Sunday, 21 June 2009
日有所思,夜有所梦
23:06; The Pianist'
Friday, 19 June 2009
Nobody - Wonder Girls
22:16; The Pianist'
Thursday, 18 June 2009
interesting cool youtube links..
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009
diff ppl, diff thinking, diff lives..
Through yesterday's dinner with sy, graceh, alison and today's lunch with mr goh, I have come to conclude that different people have different thinkings and we all have different lives to lead. And theories will always just be theories - when it comes to the practical application, things will usually be vastly different.
And that's gd reminder to me - someone who just loves thinking so much and coming up with waaay lots of theories (as evidenced by yesternight's incessant 'ehhhh, i got this theory horr....'). Not that it's not good, but if we become so fixated on coming up with rational explanations for every single thing in life, then it just gets really tiring. Shouldnt we be more concerned with indulging in experiencing the present and what it holds? Being too fixated on thinking will only make you lose sight of the beauty in life.
And of course, everyone will have different thinkings and hence different theories, and such a difference is caused by their different backgrounds and characters. Hence their theory/analysis of your situation will never be entirely satisfactory and you find yourself coming up with postscripts for their hypothesis, counterarguments and resistance - all because you feel they don't entirely grasp a wholesome view of the picture. And that will always be the case isn't it, simply because we are all different people with different thinkings...
So we all have got different guiding maxims in life...
Do to others what you want others to do unto you.
Do it once and do it good.
What goes around comes around.
Just do your best, and let God do the rest.
These are but some of mine...
Saw this interesting one on alice's facebook profile:
If you love something, let it go. if it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.
Haha indeed that was most interesting. But I guess you can call me the old fashioned one 'cos I still believe in this...
是你的,就是你的;不是你的,就不是你的。So if you love something, let it go. If it's meant to be yours then it'll come back to you. If it doesn't come back, then it's not meant to be.
=)
22:17; The Pianist'
SAFRA jurong west
Been going to safra jurong west since the start of this month, I guess I'm now starting to slowly get used to the difference in gym equipment and stuff between this and yishun. But ohwells, went for my first swim at the pool today and gosh, yishun's waaaaay better. Haha.
Okay the best thing about the pool is probably the tanning beds. HAHA. It's not those white plastic ones you find at public pools or condominiums, nor are they those brown wooden ones you find at the other SAFRAs. It's this mesh netting thinggy which is coool! It doesnt get all hot under the hot sun, and it's comfortable to lie on! Yups yuppps..
But that said, here's the top 4 reasons why I really won't wanna go SAFRA jurong west swimming pool....
#4: The size of the lap pool is weirdd. Okay not entirely. It's just that it starts off from 1.2m on one end and just increasingly slopes to 1.8m at the other end. Usually it's 1.2 then slope down to 1.8 plateau in the middle, then back to 1.2 back on the other end. And I think each lap is 50-ish metres, depending on which lane u use.
#3: There are just waaay too many kids. It's just the noise that's getting to me sometimes. I was happily lying there tanning and relaxing and having those this-is-life moments and I get rudely jolted out of my dreamscape with a shrill shriek followed by a series of ecstatic laughter and shouts. -.-
#2: Somehow, so many people love to use the lap pool - for various purposes not meant to be. I mean it's like halfway through doing my laps, I push off from one end of the pool wall and suddenly a towering figure lumbers across right in front of you. Err yarhhh super a lot of people like to move across the width of the pool and it's diagonal some more. Some were piggy-backing-their kids ACROSS the lap poool. GOSH. Okay I know I'm totally bitching here but hey, it's a lap pool wat. And it's not like just one pair of father-kid, it's like this whole shoal of father fishes trying to fishy-back their kids. And they come in waves -.-
#1: And of course the top reason would be simply 'cos it's at the boonlay area. Think jurong island, industrial area etc etc.. Yarhh it's the air. The smell of burnt rubber and chemicals and whatever else floating around in the air which totally reminds me of marmite. I really thought I might turn into a rubberband, or rubber man. Something. Okayy not working. But seriously, one day they might find someone whose health is affected by this weird boonlay smell, and they start rounding up people for rubber-sniffing (think inhalent abuse) or sth...
