It's a damn cold night...

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
いつか失ってしまうのかな。薄れてゆく笑顔と君を守りたい。
-- D-technolife

If fate is a wheel, then we are the sand that is crushed between the cogs.

Don't judge a life by one difficult season.

独自并不代表孤单,在一群人中狂笑着有时更寂寞。
-- 吴庆康

At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.
-- Deepak Chopra
于是我让孤独更孤独,有一种不是悲伤的悲伤,才是刻骨铭心的悲伤。
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.
-- St Francis.
People's actions are influenced by their expectations. People respond not just to what is happening now, but to what they anticipate will happen in the future.
-- Sloman
不管你会不会忘了我,我只想告诉你一个秘密。
--《不能说的·秘密》

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind.
-- Deepak Chopra

The furthest distance in the world is not between life and death but when I stand in front of you yet you don't know that I love you.
-- Tagore
Do do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.
-- Matt 6:34

まだ不器用に笑うね まだ悲しみが似合うから
キミに降る痛みを 拭ってあげたい すべて I for you
-- I For You

the optimistic pessimist

supposedly an adult, she thinks like an adult (too much, if you ask me). deep inside, she is nothing but a little girl, with her little lofty dreams and ideals. and oops, she is breaking them, one by one.
more often than not, she is just an angsty emo kid.

she is only but
a passer-by,

an onlooker,
a walking shadow.

and this girl can't stop writing.

she stalks

|| cyn bea bao zou mel ||
|| joan weepz ||
|| blockc yeanching lehia kexi zhenlin horace alvin dina sandra becca tzehee ||
|| cruzteng peifen dasmondkoh ||
|| xiaozhu xiaogui sunxiezhi ashin kangyong ||
|| derrick jinglun stefsun natho lawrencewong ||
|| feliciachin joannepeh jeanetteaw sharonaw ||
|| xiaohan hyr chimkang mingde dannyyeo ||
|| xuyunling alvinology mrbrown esther ||
|| drbondar psychdigest ||
|| kfdrawing iwrotethisforyou thingsweforget ||

After all, what is in the past but what we choose to remember? They can choose not to hide it, to take what's broken, to feel the pain and know that it will heal. They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
-- The Bonesetter's Daughter

she watches on

Others desire to experience the blessedness of giving, but we often frustrate them by refusing their help.


“你有心事吗?”
“或许有一天,我会告诉你吧。”
--《不能说的·秘密》

she holds on

 Memories were also a way of looking in a mirror, but it was a jagged mirror of broken glass, one that cast imperfect reflections. Like shards, these memories drew blood.

February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 January 2012 February 2012 April 2012 May 2012 June 2012 July 2012 August 2012 October 2012 November 2012 December 2012 January 2013 February 2013 March 2013 April 2013 May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 August 2013 September 2013 October 2013 November 2013 December 2013 January 2014 February 2014 March 2014 April 2014 May 2014 June 2014 July 2014 August 2014 September 2014 October 2014 November 2014 December 2014 January 2015 February 2015 March 2015 April 2015 May 2015 July 2015 September 2015 October 2015 November 2015 December 2015 January 2016 February 2016 March 2016 April 2016 May 2016 June 2016 August 2016 September 2016 October 2016 November 2016 December 2016 January 2017 February 2017 April 2017 May 2017 August 2017 September 2017 October 2017 November 2017 December 2017 January 2018 February 2018 April 2018 June 2018 July 2018 September 2018 October 2018 November 2018 December 2018 February 2019 April 2019 June 2019 August 2019 October 2019 December 2019 January 2020 February 2020 March 2020 April 2020 May 2020 July 2020 November 2020 February 2021 April 2021 July 2021 September 2021 November 2021 March 2022

she never gets

永远不会交的功课 || 永远不会实现的愿望

|| you ||

Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself... Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
-- Deepak Chopra

she thanks

Designer : Wei Jun
Brushes : Deviantart - Spy Glass

I don't know, I don't know. Sometimes I feel like I'm a pair of eyes and ears, and I'm just trying to stay safe and make sense of what's happening. I know what to avoid, what to worry about.I'm like those kids who live with gunfire going off around them. I don't want pain. I don't want to die. I don't want to see other people around me die. But I don't have anything left inside me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.
-- The Bonesetter's Daughter

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1

Sunday, March 27, 2005
withers away @ 11:55 pm

happy easter ppl.. haha.. got one more day of hols tml.. but will be out.. got exco meeting in the afternoon.. oh wells.. haha.. we really got lots of stuff to settle.. hahaz..
got nothing much to write.. eh.. coz im really damn bored these days.. but leaves me time to think abt stuff.. shall end wif part of one of cat's blog entry.. cat, pls allow me to.. hope u dun mind:) coz its really meaningful to me..

