MOST. POWERFUL. FILM. EVER.

And i am not even a narnia fan.
Not even a fan of its genre: fantasy.
On the contrary, i actually dont like fantasy, mainly because i dont understand it or the need for it.
Anyhows, I ended up watching this movie with Chanelle and Joshua. L today @ Vivo.
WHOA.
Life-Changing flick man.
At first, i walked into the cinema with the, "i-am-only-here-for-the-free-poprcorn-and-am-not-going-to-get-anything" mentality.
So... for the first few minutes, popcorn and cheesy hotdogs were my only entertainment. And then, the story suddenly got hold of me.
I stopped eating.
Eyes fixated on the screen.
I was glued to the screen.
Literally sitting at the edge of my seat.
Yeah sure, you know, i agree, if i were to judge it purely on the cinematography or just the motion picture alone, i would have been bored to tears. (who friggin cares about the 'prisoners' taken by some green mist..???)
BUT.
It was the message behind the story that got a hold on me.
It was such a powerful message, with (for once) understandable and easy to spot symbols guilding you through the story, and leading you to the underlying meaning and theme of the story.
It was mainly such a good film for me because i felt it really mirrored the recent events in my life.
So... it made a lot of sense to me.
To me (in general) the show's about the growth in a person's spiritual life.
How God takes each and everyone of us through very difficult parts of the journey based on where we already are in it.
It speaks of the greatest battle that ever took place and is still taking place: Good vs Evil.
What i truly like about this film is the fact that it creates a visualisation of a reality that is invisible to us, humans. ( LIKE FINALLY)
Its like for once i can see the unsee-able.
The green mist of evil, used to personify the demons around us that feed us the evil thoughts in our head.
It really makes you realise the gravity of the situation.
What really is taking place everyday, which sometimes i think we are too immune or too blinded to or even too ignorant of simple because we cannot see it.
The battle of good and evil isnt cliche, its reality.
And its taking place every single day, every waking moment.
And our bodies are the living battlefields.
Wow... really puts things into perspective eh?
Okay if you really dont understand what i am saying its alright.
I had no clue what the first 2 movies were about either.
But this one is just... whoa....
Ahh... its just sucha seriously good film.
Well okay maybe not a good good film like a highly original inception or a heart-wrenching+academy award winning soundtrack Titanic, but a very personal film for me.
Either way, go watch it.
No regrets.
I know i didn't.
And i dont even like fantasy or narnia.

And of course, as with all good posts, a song.



All narnia shows have great songs, so voyage of the dawn treader is no exception.
Love this song.
Feels.... so hopeful.

Museums + good co. = a happy me.

Dig my baggy pants.........? Got a lot of stares for it. Ha!



I am so happy! Haha
Because today, i finally visited the Philatelic Museum!
And i'd always wanted to visit the Philatelic Museum,
especially because of the current exhibition called, "The Originals of G.R Lambert". And no, this isnt some exhibition on Adam Lambert's Great grand father. (hmm actually it could be, you never know)
G.R Lambert was a german photog from Dresden, Germany. He came to Singapore and set up a photography studio in 18-something (cant remember what i read. ha!) He apparently became hugely successful and renown that even the British Empire and the King of Siam patronised his shop.
I wanted to go for this exhibition since..... before O Levels.
And it was one of the many things i said i would do after my O levels but only got round to actually doing it today.
Thank God the exhibition runs into the next year! (2 Jan 2011)
So you still have time if you want to go. ;)

I was first came to know about this when i saw a brochure about it.
And at that time when i first saw the brochure and well actually even up to now, I had and still have a sudden interest in the history of Singapore, and esp during the era when we were known as one of the Straits Settlements. So.... from 1800s-early 1900s.
So along with the many books i borrowed from the library about this topic, came the intense need to visit the Philatelic Museum.
I am so satisfied today. Haha. =)
Nat was great co. of course!
Not many people, my age esp, like to visit museums.
But not hips! She was fantastic co. =)
I. Heart. Museums.
PLUS, more incentive to visit the museums is the fact that students gain FREE ADMISSION!!! :D
I couldnt have been more overjoyed when i found that out today.
Yes yes call me cheapo but.... living in a city-state like Singapore where cost of living is as high as mt. everest and where 'fun' means an (often boring) movie with popcorn, i think my cause for being overjoyed is justified.



