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I had quite a fine day. Started out kinda bad cos I had finish my part for this project but it worked out after that. Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes. Sorry for the late replies but I switched my mobile off for an undisturbed afternoon with me.
I spent the whole afternoon getting lost in a world with heartless villains, a homesick pyrotechnics street busker, a husband pining for his wife, a feisty little girl, a narcissistic author, a thief from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, a stubborn old lady and fairies and trolls and glass man. And of course, the tin soldier.
Absolutely lovely escape.
And I saw a lady in mustard yellow jaywalking across a busy road, 3 cyclists, nut-drying process, an uncle trying to adjust the satellite on this TV set and lost tourists trying to find their way.
A nice way to return to reality.
Capricorn: We’re all liars when it serves our purpose.
Dustfinger: Don’t you recognise the truth when you meet it any more? The truth’s not pretty. of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. they danced through the room, painting stain-glassed pictures, tickling the skin.
I should be going back soon.
CATS is coming to Singapore! 10 April to 3 May 2009!
I could do with something like this for my birthday or Christmas present. Would love the giver of the tickets very very much!
And I wouldn’t mind the $70 or $95 tickets.
I’m easily satisfied.
I’m actually turning 21 tomorrow and so I wanted the whole day to myself doing nothing. Thought I would finish my part for the last project of this semester by today but it turns out, I haven’t done anything yet! And here I am to share some interesting stuff.
Read this here to learn about grief.
Then this, to learn about honesty.
For absolutely lovely wallpapers that make you want to stare at your desktop forever, proceed here.
To cherish your friends around you, view this. It reminded me a little of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.
Absolute loveliness to make life a little prettier in such gloomy times.
Lessons on Monday. Birthday on Tuesday. Maybe I shall go trim that mop on my scalp, and then find a nice cafe to finish the Ink series. Of course my ideal (birth)day would be to spend a whole day at the beach a la Hainan Island style with a nice cold beer and a good book. But since Singapore lacks quiet beach spots, I’ll make do with nice cafes.
And please, stop asking me “Why?!” am I not throwing some party to mark my entrance into THE adulthood. Really. Is there any changes between my 21st and 20th years of life? Doubt it. If I want to celebrate, I’ll do so when I have no more obligations to anyone. And I hope that happens by 25.
Anyway I’ve already gotten my other ideal 21st present, which is a tattoo. Next ideal present, a bicycle.
Cheerios!
Done. Unchangeable. Unalterable. Set in concrete.
But I like it this way!
Can’t wait!
I just can’t seem to concentrate on finishing my law assignment which is due on Monday.
I have work on Sunday.
Saturday is going to pass in another 30 minutes.
I wish tomorrow is Tuesday.
After Tuesday, I have to start thinking of what is next.
Ah. Presentation on Thursday.
Report and summaries for the presentation are not close to done yet.
Somehow or another, I actually am quite busy but just can’t seem to get down to work. So I look less busy than I actually am.
Another thing. I’ve lost motivation for my job. Might be quitting soon to concentrate on other stuff. Let’s find MORE meaning to life!
A: You have an iMac! Cool. Now you can eat the apple whenever you’re hungry.
B: But it’s already been bitten by someone…
“Home! home! look at the shoe!
Princess! the shoe was made for you!
Prince! prince! take home thy bride,
For she is the true one that sites by thy side!”
- Ashputtel
“Little Marleen went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out of her bottom drawer, and in it she wrapped all the bones from under the table and carried them outside, and all the time she did nothing but weep. Then she laid them in the green grass under the juniper-tree, and she had no sooner done so, than all her sadness seemed to leave her, and she wept no more. And now the juniper-tree began to move, and the branches waved backwards and forwards, first away from one another, and then together again, as it might be someone clapping their hands for joy. After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there was a burning as of fire, and out of the fire there flew a beautiful bird, that rose high into the air, singing magnificently, and when it could no more been seen, the juniper-tree stood there as before, and the silk handkerchief and the bones were gone.”
- The Juniper-Tree
“Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair,
Linger not in this murderers’ lair.”
-The Robber Bridgeroom
Sweetheart Roland
Absolutely lovely.
Nothing feeds my imagination better than a good storybook. Preferably fantasy and fairytales.
Takes me away from here and now.
I’m pretty much still a child at heart.
Quote and picture from ‘The Brothers Grimm: Fairy Tales’; written by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Edgar Taylor & Marian Edwardes and illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
Sorry for the short, un-informed hiatus. Was busy churning out a group assignment that was due Friday, Novemver 7, 2008. What is school life without some last minute work?!Now that one major assignment is done, I have to remind myself that I have 2 more to go.
Thanks to those concerned about my emotional and mental state of health. It’s functioning as per normal now though still not in the optimistic mode although the economic state might just make things worse. But it’ll I’ll survive.
Anyway, I have an action-packed weekend to look forward to. Celebrating Baby Cake’s 1st month on Saturday at Twin’s place. Why do I get the feeling that Baby Cake will possibly be the first kid that I’ll actually like? Then I have to take back all those stuff I said about all kids being monsters. Or maybe Baby Cake will actually be a nice monster? Either way, I am looking forward to seeing both mum and child tomorrow!
Sunday is going to be spent looking for a tattoo artist and hopefully getting inked as well as celebrating Celes’ birthday in advance. Nice way to wrap up that tideous project I just finish!
Some things that have been helping me pass the torturous period of project-rushing!
I really need some good sleep. The left side of my body, from neck till lower back, is aching like nobody’s business. No doubt thanks to the bad sleeping posture I had when I crash onto my bed for a few hours for the past week, sleepless sometimes even.
And I might just possibly OD on caffeine just to keep myself awake.
Sleep. NOW.