In a bar in a remote village in Spain, close to the city of Olite, there is a sign placed there by the owner. "Just as I succeeded in finding all the answers, all the questions changed." The master says: "We are always concerned with finding answers. We feel that answers are important to understand what life means."
It is more important to live fully, and allow time to reveal to us the secrets of our existence. If we are too concerned with making sense of life, we prevent nature from acting, and we become unable to read God's signs.
"The master says: "It avails you nothing to seek explanations about God. You can listen to beautiful words, but they are basically empty. Just as you can read an entire encyclopedia about love without knowing how to love. "No one will ever prove that God exists. Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -- and never explained. "Love is such a thing. God -- who is love -- is also such a thing. Faith is a childhood experience, in that magical sense that Jesus taught us: 'Children are the kingdom of God.'
"God will never enter your head. The door that He uses is your heart."
--maktub;paulocoelho

It's something Mystical

Saturday, March 26, 2005
withers away @ 11:35 pm

havent been blogging.. was quite sian.. well thurs we had class outing.. went to cine to watch hitch and eat sushi buffet.. damn full.. wanted to go out ytd too but mum didnt allow coz i went out the previous day.. -__-.. stone the whole of today too.. feel so retarded sitting in front of the tv all day.. oh wells..
sometimes words dun really come out the way i want them to..

It's something Mystical

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
withers away @ 10:00 pm

oh my goodness its been such a long time.. since i last blogged.. oh wells cts was.. quite terrible.. but actually still ok lahz.. erm... just hope i dun fail anything.. ever since i came into jc i think im more concerned with whether i pass rather than whether i do well.. hiya shit quite brain dead now.. i dunno wad to write haha.. nvm i just wanna slack my days thru man..
zhong yu kan kai ai hui bu lai
er ni zong shi tai wan ming bai
zui hou cai ba hua shuo kai
ku zhe qiu wo liu xia lai
zhong yu kan kai ai hui bu lai
wo men mian qian tai duo zu ai
ni de shou que fang bu kai
ning yuan mei chu xi qiu wo bie li kai
dao dai by jolin/jay

It's something Mystical

Friday, March 18, 2005
withers away @ 9:20 pm

[3 days]
mugged wif joan ytd.. a bit for today too.. hmm not bad lahz.. at least got stuff done.. its always good to haf someone to tell u to jia you along the way.. thanks dear:)
i actually thought ytd was quite a nice day (except me and joan sorta got conned into donating money.. damn the guy.. ok we were quite stupid lah) there came the news that the mock interview is a killer. oh wells.. after going thru it today really realized that there's lots of preparation to be done beforehand.. lots to improve on..
but for now, lets just worry abt the cts.. i dun think i even finished half of wad im supposed to study.. esp bio.. i wonder if organic chem went into my brain or was i just wasting my time staring at the mindmaps..
i can see it coming.. the pre-cts-freaking-out syndrome.. which i always get.. oh wells. at least im not freaking out like now.. i guess i was freaking out for the mock interview that's y..
everyone jia you.. gather everything within u and just go all the way.. with a clear mind..

It's something Mystical

Wednesday, March 16, 2005
withers away @ 9:40 pm

today's spent doing shopping. bleah. and i've really put on weight.. nearly died due to excessive sweating while trying on jeans. oh wells.. this doesnt really sound good huh.. bleahz.. but anyway i FINALLY found a proper top.. though its ex.. investment u call it? wadeva.. as long as i look proper..
just that im getting rather irritated and stuff.. over nothing really.. just feel like i've been forced to grow up.. if only i could just stay as a sheltered little girl mugging in some school.. the wider the options and possibilities the more lost.. the world out there is so huge.. i wonder if i can take it.. so much to think so much to see yet no time and space.. gotta decide on almost everything like now.. and it determines my future.. though growing up does means more freedom and stuff, it sure means stress and responsibilities.. suddenly growing up seems quite scary..
coming back to now, unproductivity doesnt really help. dear we better be productive tml.. argh..
nice song by s.h.e... bing xiang.. wad attracted me at first was that it starts with a riddle.. i believe all of us heard it before..

