Tuesday, 29 July 2008

People keep looking for love. They meet someone great and suppose they have found, but what they really find, is themselves looking again. I finally got down to watching Before Sunrise. Funny how I had a thought last night and this morning, this movie.

There are many types of love but there is this one kind which warrants this search. That person could be a doctor or a fisherman; occupations hardly play a part. Neither does a sordid past or an introvert-extrovert difference. His mere presence is like a lingering scent, a drug that infuses your body and keeps your organs smiling.

But this happens not when you meet someone great, but when you meet the one who transforms you into your personal best. The interaction is surreal. You now have all the right things to say and the right words to express them with; your timing is immaculate. You possess social skills you have never learnt but can now wield with impeccable dexterity, even with everybody else. All of a sudden you’re charming, and funny, and spontaneous; and feel contentment you never knew you were capable of. You love yourself more adequately than ever and could never remember why you were once petty enough to succumb to selfish emotions like stinginess or jealousy.

For those who don’t know or believe in this love, or perhaps too impatient, they might be convinced take the vows with the best person they can find to date. I’m not sure how to comment on that. With all due respect, it is a conventional behaviour that makes it easier for one to function in the social context. But it also seems a pity and rather unfair especially when the sparks finally hit them and the marriage becomes a downward spiral of deceit and disappointment.

Funnily, x xx xxx hoping for something xxxx xxxx. Wonderful and magical xxx xx xxxxx xx xx xxx xxx xx in the movie and in real life; X xxxxx xxxxxx xx meet that someone great – xxxxxx, xxxxxx, xxxxxxxx – who will make xx xxxxxxx xxxx x xxxx xxxxx.

Weddings are beautiful and this picture is taken at a wedding gig I did some months ago. Not sure about this marriage but it is rare that the Lover becomes the Spouse. Where one promises till-death-do-us-part, the other’s tomb reads it-is-as-good-as-it-lasts. Which is which?

Thursday, 24 July 2008

In my small, accidental collection of Alice in Wonderland paraphernalia, I have the book (second hand and costs only 50p), a pretty postcard with a storyboard on how Lewis Carol came up with the story, and, most recently, a necklace (a piece of costume jewellery with a drawing of Alice on a white dog tag).

In spite of this modest collection, Alice in Wonderland is not one of my favourite tales. I do, however, find myself a little like Alice, as she has an older sister and so do I. She has a wild imagination, so do I. She enters her dream world, I, well … almost.

In Wonderland, it is fun but it can be scary; it is bizarre but you can survive with some wit. The houses are too big, the houses are too small… nothing is quite the ordinary. It is a place for escape, a holiday, an adventure!

In the story, Alice follows the Rabbit and lands herself in Wonderland. I so need a holiday.


So can I or can I not head to Wonderland soon?





Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Everyday I do small little things in a bid to make myself happy – a good meal, a new skirt… things like that. I tell XY that I’m an urbanite through and through, inflicted with urbanite ailments – so private yet and so afraid of loneliness. Easily bored. Becoming rather caught up with the what-can-I-get-out-of-doing-this rather than enjoying what I’m doing. I’m a pain, basically. And it’s not easy to derive happiness from pain… unless you’re sadistic or something, but that brings us to a different genre…

So here I am, in my own genre. Having been quite the average student all my life, I find myself now rather caught up with results. It might be what the corporate life is doing to me, having lived it for over a year now. I’ve never liked meetings; they are all about the outcome. I am in awe of people who can make small talk during meetings as a sort of temporal oasis before swerving right back onto the dry tracks of the agenda. I am actually genuinely interested in the small talk, which is why I get carried away. How's your day? How's your dog? How's your mom's cooking? If I had my way, all my meetings will be light bantering and decision-making will be reduced to the boss’ preference (which is more than likely the way to go in the end anyway). I really do not enjoy the journey of negotiating back and forth on work-related matters. As Beatles once sang: You say yes, I say no, you say stop, I say go go go… Bleah… waste of time.

Results can also equal acquisitions – like buying a new skirt or buying a good meal, which explains why I’m doing these little happy things for myself on a daily basis, I need new destinations everyday because I tend to overlook the journey. Much like going home without a report card and unsure if you’ve learnt anything at school; I need to fondle and fawn over that new purchase to make me feel like I’ve lived my day worthwhile.

Funny situations people get themselves into.

Saturday, 28 June 2008

I always talk about wanting to write, and I’d really rather I write about it instead, but if I did I would be writing and not just talking, the way I always talk about wanting to write.

Anyway, it’s Saturday night and I have hours at my disposal. This is a luxury considering my greatest gripe these days is the lack of time and energy. Instead of being thankful, I feel like I've been stranded on an island, floating in a sea of wasteful time and useless telephone numbers. I feel sapped of enthusiasm. So I now realise that it’s not about the time or energy, but that my feeble walls of optimism have crumbled again, and this time round given in to boredom.

Boredom, is it? When I was young I’d make these lists of Things To Do When I’m Feeling Bored At Home whenever I was bored at home. The lists will include things like baking and watching TV, and very definitely, the last item will be to Make A List Of Things To Do When I’m Feeling Bored At Home. I found this final insertion funny I’d laugh at myself every time, as if I had been watching myself play out a script, for myself. And I’d feel so much better from the amusement.

