NUSS Bridge
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" Our greatest glory is not never falling, but in rising everytime we fall " Confucius
Ah... I had to use that quote to put xl out of the misery... He kept the quote there for more than 2 weeks already..:) So here I am blogging on an event that happened 3 weeks ago:X lol, here goes, the day b4 NUSS, the friday 3 weeks ago was my recovery day from class chalet. So, met xl at Buona Vista MRT to find our way to NUSS. Got jacked by the bus directory, got off the stop that says Kent Ridge Hall but was in the end miles away from our destination. After some navigating, finally found the Kent Ridge Guild Hall.
Hmm...RJC sent the most teams there, a total of 6, while most schools sent only 1 or 2, cept for HC who sent 4 i think. So the tournament started and by the first match against HC team D, had to call director 2wice due to a lack of cards. lol, did quite well for that match, 25-3 was it, couldn't remember. Well...as the tournament proceeds, it became quite apparent that the teams playing in the 2 groups are of differnt calibre. lolz...and we are stuck in the group with all the strong teams and only 2 from each group can proceed to the finals. gosh... in the end, we were ousted by our very own clubmates, RJC team B, i think. Yeah....so I left the place at 11.30pm trying to find my way back to the east. Found out that I missed the last bus and thus took taxi home. A whooping 20 bucks flew out of the window. lol.
The next day, we had to go back to the same place to play in the consolation cup. We were doing quite well at first, overrunning most of the teams in the way and staying at the top of the table throughout the tournament till we played HC team A again in the 2nd last match. Me and xl were sitting out already by then coz we played the first 2 matches. We lost quite badly to HC and that caused us the top-table position. THe J2s our teammates, put up a good show against HC team C in the last match to make up for the error, scoring the 1 and only 25-0 victory in the whole tournament. However, it was still not enough as HC team A went to score another victory in their last match to take the consolation cup. Nevertheless, *looks above at the quote.
On the other hand, 2 RJ teams and 2 CJ teams made it into the finals. The RJ teams ended up 3rd and 4th, but the fight for 2nd was close, RJ team B could have almost snatched 2nd position from one of the CJ teams. But well, it was an overall good showing for RJ at the NUSS, coz we were regarded as "runners-up" from behind b4 this year tournament. lol, we will be back next year, our aim thenn would be the champion.
As a final note, have to say a big thank you to my partner xl who came up with out partnership agreement. It wasn't easy, i tell u, "rojak singapore-style precision" ain't exactly water-tight, but yes, it improved our bidding a lot. Also, would like to highlight the amazing journey we took from contract bridge noobs, to a established pair in the club(and perhaps SCBA) in 6 months. Still remember smoking through the selection test with bong providing answers, mastering SAYC from the book photcopied from bong, being trashed at the first outing to SCBA, switching to precision 1 1/2 months b4 NUSS and the self-sustained outings to SCBA... Amazing expereince... Wonderful as well... So thank you partner(typ) :)"
I'm glad i took up bridge....
"There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for."
quoted from Xunqi's blog...wonder if he remembers
"It's easier to forgive someone for being wrong than being right."
famous quote from Harry Potter- Order of Phoenix i think
"I just wanted to stay with you
I just wanted to feel your breath of grace
I didn't know what to do
I couldn't say anything
When consciousness returned
Everything had been washed away
by the tide of time, even you
But the scars of memory never fade away
I can't stop loving you
Stop my tears
Stop my loving
Kill my memories"
[Silent Jealousy, X-Japan]
X-Japan!!!!!
Fireworks festival
"woot..fireworks festival....yan1 huo3 de4 ji4 jie2... though i have some inherent bias against the singers of the song. haha, but i'll still support good music and this song just happen to not be classifed under noise. So, self-explanatory, went to watch fireworks at esplanade bridge yest, taking note that it was near midnight.
Fireworks are short-lived, yet beautiful. They live, for the purpose that in that few seconds where they are the brightest in the sky, they capture the attention of 20 000 ppl with their dazzling and spectacular display. Afterwhich, they fade into eternal oblivion, never to be seen again. To freeze time at the point where the fireworks are the most beautiful would be nice, but then it wouldn't be beautiful anymore, would it?"
Watching fireworks at midnight has got a romantic feel to it, but too bad u can't feel too romantic watching it with at least a thousand other ppl...
"I miss the singing of song "home" in RI. Though it may be a bit cliched, but still, there is this heart-warming feeling when hundred others sing along with u."
National Day...
童话
童话就是我们遗失的美好...
Fairytales are forever, they never end.....
In everyone's heart, there is always a fairytale. Fairytales act as motivation for us, they provide the driving force for us to press on even when the odds are stacked against us.
我愿变成童话里，
你爱的那个天使，
张开双手变成翅膀守护你。
They make us do crazy things, irrationale things.... but the ultimate truth is without them, we would break down. Fairytales, as its name suggest, would perhaps never be a reality, but that does not stop us from believing in them, working towards them.
是不是我又做错了什么，
你哭着对我说，
童话里都是骗人的，
我不可能是你的王子...
The real world is a far cry from fairytales. More often than not, things turn out the way you do not want them to be. However, what is important would be the strength of your belief, would you hold on to ur fairytale？...
但我相信你给我的誓言，
就像一定会来的春天。
我始终带着你爱的微笑，
一路上寻找我遗失的美好...
For me, I'll hold on to my fairytale at all costs. However, by doing so, there is always a danger- that you may miss out on a fairytale while waiting for the other to happen.
明知道让你离开他的世界不可能会，
我还傻傻等待奇迹出现的那一天
虽然心中的童话已被残酷的事实破灭，但它还是完好无损地保留在我心灵中。
我还是希望，期待，等待着
童话的出现..."
"我从来不会想说，
那种..
如果时光可以倒流的这种话。
因为....
时光如果真的可以倒流，
这一切就不会那么的珍贵....
Mayday just has this ability to cheer you up no matter wat situation you are in. Perhaps its the non-chalance or rather the way their music express their belief that there is good in the world and nothing else matters more than that.
你知道吗，有些事只要你不要太在意，它就真的没那么了不起...
昨天太近，明天太远，现在我了解.... 在等..未来会发生什么事.... 知足后.....就会常乐..."
Quotes from Mayday...
"在游戏还没开始前
翻看了游戏规则
上面写着“你若参加，就必输”
明知如此
却相信自己有超人的力量
改变游戏规则
最终让自己得到胜利...
这..是愚蠢？...还是坚持？
人是自私的
要说“他比我幸福”很容易
要说“我比他幸福”却很难
情侣口中的“我爱你”已成了
“我要你给我幸福”
在玩游戏的当中，
赫然发现自己不是超人
但却不肯接受事实的残酷
还在游戏中徘徊
或许有一天会发现
要赢这游戏
唯一的方法就是知足而放弃
把“我爱你”变成了
“我要你比我更幸福”
可惜的是
人始终是人
而人最大的错
就是不懂得知足...."
A chinese post....obviously worth mentioning... inspired by mayday...
"Within a nightmare and yet relishing every moment of it..... coz the apparent truth- that it is just a figment of imagination is somehow harder to bear...."
This time, the words found me....
"boxjoeofxkvmnz fyseieaavalderry shldsnkdsfn"
The cryptic message.... it nothing much btw... if i told u, u probably go, "wat, tht's it?"
"It all boils down to the split second....
The icy gaze struck like a spear. Loathing. Contempt. Then it was all over... A lost cause....yet deemed worthy enough to fight for...
The warrior stood alone on the battlefield, his sword drawn and ready. With a yell, he charged towards the unknown enemy. Jumping into the air, he swung his sword with full force, making contact with the flesh of the enemy. At the same time, a searing pain registered across his chest but with the icy gaze bearing down, he completed the follow through motion of the sword before he finally realised that it was too late-
the enemy was within him....it was a lost cause....
The icy gaze struck like a spear. Loathing. Contempt. But wait.... was there a glint of a teardrop?.... "
A stash of inspiration...
Zoo
"To a child, the zoo is a living fantasy, as well as a walking nightmare. Just as how a sheep's bleat may shrill and delight him, the lion's roar strikes fear deep in his heart. Even in the safety of the viewing gallery, separated from the animals by a glass wall, he stands in awe.... of the wonderous works of nature.
As the child grows into a teenager, his knowledge increases exponentially and he starts to rationalise. When he visits the zoo again, the animals are no longer masterpieces of nature, but reduced to beasts in captivity providing entertainment for the paying consumer. Though he may have retained the curiousity of childhood, he has lost the respect for nature, or rather, the innocence that made things so simple...."
An innocent trip, yet with sophiscated complications...
CIP
"heh....there's CIP todae...yes on a Sunday... therefore i was at bishan at 9 in the morn to eat breakfast at Yakun with vin... after breakfast, we adjourned to the zj's fan club meeting (J8 macs) b4 heading to sch (obviously at tht time coz zj had the CO room key)... Grabbed our instruments and we took the chartered bus down to CC High(Main).. Yeah..the CIP was this mass gathering of 1000+ old folks, 33 homes, for a series of performances and then dinner... Our perfomance item was only 15mins, i think lesser and we were supposed to spend the rest of our time as "free labour" for the organisers. But it was quite fun lar... my first job was to hold scotchtape while vin uses a scissor to cut it 0_0... we were wondering how much would we be paid if we were not "free labour".... hehe.. just realised tht the direct chinese translation of 义工 is "voluntary worker" which is rather ironic.... But once the old folks came, it was much better lar...as in we had proper jobs to do then.....oh did i mention.... they were so concerned for the helpers tht they served us a high-carbo lunch tht is both vegetarian and halal (make further inferences at own risk) arh...my entry is getting disorganised... shall talk bout the sch now... It's huge... yes.. this coming from a RJ guy probably gives u an idea how big the sch is... and it's located out of nowhere....we were like in the bus then suddenly we arrived....with no warning nor signs... My first impression of the main gate= Tiananmen.... The hall is huge.. but no air-con so all of us were cooked together with the 1000 old folks.... The canteen does not look like a canteen until u enter the buildng and there's no toilet... k, our performance was rather sucky coz we had very ppl and the sound was bad... i think being cooked and cooped backstage 1 hr b4 our performance added to the effect... After the performance, it was time for the old folk's dinner and when we saw the food, it was like "omg, why didn't u serve this for lunch?" but well...we could only stare at them eat... After dinner, they all went back in their buses and i thanked the group leader, Johnny i think... nice guy..though a little odd coz it seems tht we had more CIP experience than him.. he was like saying this was the first time he took part in this kind of activity.. After tht, we packed up and left too... CIP is always fun....though u spend most of ur time slacking around... but it's a great bonding activity:)"
First CO CIP project...
"The most touching scene, i think is the one where the girl played a piano solo for the guy in front of the whole LT... The song she played was Canon in D, a variation of it, a cliched and overplayed song, even its variations...
It's nice when someone plays a piece of music just for you, one of the more sincere gifts i would say... becoz it's personal, though the notes may be the same, each and every person plays it differently, and when someone plays something for you, every note tht he/she plays belongs to you... listen to the piano in the background, dun u just wish tht someone would play tht for u? When words fail you, let music do the taking"
Windstruck-ed by My Sassy Girl
2B chalet
"okae...this was like 1 week ago but well... around 10 ppl there for the first night... nothing much on coz bbq was on the 2nd night... winning eleven, soul calibre 3 and even katamari on the PS2, daidee, shawn's ipod and zongjin prectising erhu "early in the morning", macs at 3 am basically sums up the first night. Slept for only 2 hours i think... oh yeah.. there was vodka too ( 40% alcohol) causes a burning sensation from the throat all the way to the stomach... disclaimer: sip...do not gulp (like vin did...lol)
2nd day was my birthday...ahhh and there was CO... so left pasir ris at bout 9.30 to go to bishan... lolz... lunch with xianyue ppl... kwan expounded a lengthy expository on toilets in Japan over the meal table which only helps to reaffirm our faith that the "cleansing" in Japan did her more harm than good...lol... Prac was as usual, nothing out of the ordinary.... After prac, took bus 58 back home while vin and zj went on to the chalet bbq first... Miraculously, i reached the chalet bout the same time as the both of them and by the time we're there, the bbq was about all over with snl trying to finish bbq the little food left... luckily for us, there was quite an amount of cooked but not eaten food which includes the usual sausages and stingrays... in the end, we couldn't finish the food but while we were eating, there was "free show" adjacent to us... according to snl , the ppl on the other side had tried bbq-ing with an aluminium tray... Nothing wrong till they put newspaper beneath to prevent the surface from being burnt... wah...science experiments followed obviously... First lesson: aluminium is a metal...conducts heat readily.... Put paper under an aluminium tray filled with burning charcoal, chances are, the paper will burn even without a spark.... lol..then they wise up and rented a portable bbq ppt, put the burning charcoals in and started fanning like mad- "to create smoke signals" as quoted from snl once again.... Lesson Two: An object with high CG is unstable and topples very easiy...so u knoe wat happen.... tht guy fanned until the whole bbq pit toppled over and the charcoals spilled onto the floor... By the time they got their stuff rite...it was already 9+ when we finished the bbq and apparently, we started the fire 1/2 later than them....
After the bbq, stayed in for the usual games.... through the night, snl was obsessed with a particular soul calibre 3 character and by morning thhe whole chalet agreed tht soul calibre 3 should be given a higher rating, R-21 at least....:X, for disturbing audio features.... hehe, for the second nite i didn't sleep and i woke ppl up for sunrise... wah.. it was already first light when we left the chalet lar...so we pia-ed all the way to the end of the park to watch the sunrise.... view was obstructed slightly by trees and cloud but like i said earlier, nature can only be beautiful...
Does who u watch the sunset with matter? So far, been watching sunrises with guys only...sadly? lol, 但每一次都有它自己独特的感动... I guess it has to do with wat u expect from watching a sunrise... For me, almost everything pales in comparison with the ability to stand and marvel at nature, so everytime i take a step back to look at nature, i feel strangely relaxed and happy in a way... I think its kind of sad when ppl see rainbows and yet remain emotionally aloof... To me..thts like dying in a way....
hmm....the rest are pretty mudane... packed up, go home and then sleep....
2 days later, i was at yet another chalet, this time a family one.... hey... i'm an uncle now... My niece is so cute.... a few months old only i think.... Babies are amazing, i spent like 5-6 hours watching her race across the living room ( chalet was at Aranda) in her walker, numerous ppl trying to babytalk and play with her(myself too) and bear witness to her unpredictable mood swings... ha... if ever one day u forget wat innocence look like, go look in the baby's eyes..."
CO bbq
"Was supposed to be at bedok at 11am to buy stuff for the bbq but i woke up at 10.15.... so was a little late.... but in the end, the chair and vice-chair were the latest lar. Went to Giant supermarket to shop for bbq stuff, then we took 196 to east coast park.
East Coast Park is quite a nice place lar, just that the large number of ships anchored spoilt the view of sea. Played soccer and frisbee there b4 going cycling with vin. ECP is really big. Rented the bike for 2 hours and just barely managed to cover the whole park. There was this Bedok Jetty tht was damn cool.. When u walk/cycle through it, it feels as though u are walking into the sea, then at the end, u can see where the tall buildings in the city as well as the sea stretching all the way to the horizon...
After cycling, thts bout 6pm... went back to the pit to check on their progress. Turns out that they were trying to light fire starters and spent almost 1 box of matchsticks doing so but to no avail. lol, the fire was supposed to be started at 5.30 lor. haiz... the trouble of having a bbq without a scout. After the fire was started, zj, vin and i walked to 7-11 to get butter, ice and grill. zj was commenting on the way back, something like "perfect weather for the bbq.......if it doesn't rain." lol,u can guess wat happened... first it started raining on the far side... it was quite a view, from the beach, u can see the half of the sky filled with dark clouds while the other half was clear and the sea, the half tht was under the dark clouds turned a ominous green while the other half remained blue. The rain looked like mist from afar and shrouded the ships, giving it a mysterious aura. Luckily for us, the rain got closer and closer, seen from the exponientially decreasing visibility, but stopped b4 reaching us. When we thought the worst was over, we turned around to find dark clouds gathering from inland. As it was night, the sky glowed red. When it started raining we got our umbrellas out to shelter the fire and the food, some of us did tht at the expenses of getting drenched oureselves, it quite a sight. The rain did stop in the end and we were able to carry on with our bbq thankfully...
The beach at night was a glorious sight, though a tad too artificial for me. The ships anchored at sea had lamps that looked like ornaments in the night sky. The waves pounded relentlessly on the shores and the occasional lightning lighted up the entire place so tht u can even see the ships and outine of the shore at afar. And most importantly, it was peaceful- no sounds of cars... only nature's voice in the background...
The bbq ended at about 10pm with like 50+ chicken wings, 1 sack of potatoes, a few corns left... lol, the "chicken wing menace" again.... Poor kwan brought 80 of them and had to bring 50 odd of them back... The rest of the stuff, disposable utensils and all were split among ourselves to bring home. Hitched a ride from Xunqi's dad to Kembagan. While waiting for his dad to come, Xunqi was reminiscing his time in RJCO and the need to let go now b4 he goes for NS... It hit me then tht 1 year later, i would most likely be facing the same thing... Would there be nostalgia? Would there be regrets? i can only wonder...."
tht sums it up nicely..... bg is playing spirited away soundtrack- Reprise...
Friday, December 30, 2005
A peek into next yr's time-table provided by kiang hon reveals an "exciting schedule" for next yr.... physics chem S are on tues and thurs, thus i end at 4pm on mon, 5pm on tues, 5.30pm on wed (due to CO), 5pm on thurs and 5.30pm on fri (due to bridge) and sat and sun are taken up by RJCO and hsinghai respectively.....woots... no more short days for me....