And honestly..... Museums are NOT boring. NOT BORING.
I wonder who came up with that misconception.
And even if you don't take history (like nat) you can stiil enjoy a visit to the museum! Seriously!
It's really really really interesting.
You learn a lot.
And learning, well at least in my book is never boring, never not interesting.
On the contrary, ironically, the reverse is true.
I think the museums (controlled by Singapore Heritage Board) have realised this problem and that's why it has come up with the latest 'marketing' strategy to promote museums. Have you seen this before?


Yeap, SHB's attempt to popularise museums.
An attempt to squeeze in museums into the fast-paced-high-entertainment-focused mainstream pop culture.
I think it borrows the idea of the I heart NYC thing.
But still, working or not, i think it's pretty cute and they should hire youths (LIKE ME :)))) Points to self) to be their embassadors.
Or maybe some popular young actor from mediacorp to promote it.
Could work.

Anyways, i've come to a conclusion.
I really like the City area.
And by City i mean City hall area, Raffles City, the Esplanade, Fullerton, Clarke Quay etc etc.....
It's so much x a billion to the power of a googleplex nicer than orchard (YAWN).
Orchard's so crowded and boring.
Same old shops, same old crowd.
Yawn yawn yawn.
But the city, ho, the city's so different.
More of a middle-aged crowd. Mainly English-speaking. Lotsa Tourists.
And wayyy less crowded than orchard.
Ahhhh......... just totally love the city.
I could walk around the city for an entire day and not get bored.
I mean just look at this!
The architecture of the buildings.....
So magnificent.


what a handsome building.


check out the detail.



And this is just one of the many buildings in the city that look like this.
Omg... i am so going back there.

On the way back, Nat and i passed by the Paranakan Museum too.


Next time maybe? (haha..)

Oh yes! one more thing.
Whilst waiting for Nat to arrive @ Raffles City today,
I came across this arts festival brochure (yeah i know, what's up with me and brochures right? haha) and the arts festival is called, "Fringe" presented by M1.
I flipped through and this blurb of a play caught my eye....

"A man stabs an MP at a Meet the People Session. But this is not their story.

It is the story of the man’s girlfriend, an Indonesian maid who wants to get married and become a Singapore citizen. It is the story of the MP’s wife, who tries to cope with her husband’s injury and the media spotlight. It is the story of the maid’s employer, who is also struggling with her own tragedy.

These 3 women may mean nothing to each other, but they need one another to survive. The maid, the employer and the MP’s wife. Are they all model citizens?

Director Alvin Tan and Playwright Haresh Sharma, who have been working together for more than two decades, return with another original, thought-provoking work."

Whoa right... i know. So i did the next best thing.
I waltzed up to the information counter at Raffles city which was also an anthorised sistic agent and bought me-self a ticket to the show.
For next year.
15th Jan 2011. 8pm. National Museum Singapore.
Going to watch a play by a local production is something i'd always wanted to do. So i am pretty stoked about that. ;)
The only well, 'problem', i guess is the fact that i am, for-the-moment watching it alone. :( Which doesnt exactly make for good co., only sometimes but i guess not really in this case. Who watches a play alone??
That's like going to a cinema and watching a movie alone.
Kinda sad. But on the other hand, quite refreshing, considering i have never done that in my life.
But i am still gonna ask around and see if anyone's interested.
And if you're a student, the ticket's only S$20 (inclusive of sistic booking fee)! Okay, now i know what you must be thinking, 'pris! that's twice the price of a movie ticket!' ah.. but you see, you are paying for a unique threatrical experience. (ohmyyy... i did not just say that)
No play, even the exact same play by the exact same cast, is the same.
Because no one can ever recreate actions exactly the same way as before.
We're not robots.
And it will be like..... watching a 'Live' Movie.
Come on..... admit it.
How cool is that....??
Plus! The storyline looks really interesting.
All the more reason to go.