Actually, fighting boredom is not unlike fighting for happiness. It’s an upstream swim and requires constant mental and physical effort to make things better. Now that I’m all grown up, doing things might keep me occupied but they no longer keep the boredom at bay. Going out is an activity but it’s who I’m out with that makes it worth my while. Blogging is not as meaningful as writing a song. In any case, I’d like to learn to be less picky.

Life does entail a lot of stumbling and learning and I’m not new to battling the darkness in my nature. One thing I’ve come to realise though is that the simple answer to contentment has been told to me many, many times. I’ve just failed to pick it up.

Years ago, Ming and I used to watch this anime called Akazukin Cha Cha on cable. It’s kind of like a younger version of Sailormoon. The lead is a cute little girl who transforms into a beautiful and powerful superheroine, with no less, a grand anthem and a dazzling show of lights in the background, to beat up bad guys.
Towards the end of her transformation, she will shout an incantation that encompasses all the magic we need to keep our souls happy and alive.

She says:

Love! Courage! And… Hope!



Sunday, 22 June 2008

他還在!
^.^

過了那麽久,還在!
認識了一年半,發現我喜歡他就像喜歡香港這個久久見一次的城市一樣。喜歡到想要一直在一起。卻又喜歡距離帶來的神秘。^.^
HAHA!

Wednesday, 21 May 2008


I am talking to XY now, although Ivan likes her a lot, he is deluded by her sweet exterior and pretend cheerful yet demure disposition. She is actually very moody and rude. Yes, she is very rude. And at this point, she is cranky and shouting nonsense into my ear. Erm... she's using alot of words along the lines of sai and shit. So gross... And she is secretly happy that I'm blogging about her this way... harhar! So bian tai!!!

But I am looking at guppy's pictures and looking at them makes me feeling peaceful...


Hee...







Monday, 12 May 2008

www.jasonmraz.com

is cooler than ever before!

Check out the Tour page and turn on and turn up your speakers!!!

He has so many words to write in his Journal... and how I envy him.

Anyway, I'm again breaking into a sweat trying to learn his songs!



Oh, and according to the website, his new album We Sing We Dance We Steal Things will be out in stores here tmr! Give myself a pat on the back for this fantastic timing!

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Hello!

I have been meaning to blog but… so busy! And I am getting fat which rather dampens my mood when I see the photos but heck, it can be considered good news in a way because it means I’m stable in a daily routine and I’ve been having a good appetite.


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Ming visited on 1 May...

The wonderful exhibition for kids at the museum is finally, officially open and now we see little tots waddling around, having fun. Super cute! It was when I was looking at one of them the other day that it dawned on me that I have a fondness for 可愛 and 可憐。Hmmm… doesn’t bode too well for my taste but hell, that’s why I like dogs and kids! Haha! Seriously, dogs and kids can look so cute and so damn vulnerable but the most amazing part is that they might not really be.

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The cutest of them all...

It’s like those cartoons where you see a hand waving around, trying to pat a cute looking lil puppy and you hear a voiceover, Awwww… cute lil doggie doggie… Next thing you know the dog bares its gigantic canines and chomps off a finger. Hurhur… yucks man!












I like to 騙 random 小孩子!

…

I am now typing on Miffy while lying on my bed… yawn… so good to sleep! I am so sleepy already and nowadays I have been damn good to sleep especially on weekends. I can wake sleep wake sleep wake sleep sleep sleep the whole day!

The night is sticky & hot, again.

Friday, 11 April 2008

Yawn… …

Feeling a little bit sleepy but I'd rather be constructive so here I am.

After 10 months at the Museum, I think I’ve more or less gotten used to being the kind of person who spends 8 hours in the office every weekday.

In fact, I quite like it this way for now. I’m not brilliant at my work but it’s rather nice here. I look forward to a lot of the exhibitions and art installations. My colleagues are fun.

It’s really enjoyable sitting at my desk every morning, taking sips of the kopi I bought from a coffee shop at the station, while I munch on the bread with Nutella that Ming prepared for me. It’s my favourite time of the working day. Haha.

Other things I do at my office in the course of a day…


1) Work...

I do work too! Here you see me with our designer Sean pondering over the layout of a brochure or something...





















2) Talk on the phone…

Several times a day, I don't talk about work…























3) Skive...


Yay!!! Fun time!!!





















Everyone standing around, whiling time away as we watch at an artist paint...























This art installation is what we were looking at. It'll be ready by next week. I really like the skull-snake creature.





















Standing around, taking pictures with another exhibit... time passes faster this way... hurhurhur...





















Yes, thank God I'm not born in the 18th century... I'm skiving at the gallery where they are setting up an exhibition that I'm super looking forward to. It's on Mozart's life as a child and it's recommended for children aged 6 to 12... Can try on wigs and make toothpaste, mix tea leaves etc... So my kinda thing!

Tuesday, 8 April 2008


明、JY、ありがとうね!助けたよ、いつも!まだ辛い気持ちが戦ってるけど、もう少し時間がかかるけど勝てそうよ!