Thursday, December 29, 2005
While u view the silent movie of memories, do not be afraid to let tears fall, for tears make us human....
RECAP
Orientation
"Unity in diversity. In our differences, we can always find similarities, if we try hard enough. Draw strength from the past, look for hope in the future, but most importantly, treasure the present. K’predorus- the dimension of present, suspended elusively between the past and the future, is waiting for us… Carpe Diem. Seize the Day."
"5 days ago, we were like a pile of ashes, gathered from different parts of sg. Yet, through the unforgettable experience of orientation, Zev’ Feior is reborn, just like a phoenix, engulfed in flames. A magnificent phoenix that rose out of ashes, that weathered all trials and tribulations and is forever united. Though the Great Divide still stands today, it is only a physical barrier, no more a mental barrier, for we have bonded to become one. Zev’ Feior will continue to burn, till the very end of time….."
though reality seems to have proved otherwise, unfortunately
“Don’t u think stars are beautiful? On a clear night even when the whole world seems to be ignoring u, they twinkle and blink at u innocently without fail.”<- astro advert
I wish upon a star tonite…. U ppl out there, take 5 secs out and look out into the night sky. Choose a star and wish upon it. With luck, we might wish upon the same star. Even if we dun, at least we saw the same moon…
O level results
"As a conclusion, we can see that MOE is truly a mastermind in mind games. By giving vague information like "o level results would be out end of this week to early next week" and sending envelopes in different colours, they have set the entire J1 cohort alive in flames, hyperventilating in an air-con room. Well, on an ending note, good luck for the results, (touch wood), as if u all need it, rite? :)"
on white and brown envelopes:)
"3 mnths seem like a min when u think bout it, but the min u spend remembering it is worth the 3 months of time."
quoted for the first 3 months
O2
"O2 became a perfect mockery of the beautifully composed batch song as jc1s of RJC todae engage in total "cold warfare" against the O2 team.
They(maybe including me) do not see the point of O2, and when a man doesn't believe in a certain cause, he would not work for it. It is a simple logic, understood by many, but the solution to this problem yet eluded many, including the elites of a top premier JC in the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio area. O2 was the best example "
Need i say more?
"Nostalgia is a weakness....Regret is a vulnerability... To protect urself, apathy is the best solution... but it does take some things away from u... Feelings are no longer expressions, they become tools... A smile hides a knife...tears are just a far more effective replacement for persuasive words... To quote, friendship is nothing but a mutual contract of bilateral interests, once the relationship of interests cease to exist, friendship is just trendy jargon invented by idealistic ppl to descibe a non-existent relationship"
on the unforgiving environment of RJC
"A gentle wind started to blow and was trasnformed to a gale within seconds. At the horizon, the curtain of rain started to make its way towards the beach. Just like dominoes falling, it approached at immense velocity. Still, I stood my ground, refusing to budge. As the storm swept across the beach, all hell broke loose. Raindrops hit down hard across my face and waves smashed repeatedly on the beach. My heart was shattered and swept away by the merciless waves, leaving behind an empty shell whose tears were drowned out by the raindrops."
kind of reminds me of East Coast...lol
SYF
"Orchestra no.11, RJC....
Gold.
GWH would have added some euphoria, but such euphoria are short-lived. What can compare to the friendships, memories, spirit gained from this event? Nothing....
Only when one is able to see that the significance of results is paper-thin, then will he truly be happy."
SYF Gold!
"It was in the afternoon. The sky was overcast, the corridor was dark as a result. There was time to spare, thus I walked to a glass window and stared out at the sky. Feeling bored, I suddenly thought of an idea. I leaned forward and whispered through the glass window to the sky, " send me a raindrop". As if answering my prayers, it started to drizzle. Then the first raindrop arrived, splattered on the glass window. I placed my hand over it as though catching it and traced its descent down the window to the edge. Then, it started to fall again, away from the window. I watched helplessly as the raindrop fell......down into the hand of a person scurrying for shelter. When i looked up again, the glass window was filled with raindrops. My vision was blurred and the glass window slowly dissapeared, allowing the raindrops to fall directly on my face and into my hands...
Sometimes, it takes more than just courage. "
Concert
"Concert was over. The reality finally sunk in...
We always seem to want to put a full stop to every sentence, a final chord to every song, yet there would be cases where it is better to leave the sentence hanging in the air and allowing the music to fade into the background. Why trouble yourself to define when something stops when u knoe that whenever u define it to be, u would be wrong? Just like a hangover, drinking lots of water or tea would not help in any way, so just let the thoughts run and run and run until the effects gradually wear off.
Imagine a video cam postioned such that all the activities of the 2 days of concert were recorded. Running the video on fast forward, u would see an empty stage, to one that is filled with instruments, stands and chairs, to a brightly lit stage where we performed our hearts out, to finally back to an empty stage. When I walked into the PAC after clearing up, the empty stage stared back at me. I contrasted the feeling at that time with the one when I first stepped into PAC 2 days ago. It was so surreal just like a dream....
When a true performer clears up the stage after performing, he/she not just takes away his instrument and scores, instead, he/she takes away all the memories, the efforts, the good times, the bad times, the laughter, the tears, and he/she goes away a truly different person"
2 nights of concert at the PAC
"It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am... you're all the reasons I am."
quoted from A Beautiful Mind..
SYCO concert
"just returned from SYCO concert. Put simply, the first half was mediocre, the second half was awe-inspiring. Tian1 wang3 was certainly moving, the bowed strings playing simple melodies that melted the heart of the audiences. It was the first time I'd heard a CO play such beautiful strings music that tug at the heartstrings."
Tian1 Wang3....classic
Indifference
"On the MRT 3 days ago returning from the concert, a man tht is not at all well-dressed started cursing the air. Okae, i dun knoe who's he cursing, perhaps its not the air. The all famous 4 letter vulgarity starting with "f" was used and its equally famed 7-letter counterpart starting with "b" was not spared either. THe whole point is tht it came out of the blue, this guy sitting there just started cursing for no reason, and to add that it's at night as well, on a weekend when there were quite a number of kids around. However, his attention-seeking antics drew only apathy from most of us in the same carriage. In totally ironic sense, there were two wedded couples with a baby each sitting opposite him. The couples were seated on the MRT seats whereas the babies were in prams facing each other. The two babies, out of obvious curiosity of seeing another of their kind, started pointing at each other and communicate using "baby talk". Their parents were obviously amused and tried to join in the "baby talk". Oh! I forgot to add that the couples didn't knoe each other, one couple was Malay while the other was Chinese. The six of them were so in their own world and totally oblivious of this guy who was in fact cursing straight in their direction. The guy finally gave up in the end and alighted at Simei i think. lol, the power of indifference?"
Nature
"Sunrise is best described by Robert Frost's poem,
Nothing gold can stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so for an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay
The flurry of emotions tht flutter by during sunrise is throughly shown in the poem. Awaiting in the darkness, the delight and euphoria of first light, leading on to the entrancing subtle colour changes of the sky and the slowly expanding horizon of light. The sky from orange and purplish, to green, to light blue, to white and finally to sky blue. The surroundings from pitch black to shadows, to vague outlines and fianlly to clearly defined images. These beautiful changes takes place all within 10 minutes and at the end of 10 minutes, there is this disappointment cos "nature's gold" has disappeared.
Sunset is somewhat similar to sunrise, just that at the prime of sunset, a warm fuzzy orange shade tht is just so comfortable to be in is formed. Also, it last for less than 10 minutes before the last light and the place slips into darkness.
Even when life sucked big time, after looking at a sunrise or sunset, one would perhaps realise tht, life is not bad after all, there are still beautiful stuff around to appreciate.
The sea holds my secrets.
The sky gives me hope.
The wind carries my unspoken wishes.
The rain drowns my tears.
The sun provides the reason to smile
The sands records my footsteps"
Time spent marvelling at nature is time well spent...
Class Chalet
"The long awaited entry i believe. Was supposed to meet at Pasir Ris MRT at 3pm last thurs. Due to the morning badminton at Khatib, I reached back home at about 2.45pm. Was still able to make it if i took my bike and biked there immediately, but got a call on the bus to get tongs and tissue paper for the chalet. When i finally realised that there were no tongs at home, it was already 3, thus decided to walk to White Sands to get before walking to the chalet. Reached the chalet at 3.20 and spent another 10 mins calling the class reps who refused to pick up b4 calling Miss Wong to find out the unit. lol. The chalet is sure big, as those who have heard me described, 6 times the space u get at Downtown East and a tad bigger than Aranda Country Club. lol, 2B2k should have chalet there too, but the point is how to book... *stares at deng...
From this point on, the chalet entry would be quite boring due to the lack of excessive alcohol unlike some guy who had vodka, gin tonic and so on. lol, the most we had was 5% alcohol and only Zhu drank i think. Okae...on to the bbq, Zhu demostrated a 4G tradition accredited to snl(according to xl). Fireball, or rather spraying deodourant over a lighter, just tht lighter was replaced with matchstick. The food was okay, just that 2B's theory of "say no to chicken wings" was proven true again and they bought only 2 or 3 packets of sauasages which was far too few by the 2B gang's standard. And yes, I miss the stingray prepared by richard's mum....grr... 2B's second theory: No BBQ is complete without stingrays. lol, at 7pm, there was a rather unusual sight. All the guys suddenly disappeared from the bbq area and plonked themselves down in front of TV watching channel 8's tong2 xin1 yuan2. hmm...doesn't seem to be a case of raging hormones...
Into the night, started on "whiling time away" games like mahjong, uno stacko.... also had talking crap sessions and a anti-climatic movie Ju-on which acted almost like a sleeping pill. A guest by the name of Mr Dave Sim arrived at an unearthly time to teach us card tricks and listen in in our crapping session. Not that he was not welcomed at the chalet, just that the time he arrived and left was highly odd and rather questionable. Nevertheless, it was fun having him around and no one tried to grill him for an answer.
After the movie Ju-on, went to see the ppl still awake play a game of modified snap. Ended up as Joel entertaining us with his apparent lack of psychomotor and memory skills. Though I did not take part in the game, was doing some memory work as well to keep my brain alive for the bridge tourney one day later. When the game ended, some of the ppl went to sleep while the girls left to watch sunrise, 1 and a half hour b4 the actual event. After a while, the 5 guys left, me, gerbert, anrong, hammy and joel found out tht we had nothing to do and somehow Miss Wong ended up sleeping on the sofa 0_0 Decided in the end to go see the sunset as well. Found the back gate locked and due to some warped theory offered by Gerbert, we ended up touring the chalet premises and woke a few ppl sleeping by the swimming pool, though one wonders why they were sleeping there in the first place. Finally, we were enlightened and called the girls to find out how they got out. Their answer was a nonchalant "main entrance". Can't blame them, they were obviously oblivious to the fact that they were along the same stretch of road as the infamous Red House. On hindsight, it wasn't that bad as it was 5 in the morning and the Red House is dismissed as urban legend by many.
So we reached the beach at like 5.45, chose a spot and sat down to talk in the pitch darkness. This reminded me of 2B chalet 6 months ago. lol, noticed tht I've included a lot of reference back to 2B chalet. Nostalgia? back to the point, 6 months ago, the 2B gang was sitting at the breakwaters at 10pm at night. We were indignant of the power of environment to change a person and promised ourselves that we would not change. However, looking back today, change seems inevitable and have proven to be so. Still there's one promise that would never broken i think, tht is for the gang to stay togather. lol, though now we see each other less, there always that sense of familiarity when we come together and everyone can be himself. lol, we must have another chalet at the end of year...
Sunrise was covered in a previous entry and perhaps to drive home the point, i'll add another quote from Outsiders. Ponyboy muses, " It seems funny to me that they sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two world we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset." on the dispairity btw socs and greasers. lol, the last line is indeed a punchline."
That's all the way to June...... 6 more months to cover tmr.....
RECAP
Orientation
"Unity in diversity. In our differences, we can always find similarities, if we try hard enough. Draw strength from the past, look for hope in the future, but most importantly, treasure the present. K’predorus- the dimension of present, suspended elusively between the past and the future, is waiting for us… Carpe Diem. Seize the Day."
"5 days ago, we were like a pile of ashes, gathered from different parts of sg. Yet, through the unforgettable experience of orientation, Zev’ Feior is reborn, just like a phoenix, engulfed in flames. A magnificent phoenix that rose out of ashes, that weathered all trials and tribulations and is forever united. Though the Great Divide still stands today, it is only a physical barrier, no more a mental barrier, for we have bonded to become one. Zev’ Feior will continue to burn, till the very end of time….."
though reality seems to have proved otherwise, unfortunately
“Don’t u think stars are beautiful? On a clear night even when the whole world seems to be ignoring u, they twinkle and blink at u innocently without fail.”<- astro advert
I wish upon a star tonite…. U ppl out there, take 5 secs out and look out into the night sky. Choose a star and wish upon it. With luck, we might wish upon the same star. Even if we dun, at least we saw the same moon…
O level results
"As a conclusion, we can see that MOE is truly a mastermind in mind games. By giving vague information like "o level results would be out end of this week to early next week" and sending envelopes in different colours, they have set the entire J1 cohort alive in flames, hyperventilating in an air-con room. Well, on an ending note, good luck for the results, (touch wood), as if u all need it, rite? :)"
on white and brown envelopes:)
"3 mnths seem like a min when u think bout it, but the min u spend remembering it is worth the 3 months of time."
quoted for the first 3 months
O2
"O2 became a perfect mockery of the beautifully composed batch song as jc1s of RJC todae engage in total "cold warfare" against the O2 team.
They(maybe including me) do not see the point of O2, and when a man doesn't believe in a certain cause, he would not work for it. It is a simple logic, understood by many, but the solution to this problem yet eluded many, including the elites of a top premier JC in the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio area. O2 was the best example "
Need i say more?
"Nostalgia is a weakness....Regret is a vulnerability... To protect urself, apathy is the best solution... but it does take some things away from u... Feelings are no longer expressions, they become tools... A smile hides a knife...tears are just a far more effective replacement for persuasive words... To quote, friendship is nothing but a mutual contract of bilateral interests, once the relationship of interests cease to exist, friendship is just trendy jargon invented by idealistic ppl to descibe a non-existent relationship"
on the unforgiving environment of RJC
"A gentle wind started to blow and was trasnformed to a gale within seconds. At the horizon, the curtain of rain started to make its way towards the beach. Just like dominoes falling, it approached at immense velocity. Still, I stood my ground, refusing to budge. As the storm swept across the beach, all hell broke loose. Raindrops hit down hard across my face and waves smashed repeatedly on the beach. My heart was shattered and swept away by the merciless waves, leaving behind an empty shell whose tears were drowned out by the raindrops."
kind of reminds me of East Coast...lol
SYF
"Orchestra no.11, RJC....
Gold.
GWH would have added some euphoria, but such euphoria are short-lived. What can compare to the friendships, memories, spirit gained from this event? Nothing....
Only when one is able to see that the significance of results is paper-thin, then will he truly be happy."
SYF Gold!
"It was in the afternoon. The sky was overcast, the corridor was dark as a result. There was time to spare, thus I walked to a glass window and stared out at the sky. Feeling bored, I suddenly thought of an idea. I leaned forward and whispered through the glass window to the sky, " send me a raindrop". As if answering my prayers, it started to drizzle. Then the first raindrop arrived, splattered on the glass window. I placed my hand over it as though catching it and traced its descent down the window to the edge. Then, it started to fall again, away from the window. I watched helplessly as the raindrop fell......down into the hand of a person scurrying for shelter. When i looked up again, the glass window was filled with raindrops. My vision was blurred and the glass window slowly dissapeared, allowing the raindrops to fall directly on my face and into my hands...
Sometimes, it takes more than just courage. "
Concert
"Concert was over. The reality finally sunk in...
We always seem to want to put a full stop to every sentence, a final chord to every song, yet there would be cases where it is better to leave the sentence hanging in the air and allowing the music to fade into the background. Why trouble yourself to define when something stops when u knoe that whenever u define it to be, u would be wrong? Just like a hangover, drinking lots of water or tea would not help in any way, so just let the thoughts run and run and run until the effects gradually wear off.
Imagine a video cam postioned such that all the activities of the 2 days of concert were recorded. Running the video on fast forward, u would see an empty stage, to one that is filled with instruments, stands and chairs, to a brightly lit stage where we performed our hearts out, to finally back to an empty stage. When I walked into the PAC after clearing up, the empty stage stared back at me. I contrasted the feeling at that time with the one when I first stepped into PAC 2 days ago. It was so surreal just like a dream....
When a true performer clears up the stage after performing, he/she not just takes away his instrument and scores, instead, he/she takes away all the memories, the efforts, the good times, the bad times, the laughter, the tears, and he/she goes away a truly different person"
2 nights of concert at the PAC
"It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am... you're all the reasons I am."
quoted from A Beautiful Mind..
SYCO concert
"just returned from SYCO concert. Put simply, the first half was mediocre, the second half was awe-inspiring. Tian1 wang3 was certainly moving, the bowed strings playing simple melodies that melted the heart of the audiences. It was the first time I'd heard a CO play such beautiful strings music that tug at the heartstrings."
