thought about this title when i was going through pictures. so i was flipping through kandace's fb albums and so this helped me make the decision for this next one.
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spring dawns on the back of frost and snow
the sun's wonderful warmth and glow
shine brightly basking the lonely tree
oh the animals come out of their hibernation finally free
summer and fun the hot season weather
the flowers in full bloom adorn the branches and decor
then someone comes up and plucks a flower
and puts it in the hair of his significant other
autumn the maple leaves turn red
the tree starts to lose its vigor and colour
it looks on at the passerby strolling in a sweater
wishing someone would make its day with a picture
winter and mittens go together
the kittens and puppies snuggle up by the fire
the lonely tree looks on in the bleak cold weather
and someone comes along and takes a family picture
the lonely tree
Sunday, January 31, 2010
caramel
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
learned some pretty neat stuff about korean from caryn today. thanks da jie (:
what's holding you up
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
we all need a leg to stand on
just got back from taiwan this morning. got a few hours of sleep and went off to get a a good sweat (a first) for the year 2010 playing basketball at the sheltered court in buona vista community centre. it goes without saying that taiwan was really really cold so sweat was pretty absent especially when ure only wearing one layer of clothing. so sweat was a real unfamiliar feeling.
before things actually really got started, i got this huge blow that kinda crushed me for a good number of days. i lost quite a bit of myself then. but i had to keep on moving or things wouldn't run well during the whole course of taiwan so i had to just chuck it behind somewhere in the subconscious part of me. but that still doesn't mean i'm giving up yet!
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every night i traced the stars
to where my friends are
with every stroke i saw a clear line
hoping that u were fine (:
*just something i thought of while in taiwan
ok. enough of the sad melancholic part. the last 3 days of taiwan were pretty awesome. i'm really really glad i managed to bring a camera and just take shots all over the place. pity i didn't get the time to go to the taipei zoo. would have been great to see how things are like as compared to singapore. bought back loads of goodies and even managed to get myra her spongebob planner. sorry han! didn't manage to help u get ur piano score! ):
ok. enough of the sad melancholic part. the last 3 days of taiwan were pretty awesome. i'm really really glad i managed to bring a camera and just take shots all over the place. pity i didn't get the time to go to the taipei zoo. would have been great to see how things are like as compared to singapore. bought back loads of goodies and even managed to get myra her spongebob planner. sorry han! didn't manage to help u get ur piano score! ):
anyways, i decided i'd make a trip to the taipei temple just to check it out even tho i had no temple recommend so the only real purpose was to get a few shots of the grounds. since the rest of the family didn't manage to see it and get any pics during their taiwan trip 5 years back, i thought i would. so yupp! there u go!
taiwan and 3 cold weeks in thin fatigue
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
i was just recently reading this article on why polytechnic students were more marketable than university students. the argument that being willing to settle for a lower wage is definitely sound and i have to give credit that maybe some polytechnic students are better than their counterparts in university. but u be the judge about that lahh huh?
well... i was just thinking back to when i was 16 which was quite long ago and still choosing which route to take. yeah sure... i scored an average aggregate. that was fine with me. the only thing that kept my options narrow at that time were parental expectations. they had this all worrying outlook that if i had gone to polytechnic i would have wasted my time and not study which could be said somewhat about life back in jc. but i don't think i would not have regretted whichever way i went.
sorry if i start to or already sound all trent lai like. but sometimes i wish i had taken the route i had actually thought of at that juncture. it was either jc (xjc vs xjc vs xjc) or the business module i had chosen in ngee ann poly. no. i'm serious. that was my choice at that time. it would have probably served me better in a way that i'm still a bit indecisive about certain things - such as choosing university courses which i will start after mission and stuff and others - cos it would have helped me narrow down options to at least a few fields. but right now i'm faced with a whole range of disciplines. i don't say i regret the choice but there's just the pros and cons that could have been weighed at that time. but anyway... i'm good with all that anyway. just gotta find out what i really want to do.
going off to taiwan in a bit! flight's 2am tmr.
so the agenda during R&R is:
1) Han's sheet music for mep purposes
2) Myra's spongebob planner and waterbottle
3) the best tai yang bing and moochis and pineapple tarts
4) sth that might help Bryden with his mission. haha.