Anyways, i have decided, i am gonna visit most museums in Singapore by the end of this holiday. Cause that for me is..... a true holiday.
Leisure-learning @ my own pace.
Ahhh............. now that's more like it. ;)

sundae musings...

'Courage and Confidence isn't quite the same.'
Just a random thought i had a few days ago.

Anyways, how's everyone? (and by everyone i mean really just me, because, well between me and you, i don't think anyone really reads this. wink. ;))

Anyways, i don't really know what this post is about.
I guess i am just making it up as i go along, as i always do.
I just felt like writing a blog post, so here i am.
Well, i was just thinking.......
mmmmm...
The world is really really really really different (and different i mean direct opposite) from God.
The world is really really warped.
Here's a fantastic eg: (just came to me today)
Philosophers.
One word, what do you think?
Great Minds, Intellectual Giants.
In short, you hold them in one of the highest esteems.
BUT.
Kay call me presumptuous, but i dare say 8/9 philosophers do not believe in God,
or at least 8/9 of whom i've read about.
They even reason to disproof God.
Friedrich Nietzsche. Karl Marx. Just to name a few.
The very people society holds in the highest of esteems deny the existence of God.
The very people society holds in the greatest respect deem the purest definition of Truth a lie.

"The fool says in his heart, 'there is no God'.." - Psalm 14:1

It's funny don't you think?
How different we view the world, people in particular, from the way God views the world.
Oh to see life through the eyes of God.
What a perspective that'll be.

Whoo hooo!!

Yippie!
I am so glad Rebecca Lim won Best Actress!
Sigh..
I always knew she had talent right from the moment the pupil started.
Her acting is so friggin natural for goodness sakes!
And btw that is rare.
Channel 8 actors are super dramatic.
Like they just don't feel real to life, ya know?

"I am Bored...!"

Here is a list of things you could do if you're are bored.

You could....


measure how fast you type! (although i would contest this and say that it is not a very good way to measure how fast one types when they are copying something as opposed to them typing what they want to say)

or

WATCH THIS TRAILER!



SO. CUTE. RIGHT. SMURFS!!! I AM SO GONNA WATCH IT.
I always thought Smurfs were cute.
They are like.... the english subsitute for Doraemon.

Or

...... okay well this list is still in progress... check back here for updates!

Club can't even handle me right now....

Although i don't even like Taylor Ward, I think this is better than the original version. Cobus potgieter's the best though. =)

4/5

The Social Network.
I think this was a pretty good movie.
Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield did a rather good job as Mark Zukerberg and his friend Eduardo plus both look so right for the role, both fit as well as glove on a hand.
I am so happy Andrew Garfield will be replacing Tobey Maguire as Spider-man in the next installment of the film. He's kinda cute and a really good actor.


Ta-da! If you had any trouble conjuring up a mental picture of him.
Anyways, back to the point that i was so happy that Andrew is replacing Tobey M....
I mean it's like..... Tobey M's face is always so stone-ish and he's so stoic when he is portraying Peter Parker/Spider-man in the film. It's like... sometimes when i am watching the films (spider-man 1,2,3) I feel like yelling, "YOU'RE NOT PORTRAYING LKY for goodness sakes..!! So stop being so stoic!! Move your face TOBSSSS....!!"
Okay, here's the perfect example.
Recall the scene in Spider-man 3 when P.P wants to propose to MJ at the French Restaurant.
MJ's like all sad because she just got dropped from broadway, saw her bf kiss gwen stacey as spider-man and to rub it in, Gwen stacey, P.P 'lab partner', comes over and gets all touchy with P.P.
So to this MJ responds something like, "..that was our kiss..."
Kristen Dunst who plays MJ shows exasperated face, which is apt.
"Do you want to push me away....??"
And to this Tobey M shows somewhat a bewildered-stonish face and says something like,
"Push you away... MJ I love you..."
Tobey M shows bewilderment for like maybe 1 nano second and then returns to his stone-ish face again.
Once again, emotional moment in spidey flick, ruin.