Tian1 Wang3....classic
Indifference
"On the MRT 3 days ago returning from the concert, a man tht is not at all well-dressed started cursing the air. Okae, i dun knoe who's he cursing, perhaps its not the air. The all famous 4 letter vulgarity starting with "f" was used and its equally famed 7-letter counterpart starting with "b" was not spared either. THe whole point is tht it came out of the blue, this guy sitting there just started cursing for no reason, and to add that it's at night as well, on a weekend when there were quite a number of kids around. However, his attention-seeking antics drew only apathy from most of us in the same carriage. In totally ironic sense, there were two wedded couples with a baby each sitting opposite him. The couples were seated on the MRT seats whereas the babies were in prams facing each other. The two babies, out of obvious curiosity of seeing another of their kind, started pointing at each other and communicate using "baby talk". Their parents were obviously amused and tried to join in the "baby talk". Oh! I forgot to add that the couples didn't knoe each other, one couple was Malay while the other was Chinese. The six of them were so in their own world and totally oblivious of this guy who was in fact cursing straight in their direction. The guy finally gave up in the end and alighted at Simei i think. lol, the power of indifference?"
Nature
"Sunrise is best described by Robert Frost's poem,
Nothing gold can stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so for an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay
The flurry of emotions tht flutter by during sunrise is throughly shown in the poem. Awaiting in the darkness, the delight and euphoria of first light, leading on to the entrancing subtle colour changes of the sky and the slowly expanding horizon of light. The sky from orange and purplish, to green, to light blue, to white and finally to sky blue. The surroundings from pitch black to shadows, to vague outlines and fianlly to clearly defined images. These beautiful changes takes place all within 10 minutes and at the end of 10 minutes, there is this disappointment cos "nature's gold" has disappeared.
Sunset is somewhat similar to sunrise, just that at the prime of sunset, a warm fuzzy orange shade tht is just so comfortable to be in is formed. Also, it last for less than 10 minutes before the last light and the place slips into darkness.
Even when life sucked big time, after looking at a sunrise or sunset, one would perhaps realise tht, life is not bad after all, there are still beautiful stuff around to appreciate.
The sea holds my secrets.
The sky gives me hope.
The wind carries my unspoken wishes.
The rain drowns my tears.
The sun provides the reason to smile
The sands records my footsteps"
Time spent marvelling at nature is time well spent...
Class Chalet
"The long awaited entry i believe. Was supposed to meet at Pasir Ris MRT at 3pm last thurs. Due to the morning badminton at Khatib, I reached back home at about 2.45pm. Was still able to make it if i took my bike and biked there immediately, but got a call on the bus to get tongs and tissue paper for the chalet. When i finally realised that there were no tongs at home, it was already 3, thus decided to walk to White Sands to get before walking to the chalet. Reached the chalet at 3.20 and spent another 10 mins calling the class reps who refused to pick up b4 calling Miss Wong to find out the unit. lol. The chalet is sure big, as those who have heard me described, 6 times the space u get at Downtown East and a tad bigger than Aranda Country Club. lol, 2B2k should have chalet there too, but the point is how to book... *stares at deng...
From this point on, the chalet entry would be quite boring due to the lack of excessive alcohol unlike some guy who had vodka, gin tonic and so on. lol, the most we had was 5% alcohol and only Zhu drank i think. Okae...on to the bbq, Zhu demostrated a 4G tradition accredited to snl(according to xl). Fireball, or rather spraying deodourant over a lighter, just tht lighter was replaced with matchstick. The food was okay, just that 2B's theory of "say no to chicken wings" was proven true again and they bought only 2 or 3 packets of sauasages which was far too few by the 2B gang's standard. And yes, I miss the stingray prepared by richard's mum....grr... 2B's second theory: No BBQ is complete without stingrays. lol, at 7pm, there was a rather unusual sight. All the guys suddenly disappeared from the bbq area and plonked themselves down in front of TV watching channel 8's tong2 xin1 yuan2. hmm...doesn't seem to be a case of raging hormones...
Into the night, started on "whiling time away" games like mahjong, uno stacko.... also had talking crap sessions and a anti-climatic movie Ju-on which acted almost like a sleeping pill. A guest by the name of Mr Dave Sim arrived at an unearthly time to teach us card tricks and listen in in our crapping session. Not that he was not welcomed at the chalet, just that the time he arrived and left was highly odd and rather questionable. Nevertheless, it was fun having him around and no one tried to grill him for an answer.
After the movie Ju-on, went to see the ppl still awake play a game of modified snap. Ended up as Joel entertaining us with his apparent lack of psychomotor and memory skills. Though I did not take part in the game, was doing some memory work as well to keep my brain alive for the bridge tourney one day later. When the game ended, some of the ppl went to sleep while the girls left to watch sunrise, 1 and a half hour b4 the actual event. After a while, the 5 guys left, me, gerbert, anrong, hammy and joel found out tht we had nothing to do and somehow Miss Wong ended up sleeping on the sofa 0_0 Decided in the end to go see the sunset as well. Found the back gate locked and due to some warped theory offered by Gerbert, we ended up touring the chalet premises and woke a few ppl sleeping by the swimming pool, though one wonders why they were sleeping there in the first place. Finally, we were enlightened and called the girls to find out how they got out. Their answer was a nonchalant "main entrance". Can't blame them, they were obviously oblivious to the fact that they were along the same stretch of road as the infamous Red House. On hindsight, it wasn't that bad as it was 5 in the morning and the Red House is dismissed as urban legend by many.
So we reached the beach at like 5.45, chose a spot and sat down to talk in the pitch darkness. This reminded me of 2B chalet 6 months ago. lol, noticed tht I've included a lot of reference back to 2B chalet. Nostalgia? back to the point, 6 months ago, the 2B gang was sitting at the breakwaters at 10pm at night. We were indignant of the power of environment to change a person and promised ourselves that we would not change. However, looking back today, change seems inevitable and have proven to be so. Still there's one promise that would never broken i think, tht is for the gang to stay togather. lol, though now we see each other less, there always that sense of familiarity when we come together and everyone can be himself. lol, we must have another chalet at the end of year...
Sunrise was covered in a previous entry and perhaps to drive home the point, i'll add another quote from Outsiders. Ponyboy muses, " It seems funny to me that they sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two world we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset." on the dispairity btw socs and greasers. lol, the last line is indeed a punchline."
That's all the way to June...... 6 more months to cover tmr.....
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
忘了是怎么开始
或许就是对你
有一种感觉
突然间发现自己
已深深爱上你
爱真的很简单
爱到地暗天黑都已无所谓
是是非非无法抉择
没有后悔为爱日夜去跟随
那个疯狂的人是我
I Love You
无法不爱你 Babe
说你也爱我
I Love You
永远都不愿意 失去你
不可能更快乐
只要能在一起
做什么都可以
虽然 世界变个不停
用最真诚的心
让爱变得简单
爱到地暗天黑都已无所谓
是是非非无法抉择
没有后悔为爱日夜去跟随
那个疯狂的人是我
I Love You
一直在这里 Babe
一直在爱你
I Love You
永远都不放弃
这爱你的权利
如果你还有一些困惑
请贴近我的心倾听
听我说着 爱你 Yes I do
I Love You
一直在这里 Babe
一直在爱你
I Love You
永远都不放弃
这爱你的权利
[爱很简单- 陶喆]
introducing the art of crooning... lolz.... 爱真的简单吗？.....
或许就是对你
有一种感觉
突然间发现自己
已深深爱上你
爱真的很简单
爱到地暗天黑都已无所谓
是是非非无法抉择
没有后悔为爱日夜去跟随
那个疯狂的人是我
I Love You
无法不爱你 Babe
说你也爱我
I Love You
永远都不愿意 失去你
不可能更快乐
只要能在一起
做什么都可以
虽然 世界变个不停
用最真诚的心
让爱变得简单
爱到地暗天黑都已无所谓
是是非非无法抉择
没有后悔为爱日夜去跟随
那个疯狂的人是我
I Love You
一直在这里 Babe
一直在爱你
I Love You
永远都不放弃
这爱你的权利
如果你还有一些困惑
请贴近我的心倾听
听我说着 爱你 Yes I do
I Love You
一直在这里 Babe
一直在爱你
I Love You
永远都不放弃
这爱你的权利
[爱很简单- 陶喆]
introducing the art of crooning... lolz.... 爱真的简单吗？.....
Some entries worth remembering.....
"The teenager sat silently in the room, staring at the computer screen. HIs mind was in a blank, the words on the screen made no sense to him. In a split second, he was transported back to his childhood....Images from years ago flooded his eyes...there was a twinkle or a hint of a spark in his eyes. The years went by in seconds... and he was lost in his own world....Suddenly, he was jolted back into reality.... A painful image flashed across his mind, causing searing pain to all parts of the body. He woke up from his reverie and found the words on the screen blurred...As he gingerly reached up to rub his eyes, he felt moisture running down the side of his cheek... He soon became aware of himself and he quickly wiped the tear away.. "Crying is a weakness, I must not cry" he thought as he sat up abruptly and continued typing away at the senseless words on the screen. The tear was in vain...."
"The teenager stands alone in the dark, the light at the end of the room seems to be as far as the last light he'd seen from where he came from. Shall he trust in what lies in the future or shall he hold on to what he believed in the past? He stood rooted, comtemplating. Soon, he realised that if he does not choose, he would be left forever in the dark, yet he still could not make up his mind. The longer he stayed in the dark, the more he got used to the suroundings... It seemed that he had surrendered himself to darkness, rather sacrificing his present than to sacrifice his past or his future... Upon a close-up, one would be able to see his contorted face and feel the agony he's experiencing, but the agony and fruastation over time became lesser and lesser, till one day, a smile replaced the frown and u see a relieved look on his face. U thought tht he has finally made up his mind and would start walking but no, he lay down on the floor, totally defeated. He had lost himself in trying to find himself..."
"Tears
Sitting in a bus, watching the rain outside. Pedestrians scurrying for cover, inconsiderate motorists speeding their way through puddles, sending sprays up to the pavement, innocent victims scampering out of the way...
Stepping out of the bus, into the rain. The cold rain pattered down mercilessly, I looked up at the sky, the raindrops did not spare my face. The experience felt like crying...
All of us, at some time or another, would have shed a tear either in public or in private, but have u ever wondered wat was the actual reason we cried?
Tears are the epitomy of the expression of emotion. In extreme happiness, sadness, fear, fruastration, one would cry... and these moments would stick in the mind for a long time and just refuse to go away.
We tend to make excuses for our tears, the all so familiar "somebody did me wrong" reason seems to say that our tears were caused by other peoples' action. Yet, deep inside, we all know that the tears came because we lost faith in our own selves. The realisation that u let someone down or tht painful feeling tht u get when u knoe wat someone is saying is totally true but u just deny it..."
"Wind
Walking along the street, a gentle wind blew.... providing a much welcomed relief to the sweltering heat of the afternoon sun. Strolling with no aim in mind, the wind became the timely compainion to help make walking down the road easier, bringing a rare smile onto the face. Turning into the corner at the end of the street, the wind suddenly vanished. A sudden realisation- wind does not change direction, he panicked. Turned around and lunged, trying to grab on to the tail of the wind to make it stay. But...all he grabbed in the end was thin air and he started falling..... down a bottomless pit of despair. Falling and falling.... the mistakes of the past and the expectations of the future started to haunt him. He curled into a ball, crushed and defeated. Then a glimmer of hope appeared, he opened his eyes and saw light..... He stopped falling, he stood up, he understood- tht it was a natural process....."
"The teenager sat silently in the room, staring at the computer screen. HIs mind was in a blank, the words on the screen made no sense to him. In a split second, he was transported back to his childhood....Images from years ago flooded his eyes...there was a twinkle or a hint of a spark in his eyes. The years went by in seconds... and he was lost in his own world....Suddenly, he was jolted back into reality.... A painful image flashed across his mind, causing searing pain to all parts of the body. He woke up from his reverie and found the words on the screen blurred...As he gingerly reached up to rub his eyes, he felt moisture running down the side of his cheek... He soon became aware of himself and he quickly wiped the tear away.. "Crying is a weakness, I must not cry" he thought as he sat up abruptly and continued typing away at the senseless words on the screen. The tear was in vain...."
"The teenager stands alone in the dark, the light at the end of the room seems to be as far as the last light he'd seen from where he came from. Shall he trust in what lies in the future or shall he hold on to what he believed in the past? He stood rooted, comtemplating. Soon, he realised that if he does not choose, he would be left forever in the dark, yet he still could not make up his mind. The longer he stayed in the dark, the more he got used to the suroundings... It seemed that he had surrendered himself to darkness, rather sacrificing his present than to sacrifice his past or his future... Upon a close-up, one would be able to see his contorted face and feel the agony he's experiencing, but the agony and fruastation over time became lesser and lesser, till one day, a smile replaced the frown and u see a relieved look on his face. U thought tht he has finally made up his mind and would start walking but no, he lay down on the floor, totally defeated. He had lost himself in trying to find himself..."
"Tears
Sitting in a bus, watching the rain outside. Pedestrians scurrying for cover, inconsiderate motorists speeding their way through puddles, sending sprays up to the pavement, innocent victims scampering out of the way...
Stepping out of the bus, into the rain. The cold rain pattered down mercilessly, I looked up at the sky, the raindrops did not spare my face. The experience felt like crying...
All of us, at some time or another, would have shed a tear either in public or in private, but have u ever wondered wat was the actual reason we cried?
Tears are the epitomy of the expression of emotion. In extreme happiness, sadness, fear, fruastration, one would cry... and these moments would stick in the mind for a long time and just refuse to go away.
We tend to make excuses for our tears, the all so familiar "somebody did me wrong" reason seems to say that our tears were caused by other peoples' action. Yet, deep inside, we all know that the tears came because we lost faith in our own selves. The realisation that u let someone down or tht painful feeling tht u get when u knoe wat someone is saying is totally true but u just deny it..."
"Wind
Walking along the street, a gentle wind blew.... providing a much welcomed relief to the sweltering heat of the afternoon sun. Strolling with no aim in mind, the wind became the timely compainion to help make walking down the road easier, bringing a rare smile onto the face. Turning into the corner at the end of the street, the wind suddenly vanished. A sudden realisation- wind does not change direction, he panicked. Turned around and lunged, trying to grab on to the tail of the wind to make it stay. But...all he grabbed in the end was thin air and he started falling..... down a bottomless pit of despair. Falling and falling.... the mistakes of the past and the expectations of the future started to haunt him. He curled into a ball, crushed and defeated. Then a glimmer of hope appeared, he opened his eyes and saw light..... He stopped falling, he stood up, he understood- tht it was a natural process....."
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Chirstmas eve
Went out in the afternoon to watch a concert recommended by Mr Ngoh who only said tht it would be a percussion concert. When i finally got to YMS, realised tht it was a new percussion grp by the name of perCuzShiok!... cool name and recognised most of the peeps(there were only 8 of them) from perc fest which was like 2 years ago... bl says most of them from SYCO too.. lol, anyway, they played cool music, a mix of chinese, western, japanese and even african... not to mention that they were quite zai also... ha... 10 bucks well spent on christmas eve... lol, family dinner just ended, lots of food and alcoholic beverages.. So, to u ppl out there, Merry Christmas!
And if u haven't figure the bg song(which is rather impossible unless u dun listen to pop at all), here's the lyrics... i tot the warm and fuzzy feeling of the song is suitable for christmas:) Enjoy peeps...
An empty street
An empty house
A hole inside my heart
I’m all alone
The rooms are getting smaller
I wonder how
I wonder why
I wonder where they are
The days we had
The songs we sang together
Oh yeah
And all my love
We’re holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far
Chorus
So I say a little prayer
Hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
To find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again my love
I tried to read
I go to work
I’m laughing with my friends
But I can’t stop
To keep myself from thinking
Oh no
I wonder how
I wonder why
I wonder where they are
The days we had
The songs we sang together
Oh yeah
And all my love
We’re holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far
Chorus
So I say a little prayer
Hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
Find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again
To hold you in my arms
To promise you my love
To tell you from my heart
You’re all I’m thinking of
Reaching for the love that seems so far
Chorus
So …So I say a little prayer
Hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
Find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again my love
Say a little prayer
Dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
Find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again my love
[My love- Westlife]
Went out in the afternoon to watch a concert recommended by Mr Ngoh who only said tht it would be a percussion concert. When i finally got to YMS, realised tht it was a new percussion grp by the name of perCuzShiok!... cool name and recognised most of the peeps(there were only 8 of them) from perc fest which was like 2 years ago... bl says most of them from SYCO too.. lol, anyway, they played cool music, a mix of chinese, western, japanese and even african... not to mention that they were quite zai also... ha... 10 bucks well spent on christmas eve... lol, family dinner just ended, lots of food and alcoholic beverages.. So, to u ppl out there, Merry Christmas!
And if u haven't figure the bg song(which is rather impossible unless u dun listen to pop at all), here's the lyrics... i tot the warm and fuzzy feeling of the song is suitable for christmas:) Enjoy peeps...
An empty street
An empty house
A hole inside my heart
I’m all alone
The rooms are getting smaller
I wonder how
I wonder why
I wonder where they are
The days we had
The songs we sang together
Oh yeah
And all my love
We’re holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far
Chorus
So I say a little prayer
Hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
To find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again my love
I tried to read
I go to work
I’m laughing with my friends
But I can’t stop
To keep myself from thinking
Oh no
I wonder how
I wonder why
I wonder where they are
The days we had
The songs we sang together
Oh yeah
And all my love
We’re holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far
Chorus
So I say a little prayer
Hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
Find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again
To hold you in my arms
To promise you my love
To tell you from my heart
You’re all I’m thinking of
Reaching for the love that seems so far
Chorus
So …So I say a little prayer
Hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
Find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again my love
Say a little prayer
Dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue
To see you once again my love
Over seas from coast to coast
Find the place I love the most
Where the fields are green
To see you once again my love
[My love- Westlife]
Friday, December 23, 2005
CO bbq on Wed... Was supposed to be at bedok at 11am to buy stuff for the bbq but i woke up at 10.15.... so was a little late.... but in the end, the chair and vice-chair were the latest lar. Went to Giant supermarket to shop for bbq stuff, then we took 196 to east coast park.