Alrightts so with all that said, will I still go back to the pool there? Actually yes. HAHA. Alrights there's only one reason alrights, and it's simply because it's convenient for me to head down to the pool right after gym. Yesssss convenience. I'm a lazy dude, so there XD
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So anyways, was kinda thinking about it. Although I'll admit that lil' pesky kids really do get on my nerves, but there's always sth in them that just makes them all so adorable. Maybe it's because they are kids, or because they are innocent and naive and vulnerable, which makes our hearts go out to them. You know, it's like this 'little kids are meant to prance around the open meadows and frolick in the clear waters' type of innocence and simplicity and vulnerability, because they are still untainted and uncorrupted by the world yet.
But then again, are kids really all that innocent? Everytime I ponder about this issue, William Golding's Lord Of The Flies never fails to pop up in my head. Then we also have Susan Hill's King Of The Castle. I'm not exactly sure what my thoughts about all these are. But an incident just now totally struck me.
There was this boy who shouted out to his mum that his friend, who was also at the pool together, says he has gold medal for swimming but then he can't even float lehhh. Was that a simple remark to his mum to show his disbelief at his friend's apparent contradiction, or was that a darker taunt to an adult so as to discredit his friend, or would that be an outright shaming of his friend?
人之初、性本善,还是 人之初、性本恶?
啊,这个问题值得我们深思及探讨。
21:27; The Pianist'
"ahhh.. life" =)
These couple of weeks have really been fun. Yea been a long time since I last came here. It's not that there's nothing in my mind; in fact, it's just that I can't seem to 'verbalise' them into thoughts - they are still mostly formless and shapeless...
Ohwells, main thing is that I've been hanging out with people, and shopping too! Prob gonna publish my list of GSS acquisitions after I'm done with everything. Haha..
So anyways, had a really great time with alison graceh songyang today. Supposed to meet at 8.30am at dover mrt to head down to NUH to donate blood for yiihuan's FYP thinggy but uhm, yarh my old friend just came visiting >.< Had a few weird dreams which totally kept me occupied until 10.30am.
Haha okok so rushed down to bugis to meet them, before heading down to iluma walkings around and then nua-ing at coffee. oooo I'm like totally addicted to coffee bean's tea latte! =D Ahhh that's life man. Then headed down to chinatown to get some random stuff before finally ending up at holland V's essential brews for dinner at 6 plus chatted till 10-ish 11. =) was really really great time spent tgt mann.
Had a really nice time just chatting after dinner - from our favourite topic of love and its related subsidiaries, to serious topics like diff ppl having diff issues with various issues of religion, church, cohabitation etc etc to more relaxed random casual topics like what kinda house u wanna get in the future, speed dating, probable (and improbable) couples etc etc...
Ahhh had a few eureka moments along the way through the course of conversation, and a few more thought-provoking discussions and ideas that totally sprung to life in my mind. Shall leave those to future posts. Kinda in a blissful mood today so shan't go down there.. =)
I think our class has just gone into a different stage. And.. haha I think I shan't complain/rant about the random class dynamics anymore in the future - I have come to realise that we all change as time goes by and a few things just totally warmed my heart. Nahh, don't wanna list those explicitly so I'll just leave off with this.... I love people dynamics, random small dinners, spontaneous enthusiasm, and talkable friends. =) fuzzy warmth and bliss =)
00:00; The Pianist'
Thursday, 11 June 2009
1 2 3 4 - Plain White T's
01:35; The Pianist'
Friday, 5 June 2009
听海 - 张惠妹
22:35; The Pianist'
Walk.
Walk.
Keep walking.
Keep on walking.
Just keep on walking.
Give me time.
22:29; The Pianist'
realising...
I realised..
1) I have grown up a lot.
2) I still am quite that little boy.
3) I ain't quite very mature.
4) I'm more mature than most others my age...
No, I am not one messed up dude who's utterly confused.
22:28; The Pianist'