See.
Precisely, my point.
Anyways, I am just so glad Andrew.G is taking over.
After watching The Social Network, I am convinced he'll play a fantastic, wonderful, superhero-ish, and not to mention of FULL OF EMOTIONS, Peter Parker/Spidey.
Yeap.
3 cheers for Drew Garfield.

Beautifully composed by The Black Eyed Peas.

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Badness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Nigga, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations droppin' bombs
Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With the ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin'
in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' in the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality
Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)

we are still searching for Love because we haven't found it.

and even when we have, we reject it because it isn't the way we understand love.
Then perhaps we had the wrong perception of Love right from the start.
It isn't about pure acceptance and it is about a certain kind of discrimination.
Refusing to accept evil and a discriminator of evil, this is Love.
Love isn't a pushover,
or a doormat you walk over.
Neither is it a big fat sloppy justification that covers all the injustice,evil, and pride in the world.
You're right, no one knows exactly what Love is.
Or rather, Who Love is.
Much of Love is still a mystery and perhaps forever will be to us.
But we do know this much,
that Love for our sake, died a most painful death, so that we might not have to.
So that we don't have to feel..... unloved, which is perhaps the most agonizing feeling in the universe of all universes.
But instead, to feel loved by Love itself.
Love is an overcomer,
not a passive sit-by-er that watches while all the evil around us swallows us up and envelopes us till we are eaten alive.
Love fights evil,
Not accepts it.
Love sets things right.
Love makes things right.
Love fights for Right.
Love is a Fighter, a Discriminator and an Overcomer.
Don't get it wrong.

The Right Perspective

This is not how it should be
This is not how it could be
This is how it is
And our God is in control

This is not how it will be
When we finally will see
We'll see with our own eyes
He was always in control

And we'll sing holy, holy, holy is our God
And we will finally really understand what it means
So we'll sing holy, holy, holy is our God
While we're waiting for that day

This is not where we planned to be
When we started this journey
But this is where we are
And our God is in control

Though this first taste is bitter
There will be sweetness forever
When we finally taste and see
That our God is in control

- Our God is in Control, Steven Curtis Chapman

2 Brown Vintage Leather Bags for SALE

2 Brown leather sling bags for sale.
These bags just oozes vintage chic.
Going for only S$35 each. non neg. BEST PRICE.
If you're interested, email me @ alkene.water.alcohol@gmail.com
Both are in great condition.

beautifully written words... from about 300 over years ago.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,^[72] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

- from The Declaration of Independence. (wiki)

Do you know Singapore has its own Declaration of Independence? (from separation with Malaysia) Ya.. totally not inspiring. Haha! It was very technical, and i guess you have to be when you are writing such an important document but still.... it should be something understandable by the average joe (or in this case the ah hocks and ah kows), written in lay-man's terms, so people can better appreciate it.
I went to wiki Singapore's constitution (because i have never heard of it...i mean honestly! have you???)
And check this out, "freedom of speech, assembly and association" is apparently one of our fundamental rights.
Interesting........
But.. there is a clause, "Part XII of the constitution allows the Parliament of Singapore to enact legislation designed to stop or prevent subversion. Such legislation is valid even if it is inconsistent with Part IV of the constitution."
And subversion, btw "refers to an attempt to overthrow the established order of a society."
Haha how interesting right?
It's like no wonder..........
So does this mean that there will never be a revolution in Singapore?
But then again, do we even need one?

Anyhows, i was just thinking...
MOE should totally make it mandatory for every student in Singapore to study Singapore history. You know all the merger, konfrantasi (don't know if i spelt that right) stuff, because I think that way, we would able to better appreciate our social harmony and not demand for things that are just.... plain ludacris.
It will also help us gain a better insight into our history and the circumstances and factors Singapore was built upon and hopefully instill a sense of Pride for our nation (other than the national day parade we always have) having known the struggle for Independence.
Perhaps even get some youths interested in singapore politics.
Hmmm.....

Love this show

Pawnstars on History Channel.

i am on TWITTER...!! yay!