East Coast Park is quite a nice place lar, just that the large number of ships anchored spoilt the view of sea. Played soccer and frisbee there b4 going cycling with vin. ECP is really big. Rented the bike for 2 hours and just barely managed to cover the whole park. There was this Bedok Jetty tht was damn cool.. When u walk/cycle through it, it feels as though u are walking into the sea, then at the end, u can see where the tall buildings in the city as well as the sea stretching all the way to the horizon...
After cycling, thts bout 6pm... went back to the pit to check on their progress. Turns out that they were trying to light fire starters and spent almost 1 box of matchsticks doing so but to no avail. lol, the fire was supposed to be started at 5.30 lor. haiz... the trouble of having a bbq without a scout. After the fire was started, zj, vin and i walked to 7-11 to get butter, ice and grill. zj was commenting on the way back, something like "perfect weather for the bbq.......if it doesn't rain." lol,u can guess wat happened... first it started raining on the far side... it was quite a view, from the beach, u can see the half of the sky filled with dark clouds while the other half was clear and the sea, the half tht was under the dark clouds turned a ominous green while the other half remained blue. The rain looked like mist from afar and shrouded the ships, giving it a mysterious aura. Luckily for us, the rain got closer and closer, seen from the exponientially decreasing visibility, but stopped b4 reaching us. When we thought the worst was over, we turned around to find dark clouds gathering from inland. As it was night, the sky glowed red. When it started raining we got our umbrellas out to shelter the fire and the food, some of us did tht at the expenses of getting drenched oureselves, it quite a sight. The rain did stop in the end and we were able to carry on with our bbq thankfully...
The beach at night was a glorious sight, though a tad too artificial for me. The ships anchored at sea had lamps that looked like ornaments in the night sky. The waves pounded relentlessly on the shores and the occasional lightning lighted up the entire place so tht u can even see the ships and outine of the shore at afar. And most importantly, it was peaceful- no sounds of cars... only nature's voice in the background...
The bbq ended at about 10pm with like 50+ chicken wings, 1 sack of potatoes, a few corns left... lol, the "chicken wing menace" again.... Poor kwan brought 80 of them and had to bring 50 odd of them back... The rest of the stuff, disposable utensils and all were split among ourselves to bring home. Hitched a ride from Xunqi's dad to Kembagan. While waiting for his dad to come, Xunqi was reminiscing his time in RJCO and the need to let go now b4 he goes for NS... It hit me then tht 1 year later, i would most likely be facing the same thing... Would there be nostalgia? Would there be regrets? i can only wonder....
As u all knoe, it is at this time of the year where u take stock of what have happened, reflect on them and if u can, make changes for the new year. Was just reading my archives and i found out tht my blogging frequency at least doubled this year. Why? I have no answer, but reading through them was a one of a kind experience. It's almost as though one was reliving every significant moment in the year, and as a ritual, i think i will relive some of these moments here. so stay tuned....
East Coast Park is quite a nice place lar, just that the large number of ships anchored spoilt the view of sea. Played soccer and frisbee there b4 going cycling with vin. ECP is really big. Rented the bike for 2 hours and just barely managed to cover the whole park. There was this Bedok Jetty tht was damn cool.. When u walk/cycle through it, it feels as though u are walking into the sea, then at the end, u can see where the tall buildings in the city as well as the sea stretching all the way to the horizon...
After cycling, thts bout 6pm... went back to the pit to check on their progress. Turns out that they were trying to light fire starters and spent almost 1 box of matchsticks doing so but to no avail. lol, the fire was supposed to be started at 5.30 lor. haiz... the trouble of having a bbq without a scout. After the fire was started, zj, vin and i walked to 7-11 to get butter, ice and grill. zj was commenting on the way back, something like "perfect weather for the bbq.......if it doesn't rain." lol,u can guess wat happened... first it started raining on the far side... it was quite a view, from the beach, u can see the half of the sky filled with dark clouds while the other half was clear and the sea, the half tht was under the dark clouds turned a ominous green while the other half remained blue. The rain looked like mist from afar and shrouded the ships, giving it a mysterious aura. Luckily for us, the rain got closer and closer, seen from the exponientially decreasing visibility, but stopped b4 reaching us. When we thought the worst was over, we turned around to find dark clouds gathering from inland. As it was night, the sky glowed red. When it started raining we got our umbrellas out to shelter the fire and the food, some of us did tht at the expenses of getting drenched oureselves, it quite a sight. The rain did stop in the end and we were able to carry on with our bbq thankfully...
The beach at night was a glorious sight, though a tad too artificial for me. The ships anchored at sea had lamps that looked like ornaments in the night sky. The waves pounded relentlessly on the shores and the occasional lightning lighted up the entire place so tht u can even see the ships and outine of the shore at afar. And most importantly, it was peaceful- no sounds of cars... only nature's voice in the background...
The bbq ended at about 10pm with like 50+ chicken wings, 1 sack of potatoes, a few corns left... lol, the "chicken wing menace" again.... Poor kwan brought 80 of them and had to bring 50 odd of them back... The rest of the stuff, disposable utensils and all were split among ourselves to bring home. Hitched a ride from Xunqi's dad to Kembagan. While waiting for his dad to come, Xunqi was reminiscing his time in RJCO and the need to let go now b4 he goes for NS... It hit me then tht 1 year later, i would most likely be facing the same thing... Would there be nostalgia? Would there be regrets? i can only wonder....
As u all knoe, it is at this time of the year where u take stock of what have happened, reflect on them and if u can, make changes for the new year. Was just reading my archives and i found out tht my blogging frequency at least doubled this year. Why? I have no answer, but reading through them was a one of a kind experience. It's almost as though one was reliving every significant moment in the year, and as a ritual, i think i will relive some of these moments here. so stay tuned....
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
The milky way upon the
Heavens
Is twinkling just for you
And mr. moon he came by
To say goodnight to you
I’ll sing for you i’ll
Sing for mother
We’re praying for the world
And for the people everywhere
Gonna show them all we care
Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
But you’ve build your own paradise
That’s one reason why I’ll cover you sleeping child
If all the people around
The world
They had a mind like yours
We’d have no fighting and no wars
There would be lasting peace on earth
If all the kings and all
The leaders
Could see you here this way
They would hold the earth in their arms
They would learn to watch you play
Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
But you’ve build your own paradise
That’s one reason why I’ll cover you sleeping child
I’m gonna cover my
Sleeping child
Keep you away from the world so wild
[Sleeping Child- MLTR]
A song that is perhaps familiar but u just can't point where u've heard it b4..... yes.. i'm revisiting old english pop again... Micheal learns to Rock.... will upload a few more classics here in the days to come.... Was just taken by the simplicity of the lyrics...
hmm.... received the first christmas card yest... via post... turns to be from my OGL, Shireen... A rather pleasant surprise considering that after the last OG outing which was probably way back in the first 3 months, the OG just died-ed on itself... Like what khoo said, receiving tht card makes u feel happy and bad at the same time... bad coz u had a part (whether directly or indirectly) in causing the OG to disintergrate... Well, i guess it's not use dwelling in the what-ifs of the past, rather let's look back on what we have done and cherish them.... i guess the only thing i can do now is send a card back....
Heavens
Is twinkling just for you
And mr. moon he came by
To say goodnight to you
I’ll sing for you i’ll
Sing for mother
We’re praying for the world
And for the people everywhere
Gonna show them all we care
Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
But you’ve build your own paradise
That’s one reason why I’ll cover you sleeping child
If all the people around
The world
They had a mind like yours
We’d have no fighting and no wars
There would be lasting peace on earth
If all the kings and all
The leaders
Could see you here this way
They would hold the earth in their arms
They would learn to watch you play
Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
But you’ve build your own paradise
That’s one reason why I’ll cover you sleeping child
I’m gonna cover my
Sleeping child
Keep you away from the world so wild
[Sleeping Child- MLTR]
A song that is perhaps familiar but u just can't point where u've heard it b4..... yes.. i'm revisiting old english pop again... Micheal learns to Rock.... will upload a few more classics here in the days to come.... Was just taken by the simplicity of the lyrics...
hmm.... received the first christmas card yest... via post... turns to be from my OGL, Shireen... A rather pleasant surprise considering that after the last OG outing which was probably way back in the first 3 months, the OG just died-ed on itself... Like what khoo said, receiving tht card makes u feel happy and bad at the same time... bad coz u had a part (whether directly or indirectly) in causing the OG to disintergrate... Well, i guess it's not use dwelling in the what-ifs of the past, rather let's look back on what we have done and cherish them.... i guess the only thing i can do now is send a card back....
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
back from m'sia....will blog bout the trip when i get the photos uploaded or... when i feel like doing it....haha...
X-japan playing in the background, a 3 min snippet of "Art of life" or rather the last 3 mins out of the 29mins... audio quality's not tht good coz i scaled it down....
When u put down a full stop at the end of a sentence, u can easily change it into a comma by just adding a stroke. However, once u put down a comma, there's no way u can turn it into a full stop....
I've always told myself to put down a full stop, but somehow.... the full stop would inevitably change into a comma, for which i'll have to write another phrase or sentence b4 being able to put down the full stop again... and the process continues.... i guess the only way to put down the full stop is to forget how the comma looks like.....
X-japan playing in the background, a 3 min snippet of "Art of life" or rather the last 3 mins out of the 29mins... audio quality's not tht good coz i scaled it down....
When u put down a full stop at the end of a sentence, u can easily change it into a comma by just adding a stroke. However, once u put down a comma, there's no way u can turn it into a full stop....
I've always told myself to put down a full stop, but somehow.... the full stop would inevitably change into a comma, for which i'll have to write another phrase or sentence b4 being able to put down the full stop again... and the process continues.... i guess the only way to put down the full stop is to forget how the comma looks like.....
Friday, December 09, 2005
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
haha... bg sound is excerpt from LOTR soundtrack- The return of the king... i did the cutting myself...took out the romance theme... the one i described b4... small build-up to strings solo, bridge, then the all-time favourite flute solo:) compressed it to a 1.4mb file so around 10 ppl can hear per 24 hours....
hmm...went ToysR Us yest.... not been in there for eons.... woot... i marvel at how the word "toy" has evolved to be so "all-encompassing"... Saw a drumset at 30 bucks there..tempted to buy but the cover states "ages 3+"... i predict the drum skin would break at my first attempt to play it...lol.. There was a keyboard on sale at the same price...a xylophone too... The xylo keys were arranged in such a way tht there was no black keys... k.. moving on to other things.... there was a glass chess set on sale...for 50 bucks.... How is chess a toy in the first place i dunno, but toy-makers are sure quick to jump onto trends, coz there was a tabletop soduku puzzle on sale too... hmm... its cover reads "ages 6+"... tht's barely primary one... woot and they do soduku puzzles during their playtime? lol... Luckily, they still sell classic toys like Lego, Barbie, Sesame Street, Ban Dai stuff and Jinga all tht.. Else i would seriously wonder wat are kids doing nowadays... Looking for christmas presents? drop by Toy R Us if u can't find anything... Just imagine the look on ur friend's face when they see tht they got a classic doll or figurine for christmas:)
hmm...went ToysR Us yest.... not been in there for eons.... woot... i marvel at how the word "toy" has evolved to be so "all-encompassing"... Saw a drumset at 30 bucks there..tempted to buy but the cover states "ages 3+"... i predict the drum skin would break at my first attempt to play it...lol.. There was a keyboard on sale at the same price...a xylophone too... The xylo keys were arranged in such a way tht there was no black keys... k.. moving on to other things.... there was a glass chess set on sale...for 50 bucks.... How is chess a toy in the first place i dunno, but toy-makers are sure quick to jump onto trends, coz there was a tabletop soduku puzzle on sale too... hmm... its cover reads "ages 6+"... tht's barely primary one... woot and they do soduku puzzles during their playtime? lol... Luckily, they still sell classic toys like Lego, Barbie, Sesame Street, Ban Dai stuff and Jinga all tht.. Else i would seriously wonder wat are kids doing nowadays... Looking for christmas presents? drop by Toy R Us if u can't find anything... Just imagine the look on ur friend's face when they see tht they got a classic doll or figurine for christmas:)
Just watched Drumline.... Thanks to zj for the combo drive, software + the dvd itself...lolz... one thing to take away from the movie... "One band, one sound"... balance within an orchestra.. once u forget that, might as well not play in an orchestra....
2B chalet
okae...this was like 1 week ago but well... around 10 ppl there for the first night... nothing much on coz bbq was on the 2nd night... winning eleven, soul calibre 3 and even katamari on the PS2, daidee, shawn's ipod and zongjin prectising erhu "early in the morning", macs at 3 am basically sums up the first night. Slept for only 2 hours i think... oh yeah.. there was vodka too ( 40% alcohol) causes a burning sensation from the throat all the way to the stomach... disclaimer: sip...do not gulp (like vin did...lol)
2nd day was my birthday...ahhh and there was CO... so left pasir ris at bout 9.30 to go to bishan... lolz... lunch with xianyue ppl... kwan expounded a lengthy expository on toilets in Japan over the meal table which only helps to reaffirm our faith that the "cleansing" in Japan did her more harm than good...lol... Prac was as usual, nothing out of the ordinary.... After prac, took bus 58 back home while vin and zj went on to the chalet bbq first... Miraculously, i reached the chalet bout the same time as the both of them and by the time we're there, the bbq was about all over with snl trying to finish bbq the little food left... luckily for us, there was quite an amount of cooked but not eaten food which includes the usual sausages and stingrays... in the end, we couldn't finish the food but while we were eating, there was "free show" adjacent to us... according to snl , the ppl on the other side had tried bbq-ing with an aluminium tray... Nothing wrong till they put newspaper beneath to prevent the surface from being burnt... wah...science experiments followed obviously... First lesson: aluminium is a metal...conducts heat readily.... Put paper under an aluminium tray filled with burning charcoal, chances are, the paper will burn even without a spark.... lol..then they wise up and rented a portable bbq ppt, put the burning charcoals in and started fanning like mad- "to create smoke signals" as quoted from snl once again.... Lesson Two: An object with high CG is unstable and topples very easiy...so u knoe wat happen.... tht guy fanned until the whole bbq pit toppled over and the charcoals spilled onto the floor... By the time they got their stuff rite...it was already 9+ when we finished the bbq and apparently, we started the fire 1/2 later than them....
After the bbq, stayed in for the usual games.... through the night, snl was obsessed with a particular soul calibre 3 character and by morning thhe whole chalet agreed tht soul calibre 3 should be given a higher rating, R-21 at least....:X, for disturbing audio features.... hehe, for the second nite i didn't sleep and i woke ppl up for sunrise... wah.. it was already first light when we left the chalet lar...so we pia-ed all the way to the end of the park to watch the sunrise.... view was obstructed slightly by trees and cloud but like i said earlier, nature can only be beautiful...
Does who u watch the sunset with matter? So far, been watching sunrises with guys only...sadly? lol, 但每一次都有它自己独特的感动... I guess it has to do with wat u expect from watching a sunrise... For me, almost everything pales in comparison with the ability to stand and marvel at nature, so everytime i take a step back to look at nature, i feel strangely relaxed and happy in a way... I think its kind of sad when ppl see rainbows and yet remain emotionally aloof... To me..thts like dying in a way....
hmm....the rest are pretty mudane... packed up, go home and then sleep....
2 days later, i was at yet another chalet, this time a family one.... hey... i'm an uncle now... My niece is so cute.... a few months old only i think.... Babies are amazing, i spent like 5-6 hours watching her race across the living room ( chalet was at Aranda) in her walker, numerous ppl trying to babytalk and play with her(myself too) and bear witness to her unpredictable mood swings... ha... if ever one day u forget wat innocence look like, go look in the baby's eyes...
Scene from Sleepy Hollow
Guy: Perhaps u're a witch
girl: Why?
Guy: coz u bewitched me
lol... found tht scene quite funny..... which reminds me... anyone wanna watch pride and prejudice? yes, i knoe it's lit-ish and critics recommend that u watch with someone from the opposite sex but well.... anyone is still better than watching alone...Or is it?
2B chalet
okae...this was like 1 week ago but well... around 10 ppl there for the first night... nothing much on coz bbq was on the 2nd night... winning eleven, soul calibre 3 and even katamari on the PS2, daidee, shawn's ipod and zongjin prectising erhu "early in the morning", macs at 3 am basically sums up the first night. Slept for only 2 hours i think... oh yeah.. there was vodka too ( 40% alcohol) causes a burning sensation from the throat all the way to the stomach... disclaimer: sip...do not gulp (like vin did...lol)
2nd day was my birthday...ahhh and there was CO... so left pasir ris at bout 9.30 to go to bishan... lolz... lunch with xianyue ppl... kwan expounded a lengthy expository on toilets in Japan over the meal table which only helps to reaffirm our faith that the "cleansing" in Japan did her more harm than good...lol... Prac was as usual, nothing out of the ordinary.... After prac, took bus 58 back home while vin and zj went on to the chalet bbq first... Miraculously, i reached the chalet bout the same time as the both of them and by the time we're there, the bbq was about all over with snl trying to finish bbq the little food left... luckily for us, there was quite an amount of cooked but not eaten food which includes the usual sausages and stingrays... in the end, we couldn't finish the food but while we were eating, there was "free show" adjacent to us... according to snl , the ppl on the other side had tried bbq-ing with an aluminium tray... Nothing wrong till they put newspaper beneath to prevent the surface from being burnt... wah...science experiments followed obviously... First lesson: aluminium is a metal...conducts heat readily.... Put paper under an aluminium tray filled with burning charcoal, chances are, the paper will burn even without a spark.... lol..then they wise up and rented a portable bbq ppt, put the burning charcoals in and started fanning like mad- "to create smoke signals" as quoted from snl once again.... Lesson Two: An object with high CG is unstable and topples very easiy...so u knoe wat happen.... tht guy fanned until the whole bbq pit toppled over and the charcoals spilled onto the floor... By the time they got their stuff rite...it was already 9+ when we finished the bbq and apparently, we started the fire 1/2 later than them....