ba da xiang fang jin bing xiang you ji ge bu zhou
ba he ma fang jin bing xiang you ji ge bu zhou
ba hui yi fang jin bing xiang hui bu hui ji mo
ba ai qing fang jin bing xiang ye yi jing dao le shi hou

rang yan lei yi ci liu gou yao ji ge zhen tou
rang ming tian bu zai nan guo yao duo shao zhi he
rang re qing bian cheng leng mo suan bu suan zui guo
rang ai qing tui bing duo jiu cai ke yi hua wei wu you

cong jin yi hou zai mei you ren na yang dou wo
cong jin yi hou jiu yao fen shou
cong Jin yi hou bing xiang bu bi zai fang pi jiu
cong jin yi hou bie zai men kou deng wo

rang yan lei yi ci liu gou yao ji ge zhen tou
rang ming tian bu zai nan guo yao duo shao zhi he
rang re qing bian cheng leng mo suan bu suan zui guo
rang ai qing tui bing duo jiu cai ke yi hua wei wu you


cong jin yi hou zai bu xu yao bie ren hong wo
cong jin yi hou jiu suan fen shou
cong jin yi hou ri ji zai ye bu yong shang suo
cong jin yi hou shen zhi bu shi peng you

ping guo gei ni ling meng gei wo
ke le gei ni ka fei gei wo
zi you gei ni zhen xin gei wo
ni de gei ni wo de ni bu neng dai zou

It's something Mystical

withers away @ 12:26 am

[5 days]
argh im not mugging. i need the drive. i need the motivation. ok maybe im mugging. im just not fast enough. how fast can i be anyway. im not a machine. there's so much to do. or maybe i wasted too much time. ok stop all this grumbling and go mug. stop doing stupid stuff. and i just hope everyone out there is doing well. esp mel after wad i read. argh. just a few days of not coming online to read. wad is happening?

It's something Mystical

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
withers away @ 9:46 pm

[6 days]
im so dead.. me and joan met miss tan for the sapphire's thing.. suddenly got so much to prepare for.. this is just not the right time.. i even have to go out tml to get proper clothes.. gosh.. bleah im quite sick of all this.. hiya saw all this coming anyway.. juz gotta live with some stuff i guess.. life doesnt really go our way.. as long as it goes God's way.. it'd do.. lalalalala.. im going mad pretty soon at this rate.. nvm ignore me.. i'll be back to normal in a little more than a wk's time..

It's something Mystical

Saturday, March 12, 2005
withers away @ 11:43 pm

[9 days]
its been quite some time since i last blogged.. fell asleep before i could even go online haha.. hmm let me think.. lets start from thurs..
went to keming for cip.. for the first time we really coached.. i coached 3 girls.. the experience was quite enjoyable.. at least i felt like i was helping someone.. they girls i coached were nice and quiet.. haha.. barney's grp is the most noisy loh.. the gal kept flirting with him lah! haha.. so damn funny.. i wonder how long does he have to put up with this man haha.. jia you jia you!
oh pin and jc left.. hope they enjoy themselves in maldives.. haha.. they'll come back safe and sound.. the faith is back..
fri.. brought lots of cds coz i prepared to mug like siao.. in the end mrs che couldnt make it for our bio lesson and had to push it back.. my plan was screwed up.. bleah.. had free periods in between but they weren't long enough for me to be able to do any effective mugging.. met up with hito.. exchanged bdae presents.. i got a cute cow! haha.. thx.. after bio the 3 sisters plus nan stayed in class to mug.. later nan left.. its been such a long time since we last mugged in class.. we were sitting in all kinds of position haha.. joan even brought cup noodles up to class to eat haha.. we ate lots in class.. after joan and mb left i continued mugging in class alone.. did a mindmap of all organic chem topics except those with benzene rings.. oh man it took me a few hours.. to link everything up.. gosh.. hopefully it'll help.. mb dun give up on ur cts man! jia you!! dun keep saying u will fail..
today.. went for nus open house.. met cyn too.. oh wells i will confirm go nus one loh.. just that whether i can take double degree that i want.. i shall find out.. el's phone landed in the toilet bowl while she was in the toilet in nus.. dotz.. we helped dry the elephant hung on her hp and also to dry the phone.. whole process took abt 1/2h but phone still can really be revived.. oh poor el.. den bea and mb came to my place.. watched diru, miyavi and kagrra 'live's.. mb left halfway.. me and bea continued watching the whole afternoon.. listened to WTD too.. bea rmbr to burn for me!
i will keep my focus and mug for cts.. trust me..

