It's amazing how fast babies can grow. Haven't seen my niece for like 6 months and she grew from a baby that needs to be carried around to one that can trample her way across a room. And when it's mealtime, it's like waging a war. She would eat one spoonful of food and start running around for 5 minutes b4 eating another spoonful. And it's pretty interesting looking at her mum and dad fussing over her, trying to draw a line btw loving and spoiling the child. Spent most of my family chalet either watching her or playing with her.

hmm... realised that I've not blogged in quite some time. Shall do a short recap of wat happened since 2B chalet. Went for class outing(badminton) b4 going for the chalet. First night was spent watching ppl play rumble roses on ps2 and playing mahjong. lol, and the 2b ppl decided to celebrate the end of my birthday at midnight. 2nd night was bbq, good food plus lots of crapping bout sec sch days. Was at my family chalet for the 3rd day and had another bbq, haha, a miracle tht i didn't fall sick. When the bbq ended, went back to the 2b chalet and we went night cycling. Our first destination was East Coast Park and we cycled along Changi Beach Road which spanned across the entire length of changi airport's runway. By the time we reached the end of the road, decided against going to ECP and turned around. hmm.. changi airport looks quite spectacular at night and watching planes taking off and landing at close distance was quite interesting. Although yeah, there was an unusually high population of ppl in pairs sitting on cars or motorcycles parked on the sides of the road. After resting for a while back at the chalet, cycled to Pasir Ris Downtown East and back. Overall, night cycling was a little tiring, but nonetheless a fun experience. Checked out the next morning, went back home to sleep for a while b4 going for my family chalet. hmm... after my family chalet, there was prom. Performances were pretty boring but well, prom's for us to take photos after all. Missed the last train after prom, so decided to join the co ppl and zj's class ppl at kbox. After kbox, went back to the hotel room to watch champs league and played some slapjack game. Went home in the morning to sleep(i seem to sleep in the morning alot nowadays... totally screwed up sleep cycle) and went for CCO's concert at night. kk, then yest went down to suntec to watch RJCO perform. Glad to see them trying new stuff, arrangements of non-traditional chinese songs and stuff. ha, jiayou for next yr's SYF! hmm... thts bout it for my past week, i guess

Watched Battle of Wits sometime earlier, there was this line: 兼爱是因为你不懂得选择你应该爱的人. One practice universal love when one is unable to choose who he/she should love. How true....

你想要的，我却不能够，给你我全部
我能给的，却又不是你，想要拥有的

kk, new song. 花香 by 周传雄. Shall post the original MTV here. Was actually sung by 许绍洋 and it was the 主题曲 for 薰衣草. omg, 陈怡蓉 so chio, but 刘亦菲 still pwns all...haha

风没有方向的吹来
雨也跟着悲伤起来
没有人能告诉我
爱是在什么时候悄悄走开

风伴着花谢了又开
雨把眼泪落向大海
现在的我才明白
你抱着紫色的梦选择等待

记忆是阵阵花香
我们说好谁都不能忘
守着黑夜的阳光
难过却假装坚强
等待的日子里
你比我勇敢

记忆是阵阵花香
一起走过永远不能忘
你的温柔是阳光
把我的未来填满
提醒我花香常在
就像我的爱

风伴着花谢了又开
雨把眼泪落向大海
现在的我才明白
你抱着紫色的梦选择等待

[花香-周传雄]

nearing the end of my chalet streak. 2B2k2's chalet ended today and my family chalet is ending tmr... had loads of fun throughout the 4 days though i was running all over the place. Lots of mahjong, ps2, night cycling and bbqs (2 in 2 day, lol) Probably the last gathering for the 2b ppl b4 we go for NS, hopefully we'll find time next year for a chalet... haha...

b4 i go off to my family's chalet, just want to say a big thank you to the ppl who sent me birthday greetings on my birthday, esp the CO peeps and the 2b ppl. Oh yes, not to forget the presents and the cake as well, really appreciated them. Thanks a lot!

finally changed my layout after like 3 years.... thanks to xl for helping out with the code.

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Random quotes from stuff i've been watching/reading

"Geniuses know the answer before knowing the question."