After the bbq, stayed in for the usual games.... through the night, snl was obsessed with a particular soul calibre 3 character and by morning thhe whole chalet agreed tht soul calibre 3 should be given a higher rating, R-21 at least....:X, for disturbing audio features.... hehe, for the second nite i didn't sleep and i woke ppl up for sunrise... wah.. it was already first light when we left the chalet lar...so we pia-ed all the way to the end of the park to watch the sunrise.... view was obstructed slightly by trees and cloud but like i said earlier, nature can only be beautiful...
Does who u watch the sunset with matter? So far, been watching sunrises with guys only...sadly? lol, 但每一次都有它自己独特的感动... I guess it has to do with wat u expect from watching a sunrise... For me, almost everything pales in comparison with the ability to stand and marvel at nature, so everytime i take a step back to look at nature, i feel strangely relaxed and happy in a way... I think its kind of sad when ppl see rainbows and yet remain emotionally aloof... To me..thts like dying in a way....
hmm....the rest are pretty mudane... packed up, go home and then sleep....
2 days later, i was at yet another chalet, this time a family one.... hey... i'm an uncle now... My niece is so cute.... a few months old only i think.... Babies are amazing, i spent like 5-6 hours watching her race across the living room ( chalet was at Aranda) in her walker, numerous ppl trying to babytalk and play with her(myself too) and bear witness to her unpredictable mood swings... ha... if ever one day u forget wat innocence look like, go look in the baby's eyes...
Scene from Sleepy Hollow
Guy: Perhaps u're a witch
girl: Why?
Guy: coz u bewitched me
lol... found tht scene quite funny..... which reminds me... anyone wanna watch pride and prejudice? yes, i knoe it's lit-ish and critics recommend that u watch with someone from the opposite sex but well.... anyone is still better than watching alone...Or is it?
Thursday, December 01, 2005
back from 2B chalet...will blog bout tht later when i'm more "awake"...lol... Thanks to all who sent birthday messages yest...Thanks to all who gave me prezzies and to the 2b peeps- thanks for the memories...
Change
Why do people deny that change is a constant?
Why do people change?
Does the word "different" connotes any negative meanings?
When does one change start and when does another end?
How do we cope with change when u can never understand it?
Forever lost in the transit of change.....
Nothing last forever. Cos forever fades....
Change
Why do people deny that change is a constant?
Why do people change?
Does the word "different" connotes any negative meanings?
When does one change start and when does another end?
How do we cope with change when u can never understand it?
Forever lost in the transit of change.....
Nothing last forever. Cos forever fades....
Monday, November 28, 2005
Sunday, November 27, 2005
hmm.... its 4 weeks from christmas... i just realised....
Clinging on sounds so negative.... as though it'a almost desperate, filled with reluctance and a certain inertia... whereas insistence sounds positive, as though it's the right thing to do, so righteous and filled with passion....
Yet in real life, it's so hard to draw the line betweeen clinging on and insisting...
He clung on, he insisted....
Clinging on sounds so negative.... as though it'a almost desperate, filled with reluctance and a certain inertia... whereas insistence sounds positive, as though it's the right thing to do, so righteous and filled with passion....
Yet in real life, it's so hard to draw the line betweeen clinging on and insisting...
He clung on, he insisted....
Friday, November 25, 2005
当寒风吹过，
不知是冷，还是心凉了...
当闪电划过，
不知是看到了，还是再也不会看到...
当雷声响起，
不知是愤怒，还是无奈的感叹...
当雨点掉下，
不知是老天的可怜，还是无情的讥笑...
但我知道雨后会出现彩虹，
虽然是幻影，却无限的美丽...
我也知道雨后天会晴，
因为我心中抱着希望，
虽然渺茫，却很奇妙...
哭不见得是伤心，因为哭过的眼睛，看到的是全新的世界，只怕心中的死结还没打开... 要记得的是，真正需要哭的不是眼睛，而是那颗被伤害过的心....
听 X-japan-"tears", A1- "like a rose", "heaven by your side", LOTR- Return of the king, Utada Hikaru-"first love" 有感而发.....
不知是冷，还是心凉了...
当闪电划过，
不知是看到了，还是再也不会看到...
当雷声响起，
不知是愤怒，还是无奈的感叹...
当雨点掉下，
不知是老天的可怜，还是无情的讥笑...
但我知道雨后会出现彩虹，
虽然是幻影，却无限的美丽...
我也知道雨后天会晴，
因为我心中抱着希望，
虽然渺茫，却很奇妙...
哭不见得是伤心，因为哭过的眼睛，看到的是全新的世界，只怕心中的死结还没打开... 要记得的是，真正需要哭的不是眼睛，而是那颗被伤害过的心....
听 X-japan-"tears", A1- "like a rose", "heaven by your side", LOTR- Return of the king, Utada Hikaru-"first love" 有感而发.....
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Sunday, November 20, 2005
(baby)想对你说声对不起
用错的方式去爱你 因为我太在意(如果没有你)
我的世界只剩回忆 每天只面对孤寂 已来不及
再说我爱你
yest....a girl sang the above lines and got herself into 校园superstar... Sweet voice, but dunno whether chio or not.....too far from stage to see... The lyrics are strangely meaningful...like the english version of "Purest of Pain" ( originally in Spanish)
Vida, give me back my fantasies
the courage that I need to live
the air that I breathe
carino mio, my world becomes so empty
my day's are so cold and lonely
and each night I taste
the purest of pain.
Yest morning, there was CO prac and some RG sec4s came and joined our prac... Even with the addition of bl and gillian, the perc section stands at a miserable 4ppl... lol, we did 斗牛 during dazu and khoo didn't managed to finiah.... Didn't even reach the perc solo part... i think i need some rhythm training, esp with triplets... keep messing them up...
After prac, went to have lunch with the CO peeps at S11. Then, we chased bl away to hsing hai to move instru while the rest of us went to watch the auditions at J8.. The judges were very picky, either tht or the ppl auditioning are all cmi... lol, but some of them sang quite well and were rejected as well... We stood there for quite a while, b4 me and weixiong realised tht we had to go for hsinghai concert soon... So we decided tht we'll leave once a person gets thru the audition and up steps the abovementioned girl with Coco lee's "Baby 对不起"...
Hsinghai concert was quite relaxed... The rehearsal and stuff went by pretty quickly.. The concert was at VCH...last time i performed there was the RI and SN combined concert... hmm... i "discovered" tht actually VCH acoustics are far superior than SCH and esplanade... shen lao shi thinks so too... It doesn't eat up ur strings section sound and somehow for the CO, the sound tht the audience hear is strangely balanced as compared to SCH and esplanade... As we were only playing after the interval, the RI ppl spent most of time in the one of the changing/tuning rooms playing floating bridge and asshole daidee... Floating bridge gave me a headache due to non-conventional cardplay and the need to memorise 13 more cards due to the lack of a dummy... When it was time to perform, i strangely felt no pressure... Perhaps it's due to the nature of the songs, to go with the theme, all songs are famous chinese tunes or to put it bluntly "pop of the old"... The familiar melodies just put you at ease when playing. Communist songs are so nice...摘苹果的时候is so cute... After the performance, packed up a little and went home... It damn shuang when u dun have to move instru coz thts the job of the SL.....lol
用错的方式去爱你 因为我太在意(如果没有你)
我的世界只剩回忆 每天只面对孤寂 已来不及
再说我爱你
yest....a girl sang the above lines and got herself into 校园superstar... Sweet voice, but dunno whether chio or not.....too far from stage to see... The lyrics are strangely meaningful...like the english version of "Purest of Pain" ( originally in Spanish)
Vida, give me back my fantasies
the courage that I need to live
the air that I breathe
carino mio, my world becomes so empty
my day's are so cold and lonely
and each night I taste
the purest of pain.
Yest morning, there was CO prac and some RG sec4s came and joined our prac... Even with the addition of bl and gillian, the perc section stands at a miserable 4ppl... lol, we did 斗牛 during dazu and khoo didn't managed to finiah.... Didn't even reach the perc solo part... i think i need some rhythm training, esp with triplets... keep messing them up...
After prac, went to have lunch with the CO peeps at S11. Then, we chased bl away to hsing hai to move instru while the rest of us went to watch the auditions at J8.. The judges were very picky, either tht or the ppl auditioning are all cmi... lol, but some of them sang quite well and were rejected as well... We stood there for quite a while, b4 me and weixiong realised tht we had to go for hsinghai concert soon... So we decided tht we'll leave once a person gets thru the audition and up steps the abovementioned girl with Coco lee's "Baby 对不起"...
Hsinghai concert was quite relaxed... The rehearsal and stuff went by pretty quickly.. The concert was at VCH...last time i performed there was the RI and SN combined concert... hmm... i "discovered" tht actually VCH acoustics are far superior than SCH and esplanade... shen lao shi thinks so too... It doesn't eat up ur strings section sound and somehow for the CO, the sound tht the audience hear is strangely balanced as compared to SCH and esplanade... As we were only playing after the interval, the RI ppl spent most of time in the one of the changing/tuning rooms playing floating bridge and asshole daidee... Floating bridge gave me a headache due to non-conventional cardplay and the need to memorise 13 more cards due to the lack of a dummy... When it was time to perform, i strangely felt no pressure... Perhaps it's due to the nature of the songs, to go with the theme, all songs are famous chinese tunes or to put it bluntly "pop of the old"... The familiar melodies just put you at ease when playing. Communist songs are so nice...摘苹果的时候is so cute... After the performance, packed up a little and went home... It damn shuang when u dun have to move instru coz thts the job of the SL.....lol
Friday, November 18, 2005
缘分是为自己心爱的人搭起的偶然之桥
hehe.....i posted this quote a year ago. This quote is from the movie "My Sassy Girl", just watched it on DVD.. thks vin for the DVDs...
The most touching scene, i think is the one where the girl played a piano solo for the guy in front of the whole LT... The song she played was Canon in D, a variation of it, a cliched and overplayed song, even its variations...
It's nice when someone plays a piece of music just for you, one of the more sincere gifts i would say... becoz it's personal, though the notes may be the same, each and every person plays it differently, and when someone plays something for you, every note tht he/she plays belongs to you... listen to the piano in the background, dun u just wish tht someone would play tht for u? When words fail you, let music do the taking
Crazy day tmr, CO prac+ hsinghai CO concert = leave house at 6.30....come back at 12mn...lol
hehe.....i posted this quote a year ago. This quote is from the movie "My Sassy Girl", just watched it on DVD.. thks vin for the DVDs...
The most touching scene, i think is the one where the girl played a piano solo for the guy in front of the whole LT... The song she played was Canon in D, a variation of it, a cliched and overplayed song, even its variations...
It's nice when someone plays a piece of music just for you, one of the more sincere gifts i would say... becoz it's personal, though the notes may be the same, each and every person plays it differently, and when someone plays something for you, every note tht he/she plays belongs to you... listen to the piano in the background, dun u just wish tht someone would play tht for u? When words fail you, let music do the taking
Crazy day tmr, CO prac+ hsinghai CO concert = leave house at 6.30....come back at 12mn...lol
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Just saw an ad on Channel U using the main theme from "Pirates of Caribbean".... Wanted to hear the full version but couldn't find the mp3 on my com.... I vaguely remebered i had it... The only verison i have now is one by an amateur orchestra tht has intonation problems and is unbalanced:(...So any kind soul out there who happens to have this song...pls send to me....
PW is over... I need to burn my file...
PW is over... I need to burn my file...
Sunday, November 13, 2005
"
You can't draw a picture of yesterday, so
You're painting your heart with your blood
You can't say "No"
Only turning the wheel of time
with a rope around your neck
You build a wall of morality and take a breath
from between the bricks
You make up imaginary ennemies and are chased by them
You're trying to commit suicide
You're satisfied with your prologue
Now you're painting your first chapter black
You are putting the scraps of life together
and trying to make an asylum for yourself
You're hitting a bell at the edge of the stage
and
You are trying to kill me
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love
in my dream
I'm breaking the wall inside my heart
I just wanna let my emotions get out
Nobody can stop
I'm running to freedom
No matter how you try to hold me in your world
Like a doll carried by the flow of time
I sacrificed the present moment for the future
I was in chains of memory half-blinded
Losing my heart, walking in the sea of dreams
Close my eyes
Rose breathes I can hear
All love and sadness melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my mind
Dreams can make me mad
I can't leave my dream
I can't stop myself
Don't know what I am
What lies are truth?
What truths are lies?
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live? Do I try to love?
Art of life
An Eternal Bleeding heart
You never wanna breathe your last
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I'm feeling for
A Rose is breathing love
in my life
"
arh... snl beat me in posting the last verse.... the verse tht summarises everything... well at least the whole song is on my blog now... and as snl puts it...a true masterpiece...
heh....there's CIP todae...yes on a Sunday... therefore i was at bishan at 9 in the morn to eat breakfast at Yakun with vin... after breakfast, we adjourned to the zj's fan club meeting (J8 macs) b4 heading to sch (obviously at tht time coz zj had the CO room key)... Grabbed our instruments and we took the chartered bus down to CC High(Main).. Yeah..the CIP was this mass gathering of 1000+ old folks, 33 homes, for a series of performances and then dinner... Our perfomance item was only 15mins, i think lesser and we were supposed to spend the rest of our time as "free labour" for the organisers. But it was quite fun lar... my first job was to hold scotchtape while vin uses a scissor to cut it 0_0... we were wondering how much would we be paid if we were not "free labour".... hehe.. just realised tht the direct chinese translation of 义工 is "voluntary worker" which is rather ironic.... But once the old folks came, it was much better lar...as in we had proper jobs to do then.....oh did i mention.... they were so concerned for the helpers tht they served us a high-carbo lunch tht is both vegetarian and halal (make further inferences at own risk) arh...my entry is getting disorganised... shall talk bout the sch now... It's huge... yes.. this coming from a RJ guy probably gives u an idea how big the sch is... and it's located out of nowhere....we were like in the bus then suddenly we arrived....with no warning nor signs... My first impression of the main gate= Tiananmen.... The hall is huge.. but no air-con so all of us were cooked together with the 1000 old folks.... The canteen does not look like a canteen until u enter the buildng and there's no toilet... k, our performance was rather sucky coz we had very ppl and the sound was bad... i think being cooked and cooped backstage 1 hr b4 our performance added to the effect... After the performance, it was time for the old folk's dinner and when we saw the food, it was like "omg, why didn't u serve this for lunch?" but well...we could only stare at them eat... After dinner, they all went back in their buses and i thanked the group leader, Johnny i think... nice guy..though a little odd coz it seems tht we had more CIP experience than him.. he was like saying this was the first time he took part in this kind of activity.. After tht, we packed up and left too... CIP is always fun....though u spend most of ur time slacking around... but it's a great bonding activity:)
You can't draw a picture of yesterday, so
You're painting your heart with your blood
You can't say "No"
Only turning the wheel of time
with a rope around your neck
You build a wall of morality and take a breath
from between the bricks
You make up imaginary ennemies and are chased by them
You're trying to commit suicide
You're satisfied with your prologue
Now you're painting your first chapter black
You are putting the scraps of life together
and trying to make an asylum for yourself
You're hitting a bell at the edge of the stage
and
You are trying to kill me
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love
in my dream
I'm breaking the wall inside my heart
I just wanna let my emotions get out
Nobody can stop
I'm running to freedom
No matter how you try to hold me in your world
Like a doll carried by the flow of time
I sacrificed the present moment for the future
I was in chains of memory half-blinded
Losing my heart, walking in the sea of dreams
Close my eyes
Rose breathes I can hear
All love and sadness melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my mind
Dreams can make me mad
I can't leave my dream
I can't stop myself
Don't know what I am
What lies are truth?
What truths are lies?
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live? Do I try to love?