It's something Mystical

Thursday, March 10, 2005
withers away @ 12:22 am

[11 days]
shit. argh.
champagne didnt turn up for lesson.. tsang didnt come for civics.. slacked the whole way through.. played bridge.. haha was so sian.. i didnt want to mug though i knew i had to..
highlight of the day: bball match.. didnt watch much of gals match.. tsang's daughter is good! haha.. we were more interested in the guys match.. after prac me and mb literally ran out of the LT (thank God for air con so i dun haf to keep the fans), threw our bags and guitars at the pigeon holes and rushed all the way down to the bball court.. we missed half the match.. thought we would miss most of it.. well to be frank i was disappointed.. mb could hear me lamenting.. alot of mistakes and stuff.. but nvm.. it was an experience for them to learn.. jia you!
feeling indifferent.. maybe im quite numb alr..
life goes on as it never ends.. oh really..

It's something Mystical

Tuesday, March 08, 2005
withers away @ 11:13 pm

[13 days]
faith. hope. trust. fear. deceit. suspicion. denial. facade. longing. control. responsibility. liability. expectation. strength. courage. will. destination.
nirvana?

It's something Mystical

Monday, March 07, 2005
withers away @ 11:15 pm

[still 14 days]
bio s was quite a disaster. nonetheless i still came out alive.. thank God.. i just went and wrote one and a half pgs of total crap.. wow i wonder how i did it man.. without any prior knowledge.. coz all i read for that topic was one sentence.. how great.. oh and did i mention a bio s essay is supposed to be at least 4 pgs long.. whatever.. without any reference i dunno how im going to do that.. lucky we marked our own essays.. didnt hand up.. phew.. if not i'll really pity the one who's going to mark my essay.. hmm or maybe i should say congrats to her.. coz she can just spare me a few marks and go on to the next script.. haha..
well but seriously i felt terrible while writing the essay coz i was really unprepared.. and i was just thinking to myself that i would flunk it and its for sure. hope i dun haf to do this again.. my palms were getting horribly sweatly, even before i started writing anything.. i was nearly trembling.. gosh.. sux..
for once i see some marked improvement in guitar practice.. at least when keeka stops in between there's less noise produced and dynamics are clearer for blackbird.. i just hope we'll keep improving and not have to repeat the same things that are done in the previous practice.. lets just hope im not disillusioned or hallucinating haha..
i'll work hard.. though there's much to work hard for..
ta zou le dai bu zou ni de tian tang
feng gan hou hui liu xia cai hong lei guang
ta zou le ni ke yi ba meng liu xia
zong hui you ge di fang deng dai ai fei xiang
lydia by f.i.r.

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withers away @ 1:10 pm

[14 days]
in bytz now.. doing gp research at the same time since champagne has course.. its sad that we dun haf a half day.. haiz.. nvm.. juz gotta survive wadeva comes later.. which i dun really look forward to..
had a real entertaining theatre performance during contact just now.. the whole LT was just laughing like hell.. haha.. they should have this every contact to let us destress.. haha..
The Mood. hmmmmm
zui hou de teng ai shi shou fang kai
bu xiang yong yan yu la che suo yi xuan ze bu ze guai
gan qing jiu xiang hou che yue tai
you ren zou jiu you ren lai
wo de xin shi yi ge zhan pai
xie zhe deng dai
shou fang kai by li sheng jie

It's something Mystical

withers away @ 12:07 am

[14 days]
watched moulin rouge.. missed the front though.. i think its a damn nice show.. but quite a sad ending.. haiz..
quite screwed.. but nvm sorta worked out my thoughts.. if i wont fall back into my old set of thinking.. i suppose i'll be all right.. i hope i can..
yu lin shi le shi jie
ni zhan zai wo mian qian
ai de tai shen tai xiang yao
ni de wen du gei wo yi kao
que bu neng yao
fang qi le ye xu cai kan de dao
wo cong bu shi ni de jiao ao
hou le yuan by f.i.r.