5) eating GOOD za jiang mian
6) no clubbing and pubbing
might bump into bryce somehow. but taipei and taichung are a bit far apart. well... who knows?
adieu!
well... i was just thinking back to when i was 16 which was quite long ago and still choosing which route to take. yeah sure... i scored an average aggregate. that was fine with me. the only thing that kept my options narrow at that time were parental expectations. they had this all worrying outlook that if i had gone to polytechnic i would have wasted my time and not study which could be said somewhat about life back in jc. but i don't think i would not have regretted whichever way i went.
sorry if i start to or already sound all trent lai like. but sometimes i wish i had taken the route i had actually thought of at that juncture. it was either jc (xjc vs xjc vs xjc) or the business module i had chosen in ngee ann poly. no. i'm serious. that was my choice at that time. it would have probably served me better in a way that i'm still a bit indecisive about certain things - such as choosing university courses which i will start after mission and stuff and others - cos it would have helped me narrow down options to at least a few fields. but right now i'm faced with a whole range of disciplines. i don't say i regret the choice but there's just the pros and cons that could have been weighed at that time. but anyway... i'm good with all that anyway. just gotta find out what i really want to do.
going off to taiwan in a bit! flight's 2am tmr.
so the agenda during R&R is:
1) Han's sheet music for mep purposes
2) Myra's spongebob planner and waterbottle
3) the best tai yang bing and moochis and pineapple tarts
4) sth that might help Bryden with his mission. haha.
5) eating GOOD za jiang mian
6) no clubbing and pubbing
might bump into bryce somehow. but taipei and taichung are a bit far apart. well... who knows?
adieu!
skittles crazy cores (:
Sunday, January 03, 2010
first day of church. we're back to the morning again after a year of afternoons and sleeping in on sundays. constantly felt hangover-ish from the buffet just yesterday. i do believe buffet's gonna be out of my dictionary - possibly for this year. so spending virtually half the day in town presented a catch up session with two groups of people. one being sherman, ying er and marie and the other ah kun, caryn and denyse. its a wonder how ying er still manages to associate everything han and i do somewhat like a single person even when we're out of each other's company.
the day started by my plain forgetting to bring the lumix camera which dad recently bought. GAHH! this really is a fantastic upgrade in some sense from the kodak i previously held. its really got a good focus and stuff. and like the passive person i am to just take a camera and shoot for the fun of it, it helps that its a lot more stable with shots than the kodak. the old kodak is probably still good to handle and stuff having a really good optical focus. but i'll leave it to the experts like kandace to decide on this on. fiddled with Bro. Daniel Soh's Canon 5d at Dad's baptism. haha. talk about feeling inadequate.
back to lunch when ying er, marie and sherman were late. haha. this presented me with the opportunity to go find the place i had intended to bring them to only to find out that its either moved or closed down to be replaced by something else. there was another italian cafe but i gave it a miss and brought them to astons at suntec instead. (its either my secret garden or caramel the next time). we indulged in marvellous cream afterwards. yummie (: so we dallied around town a little more since marie and ying er couldn't find good movie seats. and we actually were able to meet up with alvin of the tadina brothers before he started work at cine's steakhouse.
moving on to dinner. think i need to start training to eat buffets again. brunei really knocked the wind out of my appetite. but that's alright i guess. sashimi ain't a friend of mine anymore. at least not for large obscene amounts. oh but the lobster was fantastic. and the teppanyaki. and the unagi. and the agemono.
just read han's post. sorry bro. but i guess back in the days of 2008 it was a lot easier cos i was given free play to distribute my time towards spending time with my friends more over studying. yeah fine there was the opportunity cost of being more prepared for As, but i guess i took it cos i felt it was more important knowing that i could only achieve so much in jc in terms of grades but there's more to it than just grades. so yeah studying stood on the sidelines, but learning didn't. well... that's just my take on it but it doesn't mean that it should apply for everyone. sure there were expectations cos my sister trail-blazed the jc route before me and did exceptionally well but i guess i wanted sth else. as for 2009, i definitely had a lot less time being a trainee but i'm sure 2010 will change things. take care bro (:
take care all of you (:
still waiting and hoping
i look over the fence to where you are everyday
sometimes i found joy and sometimes dismay
each day hoping that you'd come out and play
but everyday moved as quickly as the next
and i felt that as long as i could hold on to something
i could at least sit on your fence anticipating what's next
thanks for the skittles crazy cores (:
the day started by my plain forgetting to bring the lumix camera which dad recently bought. GAHH! this really is a fantastic upgrade in some sense from the kodak i previously held. its really got a good focus and stuff. and like the passive person i am to just take a camera and shoot for the fun of it, it helps that its a lot more stable with shots than the kodak. the old kodak is probably still good to handle and stuff having a really good optical focus. but i'll leave it to the experts like kandace to decide on this on. fiddled with Bro. Daniel Soh's Canon 5d at Dad's baptism. haha. talk about feeling inadequate.
back to lunch when ying er, marie and sherman were late. haha. this presented me with the opportunity to go find the place i had intended to bring them to only to find out that its either moved or closed down to be replaced by something else. there was another italian cafe but i gave it a miss and brought them to astons at suntec instead. (its either my secret garden or caramel the next time). we indulged in marvellous cream afterwards. yummie (: so we dallied around town a little more since marie and ying er couldn't find good movie seats. and we actually were able to meet up with alvin of the tadina brothers before he started work at cine's steakhouse.