Art of life
An Eternal Bleeding heart
You never wanna breathe your last
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I'm feeling for
A Rose is breathing love
in my life
"
arh... snl beat me in posting the last verse.... the verse tht summarises everything... well at least the whole song is on my blog now... and as snl puts it...a true masterpiece...
heh....there's CIP todae...yes on a Sunday... therefore i was at bishan at 9 in the morn to eat breakfast at Yakun with vin... after breakfast, we adjourned to the zj's fan club meeting (J8 macs) b4 heading to sch (obviously at tht time coz zj had the CO room key)... Grabbed our instruments and we took the chartered bus down to CC High(Main).. Yeah..the CIP was this mass gathering of 1000+ old folks, 33 homes, for a series of performances and then dinner... Our perfomance item was only 15mins, i think lesser and we were supposed to spend the rest of our time as "free labour" for the organisers. But it was quite fun lar... my first job was to hold scotchtape while vin uses a scissor to cut it 0_0... we were wondering how much would we be paid if we were not "free labour".... hehe.. just realised tht the direct chinese translation of 义工 is "voluntary worker" which is rather ironic.... But once the old folks came, it was much better lar...as in we had proper jobs to do then.....oh did i mention.... they were so concerned for the helpers tht they served us a high-carbo lunch tht is both vegetarian and halal (make further inferences at own risk) arh...my entry is getting disorganised... shall talk bout the sch now... It's huge... yes.. this coming from a RJ guy probably gives u an idea how big the sch is... and it's located out of nowhere....we were like in the bus then suddenly we arrived....with no warning nor signs... My first impression of the main gate= Tiananmen.... The hall is huge.. but no air-con so all of us were cooked together with the 1000 old folks.... The canteen does not look like a canteen until u enter the buildng and there's no toilet... k, our performance was rather sucky coz we had very ppl and the sound was bad... i think being cooked and cooped backstage 1 hr b4 our performance added to the effect... After the performance, it was time for the old folk's dinner and when we saw the food, it was like "omg, why didn't u serve this for lunch?" but well...we could only stare at them eat... After dinner, they all went back in their buses and i thanked the group leader, Johnny i think... nice guy..though a little odd coz it seems tht we had more CIP experience than him.. he was like saying this was the first time he took part in this kind of activity.. After tht, we packed up and left too... CIP is always fun....though u spend most of ur time slacking around... but it's a great bonding activity:)
Friday, November 11, 2005
"
I'm making the wall inside my heart
I don't wanna let my emotions get out
It scares me to look at the world
Don't want to find myself lost in your eyes
I tried to drown my past in grey
I never wanna feel more pain
Ran away from you without saying any words
What I don't wanna lose is love
Through my eyes
Time goes by like tears
My emotion's losing the color of life
Kill my heart
Release all my pain
I'm shouting out loud
Insanity takes hold over me
Turning away from the wall
Nothing I can see
The scream deep inside
reflecting another person in my heart
He calls me from within
"All existence you see before you
must be wiped out :
Dream, Reality, Memories,
and Yourself"
I begin to lose control of myself
My lust is so blind, destroys my mind
Nobody can stop my turning to madness
No matter how you try to hold me in your heart
Why do you wanna raise these walls
I don't know the meaning of hatred
My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies
I only want to hold your love
Stab the dolls filled with hate
Wash yourself with their blood
Drive into the raging current of time
Swing your murderous weapon into the belly
"the earth"
Shout and start creating confusion
Shed your blood for pleasure
And what? For love?
What am I supposed to do?
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Past and future prison my heart
Time is blind
But I wanna trace my love
on the wall of time, over pain in my heart
Art of life
Insane blade stabbing dreams
Try to break all truth now
But I can't heal this broken heart in pain
Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life
Keep on crying
Close my eyes
Time breathes I can hear
All love and sadness
melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my walls
"
To be continued... Meanwhile, my Inner eye sees no Reflection....completed I&R, the last academic piece of work for j1 within 1 hr today.....
I'm making the wall inside my heart
I don't wanna let my emotions get out
It scares me to look at the world
Don't want to find myself lost in your eyes
I tried to drown my past in grey
I never wanna feel more pain
Ran away from you without saying any words
What I don't wanna lose is love
Through my eyes
Time goes by like tears
My emotion's losing the color of life
Kill my heart
Release all my pain
I'm shouting out loud
Insanity takes hold over me
Turning away from the wall
Nothing I can see
The scream deep inside
reflecting another person in my heart
He calls me from within
"All existence you see before you
must be wiped out :
Dream, Reality, Memories,
and Yourself"
I begin to lose control of myself
My lust is so blind, destroys my mind
Nobody can stop my turning to madness
No matter how you try to hold me in your heart
Why do you wanna raise these walls
I don't know the meaning of hatred
My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies
I only want to hold your love
Stab the dolls filled with hate
Wash yourself with their blood
Drive into the raging current of time
Swing your murderous weapon into the belly
"the earth"
Shout and start creating confusion
Shed your blood for pleasure
And what? For love?
What am I supposed to do?
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Past and future prison my heart
Time is blind
But I wanna trace my love
on the wall of time, over pain in my heart
Art of life
Insane blade stabbing dreams
Try to break all truth now
But I can't heal this broken heart in pain
Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life
Keep on crying
Close my eyes
Time breathes I can hear
All love and sadness
melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my walls
"
To be continued... Meanwhile, my Inner eye sees no Reflection....completed I&R, the last academic piece of work for j1 within 1 hr today.....
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Okay, let's get things clear here. It's one-way traffic on this blog, i talk, u listen. The tag board u see above is nothing but an ornament. Hence, i do not take very kindly to impersonations or senseless pranks on it. If u have any matter to take up with me, u can always find me on MSN, i'll be glad to entertain. So, the next time someone does something stupid, u can expect to find the tagboard gone and i'll settle the score personally, peroid. Hope this is a clear enough message to all....
haven't blogged anything substantial for a long time... was just listening to x-japan's "Art of life" yest, wonderful piece, fantstic emotional depth. It's a legend. The lyrics are fantastic too, i'll put them out in bite-size portions here... the whole song is 29 mins...
"
Desert Rose
Why do you live alone
If you are sad
I'll make you leave this life
Are you white, blue or bloody red
All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand
The winds of time
You knock me to the ground
I'm dying of thirst
I wanna run away
I don't know how to set me free to live
My mind cries out feeling pain
I've been roaming to find myself
How long have I been feeling endless hurt
Falling down, rain flows into my heart
In the pain I'm waiting for you
Can't go back
No place to go back to
Life is lost, Flowers fall
If it's all dreams
Now wake me up
If it's all real
Just kill me
"
Nostalgia is a strange feeling, u can't decide whether u are happy or sad, happy becoz u cherish what u had b4 or sad becoz u reget the what could-have-been, should-have-been and must-have-been. There seem to be plenty of examples of such contradiction in life. When u hold on to your past, u seem to be wasting away the present and yet when u look into ur future for a answer, u lose ur past.... The above song describes this contradiction perfectly.....
Since this entry till now is all bout music, let's just continue with music... My media player just turned on the LOTR soundtrack from the random playlist. Fantastic piece, esp the romance theme.... When the strings came in with the theme, they sounded majestic, strong....then a small bridge, then in comes the flute or piccolo with the same theme, yet with a more sentimental touch this time... My favourtie part of the song... U know when listening to music, u not just hear sounds, u also imagine how the person plays the music, esp when it is a solo.... and to a certain extent, u try to imagaine what the person felt. And in this case, the music brought across romance...touching romance....
Hols started....yet i'm going sch every day this week, yes including weekends cept for tmr fri. LOL, holidays indeed.....
haven't blogged anything substantial for a long time... was just listening to x-japan's "Art of life" yest, wonderful piece, fantstic emotional depth. It's a legend. The lyrics are fantastic too, i'll put them out in bite-size portions here... the whole song is 29 mins...
"
Desert Rose
Why do you live alone
If you are sad
I'll make you leave this life
Are you white, blue or bloody red
All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand
The winds of time
You knock me to the ground
I'm dying of thirst
I wanna run away
I don't know how to set me free to live
My mind cries out feeling pain
I've been roaming to find myself
How long have I been feeling endless hurt
Falling down, rain flows into my heart
In the pain I'm waiting for you
Can't go back
No place to go back to
Life is lost, Flowers fall
If it's all dreams
Now wake me up
If it's all real
Just kill me
"
Nostalgia is a strange feeling, u can't decide whether u are happy or sad, happy becoz u cherish what u had b4 or sad becoz u reget the what could-have-been, should-have-been and must-have-been. There seem to be plenty of examples of such contradiction in life. When u hold on to your past, u seem to be wasting away the present and yet when u look into ur future for a answer, u lose ur past.... The above song describes this contradiction perfectly.....
Since this entry till now is all bout music, let's just continue with music... My media player just turned on the LOTR soundtrack from the random playlist. Fantastic piece, esp the romance theme.... When the strings came in with the theme, they sounded majestic, strong....then a small bridge, then in comes the flute or piccolo with the same theme, yet with a more sentimental touch this time... My favourtie part of the song... U know when listening to music, u not just hear sounds, u also imagine how the person plays the music, esp when it is a solo.... and to a certain extent, u try to imagaine what the person felt. And in this case, the music brought across romance...touching romance....
Hols started....yet i'm going sch every day this week, yes including weekends cept for tmr fri. LOL, holidays indeed.....
Friday, November 04, 2005
Thursday, November 03, 2005
如果流浪是你的天赋
那么你一定是我最美的追逐
如果爱情是你的游牧
拥有过是不是该满足
(谁带我踏上孤独的丝路)
追逐你的脚步
(谁带我离开孤独的丝路)
感受你的温度
(我将眼泪流成天山上面的湖)
让你疲倦时能够扎营停住
羌笛声 胡旋舞 为你笑为你哭
爱上你的全部放弃我的全部
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后我从来不哭
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎
谁是谁的旅途 我只要你记住
星星就是穷人的珍珠
你的笑支撑着我虔诚的最初
狂风沙石我得到依附
穿越过亚西亚的迷雾
(谁带我踏上孤独的丝路)
追逐你的脚步
(谁带我离开孤独的丝路)
感受你的温度
(我将眼泪流成天山上面的湖)
让你疲倦时能够扎营停住
羌笛声 胡旋舞 为你笑为你哭 (Ho~ 为你哭)
Hey~ 爱上你的全部放弃我的全部 (我的全部)
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后我从来不哭
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎
谁是谁的旅途 我只要你记住
云破日出 你是那道光束
带着平凡的我走过奇迹旅途
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后我从来不哭
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后 我～从来不哭 (No~ Ho~)
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎 (我～不在乎)
谁是谁旅途
我只要~
我只要 你记住
[Fish Leong- 丝路]
那么你一定是我最美的追逐
如果爱情是你的游牧
拥有过是不是该满足
(谁带我踏上孤独的丝路)
追逐你的脚步
(谁带我离开孤独的丝路)
感受你的温度
(我将眼泪流成天山上面的湖)
让你疲倦时能够扎营停住
羌笛声 胡旋舞 为你笑为你哭
爱上你的全部放弃我的全部
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后我从来不哭
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎
谁是谁的旅途 我只要你记住
星星就是穷人的珍珠
你的笑支撑着我虔诚的最初
狂风沙石我得到依附
穿越过亚西亚的迷雾
(谁带我踏上孤独的丝路)
追逐你的脚步
(谁带我离开孤独的丝路)
感受你的温度
(我将眼泪流成天山上面的湖)
让你疲倦时能够扎营停住
羌笛声 胡旋舞 为你笑为你哭 (Ho~ 为你哭)
Hey~ 爱上你的全部放弃我的全部 (我的全部)
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后我从来不哭
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎
谁是谁的旅途 我只要你记住
云破日出 你是那道光束
带着平凡的我走过奇迹旅途
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后我从来不哭
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎
爱上了你之后我开始领悟
陪你走了一段最唯美的国度
爱上了你之后 我～从来不哭 (No~ Ho~)
谁是谁的幸福 我从来不在乎 (我～不在乎)
谁是谁旅途
我只要~
我只要 你记住
[Fish Leong- 丝路]
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Zoo- a walk down memory lane....
To a child, the zoo is a living fantasy, as well as a walking nightmare. Just as how a sheep's bleat may shrill and delight him, the lion's roar strikes fear deep in his heart. Even in the safety of the viewing gallery, separated from the animals by a glass wall, he stands in awe.... of the wonderous works of nature.
As the child grows into a teenager, his knowledge increases exponentially and he starts to rationalise. When he visits the zoo again, the animals are no longer masterpieces of nature, but reduced to beasts in captivity providing entertainment for the paying consumer. Though he may have retained the curiousity of childhood, he has lost the respect for nature, or rather, the innocence that made things so simple....
"Under the closed flower,
Under the smooth shell
Of eggs in the cupped nest
That mock the faded blue
Of your remoter heaven."
[R.S. Thomas- Children's Song]
Visited the zoo with the class on thurs after make-up chem lecture. Interesting experience... We looked remotely out of place in our uniform as the other ppl aound were either tourists or pri sch kids. The good thing about visiting the zoo with a bunch of 17-years old elites is that they can entertain u with random jokes plucked seemingly out of nowhere. lol.. Left the zoo at about 6 and returned to AMK for dinner at Pizza hut. We were there from 7 -10, "talking as though our grandfather owns the place" (quoted from Eric). Miss Wong joined at about 8.30 after PTM in sch was over. Took a few group photos b4 Miss Wong finally convinced all of us to start heading home and forget about ponning sch the next day. Just as we steped out of Pizza Hut, the sky gave way and it started pouring. A timely lightning storm, reminding us that no matter how great we become, we are still at the mercy of Mother Nature. Took 86 to Sengkang with karen and shiting, b4 transferring to 88 to get home. Reached home at 11.15pm. Opp Cost of learning journey- one CO prac playing 音乐会序曲.... i guess its worth it... though it seemed more like a bonding activity than a journey focused on learning... not tht i mind...
Todae there was 4D class gathering, steamboat at Marina. A total of 18 ppl turned up, more than half the class... Meeting time was 5 at Marina Bay, I reached at 5.10, thinking that i was very late, but well, in the end i was one of the earlier ones and we sat in a circle in the station while waiting for the others. Steamboat was rather similar to my previous experience, its like a battlefield inside the place. Everyone was chionging for food and the typical Singaporean "kiasuism" surfaces. Ppl cutting queues like nobody's business and grabbing food as though they haven't eaten for days. After dinner, went into the arcade beside for the air-con. While in there, Nash and Jermyn battled it out in tekken 5 and we basically made a lot of noise. Eric and George seemed exremely interested in the female characters and Zi Kai was disrupting the game to let Nash win but everytime he does so, Nash would lose...lol... left the place at bout 10, taking MRT home....
To a child, the zoo is a living fantasy, as well as a walking nightmare. Just as how a sheep's bleat may shrill and delight him, the lion's roar strikes fear deep in his heart. Even in the safety of the viewing gallery, separated from the animals by a glass wall, he stands in awe.... of the wonderous works of nature.
As the child grows into a teenager, his knowledge increases exponentially and he starts to rationalise. When he visits the zoo again, the animals are no longer masterpieces of nature, but reduced to beasts in captivity providing entertainment for the paying consumer. Though he may have retained the curiousity of childhood, he has lost the respect for nature, or rather, the innocence that made things so simple....
"Under the closed flower,
Under the smooth shell
Of eggs in the cupped nest
That mock the faded blue
Of your remoter heaven."
[R.S. Thomas- Children's Song]
Visited the zoo with the class on thurs after make-up chem lecture. Interesting experience... We looked remotely out of place in our uniform as the other ppl aound were either tourists or pri sch kids. The good thing about visiting the zoo with a bunch of 17-years old elites is that they can entertain u with random jokes plucked seemingly out of nowhere. lol.. Left the zoo at about 6 and returned to AMK for dinner at Pizza hut. We were there from 7 -10, "talking as though our grandfather owns the place" (quoted from Eric). Miss Wong joined at about 8.30 after PTM in sch was over. Took a few group photos b4 Miss Wong finally convinced all of us to start heading home and forget about ponning sch the next day. Just as we steped out of Pizza Hut, the sky gave way and it started pouring. A timely lightning storm, reminding us that no matter how great we become, we are still at the mercy of Mother Nature. Took 86 to Sengkang with karen and shiting, b4 transferring to 88 to get home. Reached home at 11.15pm. Opp Cost of learning journey- one CO prac playing 音乐会序曲.... i guess its worth it... though it seemed more like a bonding activity than a journey focused on learning... not tht i mind...
Todae there was 4D class gathering, steamboat at Marina. A total of 18 ppl turned up, more than half the class... Meeting time was 5 at Marina Bay, I reached at 5.10, thinking that i was very late, but well, in the end i was one of the earlier ones and we sat in a circle in the station while waiting for the others. Steamboat was rather similar to my previous experience, its like a battlefield inside the place. Everyone was chionging for food and the typical Singaporean "kiasuism" surfaces. Ppl cutting queues like nobody's business and grabbing food as though they haven't eaten for days. After dinner, went into the arcade beside for the air-con. While in there, Nash and Jermyn battled it out in tekken 5 and we basically made a lot of noise. Eric and George seemed exremely interested in the female characters and Zi Kai was disrupting the game to let Nash win but everytime he does so, Nash would lose...lol... left the place at bout 10, taking MRT home....
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
放肆的尽情挥霍 那一年玩的多疯
你和我 站上全世界的最快乐 的巅峰 等着雨停的午后 你希望此刻永久
而现在 永久就是永久的牢笼 让我一直在等候
等待后面是等待 更沉默的等待~
然后咬紧了牙关 等待更多的等待
如果你 爱过我 你不会就这样走 就这样 丢下我 和那些天真承诺
如果我 再也不 不能再更多的承受 痛哭之后 却又咬紧牙关
继续漂流 继续等候
你最爱哪个歌手 最爱吃什么火锅
最爱把 小小的脸 轻轻的靠在 我胸口
这城市每个角落 回忆都霸占街头
我知道 你会想起雨停的时候 我知道你会回头
[五月天-牙关]
听五月天的歌总是有种莫名的感动，似乎唱出了真实的心灵，解开心中的死结...
It all boils down to the split second....
The icy gaze struck like a spear. Loathing. Contempt. Then it was all over... A lost cause....yet deemed worthy enough to fight for...