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Saturday, March 05, 2005
withers away @ 11:41 pm

should start the countdown.. [16 days]
went to my relative's house coz they had some kind of celebration for his 50th bdae.. met up with my so-called cousins after so long.. they're actually my mum's cousins' children.. so i guess u can count them as my cousins.. spent the whole time talking with them since they were only a few yrs older than me.. we counted.. havent seen phyllis for 3 yrs.. havent seen thomas for 6 yrs.. gosh.. we are all getting old.. no wonder thomas couldnt recognize me and even asked my mum why i didnt come along.. O.o me and phyllis were trying to stop him from drinking.. he drank nearly a cup of liquor and still wanted to drink beer.. gosh. we were like saying no one will be able to get him home when he's drunk. coz their parents didnt come.. well.. she was trying to guide him in his life and help him get a goal.. didnt really work to me.. wonder how much his jie said got in.. i suppose this takes time..
didnt talk much to gary and alvin though.. they came really late.. i was already preparing to leave by then..
i havent done any work.. dunno how to do maths.. i dun care anymore.. im tired.. why is it so difficult?
leng feng guo jing
chui luan xin qing lou chu le shang xin
wo you duo mo shang duo mo tong ni bu hui xiang xin
leng feng guo jing
chui dong ji yi xin wu fa quan yu
deng dai you duo ku you duo nan meng he shi hui xing
leng feng guo jing by 5566

It's something Mystical

Friday, March 04, 2005
withers away @ 11:58 pm

joanie bdae!!!!!! happy bdae!!!! yeahhhhhh
haha madness.. pw results arent released today.. scare us..
had a 2h+ exco meeting wif our teachers-in-charge.. whoa it was quite taxing.. lucky there were laughs in between.. mr koh treated us to ice milo too.. mr koh n ms ng were fighting over who to treat us haha.. settled quite a bit of stuff..
just when all the stuff are more or less settled and over, the work starts piling and stress starts building up.. cts are just round the corner.. i have neither caught up wif my work nor slp.. its getting nowhere..
i'll try hard not to screw up.. i dun wan to make anyone unhappy anymore.. i dun wan to make anyone worry anymore.. i wan to be a nice little good girl..

wo wang le zhen xi
wang le hui yi
shuai huai xin ai de wan ju
wo xue zhe yuan li
xue zhe fang qi
xue zhe zai mei you hui yi
tian kong de cheng zai jie ti
ai guo suo yi te bie de shang xin

zui hou wo kai shi wu zhuang zi ji
yong yan lei xi guo zi ji
zui hou wo kai shi wu zhuang zi ji
yao qiang hua ruan ruo de xin
zui hou wo kai shi wu zhuang zi ji
you ming zi mei you ge xing
zui hou wo kai shi wu zhuang zi ji
wo huo zhe you wo de yong yi

wo shou cang kong ju
ai shang kong ju
na jiu zai mei you kong ju
shei yao wo ren shou
gei wo sheng ming
shi shei gei le wo xue yi
liu chu shen ti de sheng yin
huan ni wo bu xi han de dong xi
wu zhuang by mayday

It's something Mystical

Wednesday, March 02, 2005
withers away @ 10:52 pm

held exco meeting during civics today.. used so many smses to msg them.. tsk tsk.. gonna have another meeting on fri.. with teachers-in-charge.. haiz.. den tml got sapphire's scholars meeting.. haiz..
after the meeting went straight for psc talk.. was v hungry.. i was trying to think abt wad path to take in the future.. realized that if i want to take up a psc scholarship i'll end up as a teacher to serve my bond.. i mean if i study life sciences or pyschology, where does this fit in the public sector? im quite confused now.. hmmm
what's great was the reception after that. wow.. mb bea and el were having their own reception.. so guess wad.. since the psc reception was clearly better, they took off their ties and went to get food from there.. haha.. ate till we were damn full..
we seriously needs to be more motivated if we still want to fulfil the goal of getting gold.. this seems more like a dream to me every time i go for practice.. there's no unity.. no passion.. its so hard to get ppl moving and listening sometimes..
the feeling still lingers on. how long would it take before this feeling dies off. or is it here to stay.

It's something Mystical