♥
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
i finally properly understood what words of life are today.
it really does make a whole lot of difference what you say to someone.
for every disparaging remark you make to someone, it requires ten more positive remarks to heal that wound.
the power of life or death is in the tongue.
i mean. this isn't even just a biblical principal, it's evident in everyday life.
when the situation you are in is just so dire, and there seems to be so little hope, when the odds are stacked so high, and you feel so abandoned and alone, there's only one person you can turn to.
deep calling unto the deep. wow.
sometimes, it just takes so much for God to teach us something. because we're so blind. maybe failure is God's way of telling us that we're off the right track, and to nudge us back into that perfect plan that He has for us. For His ways and thoughts are always higher than ours.
♥
Sunday, October 22, 2006
i found another outlet for stress relief.
i bought the COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED collection of winnie-the-pooh books. :) and this little miss and little men treasury. you know...i suspect i might have a peter pan complex.
but anyways. yes. winnie-the-pooh is really relaxing to read because it doesn't require you to think much while you're completely absorbed in to pooh's world, where animals with disorders talk and live in houses. yea eeyore's kinda neurotic and i think rabbit has OCD. piglet is virtually frightened of the world (countless phobias) and tigger has ADHD. the only ones who are normal are probably kanga and roo. but then again i suppose you can't call talking animals normal right?
i still adore them though.
here are two excerpts:
here's pooh trying to deceive some bees by pretending to be a thunder cloud.
He thought for a moment and said: 'I shall try to look like a small black cloud. That will deceive them.'
'Then you had better have the blue balloon.' you (Christopher Robin) said; and so it was decided.
a few moments later....
'Christopher Robin!'
'Yes?'
'Have you an umbrella in your house?'
'I think so.'
'I wish you would bring it out here, and walk up and down with it, and look up at me every now and then, and say "Tut-tut, it looks like rain." I think, if you did that, it would help the deception which we are practising on these bees.'
Well, you (Christopher Robin) laughed to yourself, 'Silly old Bear!' but you didn't say it aloud because you were so fond of him, and you went home for your umbrella.
haha. A.A Milne is brilliant.
♥
Sunday, October 15, 2006
I find a door inside and it's as if I hear a humming from behind it, and then I get inside somehow, with the key the old ones give me, and are, and as I stumble about in the darkness of the room, I begin to feel the stirring in myself, the humming of the room, and my heart starts to expand with the absolute feeling of bravery, or love, or audacity, or commitment. It becomes a light, and the light enters me, by osmosis, and a part of me that was not clear before is clarified. I radiate this expanded light. Happiness.
And that, was called 'being in love'.
- The Temple of My Familiar- Alice Walker.
I actually kinda like this book. Even though there are some bits which are rather difficult to read. But yea, there beneath all the hard stuff, there's really beautiful words you can find. That's the wonderful thing about good writing. :)
I can't believe I took a 6 hour nap. And i still feel tired.
hm. i've got another 2 books to devour which i will set out to do right after i finish this post. then it's a trip to the library again.
♥
Monday, October 09, 2006
nuts. sorry kaye. i forgot to blog about study group outing.
ANYWAYS. yes it was REALLY REALLY fun. :) 'coz i spent the morning watching liu xing hua yuan and giggling madly with kaye and kristi. that was on friday. haha yea...it brought back good memories from like primary 6 or something. lol. so yes. then we proceeded to our usual spot at btp. like exactly a year ago we were mugging for O levels and screaming at dean to stop being annoying and patiently explaining math to jummies and getting help from clement for ss and getting help from mike for science. ^.^ it was fun. and gushing over baby socks in the children's department and gossiping about the creepy weird old man in the corner.
ok back to the story. so the uncle at the yong tau foo stall actually recognizes us. haha. and he still remembers what we normally eat so we dont' really hafta place our orders.
OMG. i just visited kristi's blog. KRISTI NG you better take those pictures OFF. good grief. we were just having a serious discussion la.
haha. but yes it was fun. i miss the study group a heck lot. and jummies is ALWAYS MIA. -.-'' so is mikey. but he's in australia so he's excused i guess.
yup. ok today was fun too. had lunch with jules at holland v and we just basically had fun being girls. i bought a pair of earrings ^.^ and she gushed over bagel and he just basked in the glory of being cute (fluffy, big eyes...the whole works). yes.