Okay i have no idea why, or what it really is for what the fun of it is but... yeah i've joined.
I have, so far, since setting up my account 5 mins ago, 1 follower (some stranger...) and 1 person whom i am following (my brother) and that's it. HAHA.
So funny.
Wonder why they call it twitter.
It's like.... so... birdy to me.

My legs are killin me...

Today was pretty cool.
Went to town with Nat (the hippie, whom i havent hung out with since forever) whom for today, or this week, should be henceforth known as Nat the Stylist instead because i asked her out to help me choose an outfit for Friday.
And if you don't know what's Friday, Friday is Fairfield's Annual Band & Choir Concert held @ Singapore Conference Hall where i have been given the honour together with Al Emporio to host.
Yeah... i know... pretty heavy duty...
Anyways, we walked till our legs ached so bad (and we weren't even wearing heels or what not, it was just slippers and shoes) but that was all the bad that happened.
I managed to pick out a STUNNING outfit for Friday together with the help of Nat plus catch up with her. Yeap we had a whole year's catch-up convo.
So i was pretty happy & contended. :)

In the other news, i think Prince William, (as in the next in line or the next next in line for the throne of Britain) is pretty handsome. But... here's the gasping news... he's balding.
Like... pretty bad i think, which is quite sad cause i think he is kinda too young for that.
Sigh it must be tough being a Prince.
Or...
He could just be genetically unlucky.
Hmm...
No actually i wouldn't really say that, considering he is really handsome and he gets to be a Prince.



I. know. right.
I think he got his looks from his mom. (Princess Diana) She was really pretty too.

Where Cinema meets Biology

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/science/16animate.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

Check this cool article from the New York Times.

O LEVELS ARE OVER.

Its. The. End.

Like finally.....

Hmmm....


Okay, so...
What do we do now?

Life does surprise you.

I just came back from dinner and spending the night out with Kim.
All we did was talk. Eat. talk.
I'd never thought i'd say this but it was good.
I have to admit i had fun.

On another note, Chemistry, was just... plain sly.
They should change the simile from, "as sly as a fox" to "as sly as a Cambridge O level Chem paper.
But, i guess that would just be a mouthful to say.

So..... this is what goes on in a Mathematican's Head.

All works from Escher. What he is known for is his use of perspectives to create 3D images on 2D platforms.
He is also known to draw seemingly, 'mind-bending'/ paradoxical images. He was a mathematician as well as an artist. Pretty cool eh?

Try to follow the path from the highest level. Get the picture?
I think you could stare at it all day long and not get bored.
And lastly, his most famous work................

"Ascending and Descending"
Also featured in the movie, "Inception".
If you don't get the paradox, look at the highest level of the castle.
Yeah... now you see it.
Alright, have fun staring... ciao!

I love the words of this song....

When the walls close in around me
Let Your glory light the darkness in my night
When the suffering's all the I see
May I walk with You by faith and not by sight

On the road of sweet surrender
I have nothing but to offer You my life
Greater love I have not found it
All be mercy You have eased this troubled mind

Open hearted
You said search
And I will find

Wo, oh, oh, oh, oa
Sin is broken
The lost now chosen
The Father's heart

Humble King, You go before me
By Your grace I live for everything that's true
Through your son I am made wealthy
There's no other who will love me like You do

And forever
I'll keep running
Back to You

You reign
You reign in all the earth
Wo, oh, oh, oh, oa

- from Hillsong's latest album, A Beautiful Exchange, The Father's Heart.

I just sent perhaps the most umprofessional letter

Hi,

I am Priscilla Lim, a Student, going to graduate from Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary) in a matter of 6 days and i was wondering if IKEA has any job openings for students during the holidays. Firstly, let me just say how much i love IKEA, (which is one of the reasons why i wish to apply for a temp job here) it is really not so much about the money as it is about how amazing the culture is at IKEA. Every time i go there, it just feels as though it is something different. Therefore, i am writing this email in hope that there is a job, perhaps suitable for someone like me at IKEA. (more preferably the Alexandra Outlet)
I have pretty good interpersonal skills, i am good with strangers, so sales would probably be a good fit. I was Debate president for two years in Secondary school and an EXCO member of the Symphonic Band. I really hope that there is a job suitable for me during this holidays at IKEA.
It is, for now, my dream job.
Please let me know if you need any more information and i would be glad to provide it.

