there is SO different. singaporeans are so meek, singaporeans should be more creative!"
firstly, ditch the fake accents.
secondly, there's nothing wrong with being a good follower.
of course, things must always be done in moderation la. just like a leader obssessed with power becomes a tyrant, a follower who simply blindly obeys becomes a doormat. there are skills involved in following too y'know.
my brain just picked up a weird thought. let's say you're 18 years old, the oldest child in your family, out of 3 kids. then you meet the family of your classmate, who is obviously 18 years old too, but this time, he's the youngest out of, say, 5 children. so it's kinda like your friend's family is older than your family isn't it? like a more established family with roots going back farther in history. so it's weird that your friend, and that can be anyone, comes from a part of history. their family's been around longer than yours did!
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ok whatever.
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ok whatever.
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