♥
Sunday, October 08, 2006
exams are finally over. strangely enough, i dont' get this overwhelming sense of euphoria and mad relief. somehow, life has lost a little meaning.
don't get me wrong. i'm crazy over the fact i dont' hafta pore through my econs notes anymore. and yea, brain rot is a pretty good substitute for brain drain memorizing stuff which i probably won't need after 2 years. i've basically been letting the tv programmes do the thinking for me and lolling around reading time magazine about some drunk guy who climbed into the panda enclosure to give this panda a hug, then got bitten and tried to bite the panda back. the weird things you read about nowadays (eschewing the petty issues running global politics today). but that was an older issue.
oh well. i'm playing tuition teacher to manda for a month. it's not exactly the first thing i would indulge in right after weeks of studying. but yea. i suppose, it's all right for a good and noble cause. i'm not being sarcastic here.
ok i shall now tell you about yesterday's proceedings. i went out with EQ. it was quite fun. haha we had lunch at pastamani, then we mooched around for a bit at far east, laughing and making fun of the seriously strange ensemble of clothes you see on mannequins. and then, lol, we went to toys 'r us. honestly, enqing is the only guy i know who'll willingly agree to go to look at toys with me. after that, we then proceeded to catch aunty mi's fashion show. and her new bridal collection is pretty impressive. oh yea. then someone asked aunty mi about the young couple standing next to her (EQ and i) and if we were going to get married. -.-' wow. i didnt' know i looked THAT old. normally people think that i'm like. 12 or something. and i didn't know i looked like im attached.
yup. so that's all the exciting things that happened yesterday. in a nutshell. i am looking forward to going out with jules tomorrow. yay. time calls for a long awaited trip to holland v. think i shall pop by the pet shop and get bagel something :D.
Touch can mean distance to some people
Touch can mean prison or be like a cage
I always thought that life could be more simple
Specially in this day and age
Touch can mean distance to some people
Touch can mean I own you forever and a day
If only life could be more simple
Specially in this day and age
But touch can be a blessing to other people
Touch can bring blossom to things that decay
I think life should be that simple
Specially in this day and age
- Mary Black
♥
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
i finally properly understood what words of life are today.
it really does make a whole lot of difference what you say to someone.
for every disparaging remark you make to someone, it requires ten more positive remarks to heal that wound.
the power of life or death is in the tongue.
i mean. this isn't even just a biblical principal, it's evident in everyday life.
when the situation you are in is just so dire, and there seems to be so little hope, when the odds are stacked so high, and you feel so abandoned and alone, there's only one person you can turn to.
deep calling unto the deep. wow.
sometimes, it just takes so much for God to teach us something. because we're so blind. maybe failure is God's way of telling us that we're off the right track, and to nudge us back into that perfect plan that He has for us. For His ways and thoughts are always higher than ours.
♥
Sunday, October 22, 2006
i found another outlet for stress relief.
i bought the COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED collection of winnie-the-pooh books. :) and this little miss and little men treasury. you know...i suspect i might have a peter pan complex.
but anyways. yes. winnie-the-pooh is really relaxing to read because it doesn't require you to think much while you're completely absorbed in to pooh's world, where animals with disorders talk and live in houses. yea eeyore's kinda neurotic and i think rabbit has OCD. piglet is virtually frightened of the world (countless phobias) and tigger has ADHD. the only ones who are normal are probably kanga and roo. but then again i suppose you can't call talking animals normal right?
i still adore them though.
here are two excerpts:
here's pooh trying to deceive some bees by pretending to be a thunder cloud.
He thought for a moment and said: 'I shall try to look like a small black cloud. That will deceive them.'
'Then you had better have the blue balloon.' you (Christopher Robin) said; and so it was decided.
a few moments later....
'Christopher Robin!'
'Yes?'
'Have you an umbrella in your house?'
'I think so.'
'I wish you would bring it out here, and walk up and down with it, and look up at me every now and then, and say "Tut-tut, it looks like rain." I think, if you did that, it would help the deception which we are practising on these bees.'
Well, you (Christopher Robin) laughed to yourself, 'Silly old Bear!' but you didn't say it aloud because you were so fond of him, and you went home for your umbrella.
haha. A.A Milne is brilliant.