The warrior stood alone on the battlefield, his sword drawn and ready. With a yell, he charged towards the unknown enemy. Jumping into the air, he swung his sword with full force, making contact with the flesh of the enemy. At the same time, a searing pain registered across his chest but with the icy gaze bearing down, he completed the follow through motion of the sword before he finally realised that it was too late-
the enemy was within him....it was a lost cause....
The icy gaze struck like a spear. Loathing. Contempt. But wait.... was there a glint of a teardrop?....
你和我 站上全世界的最快乐 的巅峰 等着雨停的午后 你希望此刻永久
而现在 永久就是永久的牢笼 让我一直在等候
等待后面是等待 更沉默的等待~
然后咬紧了牙关 等待更多的等待
如果你 爱过我 你不会就这样走 就这样 丢下我 和那些天真承诺
如果我 再也不 不能再更多的承受 痛哭之后 却又咬紧牙关
继续漂流 继续等候
你最爱哪个歌手 最爱吃什么火锅
最爱把 小小的脸 轻轻的靠在 我胸口
这城市每个角落 回忆都霸占街头
我知道 你会想起雨停的时候 我知道你会回头
[五月天-牙关]
听五月天的歌总是有种莫名的感动，似乎唱出了真实的心灵，解开心中的死结...
It all boils down to the split second....
The icy gaze struck like a spear. Loathing. Contempt. Then it was all over... A lost cause....yet deemed worthy enough to fight for...
The warrior stood alone on the battlefield, his sword drawn and ready. With a yell, he charged towards the unknown enemy. Jumping into the air, he swung his sword with full force, making contact with the flesh of the enemy. At the same time, a searing pain registered across his chest but with the icy gaze bearing down, he completed the follow through motion of the sword before he finally realised that it was too late-
the enemy was within him....it was a lost cause....
The icy gaze struck like a spear. Loathing. Contempt. But wait.... was there a glint of a teardrop?....
Sunday, October 23, 2005
First things first, results: A for econs, A for maths and B4 for GP... When i got 13/20 for mcq and 15/25 for drq, i was resigned to getting the inevitable B for econs, but well, my essay scored an impressive 40/50 to give me 70% , A on the dot, somewhat bittersweet consolation, for i expected the A to be in physics. In any case, i've learnt the importance of 知足 and i should just be glad for what i have.
After results, the next big thing was open house prep. zj called for a comm meeting 9 days b4 the event and thts the no. of days we had to prepare the perc item "next game". The rehearsal on mon was disastrous, the one on thurs was slightly better but still not up to standard but on fri open house itself, it was quite nice... considering the time constrain we had. oh...and for the first time, i broke a stick during performance, lol... was a little stunned during the perfeormance but according to zj, i reacted quite fast so wans't much of a prob...
Open house itself was quite fun, much better than the one i went for last year, at least i think so.... Bridge and CO booths were located quite close to each other so just hopped around btw the 2. Nearing the end of open house, me and xl were sitting at the bridge booth doing some partnership bidding when 4 pro looking guys decided tht they wanted a game... 2 of them sat down at our table and xl dealt the cards. My RHO opened 1NT and i asked LHO if it is a strong opening, he replied something like "7-7" which i couldn't make sense of. Played safe and passed. 1NT was passed out, as i was about do the opening lead, my RHO threw down a lead and seemingly oblivious to my shock, smugly announced "No trump, my lead". Me and xl were stunned momentarily, but was enlightened shortly. As the game proceded, we realise tht they were playing "floating bridge" with fixed partners, the irony.... And we down their 1NT by at least 2 due to bad play on their part... lol, next year, the word "contract" had better be there...
After results, the next big thing was open house prep. zj called for a comm meeting 9 days b4 the event and thts the no. of days we had to prepare the perc item "next game". The rehearsal on mon was disastrous, the one on thurs was slightly better but still not up to standard but on fri open house itself, it was quite nice... considering the time constrain we had. oh...and for the first time, i broke a stick during performance, lol... was a little stunned during the perfeormance but according to zj, i reacted quite fast so wans't much of a prob...
Open house itself was quite fun, much better than the one i went for last year, at least i think so.... Bridge and CO booths were located quite close to each other so just hopped around btw the 2. Nearing the end of open house, me and xl were sitting at the bridge booth doing some partnership bidding when 4 pro looking guys decided tht they wanted a game... 2 of them sat down at our table and xl dealt the cards. My RHO opened 1NT and i asked LHO if it is a strong opening, he replied something like "7-7" which i couldn't make sense of. Played safe and passed. 1NT was passed out, as i was about do the opening lead, my RHO threw down a lead and seemingly oblivious to my shock, smugly announced "No trump, my lead". Me and xl were stunned momentarily, but was enlightened shortly. As the game proceded, we realise tht they were playing "floating bridge" with fixed partners, the irony.... And we down their 1NT by at least 2 due to bad play on their part... lol, next year, the word "contract" had better be there...
Friday, October 21, 2005
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Ever wanted to post something but not let anyone see..... I'm feeling that right now and I've found a way to do so....
boxjoeofxkvmnz fyseieaavalderry shldsnkdsfn
That's all....
Cryptology...
eleven plus two = twelve plus one
shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet,
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet"
and in Twelve Night,
"Have you not set mine honour at the stake and baited it with all th'unmuzzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving Enough is shown; a cypress, not a bosom, hides my heart. So let me hear you speak."
boxjoeofxkvmnz fyseieaavalderry shldsnkdsfn
That's all....
Cryptology...
eleven plus two = twelve plus one
shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet,
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet"
and in Twelve Night,
"Have you not set mine honour at the stake and baited it with all th'unmuzzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving Enough is shown; a cypress, not a bosom, hides my heart. So let me hear you speak."
Friday, October 14, 2005
解开我 最神秘的等待
星星坠落 风在吹动
终于再将你拥入怀中
两颗心颤抖
相信我 不变的真心
千年等待有我承诺
无论经过多少寒冬
我绝不放手
(in Korean)
**
现在紧抓住我的手 闭上眼睛
请你回想起过去我们恋爱的日子
我们是因为太爱
所以更使我们痛苦
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
每一夜 被心痛穿越
思念永没有终点
早习惯了孤独相随
我微笑面对
相信我 你选择等待
再多苦痛也不闪躲
只有你的温柔能解救
无边的冷漠
(in Korean)
**
现在紧抓住我的手 闭上眼睛
请你回想起过去我们恋爱的日子
我们是因为太爱
所以更使我们痛苦
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
让爱成为你我心中
那永远盛开的花
穿越时空绝不低头 永不放弃的梦
(in Korean)
**
我们是因为太爱
所以更使我们痛苦
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
让爱成为你我心中
那永远盛开的花
(in Korean)
**
我们千万不要忘记 我们的约定
**
唯有真爱追随你我
穿越无尽时空
(in Korean)
**
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
爱是心中唯一不变美丽的神话
[Endless love- Jackie Chan and Kim]
The last line sums it all...i like the melody of the song...has a distinct flavour... though the singing is rather mediocre... theme song of The Myth... watched it on Tues after PW and IHC... okay plot...nice scenery and music...
Ah..for IHC, Buckle-Buckley is sweeping every event.... 1st for everything cept frisbee and chinese chess. For bridge, it was a pretty close affair with scores like 16-14, 18-12 victories, but a swing board against Moor-Tarbet proved to be the winner. A 5D game(though it could have been 6D) by me and xl and a 3C by our teammates on the same board secured us a 25-5 victory which led to Buckley winning with 72 VPs, 6 points clear of the runner-up. woots...though i missed the last match against HH becoz of PW...
Got back 2 papers so far, chem and physics....A for chem, B for physics... no surprises for chem as 55% of the cohort has an A too... Physics B was once again due to stupid mistakes in the mcq paper... will try to squeeze marks out of the main paper when they go thru, hopefully enough to secure a physics S.... Maths i'm pretty sure of an A and i hope to scrape a B for econs.... a pass will do for GP... and all shall be known on Mon.....
Open House is next fri and preps are under way. Practising Next Game for the event.... would be a great achievement if we pull it off.... 1 week 2 days of notice only..... As zj aptly puts it, it's equivalent to 4 percussion solos....*prays
星星坠落 风在吹动
终于再将你拥入怀中
两颗心颤抖
相信我 不变的真心
千年等待有我承诺
无论经过多少寒冬
我绝不放手
(in Korean)
**
现在紧抓住我的手 闭上眼睛
请你回想起过去我们恋爱的日子
我们是因为太爱
所以更使我们痛苦
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
每一夜 被心痛穿越
思念永没有终点
早习惯了孤独相随
我微笑面对
相信我 你选择等待
再多苦痛也不闪躲
只有你的温柔能解救
无边的冷漠
(in Korean)
**
现在紧抓住我的手 闭上眼睛
请你回想起过去我们恋爱的日子
我们是因为太爱
所以更使我们痛苦
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
让爱成为你我心中
那永远盛开的花
穿越时空绝不低头 永不放弃的梦
(in Korean)
**
我们是因为太爱
所以更使我们痛苦
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
让爱成为你我心中
那永远盛开的花
(in Korean)
**
我们千万不要忘记 我们的约定
**
唯有真爱追随你我
穿越无尽时空
(in Korean)
**
我们连“爱你”这一句话都无法讲
**
爱是心中唯一不变美丽的神话
[Endless love- Jackie Chan and Kim]
The last line sums it all...i like the melody of the song...has a distinct flavour... though the singing is rather mediocre... theme song of The Myth... watched it on Tues after PW and IHC... okay plot...nice scenery and music...
Ah..for IHC, Buckle-Buckley is sweeping every event.... 1st for everything cept frisbee and chinese chess. For bridge, it was a pretty close affair with scores like 16-14, 18-12 victories, but a swing board against Moor-Tarbet proved to be the winner. A 5D game(though it could have been 6D) by me and xl and a 3C by our teammates on the same board secured us a 25-5 victory which led to Buckley winning with 72 VPs, 6 points clear of the runner-up. woots...though i missed the last match against HH becoz of PW...
Got back 2 papers so far, chem and physics....A for chem, B for physics... no surprises for chem as 55% of the cohort has an A too... Physics B was once again due to stupid mistakes in the mcq paper... will try to squeeze marks out of the main paper when they go thru, hopefully enough to secure a physics S.... Maths i'm pretty sure of an A and i hope to scrape a B for econs.... a pass will do for GP... and all shall be known on Mon.....
Open House is next fri and preps are under way. Practising Next Game for the event.... would be a great achievement if we pull it off.... 1 week 2 days of notice only..... As zj aptly puts it, it's equivalent to 4 percussion solos....*prays
Friday, October 07, 2005
Promos over and if u ask me, examinations can be likened to drugs. Before you take them, there's is this apprehension, then while taking it, you get an unexpected "high" and after the exam, when u are supposed to be exhilarated, u suffer from the "hangover effect". Problem is, the more u take exams, the worse the "hangover effects", just like drugs and so now other than an innate joy brought about the fact that promos are over, there is just this emptiness- like how life just lost its drive or something. When you see people cry freedom at the end of the last paper, have u ever taken a step back and wonder, what freedom are they speaking of? - when the boundaries are self-imposed in the first place....
After reading the first paragraph, u must be thinking "hey, chill out man! it's the END of the promos." lol, as i said earlier, notwithstanding, there is an innate joy directly associated with an ending of a major examination and it is customary to celebrate such an occasion. Hence, after exam today, went S11 to have brekfast b4 adjourning to J8 with xl to while time b4 he had to go down to Outram for a dental check-up. When we reached J8, all the shops were closed and we finally ended up in NTUC at the basement to examine the "free-market economy" at work provided by a "pro-govt trade union." Met weixiong there, already in home clothes, and he told us tht his class is going to Sentosa 0_0 the extent ppl go to celebrate....
Soon, xl had to go down to Outram and i headed up to deng's house, the convergence point for todae... Basically played mahjong throughout the day.... Kind of feels like CNY.....as we were entertained by scattered-brain antics and random comments throughout....lol
And if there's anything to be truly happy about, it should be the fact the PW-OP is the only obstacle left in J1 and that CO is resuming soon- tht means i'll get to touch the new drum-set soon... And yeah... IHC bridge is next tues....got a feeling tht it would end up as another "intra-club tournament".....
I like this analogy i've read somewhere b4... Love is like reasonance- u can attune the external peroidic driving force but cannot change the natural frequency....and it occurs at one and only one point- where the freq of the ext. peroidic force matches the natural freq.... Meanwhile, while u ponder on tht, 胆小鬼 by 梁咏琪, a chirpy song to chill out....
你爱咖啡 低调的感觉
偏爱收集的音乐 怪得很另类
你很特别 每一个小细节
哎呀呀呀 如此的对味
我怕浪费 情绪的错觉
讨厌自己像剌□ 小心的防备
我很反对 为失恋掉眼泪
唉呀呀呀 离你远一些
喜欢看你紧紧皱眉 叫我胆小鬼
你的表情大过于朋友的暧昧
寂寞的称谓 甜蜜的责备
有独一无二专属的特别
喜欢看你紧紧皱眉 叫我胆小鬼
我的心情就像和情人在斗嘴
奇怪的直觉 错误的定位
对你唉呀呀呀 我有点胆怯
我在我的世界不能犯规
你在你的世界笑我无所谓
After reading the first paragraph, u must be thinking "hey, chill out man! it's the END of the promos." lol, as i said earlier, notwithstanding, there is an innate joy directly associated with an ending of a major examination and it is customary to celebrate such an occasion. Hence, after exam today, went S11 to have brekfast b4 adjourning to J8 with xl to while time b4 he had to go down to Outram for a dental check-up. When we reached J8, all the shops were closed and we finally ended up in NTUC at the basement to examine the "free-market economy" at work provided by a "pro-govt trade union." Met weixiong there, already in home clothes, and he told us tht his class is going to Sentosa 0_0 the extent ppl go to celebrate....
Soon, xl had to go down to Outram and i headed up to deng's house, the convergence point for todae... Basically played mahjong throughout the day.... Kind of feels like CNY.....as we were entertained by scattered-brain antics and random comments throughout....lol
And if there's anything to be truly happy about, it should be the fact the PW-OP is the only obstacle left in J1 and that CO is resuming soon- tht means i'll get to touch the new drum-set soon... And yeah... IHC bridge is next tues....got a feeling tht it would end up as another "intra-club tournament".....
I like this analogy i've read somewhere b4... Love is like reasonance- u can attune the external peroidic driving force but cannot change the natural frequency....and it occurs at one and only one point- where the freq of the ext. peroidic force matches the natural freq.... Meanwhile, while u ponder on tht, 胆小鬼 by 梁咏琪, a chirpy song to chill out....
你爱咖啡 低调的感觉
偏爱收集的音乐 怪得很另类
你很特别 每一个小细节
哎呀呀呀 如此的对味
我怕浪费 情绪的错觉
讨厌自己像剌□ 小心的防备
我很反对 为失恋掉眼泪
唉呀呀呀 离你远一些
喜欢看你紧紧皱眉 叫我胆小鬼
你的表情大过于朋友的暧昧
寂寞的称谓 甜蜜的责备
有独一无二专属的特别
喜欢看你紧紧皱眉 叫我胆小鬼
我的心情就像和情人在斗嘴
奇怪的直觉 错误的定位
对你唉呀呀呀 我有点胆怯
我在我的世界不能犯规
你在你的世界笑我无所谓
Monday, October 03, 2005
If life is a river and your heart is a boat
And just like a water baby, baby born to float
And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high
And your heart is Amelia dying to fly
Heaven knows no frontiers and I've seen heaven in your eyes
And if life is a bar room in which we must wait
'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates
Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates
And we stack all the dead men in self addressed crates
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day
When fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its ways
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails
And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails
Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right
And your heart is a pure flame of man's constant night
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day when fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its ways
And heaven has its ways
When all will harmonise
And you know what's in our hearts
The dream will realise
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
[The Corrs- No Frontiers(Heaven Knows)]
Unplugged version playing in bg.....listening to good music aids in studying...
And just like a water baby, baby born to float
And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high
And your heart is Amelia dying to fly
Heaven knows no frontiers and I've seen heaven in your eyes
And if life is a bar room in which we must wait
'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates
Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates
And we stack all the dead men in self addressed crates
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day
When fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its ways
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails
And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails
Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right
And your heart is a pure flame of man's constant night
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day when fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its ways
And heaven has its ways
When all will harmonise
And you know what's in our hearts
The dream will realise
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
[The Corrs- No Frontiers(Heaven Knows)]
Unplugged version playing in bg.....listening to good music aids in studying...
Saturday, October 01, 2005
it's children's day today.... Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional, therefore we should celebrate children's day.....by mugging our brains out....
anything below Acceptable is not acceptable......stating the obvious?
Luck for those who need it, memory space and perhaps a tad of intelligence for the rest...
anything below Acceptable is not acceptable......stating the obvious?
Luck for those who need it, memory space and perhaps a tad of intelligence for the rest...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Just a thought while studying econs... If the presence of morals, values, religion, science and technology etc. makes us human, then won't the prevalence of the free market economy or capitalism reduces us back to animals?...
lolz, i haven't finished mugging yet...though in my last post i'd said i'll do econs last, but decided that i should spend more time on the subject that i obtained an Outstanding by Harry Potter's standard for the CTs to try to "improve" it to an Acceptable level. The key word here....is try....
oh yeah...TNP seems to take special interest in stories tht involve the top boy's secondary sch or a top girls' sch in the orchard road area... todae's headlines read "Public caning for boy who 'badmouthed' teacher online"... No prizes for guessing which sch the boy was from..... hmmm...only consolation is perhaps tht they put the word "badmouthed" in quotes, though probably it's because badmouthed is slang....
lolz, i haven't finished mugging yet...though in my last post i'd said i'll do econs last, but decided that i should spend more time on the subject that i obtained an Outstanding by Harry Potter's standard for the CTs to try to "improve" it to an Acceptable level. The key word here....is try....
oh yeah...TNP seems to take special interest in stories tht involve the top boy's secondary sch or a top girls' sch in the orchard road area... todae's headlines read "Public caning for boy who 'badmouthed' teacher online"... No prizes for guessing which sch the boy was from..... hmmm...only consolation is perhaps tht they put the word "badmouthed" in quotes, though probably it's because badmouthed is slang....