Yours Sincerely,
Priscilla Lim.

Hmmm.... now i Wonder what they'll say...

LARGEST PRIME NUMBER AS OF YET IS.......

Unpronounceable: 2^43,112,609 − 1

And apparently, Chris Boone was right, you can earn money finding really really really really large prime numbers. Check this out.

"In 2008 the record passed ten million digits, earning a $100,000 prize.[5] Additional prizes are being offered for the first prime number found with at least one hundred million digits and the first with at least one billion digits.[1]"

- excerpt from wiki's article on the largest prime number.

And here's how you can win some $
Apparently there are free online softwares that can be run on your own computer in search of a really big prime number and if you're fortunate, you could win some money for it.
How cool is that right?
On the other hand, i wonder whether the amount of $ spent leaving your computer running will equate to your probability of you finding a really large number.

A little over a week left till this agony is over.....

Don't lose your way
With each passing day
You're come so far
Don't throw it away

Live believing
Dreams are for wearing
Wonders are waiting to start

Live your story,
Faith,hope and glory
Hold to the truth in your heart

If we hold on together
I know our dreams will never die
Dreams see us through to forever
When clouds roll by
For you and I

Souls in the wind
must learn how to bend
Seek out a star
Hold on till the end

Valley, mountain,
There is a fountain
Washes our tears all away

Words are swaying,
Someone is praying
Please let us come home to stay

When we are out there in the dark
We'll dream about the sun
In the dark we'll feel the light
Warm our hearts, everyone

If we hold on together
I know our dreams
Will never die
Dreams see us through to forever
As high as souls can fly
The clouds roll by
For you and....I

- If We Hold on Together by Diana Ross from The Land Before Time.

I am getting myself a job like this over the holidays:

No not as a comedian, but a pitchman. Or better known in the Singapore society as a, "promoter".
Of course in real life it will be a googleplex times less glam (and funny) but hey! what a life experience huh?

a Great read

although i am only on chapter 2. Haha!
I love malcolm gladwell's books.

I actually think that......

if you sit on your bum for too long, it will go numb.
Just like the way your legs do, when you sit cross-legged for too long.

It is said that......

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

I have two schools of thought on reading this.
My first inital thought which came to me instantly when i first read this was, ha! i wonder if anyone is dumb enough to try it to find out if really works.

The second was that yelling or producing noise or sound is a very good way to produce energy. Of course, as can be seen from the above interesting fact, it isnt exactly the most efficient way. BUT, it is still a way. Plus the fact that sound is the easiest energy in the world to generate. I remember studying chemistry (i think it was the chapter on fuels) and thinking that if we could somehow harness sound energy produced and translate it into a form of energy we could store and use. Then, i'd think that we'd have just found the world's most renewable source of energy.

BUT.

Of course, life is never that simple.
I am sure someone else out there has thought of that before and found it unfeasible and thus, here we are still stuck with the good ol fossil fuels. Burning it up, and polluting the planet.
Sigh.

Okay... so i've toned it down...

with a robot background.
It's kinda cute don't you think?
The repeated patterns remind me of a little boy's favourite bedsheet or blanket or boxer shorts.

goodbye minimalism....and hello to you*bottom.

Sigh... i really shouldnt have changed my blog template.
Because my old one was no longer available on the blogger template selection.
Now i am stuck with the new fancy but over-compartmentalised themes to choose from. As can be seen. I feel so restricted now. Like... restricted. Just look at the invisible lines around this post. Urgh!
It's disgusting.
Sigh.
I think blogger was thinking it was doing users a favour by 'upgrading' to more 'modern' themes.
Sigh.
Gone are the days of stylish minimalism.
The secret to everything timelessly, good-looking.
You know what's the real problem?
The real problem is that people think that more is good.
oh here we go: the age-old flawed beyond recognition equation of more=good.
Omgoons i wonder who came up with that warped concept because it is so inherent in our society today and it could possibly be the cause for everything going haywire.
Including, the blogosphere.
I use to remember, i still do it actually, i would/will visit blogs and literally, cringe when music starts playing (pls dont get offended if your blog plays music because there are always exceptions in life), and when there are so many things on a single page my eyes go into a "where's-wally-mood", just that this time i am not finding wally, i am finding the words that form the posts of the blog to read.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is that bad.
And now, behold, for i have become just like one of em.
GASP. the horror...... (wow i didn't know i could be so dramatic)

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Okay, wait i just have to show you what i mean.
This is what a house would look like if you designed it, based on minimalism.



