The Retrocession

Was lamenting the loss of my socks. Well you know, it's pretty irritating if you lose ONE sock. I wouldn't mind losing a pair; I could always buy a new pair. But just ONE? How about trying my luck at Sungei Road? 人生最懒叫的事莫过于袜子不见了。不见一双也就算了，不见一条却甚是可恶。Sometimes the dryer completes its mission before I could rescue my clothes. Some lousy Samaritan attempts to rescue them, but leaves one or two socks behind. 没错，就是这么硬生生地把它们拆散。 刹那想到 《神雕侠侣》 里，女魔头李莫愁因爱生恨，将陆家灭门之后，把陆展元和妻子何沅君的骨灰挖出来，分别埋进华山、倒入东海，使两者永世不得相见： 武三通突然喝道：“李莫愁，我要问你一句话，陆展元和何沅君的尸首，你弄到那里去了？”李莫愁陡然听到陆展元和何沅君的名字，全身一颤，脸上肌肉抽动，说道：“都烧成灰啦。 一个的骨灰散在华山之巅，一个的骨灰倒入了东海，叫他二人永生永世不得聚首。 ” 众人听她如此咬牙切齿的说话，怨毒之深，当真是刻骨铭心，无不心下暗惊。 ………… 这时四周树木着火，噼噗之声大作，热气越来越是难以忍受。黄蓉道：“大伙先退向东北角石山上再说。”各人奔上斜坡，眼见屋宇连绵，已尽数卷入烈火之中。 李莫愁被点中了穴道，虽能行走，武功却半点施展不出，暗自运气，想悄悄冲开穴道，乘人不防便突然发难，纵然伤不了敌人，自己却可脱身逃走。那知真气一动，胸口小腹之中立时剧痛，忍不住“啊”的一声叫了出来。她遍身受了情花之刺，先前还仗真气护身，花毒一时不致发作，这时穴道受制，真气涣散，花毒越发越猛。她胸腹奇痛，遥遥望见杨过和小龙女并肩头而来，一个是英俊潇洒的美少年，一个是娇柔婀娜的俏姑娘，眼睛一花，模模糊糊的竟看到是自己刻骨相思的意中人陆展元，另一个却是他的妻子何沅君。她冲口而出，叫道：“展元，你好狠心...

千万不要沉溺以下的恶性循环：明明是害怕孤单，没有勇气过一个人的生活，有个不完美的男人来凑数了，还嫌他粗鲁没格；明明是自己依赖成性，不想改变现状，却推说环境很艰困，只好委屈地忍着。 只要自己愿意回到「以自己为人生的轴心」的立场，就可以更独立勇敢地看清楚现状，并作出明智的决定，而且有足够的意愿与能力，为自己所做的决定负责。从此，不再过渡依赖一个人、一段关系、一项职位、一种借口，也就不会和任何不愉快的情绪作困兽之斗。到最后，自己要越来越清楚地知道：「我不会跟这个人永远在一起！」「我不会跟这个工作永远在一起！」「我不会跟这个借口永远在一起！」，最终学会放下這些 罣碍 ，面对最真实的自己。 菩提萨埵，依般若波罗密多故，心无罣碍；无罣碍故，无有恐怖。 Such Hindrance.

冷酷和扮有型只是一線之差，希望那條不是貧窮線。

Had some awesome supper night and massive 兜风ing with friends in hall! :D I guess Recess Week is theonly time you can catch up with some breathers before work engulfs all of us again bah. Bought my new Jolin album. DARNED NICE! Her style keeps changing, and it's full of surprises. Since 72变 when I was P6, her transformation has been.... WHOA. 妈的，英文烂到已经不懂怎样describe了…… 就是 赞 啦。 Went to SGH yesterday. Passed by Bt Merah enroute. Tracking the paths my parents took when they first landed in Singapore: Singapore has a lot of interesting places to explore. Sometimes I really wonder whether it is a bliss or not that people neglect them. Why? 小坡 , was the name the elderly used to refer to Bugis area. Then where is 大坡 ? It's Chinatown, across the river.   Rochor Centre 梧槽中心 . Making way for the North-South Expressway soon. Train, no more. Did you know, that Queenstown was the earliest satellite town in Singapore? 桥南路 街景。 South Bri...