moving on to dinner. think i need to start training to eat buffets again. brunei really knocked the wind out of my appetite. but that's alright i guess. sashimi ain't a friend of mine anymore. at least not for large obscene amounts. oh but the lobster was fantastic. and the teppanyaki. and the unagi. and the agemono.
just read han's post. sorry bro. but i guess back in the days of 2008 it was a lot easier cos i was given free play to distribute my time towards spending time with my friends more over studying. yeah fine there was the opportunity cost of being more prepared for As, but i guess i took it cos i felt it was more important knowing that i could only achieve so much in jc in terms of grades but there's more to it than just grades. so yeah studying stood on the sidelines, but learning didn't. well... that's just my take on it but it doesn't mean that it should apply for everyone. sure there were expectations cos my sister trail-blazed the jc route before me and did exceptionally well but i guess i wanted sth else. as for 2009, i definitely had a lot less time being a trainee but i'm sure 2010 will change things. take care bro (:
take care all of you (:
still waiting and hoping
i look over the fence to where you are everyday
sometimes i found joy and sometimes dismay
each day hoping that you'd come out and play
but everyday moved as quickly as the next
and i felt that as long as i could hold on to something
i could at least sit on your fence anticipating what's next
thanks for the skittles crazy cores (:
false hangovers
Saturday, January 02, 2010
just came back from kuishin-bo with caryn, denyse and ah kun. omigosh. i don't believe i've ever felt this full since forever.
hello 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
last night's dance was not bad i think. yeah fine u get the normal scenario when the youth take almost half the dance just warming up to the music and the dance floor. but this year's was a bit different. apparently there were certain arrangements i wasn't informed about until just before and during the dance. so the dance was pretty much a rollercoaster ride cos there were some interruptions all the way till 1030. so apologies if i wasn't able to keep the mood and energy up throughout. starting at around past 11 we had a korean fest which lasted till a little after midnight. gotta thank kandace for recommending the songs here. she's coming back tmr! amanda was really sweet. she got me this tie with an implied message behind the skeletons that decorated the tie and the recent weight loss. i'm just glad that bea was there helping me with the music too. although i didn't get to dance for reasons of djaying (so that bea could still enjoy the youth dance) and personal ones, i thoroughly enjoyed myself getting pple to slow dance. i'm ysa so i'm exempted :P and of course, thanks to the people that came!
chilled out with han after the dance for almost 2 hours playing a bit of L4D and COD4 before walking back with him home. so he spent whatever little time of the night left at my place before we headed back out this morning when i just baptized dad at church and he headed for home to get more sleep.
looking back on 2009, doing part time work at the zoo and enlisting into the army. all those times spent after work with friends like caryn, qi bin, caspar, kun yao, ifah, juraidah, shanker, zender, azilina and michelle at the night safari given free entry and discounts at kfc, bongo's and ben&jerry's, to the handling of picky singaporean and sometimes but seldom foreign customers, to the empty times when we could just stand and talk to each other on duty, to the times when i'm alone on duty and just observing and thinking why i always gabra and the words don't come out right, to the days of bmt spent in zulu coy, to the current time spent in ocs with sudden and half unexpected responsibilities that just pile up, they've really helped make 2009. yeah. its been a difficult year but... well... i've just gotta learn to make the right choices.
for 2010, i just hope to be able to complete what i've already set out to achieve in 2009. that is to get my license, get that black bar, and oso learn a thing or two on the guitar. and if i can cos i really still need to... make some wrongs right.
chilled out with han after the dance for almost 2 hours playing a bit of L4D and COD4 before walking back with him home. so he spent whatever little time of the night left at my place before we headed back out this morning when i just baptized dad at church and he headed for home to get more sleep.
looking back on 2009, doing part time work at the zoo and enlisting into the army. all those times spent after work with friends like caryn, qi bin, caspar, kun yao, ifah, juraidah, shanker, zender, azilina and michelle at the night safari given free entry and discounts at kfc, bongo's and ben&jerry's, to the handling of picky singaporean and sometimes but seldom foreign customers, to the empty times when we could just stand and talk to each other on duty, to the times when i'm alone on duty and just observing and thinking why i always gabra and the words don't come out right, to the days of bmt spent in zulu coy, to the current time spent in ocs with sudden and half unexpected responsibilities that just pile up, they've really helped make 2009. yeah. its been a difficult year but... well... i've just gotta learn to make the right choices.
for 2010, i just hope to be able to complete what i've already set out to achieve in 2009. that is to get my license, get that black bar, and oso learn a thing or two on the guitar. and if i can cos i really still need to... make some wrongs right.