Hee…


Also, I’m so inspired by Khalil’s (yeah, we’re first name basis already) Wonderland. Jay aside, there has not been an album that has got me so excited for a long, long time. Every morning I have an urge to nudge my fellow MRT commuters to tell them, “This is good man… This.Is.Good.” Hurhur…

And from now on, gross people are gross and my sympathies, though in abundance, should only be spared for un-gross people. I don’t believe in wastage.

Thursday, 27 March 2008


My company's D&D theme was At the Movies and thanks JY for coming up with so many ideas for me! In the end, I was part of the Kill Bill gang, together with some colleagues. We were kinda siao onz and cranky and had lotsa fun! Hee... Some other colleagues dressed up as Pocahontas, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Freddie Kruger... I think my museum was the most onz... as in onz form and onz the whole dress up thing! Some of the other museums didn't bother much... so boring...

Anyway, as you can see, I was The Bride from Kill Bill... thanks DY for the dress! She's happily taking a bath at the drycleaner's now... dun worry, will send her back to ya soon!

Hey, just realised! It's My First D&D! I'm almost a fresh grad then! Haha...

Monday, 10 March 2008

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If you like to look at WAH things it's worth making a trip down to where I work to see this. It's gonna be all ready tomorrow and it glows... nice...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

I've become the BUILD-A-BEAR kinda gal!

Wheeee!!!

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Saturday, 23 February 2008

又老了一岁!

人就是这样子,
一个生日一个生日地过,
忙着许愿,吹蜡烛,吃蛋糕,有时候还真忘了自己已经不小了。

公司同事送我一个特制的Teddy Bear。我很喜欢。
明说:他们觉得你是适合这类玩具熊的女生。
对啊!他们都当真我是个小孩!好好噢!哈哈哈!
JY也送了气球,我顿时返老还童!

今年的生日礼物不多,但礼轻情义重,一句生日快乐也让我很温暖。

生日那天也跟外婆吃饭,很开心。

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Friday, 16 November 2007

Ho Chi Minh i go ........ till Sunday girls!

Tuesday, 13 November 2007

I left my company finally.

Tendered my notice on the 20th Oct and technically supposed to stay till 20th Nov. But i MIA-ed this week. I have been asked to stop meeting customers since i tendered so other than hand-over, i've nothing much left to do already. So i'm free to enjoy my one week of rest. Indulgence.

I'm starting my new job next Monday and am pretty excited though apprehensive. Let me hit the sales target within a month please!!!!!

Hopefully my ex-company (i've had many exes but never an ex-company. quite a novelty this term) doesnt come after me for MIA-ing.

Monday, 15 October 2007

Suting's Wedding!



It was held at Goodwood Park Hotel. Though the invite stated 7pm cocktails, our dear Su didn't want to go early to mingle. Hence, we only picked Zhiyun and Mandy up at Bishan station about 7.30pm as the dinner was going to start at 8.30pm.








After spending time looking for parking and doing illegal maneuvers, we finally entered the ballroom to see Suting looking dazzling in her wedding gown. We slipped in just in time to our table before the wedding march. (See, Su? If we met Zhiyun at 7.45pm we would be marching in with the couple. Hah!)







Guess who was at our table?







校长! Mrs Lee had to entertain her the whole night. (Thanks!) Shirley too much later as she was too caught up with work and forgot about the dinner until Florence called her.



I felt we all looked pretty onz that night but the following photos won't do us justice. Harhar!





The pale ghost with Phoebe and Florence.




The wicked witch in the car. (Curls and makeup courtesy of Moonface)

I didn't manage to get good shots of the wedding couple so i guess we'll have to wait for the official ones from Suting.

I'm in charge of the photos uploading here. Su can flesh out this entry when she's free. Harhar!

Monday, 17 September 2007

真的不想太刻意

不想刻意的去想
就刻意的不去想
不想刻意的追问

就刻意的不追问
不想刻意的解释
就刻意的不解释
不想刻意的见面
就刻意的不见面

两者都不容易

在可以坦然面对之前
我不想再动摇到什么

我是个疯子
这是我的处理方式

反正我反复的解说
一向来都不是什么

会在意的还是会在意
不在意的还是不在意


我也只有这般力量而已

Sunday, 9 September 2007


Phoebe-ness and the big bad man

I've been missing in action from this blog for quite a long time. Now that i have a new laptop (Pandora!), you will be hearing from me much, much more. Of course, it helps too that i'm no longer seeing Gerard. In order to distract myself from loneliness, i've planned lists of things to do to keep occupied. But enough of that.

See the photo? Isn't guppy so adorable? (Though mama and papa do not encourage her to look at people slyly) It's one of my favourite photos of her before she became chubbier. I'm so gek that Jesse managed to get a nice shot with her while Wenhao the camera-woman had nothing to show. My camera somemore. Jesse, you know what to do next time eh?
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007

Guppy


Guppy! Our purest love has finally come in the form of this little creature. She wriggles and yawns, and pouts and frowns, as if she knows how much she can get away with. But not quite realising she can really get away with anything! The magical aunties are giving her a special nickname, Guppy :)