“Friends are an integral part of your life, but every friend you have must live life at their own pace. When the time comes & they must leave you, there is no need to grieve over their parting from your life. It is the very essence of life that it should be so. But it hurts nonetheless and we grieve nonetheless, but we hold them in our hearts forever. Always cherish the joy, laughter, memories and love that they have brought into your lives. Always remember them with a warm smile for what they have given you.”

"I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found."

"But I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors. When I see a movie with someone, it's kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder."

"There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna wanna do but you'll have to do in this life just so you can survive. Now I didn't like [some incident], but I let it be. I don't like letting it be, but I can live with that decision. But there are other things, that if I'd let them be, they'd eat away at me and destroy me in the end. And it's the same with you. There are things you can't back down on, things you gonna take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what them things are. You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you. How you carry yourself, what you stand for- that's how you gain respect. But ain't nobody's respect worth more than your own. You understand that?"

"A: What is a problem?
B: If I held you by your heels from a third storey window, you would have a problem."
A(after much thought): I do not think so. If you saved me, all would be well. If you dropped me, nothing would matter. It is you who would have the problem."

"There were two kinds of naivete, he said, quoting Schweitzer, one not even aware of the problems, and another which has knocked on all doors of knowledge and knows man can explain little, and is still willing to follow his convictions into the unknown."

Well.... haha.. think what i've read for the past few days is more than what I've been reading for the past 2 years. I think the pleasure out of reading a book comes from the conincidence of thoughts, when you read about a certain idea and go "exactly what I'd think", even if the context of your applied situation differs greatly from the setting of the book. A "cognitive reverie" indeed...

Carrying on with my sodagreen craze, this is THE song that i would say, defines the band.:)

是不是只能透过双手
爱才会有交直流
我也找不到够坚强的插座

看天空里浮云悠游
羡煞了我的不自由
我站在窗口我蹲在角落
听你的流动

谁说学不了微风
过眼从山间飞过
看耳边的窝堆成泡沫

咽了下一口就放出彩虹
落在我胸口

跳动的世界里找你的频率
静止也不休息
抓住你的呼吸
我再多说一句
猜你的回应

流动的时间里找你的旋律
转眼整个世界
只剩你的应许

今夜就开始放晴
我身上还有春天的痕迹
尘封的记忆已开始飘零
瞬间和永远零距离

我放自己飞行
在有你的记忆

[苏打绿-频率]

Yay... It's finally over... S papers were not as bad as expected, but that does not guarantee a D or even a M. Pretty happy with organic section of Chem S (but where's my structured elucidation?!) and section B of physics S. haha, 3 torturous weeks of wishing it will be over soon and yet, now that it's over, i dunno wat i want to do. hmm... still addicted to s paper physics and structured elucidation(i finally understood what shireen meant when she said that structured elucidation is fun) Perhaps i should take time off and just stare into space, strange that it is always after exams that we are able to appreciate the power and ability to daydream.

okae... some ppl say x-japan's music is depressing, but well i guess it depends on the relative extent. Like the previous song Without You by Yoshiki, it can soothe your angst if you allow your emotions to flow with the music, but too much of it can depress you as by then the music dictates your emotions. Well.. just to break that impression that i listen to only "depressing" songs, here's one happy song by sodagreen to suit this post-exam mood. And finally to jen han, pls get a life and stop nit-picking other ppl's English, else go read BBC or something....

清醒前的一秒钟那窗前人影
匆匆欣赏谁眉宇追逐的游戏
我角膜快速移动不着边际
瞬间一身染色体蠢动得可以

梦想没有刻度他忽焉在前忽焉在后
让人踌躇不知该往前还是往后

谁的酣声让我影子烤焦
我却清醒谁面容冰冻飘摇
谁长出翅膀谁发现天堂
我头中充满云朵飞翔的梦
发现美洲后长存妖魔

记忆持续身体的日与夜
因谁轻快我才蹒跚旷野
谁摘下王冠谁发现宝藏
能唱出柔软清晨天使歌声
在着火的战场北讨南征

华丽舞台在上演惊涛和骇浪
静静稀释了惆怅歌舞在飞扬
就算痴人唱梦那又怎样
最终不会是白忙来疯狂疯狂

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