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Promos are near, very near.... Looked thru past yr papers....only physics looks easy enough...chem department is a miser with marks, the math departments sets paper with the sole aim of wearing you down mentally so that you won't last 3 hours and for econs, i solve it after i settled the other three subjects first...haix...time for intensive mugging...
it's not that i dun care, it's just that u dun knoe i care....
it's not that i dun care, it's just that u dun knoe i care....
Monday, September 19, 2005
Saturday, September 17, 2005
但愿人常久，
千里共婵娟。
The theme for yest mid-autmun festival celebrations... First time playing drum set, and only having 2 practices, and u can guess the result- screwed up... lol, and an open arena setting didn't help us either, but tht's besides the pt coz the atmosphere was quite nice...very relaxing... The moving of instruments from Co room to the parade square reminded me of the times we had to move instruments from the "storeroom" to below the design block. Anw, while moving instru on the 2nd storey walkway outside the hall, pointed out to xl tht both the moon and the sun can be seen. So the setting sun was glowing on one side and the near-full moon can be seen on the other. But alas, beauty is short-lived, and the marvellous sight only lasted for about half an hour before the night took over.
yeah...rich and yy came down after their big eat at sakae to support the event also. "月圆人圆”There are 2 chinese festivals that calls for the reunion of ppl, CNY and the mid-autumn festival. So, it was like a mini-gathering for us yest, cept that deng was MIA due to blood tests and suspected dengue. After the event, moved the instruments back to CO room, xl helped again, thx a lot.... then we went to S11 for "dinner" at 9+pm. We crapped a lot of random stuff and had to settle for hokkien mee as nothing much was left. And rich came up with a total random “搬弄是非”After everyone finished the food, zongjin suddenly found out that he lost an envelope that Miss lim wants and started a frantic ransacking of bags to search for it. Finally concluded that the envelop is still in sch and therefore, he and kwan set off returning to sch at an unearthly 10pm. Well...they found it in the end...but i hope earlier than the sms zj sent me at an even more unearthly 11pm.... On staying till late in sch, according to xl, Mr Hodge actually scolded a girl for staying till 12mn in sch to study and sent her home in a taxi 0_0 lol, thts all from me....new song uploaded, gaining through losing by ken hirai, more fondly known as the original version of F4's liu xing yu...
千里共婵娟。
The theme for yest mid-autmun festival celebrations... First time playing drum set, and only having 2 practices, and u can guess the result- screwed up... lol, and an open arena setting didn't help us either, but tht's besides the pt coz the atmosphere was quite nice...very relaxing... The moving of instruments from Co room to the parade square reminded me of the times we had to move instruments from the "storeroom" to below the design block. Anw, while moving instru on the 2nd storey walkway outside the hall, pointed out to xl tht both the moon and the sun can be seen. So the setting sun was glowing on one side and the near-full moon can be seen on the other. But alas, beauty is short-lived, and the marvellous sight only lasted for about half an hour before the night took over.
yeah...rich and yy came down after their big eat at sakae to support the event also. "月圆人圆”There are 2 chinese festivals that calls for the reunion of ppl, CNY and the mid-autumn festival. So, it was like a mini-gathering for us yest, cept that deng was MIA due to blood tests and suspected dengue. After the event, moved the instruments back to CO room, xl helped again, thx a lot.... then we went to S11 for "dinner" at 9+pm. We crapped a lot of random stuff and had to settle for hokkien mee as nothing much was left. And rich came up with a total random “搬弄是非”After everyone finished the food, zongjin suddenly found out that he lost an envelope that Miss lim wants and started a frantic ransacking of bags to search for it. Finally concluded that the envelop is still in sch and therefore, he and kwan set off returning to sch at an unearthly 10pm. Well...they found it in the end...but i hope earlier than the sms zj sent me at an even more unearthly 11pm.... On staying till late in sch, according to xl, Mr Hodge actually scolded a girl for staying till 12mn in sch to study and sent her home in a taxi 0_0 lol, thts all from me....new song uploaded, gaining through losing by ken hirai, more fondly known as the original version of F4's liu xing yu...
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Saturday, September 10, 2005
I was planning to post this yest but was interrupted by bong regarding the previous post...lol
Currently enjoying the positive externalities generated by the birthday present i gave my bro. 五月天《知足》.... He brings the CDs to camp but i have the mp3s and the VCD at home :) Just wasted the night away watching the VCD and guang liang's one (only realised tht tong hua has a MV after like 4 months since i bought the album). lol...both are nice.. but i'll talk on 五月天. They created this movie called 未来 ... shall not do spoilers so i'll just quote some lines tht are meaningful...
Mayday just has this ability to cheer you up no matter wat situation you are in. Perhaps its the non-chalance or rather the way their music express their belief that there is good in the world and nothing else matters more than that.
昨天太近，明天太远，现在我了解.... 在等..未来会发生什么事.... 知足后.....就会常乐...
怎么去拥有 一道彩虹
怎么去拥抱 一夏天的风
天上的星星 笑地上的人
总是不能懂 不能觉得足够
如果我爱上 你的笑容 要怎么收藏 要怎么拥有
如果你快乐 不是为我 会不会放手 其实才是拥有
当一阵风吹来 风筝飞上天空
为了你而祈祷 而祝福 而感动
终于你身影 消失在 人海尽头 才发现笑着哭 最痛
那天你和我 那个山丘 那样的唱着 那一年的歌
那样的回忆 那么足够 足够我天天 都品尝着寂寞
当一阵风吹来 风筝飞上天空
为了你而祈祷 而祝福 而感动
终于你身影 消失在 人海尽头 才发现笑着哭 最痛
如果我爱上 你的笑容 要怎么收藏 要怎么拥有
如果你快乐 再不是为我 会不会放手 其实才是拥有
知足的快乐 叫我忍受心痛
知足的快乐 叫我忍受心痛
[五月天-知足]
a song tht would perhaps make u tear involuntarily....but after crying....there would be a smile on your face.....
Currently enjoying the positive externalities generated by the birthday present i gave my bro. 五月天《知足》.... He brings the CDs to camp but i have the mp3s and the VCD at home :) Just wasted the night away watching the VCD and guang liang's one (only realised tht tong hua has a MV after like 4 months since i bought the album). lol...both are nice.. but i'll talk on 五月天. They created this movie called 未来 ... shall not do spoilers so i'll just quote some lines tht are meaningful...
我从来不会想说，
那种..
如果时光可以倒流的这种话。
因为....
时光如果真的可以倒流，
这一切就不会那么的珍贵....
Mayday just has this ability to cheer you up no matter wat situation you are in. Perhaps its the non-chalance or rather the way their music express their belief that there is good in the world and nothing else matters more than that.
你知道吗，有些事只要你不要太在意，它就真的没那么了不起...
昨天太近，明天太远，现在我了解.... 在等..未来会发生什么事.... 知足后.....就会常乐...
怎么去拥有 一道彩虹
怎么去拥抱 一夏天的风
天上的星星 笑地上的人
总是不能懂 不能觉得足够
如果我爱上 你的笑容 要怎么收藏 要怎么拥有
如果你快乐 不是为我 会不会放手 其实才是拥有
当一阵风吹来 风筝飞上天空
为了你而祈祷 而祝福 而感动
终于你身影 消失在 人海尽头 才发现笑着哭 最痛
那天你和我 那个山丘 那样的唱着 那一年的歌
那样的回忆 那么足够 足够我天天 都品尝着寂寞
当一阵风吹来 风筝飞上天空
为了你而祈祷 而祝福 而感动
终于你身影 消失在 人海尽头 才发现笑着哭 最痛
如果我爱上 你的笑容 要怎么收藏 要怎么拥有
如果你快乐 再不是为我 会不会放手 其实才是拥有
知足的快乐 叫我忍受心痛
知足的快乐 叫我忍受心痛
[五月天-知足]
a song tht would perhaps make u tear involuntarily....but after crying....there would be a smile on your face.....
Friday, September 09, 2005
I refer to the online letter titled "RJC students, watch your dropping pants and short skirts" on ST forum on 8 sep(http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,339311,00.html?). I am undeniably touched by the author's concern for RJ , especially when he comes from the institution located right next to us. However, after reading the article, even the barely literate, i'm sure, would have noticed something wrong. But what is it that makes it wrong?
The letter aptly points out a very pertinent trend in an "illustrious institution." The fact that SOME RJ students dress sloppily is undeniable but to say that RJ girls are seen "invariably" in short skirts and "many" guys have dropping pants is stretching the limit. For one, "invariably" means constantly which means if i can find 1 counter-example, the argument falls through.
The second reason, i have to say as a student practising science, is that his accusations are groundless. This is because he could not have conducted attire checks on the entire RJ population without playing truant and risking himself being in a boys' home or the mental hospital for an uncanny fetish. So, i suppose him a normal student that perhaps saw 10 girls wearing short skirts and 10 guys wearing dropping pants in a day. Still, thts less than 1% of the entire RJ population and cannot be used to generalise the remaining 99% of the population.
The above 2 "wrongs" can be easily forgiven with a simple line of "freedom of speech". The author is obviously entitled to his opinion of the RJ population and the RJ population, as the elites, would not mind the criticism. However, we need to discern criticism from scathing attacks and the final line he wrote "I urge the school authorities to take action." hits himself in the foot. At first glance, one might have thought that the author keyed in the wrong address when sending the email but common sense tells u that an individual with an IQ above 100 or even 150 and a PSLE score of 261 and above could not have commited such a elementary error. Thus, the ultimate motive of the author then becomes apparent.
I quote, "far from making a statement", all he had accomplished was to show his lack of maturity. "Just because a student is out of school boundaries does not mean that the school image cannot be affected by the student's dress and actions." I am indeed thankful that he did not reveal his own school. "Never underestimate Man's ability to be stupid" Mr Joseph Wong once said. How apt.
The letter aptly points out a very pertinent trend in an "illustrious institution." The fact that SOME RJ students dress sloppily is undeniable but to say that RJ girls are seen "invariably" in short skirts and "many" guys have dropping pants is stretching the limit. For one, "invariably" means constantly which means if i can find 1 counter-example, the argument falls through.
The second reason, i have to say as a student practising science, is that his accusations are groundless. This is because he could not have conducted attire checks on the entire RJ population without playing truant and risking himself being in a boys' home or the mental hospital for an uncanny fetish. So, i suppose him a normal student that perhaps saw 10 girls wearing short skirts and 10 guys wearing dropping pants in a day. Still, thts less than 1% of the entire RJ population and cannot be used to generalise the remaining 99% of the population.
The above 2 "wrongs" can be easily forgiven with a simple line of "freedom of speech". The author is obviously entitled to his opinion of the RJ population and the RJ population, as the elites, would not mind the criticism. However, we need to discern criticism from scathing attacks and the final line he wrote "I urge the school authorities to take action." hits himself in the foot. At first glance, one might have thought that the author keyed in the wrong address when sending the email but common sense tells u that an individual with an IQ above 100 or even 150 and a PSLE score of 261 and above could not have commited such a elementary error. Thus, the ultimate motive of the author then becomes apparent.
I quote, "far from making a statement", all he had accomplished was to show his lack of maturity. "Just because a student is out of school boundaries does not mean that the school image cannot be affected by the student's dress and actions." I am indeed thankful that he did not reveal his own school. "Never underestimate Man's ability to be stupid" Mr Joseph Wong once said. How apt.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
After running through mandopop and english pop songs, its time for some j-pop, okay, not exactly pop but should still sound familiar to most of you all out there.
Todae's kevin's birthdae, so happy birthdae teletubby and hope u like ur new wallet... Speaking of the wallet, me and xl went down to heeren yest morning to get it. lol, we actually headed the wrong direction after we got out of the station though both of us knew exactly where heeren is. Got the wallet settled earlier than expected and went cine to watch Jack Neo's directed One More Chance. I wanted to watch penguins but xl was dead set against it and in the end the time-slot i was eyeing was sold out 0_0. Never knew singaporeans were so on about documentaries..and in stark contrast, the locally produced film only had a half-house. The movie was okay lar...quite funny and meaningful. There was a scene where they turned the innocent "三只老虎" into a cockles' song that should turn off most cockles-lovers. And the finale was cute....national propaganda..... everyone in the movie started waving the yellow ribbon like some 招财猫 while i was cringing coz i couldn't bear to watch on....
And todae....went Amk in the morning to play pool b4 going down to northpoint for a Swensons lunch. And yes, the earthquake ended up the same way as before, mashed... and the dried ice removed for some chemical experiment. Used the dried ice in replace of candles in the end as we sang the birthday song for kevin, though as much as he would like to, he can't blow out the "candle". Then rich and shan tried rap and jazz versions of the birhtday songs which didn't turn out too well. Then we went shan's house for mahjong and bridge. Due to the lack of a proper table, they ended up playing mahjong on a styrofoam board placed on a mattress. erm...innovation at its very best? And only in the second round did they realise that they had everything from the botanic gardens but were missing stuff from the zoo. And so the two blank tiles were thrown in as psuedo animals...dotz... Finally at 5, me, vin and deng left shan's house to make our way home. Walked deng to his house b4 taking 39 back.. There goes the last moments of "playing" in the hols, time to really start mugging....sianz...
ah....my first narrtaive entry since a long long time.....
Saigo no kisu wa ka ba tabako no flavor ga shita
Nigakute setsunai kaori
Ashita no imagoro ni wa
Anata wa doko ni irun darou
Dare wo omotterun darou
You are always gonna be my love
Itsuka darekato mata koi ni ochitemo
I'll remember to love you taught me how
You are always gonna be the one
Ima wa mada kanashii love love songu
Atarashii uta utaeru made
Tachidomaru jikan ga
Ugoki dasouto shiteru
Wasuretakunai kotobakari
Ashita no imagoro niwa
Watashi wa kitto naite iru
Anatawo omotterun darou
You will always be inside my heart
Itsumo anata dake no basho ga aru kara
I hope that I have a place in your heart too
Now and forever you are still the one
Ima wa mada kanashii love love song
Atarashii uta utaeru made
You are always gonna be my love
Itsuka darekato mata koi ni ochitemo
I'll remember to love you taught me how
You are always gonna be the one
Mada kanashii love love song
Now and forever
[utada hikaru- first love]
Todae's kevin's birthdae, so happy birthdae teletubby and hope u like ur new wallet... Speaking of the wallet, me and xl went down to heeren yest morning to get it. lol, we actually headed the wrong direction after we got out of the station though both of us knew exactly where heeren is. Got the wallet settled earlier than expected and went cine to watch Jack Neo's directed One More Chance. I wanted to watch penguins but xl was dead set against it and in the end the time-slot i was eyeing was sold out 0_0. Never knew singaporeans were so on about documentaries..and in stark contrast, the locally produced film only had a half-house. The movie was okay lar...quite funny and meaningful. There was a scene where they turned the innocent "三只老虎" into a cockles' song that should turn off most cockles-lovers. And the finale was cute....national propaganda..... everyone in the movie started waving the yellow ribbon like some 招财猫 while i was cringing coz i couldn't bear to watch on....
And todae....went Amk in the morning to play pool b4 going down to northpoint for a Swensons lunch. And yes, the earthquake ended up the same way as before, mashed... and the dried ice removed for some chemical experiment. Used the dried ice in replace of candles in the end as we sang the birthday song for kevin, though as much as he would like to, he can't blow out the "candle". Then rich and shan tried rap and jazz versions of the birhtday songs which didn't turn out too well. Then we went shan's house for mahjong and bridge. Due to the lack of a proper table, they ended up playing mahjong on a styrofoam board placed on a mattress. erm...innovation at its very best? And only in the second round did they realise that they had everything from the botanic gardens but were missing stuff from the zoo. And so the two blank tiles were thrown in as psuedo animals...dotz... Finally at 5, me, vin and deng left shan's house to make our way home. Walked deng to his house b4 taking 39 back.. There goes the last moments of "playing" in the hols, time to really start mugging....sianz...
ah....my first narrtaive entry since a long long time.....
Saigo no kisu wa ka ba tabako no flavor ga shita
Nigakute setsunai kaori
Ashita no imagoro ni wa
Anata wa doko ni irun darou
Dare wo omotterun darou
You are always gonna be my love
Itsuka darekato mata koi ni ochitemo
I'll remember to love you taught me how
You are always gonna be the one
Ima wa mada kanashii love love songu
Atarashii uta utaeru made
Tachidomaru jikan ga
Ugoki dasouto shiteru
Wasuretakunai kotobakari
Ashita no imagoro niwa
Watashi wa kitto naite iru
Anatawo omotterun darou
You will always be inside my heart
Itsumo anata dake no basho ga aru kara
I hope that I have a place in your heart too
Now and forever you are still the one
Ima wa mada kanashii love love song
Atarashii uta utaeru made
You are always gonna be my love
Itsuka darekato mata koi ni ochitemo
I'll remember to love you taught me how
You are always gonna be the one
Mada kanashii love love song
Now and forever
[utada hikaru- first love]
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