Tuesday, February 26, 2008
random
bumping into the less fortunate brought just one thought to my mind:i wana live life to the fullest.
i wana live life to the fullest.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
why tears come so freely now
I will very much depend on myself.But i've a feeling it's gona be harder than i (very naively) think.
What/where shall i divert my thoughts to? Reminiscence will render me stagnated. Imagination will leave me disappointed. Looking forward to the future will turn me into a perpetual daydreamer.
I'm running short of options.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
there's always a first time
Swim, yes. Tread water, no.Embarrassing as it is, i finally learnt the latter today. Urm but i think i was such an awful student that my coach of the day...
.. was tremendously drained :D
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
procrastination
I've tons of photos from cny reunion dinner, the trip, vday and qin's farewell that I've yet to upload. But these days the only things i do on my laptop are to type essay, type notes, check emails, watch youtube videos when i feel like it, and make random blog entries like this one. Somehow there're many things i wana do and yet have not done, and half of the sem just flew by and i didn't even realise that mid-term break is coming.Discovered that both ziying and mel are gona work/holiday in newyork this coming summer break and i thought, damn it's about time i plan for mine too. I should (and i WILL) learn to drive, join a project-planning club, and get lobang for a part-time job that will give me a chance to rub shoulders with big shots. haha.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
parental woes. not mine.
I just overheard mom's conversation with one of my aunts who had called to seek advice on how to discipline my supposedly "rebellious" teenage cousins. Frankly, I can't really decide whether my mom gave good advice. Or what constitutes good advice, for that matter.If I were a mom,
I would wana try to know my kid as much as I can.
I would give him/her more freedom than I myself have been given.
I would try to like the things that my kid likes.
I would like to have long dinner/ bedtime conversations (conversations, not lectures) with my kid.
I would teach my kid how to swim.
I would wana know about the people my kid fancies/dates.
I would wana be my kid's best friend.
Ironically, these are the same reasons why I don't think I wana be a mom in the first place.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
your song
another classic! elton john's outfit here is a little, urm, out-of-this-world, but i still think this is one of the best love songs ever written. i've been listening to it since i was a little girl, but of cos at that time i didn't understand what it meant.
for my loves (:
It's a little bit funny this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world
I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on
So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen
from Sonnet 43
All days are nights to see till I see thee,And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
shakespeare sums it up nicely (:
and valentine's day for me will never be the same again.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
when will you be back
It's always have and never holdYou've begun to feel like home
What's mine is yours to leave or take
What's mine is yours to make your own
(:
getaway
I broke a personal record this holiday. The 13-hour bumpy coach ride (with meal/toilet breaks here and there of cos) to cameron highlands almost gave me deep vein thrombosis. Or at least i felt so. thankfully the journey wasn't a waste, cos the trip was rather enjoyable. Not exactly very much fun but enjoyable. Technically i equate travelling without parents + attempting unfamiliar adventurous activities to fun, so yea. "To embrace nature" was the reason my folks gave for proposing this chinese new year getaway, and true enough, there were visits to the tea plantation, rose farm, cactus farm and of cos strawberry farm haha. And apparently my folks weren't the only ones to choose such a laid-back holiday cos there were many many other Singaporeans on the same trip as well. Speaking of which, i got to witness some ugly behaviour of our counterparts (ah, what's new) and i'll probably write more about it soon.Hopefully everyone had fun (: night, world.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
random
i'm supposed to be doing research for an essay now so i'll make this quick.just realised that lunching with seniors is quite an experience (: found myself intrigued by my year2, year3 and year4 eng elective seniors and their stories of FYPs, hellish schedules, career options etc. and how the guys are overwhelmed by the intelligence of their girlfriends haha. as one of them put it candidly, everytime her grades jump, my heart jumps too. it isn't difficult to sense that beneath all that friendly banter, they are indeed under various sorts of pressure, given that they're entering the job market really soon.
ohgosh i still have a long way to go, and i can't really imagine myself in their shoes just yet. but at the back of my mind something tells me, just you wait :p
Saturday, February 02, 2008
for real
my bro-in-law-to-be just popped up at my place to take sis out and i had no idea he was coming so soon, so i'm still clad in my pyjamas and my hair's super messy and i'm wearing my ultra-geeky specs while printing lecture notes out in the living room! omg talk about embarrassing myself again.alright that's besides the point.
my man's in snowy shanghai now! i wana BE there too to shop, to watch the snowfall, to bum around xintiandi but well. =/ i'm dying to travel again! still, i'm feeling really thankful for my meangirls for the movie date and also timo for the fateful phonecall (5 years ain't too late la haha).