to m/ak

don't worry ma/k, some of us are meant to do good to the world, whilst the others are supposed to be earning money + become rich to become philanthropists to help those that are meant to do good in the wOrld!!!

in other wOrds,

BE OUR PATRON!!!!

^_^

fund our empty pockets but full heaRts! and in dishing out $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ your heart will become full tOO!!!!! ^_^

hAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*HUG* dont' wORRY actually m/ak/ you should have come with us to cambodia that time. let's go on a CIP trip together all of us!!! (who can make it) . ^_^
im sure there'll be a window of coincident schedules and complementary timing!!!!!

*HUG*

reading charmaine's post makes me a bit. sad (at myself i guess).

when i should be spending my uni life doing MEANINGFUL things, all i know how to do is do what everyone else is doing. ie. chasing after the job that pays too much money for the level of intelligence which is required (not too much). which at the end of the day, is really pretty useless. it's not what i want to do for the rest of my life.

thank you kat =)

=)
i miss home!!!

charmaine!!!!!

the pictures were so nice, can tell so much has happened to you (inwardly outwardly) recently!!

i've been looking for a song for you but how come all songs are love songs?!!?!?!? can't find one that's apt but anyway:

1. This is Sotsug/you from Inuy/asha. It means Graduation and i sent it to f/ai/th/ and since you two like s/pan/is/h songs but since f/a/ith liked it i figure there's a higher chance of you liking it too... than my other korean/jap songs. haha hope you like it! and find it a nice tune to reflect to...(it's sung by Johnny's jnr! particular pertinence also for LJ: you will find NAK/AT/SU here... hahAHAHA see if u can spot him he doesn't look so cute here but he was younger. )

for the rest: just a bunch of cute guys/manufactured idols singing a vvvvv nice sOng!! ^_^



2.Yamaguchi Momoe's Ii hi tabidachi (title alone means good day for travel i think. or good day travel.)
it's very old, try not to look at the video it may disturb your appreciation of the song.



both songs are SAD and DEPRESSING and GREAT FOR REFLECTION/ listening on trains on long journeys. i think.

hOpe when u come back this summer we can all shAre our stOries!!!!!!!! ^_^ ^_^... i really want to go to latin america now also!!!!

hi guys, 

it's about 1.30 am now. i just had a cup of port with a friend then cycled back and i was just about to go to sleep. but i haven't written here for sometime (though i've been keeping up with the reading :), so i thought i'd just write a little... 

got back from peru three weeks ago. it was fun, a little tiring, stressful. did the touristy things, but above all, i like walking through the streets of south america, watching people working, talking to the old ladies that sell broad beans by the streets whose hands and feet are really black and grimy, talking to restaurant owners, hostel people, learning more about their everyday life. i really love this place; i hope to stay here someday. 

this is jonny: 

 jonny is 15, he's from ollayatambo and spent 45 minutes talking to me about the history of the incas and the meaning behind all their symbols. his parents work in another town. and he singlehandedly mans the hotel that his uncle and aunty owns. he wants to be a tour guide when he grows up because he loves peru, loves its history. he has photos of different ruins plastered in his little "office" where spiders hang from the ceiling. he loves music and played his guitar for me. he was off key but he wants to study music in the music institute in another town. and he wants to combine both and be a musical tour guide. :) carry his guitar and play songs for the tourists that he will bring around. he speaks a little english, french, german - all from the tourists that stay at his hotel. :) 

classic machu picchu picture (note the mountains in shape of incan face in the bkground) 

 

and lago titic/aca

the whole island is made of reeds - the houses, the island itself, the handicrafts. the ur/us moved off the mainland into lago titic/aca (meaning puma) when the spanish came and started to live off the reeds. the islands are basically held in place by ropes tied to patches of reeds - so when there was a storm 2 years ago, the ropes broke and the islands started crashing into each other haha. we stayed with a couple called victor and cristina. they were awesome. told us stories, sang traditional songs for us. they don't read or write but they sing wonderfully - "mi lago titicaca, me haces alegria". 

now i'm back to school and er more stressed out. my econ classes this quarter are more difficult than my last two quarters. both my professors are quite bad. i was taking an english class about the tw/o eliz/abe/ths but i think i may have to drop it because i can't handle the econ and english at the same time since the latter has a syllabus of 20 books. doing bahasa indonesian because i'll be leading a project in indonesia this summer - hopefully to do with sanitation and water cleanup. and an alte/rnative sp/ring br/eak course on public leadership. we'll be going to boston and new york this spring. :) i had my first class last money for ASB and it was great. st/eve w/es/tly, who opposed arnold for governor last year came and spoke about how he had been a student leader in st/an/fo/rd during the apartheid - when sta/nf/ord was still investing large amounts of money in south africa. and the students basically protested - riot police were called in and everything, other colleges took the cue, and two years later all investment from s/ta/nfo/rd had been withdrawn. 

i guess it was inspiring because of two things. the first was because he kept reinforcing the permanence of trial and error in life - reassuring. the second because he kept emphasizing that we learn precious little in s/ta/nfo/rd and we need to start thinking about how we can use this education to do things; the education doesn't speak for itself. i guess i often feel that way. 

i don't see how i can apply activism to si/nga/pore at all (and sometimes i feel am/eri/cans are so naive because they are so reactionary). sometimes i feel completely paralysed by suffering (like when i am in latin america and people ask for so little you don't understand how they can live. or when i read yu/nus' "ba/nker f/or th/e po/or" where anecdotes brought me close to tears). sometimes i am convinced that i can't do anything (school is so paralysing, as is sin/ga/pore's sl/ash p/s/c's judgment) and therefore do not care. but maybe i can. and i like this quote from the ta/lmud:  