It's amazing how time flies. I was tidying up my room just now, and saw this stack of 剪报s that I had since JC days, preparing for China Studies then.   报纸出刊时是德国统一二十年，退守台湾六十年，which is 2009. It's 2012 now, and I am reading news talking about terrorists killing American diplomats and a new Chinese leadership coming up. I used to wonder how those convicts would feel when they were sentenced to 5 years of jail. Now it seems, that 5 years would just pass with a blink of an eye. Or maybe two. Imagine you will live till a ripe old age of 80, with some CPF to spare. Right now, you have already spend 25% of your life. What have you achieved? What are you  going to achieve? Citing the Germany article as an example, Are you going to attempt something for twenty years and yet still say they it isn't accomplished?

Went to Hebe's concert last night. It was a very unique experience. Her songs are very philosophical.  It strikes with whatever we're going through now, yet without the blast that rock bands like 五月天 would give us. Hebe的歌我只听过一首， 《寂寞寂寞就好》 ，还是当兵的时候在933上听的。 昨天之后，却爱上了几首歌，包括 《请你给我好一点的情敌》 、 《还是要幸福》 ，还有 《你太猖狂》 …… 还蛮好听的，歌词很有feel， 感觉当下，我们是在一片平行时空里，哈哈哈哈。 分手的理由千百种，只要其中有一方并不想分开，或没有被善待，任何原因都会被归纳为最烂的理由。例如：“我们个性不适合！” “我发觉自己配不上你！” “你会碰到更好的人！” “我的能力不够，无法给你幸福！” …… 以上听起来的确像是借口，但至少它不伤人，比起“我从来没有爱过你！”这个理由，要温和很多。 面对分手的残酷时刻，因为依依不舍而伤心难过的人，往往都忘了：当初开始相爱的时候，往往没有任何理由，就只是很单纯的喜欢而已。分手，其实也不需要任何理由，就只是很单纯的不爱了啊。 若执著于要求对方一定要给个更像样的理由，只不过是更加证明自己不甘心罢了 。 负心人提出的每个分手的理由，绝对都是史上最烂，但又何妨，愈烂就应该愈舍得潇洒地丢掉它，让自己重新出发。 from 《最烂的分手理由？》 by 吴若权 自己曾经是那不甘心的家伙， 还好平常多看书，悟性比较强，不至于陷落万丈深渊。 有时候看到诸男性同胞身陷囹圄，虽然能够感同身受，但是也帮不上多少忙。 Age doesn't imply maturity. Similarly, being through many events doesn't make you  mature either. It's what you've learnt through the events that make you ...

[与其 一个人逍遥自在 ，不如 两个人心灵相犀 。 真的。 written 11/11/11 12.46pm] 现在回头看，其实一个人逍遥自在比起两个人之间各种龃龉，更胜一筹。 不是吗？

Just ended yet another hectic week. Driving, finishing soon. Now learning parallel parking. NUS, just ended Eusoff Hall Camp. Quite fun. Might be flying to Shanghai in July , still pondering about it. What else....? Actually everyday is the same: tuition, driving, song-writing. Can't wait for school to start already. 等自己忙得跟狗一样就会后悔说这句话了吧 哈哈哈哈

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跟中孝介一样，疗愈系歌手吧。

Click to enlarge. Sometimes, I realise feel that I learnt a lot of relevant stuff from the SAF. For example, the art of 移花接木 . Just for laughs. Haha.

Watched a new movie today with Li Ming, called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen . It's a really good movie, with an interesting plot and of course, some food for thought. Which rang a bell in me. Literally. It made me realise how I took things for granted. How we lacked that faith in ourselves. Faith in others. Faith in the world basically. That we need sincerity, like being ikhlas , in Malay. No use repeating whatever had already happened. Tengok hadapan lah. Twenty years old, but EQ of a kid. No way is this gonna work. I always thought in the shoes of others and that brought me through 20 years of my life. Then suddenly I lost the ability to do so. Greed and selfishness it must be; It's either I change now, or I'll never change. The fishing-maniac Sheikh Muhammad had this crazy idea of introducing salmon into his deserts. Alfred Jones, the scientist from the Department of Fisheries thought it was mad totally, but was forced into leading the project. He me...