Ta-da! Gorgeous ain't it? Precisely.

Now, what about minimalism in....... fashion?



oh my. beau-ti-ful.
I have always been a firm believer in the minimalist-movement.
Excess, as my English teacher always says, denies.

ANWY, my title says hello to bottom with a star, on bottom because i am not quite sure how many of us know who bottom is.
Yes, that's right, bottom is actually a who.
Not the best buds you constantly make to kiss the floor.
Bottom as in the fictitious character Shakespeare brings to life in, A Midsummer Night's Dream. (i hate this play btw)
Anyways, bottom in the play is this obnoxious, yet lovable character, who, literally makes an ass of himself.
So thus, hello to you bottom, because my theme now and everything else that constitutes this blog just screams obnoxious now.
Be it the larger than life fonts, or the louder than loud backgrounds.
Urgh...
sadsad.
Oh wells, what's a girl to do?
But to embrace it.

My Favourite Aesop's Fable: The Wind & the Sun.

The Wind and the Sun once had an arguement as to which was the stronger of the two, and they agreed to settle the issue by holding a contest: whoever could make a traveller take off his coat first would be recognised as the more powerful. The Wind began and blew with all his might until he stirred up a blast, cold and fierce alaskan storm. The stronger he blew, however, the tighter the traveller wrapped his coat around him and clasped it with his hands. Then the Sun broke out, and with his welcome beams he dispersed the clouds and the cold. The traveller felt the suddem warmth and as the sun shone brighter and brighter, he sat down, overcome by the heat and threw his coat on the ground.

Thus, the Sun was declared the winner and ever since then, persuasion has been held in higher esteem than force. Indeed, Sunshine of a kind and gentle manner will sooner open a poor man's heart than all the threats and force of blustering authority.

- From Aesop's Fables.

When i first read this story i was like, whoa.
That was good.
And then, as all good-curious teenagers i went to google aesop's fables and found out that aesop was actually a greek slave, and he was so prominient that even Greek philosophers like socrates read his fables whilst he was in jail or something. (wiki)
Neat eh?
I don't know why, but i had always thought Aesop was French.
Hmmm.....

Thank You

God.
Bio today was.... alright. It was for me, the only paper i sat for and i came out smiling.
So, really thank God although i realised that i did make some careless mistakes, (which are the... omg i am gonna shoot myself in the foot kind) but oh wells, whats done is done. Thank God nonetheless because i really had no time to do Bio revision other than 3 weeks ago. So really Thank God.

JJJJJosh grobannnnnnn.....

So lately, i've been listening to a lot of celine dion and Josh Groban. Maybe because i needed the 'inspirational' vibe they always give off through their songs. But either way, i have concluded.
Josh Groban = Best Male Singer Ever. Period.
Celine Dion? Hmmm...... haha maybe i am being bias here (of course i am!)...
I enjoy listening to her french songs and of course, the legendary Titanic song.
But... best female singer ever? that's a tough one.

From an article on The NYT.

"Philosophy's distinguishing value? For me, it resides not so much in the big questions' multifarious questions themselves, nor, alas in wisdom attained through the exacting process of answering them, but rather how it invariably reminds how little we really do know. Philosophy is, or should be, humbling, and is for this, ennobling."
- by Robin Jeshion. (excerpt from this really intriguing photography project)

OMG. Josh Groban is..... goosebumping-inducing.

I love sarah mclachlan too.

Chris Martin said it well.