"D/o not be da/unted b/y the enor/mity of t/he wor/ld's gri/ef. Wa/lk humbl/y now. Do j/ustly now. Lo/ve m/ercy now. You are not e/xpect/ed to comp/lete the wo/rk, but nei/ther are y/ou fre/e to a/band/on i/t." 

also been stressed out because i'm organizing snow trip for the sin/gap/oreans at s/ta/nfo/rd. the logistics aren't too bad but i am playing with so many factions and have so many emails in my inbox. and i went snowboarding last weekend. it was awesome. i fell so much, but i wanna get better so badly. :) difficult since i no longer have properly working knees, but I WILL GET THERE! 

oh yea, bernice was in s/t/a/nford like the day before new year's. :) it was good to see her again! heehee... so i guess that while you guys met up in sing/apore, we did meet up too. :) 

be snowboarding next weekend too, for the snow trip. and after that, it'll be back to the grind. it's a three day weekend this weekend and i'm really looking forward to it. :) i'm so exhausted from not understanding my classes, dealing with so many logistics, worrying about so many things that i'm glad for the three days to get on top of things. :) 

for bernice:

hey i think this song reminds me of you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buiH3zSkvgk

and i think this song, would be great for dance! it's quite old and i heard it quite a while back but it didn't occur to me that actually you MAY be able to use it nOW!
haha but yah lah feel free to ignore/reject it... i have weird conceptions of what music makes for nice dance music. but seriously... i think in a way...:



(the MTV is damn boring though... i did my own mtv using IPhO footage and it was more exciting! unfortunately its stuck in my hard drive and i didn't burn it anywhere.. will revive it someday.)

nice song by f/aye w/ong (old)

yes mingen! it was fun!
just had a mini-crisis today... spent really long deciding what modules to take. like, 50 minutes before the LAST round of bidding closed.
felt vaguely apprehensive, like. my decision had a definitive impact on the path im going to take in life, and the reason why i made it.... was because.... i felt tired. =(. i wish it had been more profound, like epiphani-c like, but no. i was just feeling tired and wanted something easy. not like EASY easy, but easy in the sense tt i/ndi/an phil/osophy is eas/ier than c/om sci, but not necessarily funner. in a way. duno. feel like im going to be a useless, skill-less person! but then again, not like i waNT to gO stare at coms for the rest of my life. but i don't know. im part of the age that worships science n tech. =(

actually i wanted to take c/la/ssi/cal chinese but! i was BARRED from taking it cos of some technical detail. =(

but whatever, i shall be indifferent about myself like the song.

"i don't care about me."
"Well, I care about you."
"Oh yes, but I don't care about me. And I'll do it and then everything will be fine."
- "Hi/lls like Wh/ite Eleph/ants" (Er/nest Hemi/ngway)

Do read it, We dissected it in class and I was just being talkative as usual, kept shooting back at the teacher's prompts when suddenly i got it and shouted out the "A" word (which was the key, read it n you'll prob get what the A word is) and then suddenly it all felt so sad I almost cried but it was only because i was being too emotional and so yes

then we met andi and I told her how i would prob have liked lit better if not for p/u/rv/is , in a way.

be like the song! =(

Hi GIRLS!!! yesterday was sooo nice and fun, getting to meet up with ya'll again! bernice and charmaine, we missed you!!! anyway... thanks again kat, for arranging this and choon (HMM) for doing the cooking! I was so full when I went to work that I kept yawning non-stop.. (cus I get sleepy when I feel full) heehee

okok post the pics! of the yummmy pieeeeeeee and US! :)
then I'll blog ab out it in my Jap blog which I haven't touched in awhile (partly because my life has either been too boring, or it's too complicated to elaborate on in Jap.)\\

anyway, I found this a rather amusing piece of info to be included in the news: "Mr Bush spoke with Admiral Cosgriff after he had a breakfast of pancakes and bacon with troops of the US 5th Fleet based in Bahrain." heehee!

have a gooood week ahead!

mak, bon voyage!

OMG!must-watch 2008!

must-watch!
*edit

omg after i posted i realised b/ernice and lj had posted!
in reply to B:
it was in NUS! Yuso/f iSh/ak h/oUse one of the random rooms!!!
how's your holiday!?!?

to lj:
where's tt quote from? for awhile i thought u were talking to b/erni/ce about hER j/ohn ha ha ha
and how come you were up so late you were watching tv is it!??!!? hahahaha
im sOooo tired buti have to go aLL the way to school to return the cameraaaaa
after dragging my suitcase down o/rchard ro/ad yesterday haha i didn't realise it would be so tiring until i woke up this morning aching! im getting old =(
but yay.. two more peaceful holi-days ... ^_^

shepherds gathering!!!

hii i am soooo excited about our lunch on sat!!! :) (so excited tht im blogging about it at 4.22 am heh heh) thank you so much kat you rock! do u want us (me) to bring anything? something for dessert maybe?? i don't know, but if you do just let me know!!

also, i just saw the pictures! yay to slacking/mugging. both are good. in their own ways. different, but equally good. hur hur. i'd make such a wonderful and supportive parent.

"john, yes i know your sister can play the piano, violin, ice skate, paint and recite poems. and you can't do any of those and you don't do anything except watch tv. but you are just as amazing in a different way, and i love you equally much."

hur hur hur.

wheres that???

today

YIH: 3 slackers + 1 mugger + lots of chocs + a wriggley caterpillar

sorry i was so late yi lin & choon, i said i would come at 10+ but i ended up being there at like 12.45pm =p i will sleep earlier from today! so that i can start my days on time!

tori amos - a sorta fairytale

i love this video!!