A few days back while I was walking to get my car at the parking lot, I felt a piece of gravel or pebble that found its way into my shoe and prodded against my sole whenever I made a step forward. As I walked on, I thought about how oysters produce pearls to alleviate the "discomfort" that trespassing particles assert on their soft tissues. (Now you know I am always over-thinking :P )

Dear god, I wanna take a minute not to ask anything from You. But simply to say thank you for all I have :)

ps. thanks for the cake. how sweet you are :)

So I was reading through some of my old blog posts today. and one thought just running thru my mind: when did I get so boring? In other words, when did I start to take myself so seriously? Sheesh. I started this blog with references to my elder brother's profile and lists of words I love or hate. Now its all heavy sayings leading to heavy pondering about life. Who am I? Like, seriously, who writes about sun-warmed tomatoes? I have to laugh at myself. Okay, here are some justifications, though :)

1. I've been going thru re-entry. not just from a student to an engineer, but from one lifestyle to a totally different lifestyle. and so I've found writing to be a natural and helpful outlet for me. And once I finish a piece, I think, why not throw that up on the long-not-updated-blog?

2. Im not working so much, and I have a crappy internet connection at home, so I dont really have oodles of time to piece together fluffy blogs filled with images and links to Amazon and Wikipedia. After you worked, you find it time is so precious to do things you really find joy. (obviously to me, blogging is not in the list. Once it was. and I'd just picked up a new hobby)

3. I dont know. I just feel like there needs to be a third. Maybe I've become a bit of snob? Maybe I think you guys have come to expect more from me than girl-reviews of movies and TV shows haha. That's not all bad. There is still room on here for confessions of guilty pleasures.

my current ear candy. Best if you can put on ur ear set

Yes, there's a certain comfort in going with the flow, being one of many, and following the same path as millions before us. Yes, its easier to not be stupid and put ourselves way out on a ledge and put ourselves in predictable and stable life. Yes, its fun to fantasize about one day someone walks in and "discovers" our hidden brilliance and plucks us from our normal life and drops us into the one of our dreams.

But eventually, it becomes obvious that the "discovery" will never come and that stability and security is an illusion. I know, because I've been there. and I think I am still there. For years I took a typical approach to my life. Follow the crowd, get a decent somewhat stable job, and avoid rocking boat by making any drastic changes. In my experience, because we dont have our mind right. We have these little devils sitting on our shoulder, feeding our lies about how the world works and how we should act in it. We probably picked up some of these ideas from our parents, others from our teachers, and still other from our friends and co-workers. But eventually I realize a couple of things.

• No matter how stable or secure you think ur situation is, everything can change in an instant
• The longer you go with the flow and wait for someone to give you an opportunity, the harder it gets to break out
• Pretty much the only future that comes with following the masses and taking the "safe" path is a life of perpetual mediority

Anyway its just some random thought after watching 3 Idiots. It tells the story of every engineering student. Last but not least, a quote from the movie : Take ur hand, put it on ur heart, and say : Aal Izz Well (all is well) :)

The best girlfriend.

You know the one I mean. She's the first person you call when some aspect of ur life falls apart. She always gives you the best in-ur-face advice that money cannot buy, and when it is time to celebrate, you know there will be a glass with her name on it.

and the best girlfriend who we'd been sitting across the couch sharing the notoriously hard time and daunting questions as well as the excitement and happiness that we'd gone thru, had been thousand miles away pursuing her dream.

Together we strive for our dream from different land. All the BEST ! xoxo

Book Fest 2011

venue : KL Convention Center (KLCC)

Parked our car at Pavilion and walked all the way to KL Convention Center just for the mega book exposition :) Trust me its very much worthy to pay a visit.

and I would recommend this book, about a tale of Malaysia's political economy, written by Tony Phua, the current DAP National Publicity Secretary.

floating bookfair

Joyueses Fetes! Holidays in a roll have never been so good. Turned up to Logos Hope floating book fair on a soggy and muggy Tuesday morning.

parked our car at Majlis Bandaraya Penang and walked all the way to Port Swettenham due to insufficient parking lots.

overall.....hmm..

my fav from Topshop :)

and a sweet cardigan with a big bow on shoulder from MNG

 

hello august

I think that one of the most dreadful feelings to have is the feeling that we'd running out of time that life is passing by us and we are not doing things that we want to do, we're not living it the way we could be living it. Really..apart from physical pain, I cant think of any worse kind of pain than the sadness resulting from the perception of wasting our life. And if you're like me who believe this life is all we have, the feeling only magnifies it..

Often I find that we have a tendency to surround us with so much "stuff" that I often forget the end game, or the goal I'd striving for. Years are burned this way. I never want to wake up after a couple of years, wondering what'd happened :)

钟表，可以回到起点，却已不是昨天

well I am using LG Cookie too teehee. A very cute music video and those girls are so lovely :)

I am so saddened by the news of what'd happened in Norway. It is so disheartening to hear, especially about all those deaths in the island summer camp. May god bless the ppl of Norway and help them through the tragedy. and may He grant them peace of mind.

Way before the sun peeked over the horizon, some chosen ppl had awaken from their slumber and dive head first into their days. I paused, just for a split second.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for the advice and wisdom you'd shared v me today. It really did helping me to accept the process and keep myself nurtured and honest regardless of what was going on. You opened my eyes and showed me the things that I really need to think about most. I agree wholeheartedly.

and this thank you note is for you, laogao.

regards,

siu bak

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take. But by the moments that take our breath away.

Have you ever picked up a book and thought :" Whoaa this person is kind of over the top!" Or ur thought is a bit more along to the lines with :"Arrgghh dont come near me with ur labeler!"

Overwhelmingly.

There's a major glitch. I think. Authors use pages to describe their systems. Its simple! Acc to them. Just follow these steps and everything falls into their places. Wrong! These systems are created by ppl who has no idea how we live.