Lovers keep on the road you're on
Runners until the race is run
Soldiers you've got to soldier on
Sometimes even the right is wrong

They are turning my head out
To see what I'm all about
Keeping my head down
To see what it feels like now
And I have no doubt
One day we're going to get out

Tonight maybe we're gonna run
Dreaming of the Osaka sun
Ohohohoh ohohohoh oh
Dreaming of when the morning comes

They are turning my head out
To see what I'm all about
Keeping my head down
To see what it feels like now
And I have no doubt
One day the sun will come out

-Coldplay, Lovers in Japan.

Rudyard Kipling said it well.

I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!

She sends'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!


-Rudyard Kipling, in The Elephant's Child

What do you think will happen?

Will the water level move?

I HAVE A NEW FASCINATION

Nephology - The Study of Clouds.

DID YOU KNOW.
That there is system of classification for clouds.
OMG. SO COOL RIGHT!?!?!
Apparently, up in the sky now, in the bukit batok area of Singapore, there are altocirrus clouds (as shown in the above picture). WHEEE...

hahaha. okay. i am officially ludacris.

I have only 2 more weeks to don the Blue and Yellow uniform...

4A, class of 2010.

Sunday, 26th Sept 2010

It is when we are broken, that God is fixing us.

It is precisely when we feel weak, that God is making us stronger.

" This is not how it should be
This is not how it could be
This is how it is
And our God is in control

This is not how it will be
When we finally will see
We'll see with our own eyes
He was always in control

And we'll sing holy, holy, holy is our God
And we will finally really understand what it means
So we'll sing holy, holy, holy is our God
While we're waiting for that day

This is not where we planned to be
When we started this journey
But this is where we are
And our God is in control

Though this first taste is bitter
There will be sweetness forever
When we finally taste and see
That our God is in control

And we'll sing holy, holy, holy is our God
And we will finally really understand what it means
So we'll sing holy, holy, holy is our God
While we're waiting for that day

We're waiting for that day
We'll keep on waiting for that day
And we will rise
Our God is in control"

- from, Our God is in Control by Steven Curtis Chapman. (go youtube it.)

Whatever you have been going through, consider this, Our God is in Control.

foe-toe.

To view my entire collection of photos go to my flickr!

I've decided....

Westlife is going to sing for my wedding.
I. don't. care.
(hahaha...)

Music that makes you go ahhh........

I love this album. And westlife. It's like the best of both worlds.
Jazz and Westlife. Omg. Amazing...
I am gonna get it.
There's just something about the irish and music that go so well together like toilet and reading, like bread and butter, like black on white.
The irish are perhaps the most soulfully musical.

I slept at 4am yesteday just reading this book.

I am currently reading this book, which i borrowed from the library.
I must say, this is one of the best books i have ever read in my life.

As the review from googlebooks puts it,

"A fresh, compulsively readable narrative of the elusive element behind so many innovative breakthroughs, in fields ranging from physics and marketing to design and popular culture.

What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history?
Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darn irresistible?
What do Jackson Pollack and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks?

Elegance.

In this thought-provoking exploration of why certain events, products, and people capture our imaginations, and loyalty, Matthew May defines elegance as the elusive combination of unusual simplicity and surprising power, and pinpoints the four key elements that characterize it—seduction, subtraction, symmetry, and sustainability. In a story-driven narrative that sheds light on the need for elegance in design, engineering, physics, art, urban planning, sports, work, May offers a surprising array of stories that illustrate why what’s “not there” often matters more than what is."

Of course i am being completely bias here but really.. it's such a good read.

My 2nd ever Roll of Film.

There are more on my flickr but i am so lazy to put em up here. I love Film.
This is Teacher's Day Celebrations 2010, cum post-prelims shots.
Love how the photos came out.

( Description of my shots from Fb: Shot by a Minolta point and shoot film camera using Fujifilm superia 400 film and processed by Kodak on 3R glossy paper. It gives off a Polaroid feel... dont you think? These are not the full 36, just the better ones and the 'okay' ones. I scanned the photos in using my canon printer. But i mu...st say the scanning is pretty close to the real photograph. Unedited of course. These are film photographs.)