♥
Sunday, October 15, 2006
I find a door inside and it's as if I hear a humming from behind it, and then I get inside somehow, with the key the old ones give me, and are, and as I stumble about in the darkness of the room, I begin to feel the stirring in myself, the humming of the room, and my heart starts to expand with the absolute feeling of bravery, or love, or audacity, or commitment. It becomes a light, and the light enters me, by osmosis, and a part of me that was not clear before is clarified. I radiate this expanded light. Happiness.
And that, was called 'being in love'.
- The Temple of My Familiar- Alice Walker.
I actually kinda like this book. Even though there are some bits which are rather difficult to read. But yea, there beneath all the hard stuff, there's really beautiful words you can find. That's the wonderful thing about good writing. :)
I can't believe I took a 6 hour nap. And i still feel tired.
hm. i've got another 2 books to devour which i will set out to do right after i finish this post. then it's a trip to the library again.
♥
Monday, October 09, 2006
nuts. sorry kaye. i forgot to blog about study group outing.
ANYWAYS. yes it was REALLY REALLY fun. :) 'coz i spent the morning watching liu xing hua yuan and giggling madly with kaye and kristi. that was on friday. haha yea...it brought back good memories from like primary 6 or something. lol. so yes. then we proceeded to our usual spot at btp. like exactly a year ago we were mugging for O levels and screaming at dean to stop being annoying and patiently explaining math to jummies and getting help from clement for ss and getting help from mike for science. ^.^ it was fun. and gushing over baby socks in the children's department and gossiping about the creepy weird old man in the corner.
ok back to the story. so the uncle at the yong tau foo stall actually recognizes us. haha. and he still remembers what we normally eat so we dont' really hafta place our orders.
OMG. i just visited kristi's blog. KRISTI NG you better take those pictures OFF. good grief. we were just having a serious discussion la.
haha. but yes it was fun. i miss the study group a heck lot. and jummies is ALWAYS MIA. -.-'' so is mikey. but he's in australia so he's excused i guess.
yup. ok today was fun too. had lunch with jules at holland v and we just basically had fun being girls. i bought a pair of earrings ^.^ and she gushed over bagel and he just basked in the glory of being cute (fluffy, big eyes...the whole works). yes.
♥
Sunday, October 08, 2006
exams are finally over. strangely enough, i dont' get this overwhelming sense of euphoria and mad relief. somehow, life has lost a little meaning.
don't get me wrong. i'm crazy over the fact i dont' hafta pore through my econs notes anymore. and yea, brain rot is a pretty good substitute for brain drain memorizing stuff which i probably won't need after 2 years. i've basically been letting the tv programmes do the thinking for me and lolling around reading time magazine about some drunk guy who climbed into the panda enclosure to give this panda a hug, then got bitten and tried to bite the panda back. the weird things you read about nowadays (eschewing the petty issues running global politics today). but that was an older issue.
oh well. i'm playing tuition teacher to manda for a month. it's not exactly the first thing i would indulge in right after weeks of studying. but yea. i suppose, it's all right for a good and noble cause. i'm not being sarcastic here.
ok i shall now tell you about yesterday's proceedings. i went out with EQ. it was quite fun. haha we had lunch at pastamani, then we mooched around for a bit at far east, laughing and making fun of the seriously strange ensemble of clothes you see on mannequins. and then, lol, we went to toys 'r us. honestly, enqing is the only guy i know who'll willingly agree to go to look at toys with me. after that, we then proceeded to catch aunty mi's fashion show. and her new bridal collection is pretty impressive. oh yea. then someone asked aunty mi about the young couple standing next to her (EQ and i) and if we were going to get married. -.-' wow. i didnt' know i looked THAT old. normally people think that i'm like. 12 or something. and i didn't know i looked like im attached.
yup. so that's all the exciting things that happened yesterday. in a nutshell. i am looking forward to going out with jules tomorrow. yay. time calls for a long awaited trip to holland v. think i shall pop by the pet shop and get bagel something :D.
Touch can mean distance to some people
Touch can mean prison or be like a cage
I always thought that life could be more simple
Specially in this day and age
Touch can mean distance to some people
Touch can mean I own you forever and a day
If only life could be more simple
Specially in this day and age
But touch can be a blessing to other people
Touch can bring blossom to things that decay
I think life should be that simple
Specially in this day and age
- Mary Black