I am a pretty boring person actually. My shopping is always done with someone else, and I will only start looking for songs that I have heard before somewhere, or from a singer/band that I know of. That kinda leaves most English songs out of my league, sadly. But anyway I'm writing this post because I'm listening to this song called 向日葵盛開的夏天 by F.I.R. And it brought me to think, that there are songs I keep listening to during a certain period of time in my life. 就不知道是不是大家都有过这么一段光阴，还是只有我是这样而已呢……？ I started listening to songs since P6. Before that I was a mugger. (Okay actually all the way till Sec 4 I was a mugger, can.) My cousin from China brought some 5566 周杰伦 and 蔡依林 albums. I think 盗版 one but hahaha from China, what to do? Only then I realised that an album would cost you $20. Which is like your weekly allowance?! Okay so 我 share 一下我以前都一直在听什么样的歌……： Now: 那些年 by 胡夏 [because the movie was so nice can] 如烟 by 五月天 [because the lyrics is similar to 那些年, and i...

Sometimes I really wonder if they are spams...

有一美女下夜班，被一好色男子尾隨跟蹤。 美女很害怕，此時正好路過一片墳地，好色男子正要下手，美女走到一座墳墓前，說： 「爸爸，開門吧！我回來了。」 嚇得好色男子，狂奔而去。 美女為自己的聰明，得意地樂了起來。 哪知笑聲未落，從墳墓裡，傳出一個陰森森的聲音說： 「女兒，你怎麼又忘記帶鑰匙了呢？」 嚇得美女尖叫著跑了。 這時一個盜墓者，從墳墓裡爬了出來，說： 「影響我工作，嚇死你。」 突然，盜墓者發現， 墓碑前有一老翁，手拿鑿子在刻墓碑。 他就好奇地問「你在幹嗎？」 老翁生氣地說道： 「這些不肖子孫，把我的墓碑都刻錯了，只好自己來改啦。」 盜墓者一聽，嚇得撒腿就跑了。 看著盜墓者的背影，老翁冷道：「跟老子搶生意，嚇死你。」 一不小心，鑿子掉地上了，老翁正要彎腰去拾，卻見從草叢中， 伸出一隻手，同時還有個冷冰冰聲音： 「誰啊？敢亂改我家的門牌號碼。」 嚇得老翁連滾帶爬地跑了。 這時，一個拾荒者， 從草叢中爬出來， 撿起地上的鑿子， 感嘆道：「這年頭，撿塊爛鐵，還得這麼費神........。」 哈哈哈哈 有没有很好笑 LOLLL

人間の心の中に闇があります。 人間の正体と真意は不明です。 人間は闇を恐れます、だから、炎で隅を燃やします。 If you keep thinking about unhappy things, you'll always be unhappy. Give optimism a try, you might like it and be addicted to it!

  When almost all your friends on Facebook are from the Army, you know it's time to go .

Histeria merupakan suatu keadaan minda seperti ketakutan atau emosi yang tidak terkawal. Ketakutan tersebut selalunya disebabkan oleh beberapa kejadian yang dilalui oleh seseorang yang melibatkan konflik yang teruk. Mereka yang mengalami histeria sering kehilangan kawalan akibat ketakutan yang teramat sangat. Typical Hysterical Women  Hysteria is transliterated as 歇斯底里 in Chinese. 根本就是毫无来由的情绪在作祟，讲难听一点，就是神经病。 Sounds like many of our Female counterparts out there, isn't it?

It's creative, isn't it? Takes only 2s to open!

Nothing much to do during F1 Season because of work commitments, have to loaf around and wait for time to go by and kill time by listening to all sorts of cock songs. Like this Love = Love song thingy by Selena Gomez: The song is indeed catchy. But the MV sucks, TOTALLY.