CNY reading

i can’t wait for the coming holidays. the house visiting does not excite me but all the available time in between does!

aiming to finish the following reads during the holidays:

1. chasing daylight by eugene o kelly
2. have a little faith by mitch albom
3. Remaining 5 copies of old reader digest.

half naked

i think i stil like this blog template better.

haven’t been blogging much because work and the other areas of life has left me with barely any time to do anything else.

i guess there’s always time to catch up on the blogging with the coming CNY holidays.

so looking forward!

pride & prejudice

ah, finally finished jane austen’s pride & prejudice. i wish i knew how to appreciate ancient english but i just can’t. other than this, the book is a lovely read although i can’t quite understand how people of old times can be so obsessed about getting marriage. it can get a litle boring. it’s times like this, you thank the writer for mr bennet, mr darcy & elizabeth. they’re all a breath of fresh air.

mr bennet brings the laughter.

mr darcy melts my heart, especially towards the end of the book. when will i meet my mr darcy?

i love seeing bits of myself in elizabeth bennet.

i loved what mr bennet said to lizzie in chapter 17 of volume 3: -

“i know that you  could be neither happy, nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior. your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage. you could scarely escape discredit and misery. my child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. you know not what you are about.”

my sentiments on myself, exactly.

day 25 – 31 – the daily delight!

day 31

visiting the singapore philatelic musuem, the substation and walking into stamford house for the first time. it felt really really good to explore singapore on my own with my lumix and my raybans.

finishing jane austen’s “pride & prejudice”.

day 30

meeting qiuyan for the first time in 6 or 8 years. my internship was in the second half of 2002 and i met up with her shortly when i just started work in 2004.  what a pleasant catch up we had!

meeting jenice for a haircut and snipping away 4″ of my hair. i got my hair cut for various reasons : 1. tired of long hair 2. tired of blowing drying long hair 3. tired of splashing $$ on hair treatments because of the long dry hair.

short hair sounds practical hor? i want to cut it shorter.

day 29

camping @ east coast park. well, sort of. i didn’t over night but i sat by a tent and in a tent on friday evening – eating, chatting and playing dai dee.

day 28

what happened that day?

day 27

having you say “i love the writings  so so so much.”

day 26

giving away a book of writings to a friend who has been encouraging me to write.

day 25

completing the book of writings.

how do i deal.

after many years of searching, i finally found the mp3 of “how do i deal” by jennifer love hewitt!

rejoice!

when was “i know what you did last summer” released? 10 years ago? i have loved that song since.

on another note, i remember buying jack johnson’s “in between dreams” but i can’t find the album anywhere in my room.

my wish for the coming week

NO

MORE

OT!

day 23 & 24 – the daily smile project

i know it sounds really new agey but there are times where i feel the universe is talking to me. (!?) i do believe what “the secret” says!

anyway, little things in life makes me smile and this shall be the smile for today. however, i can’t write 24 without explaining on 23.  i was looking for ideas yesterday when sitting alone at the cafe and for reasons that’s hard to explain in words unless you’re the people involved, i settled on “coffee and tea”.

in the cafe, i scribbled something silly on coffee and tea. it made me smile. what gave me a bigger smile was the completion of 15 silly things and how everything fell into place on paper.

that was day 23.

today, i went to the coffee shop and got myself a cup of tea so i could slowly drink while slogging in office. but damn, they got my order wrong and gave me coffee and i realised what i wrote yesterday is not applicable to me.

that made me laugh.

i guess no one understands what i’m blabbling. haha.

i’m lousy at explaining inside jokes and what the universe says to me.

wedding in kluang, malaysia

19 dec 2009

a lovely time spent. a great experience.
interesting to see how my face looks less fresh as the day comes to a close.

thanks may for choosing me be your bridesmaid bride’s maid!

an elusive thing

there is a heaviness in my heart i can’t describe. i can’t seem to shrug it off. i can’t seem to find a way to live with it. however, i know i can walk away from it.

it looms above my head like a dark cloud. some people wish the wind would blow the clouds off to welcome the shine from the sun. i don’t have the power to do that. over time, i end up wishing for the rain so that we can all get it over and done with.

kinda sad, eh?

i hate suspense. i hate being on fences. i hate feeling powerless.

day 22 – the daily smile

i went out with syaiful’s friend this evening. haha. i don’t know how to spell their name but they’re really funny people.

birds of the same feather flock together, i guess.

on another note, i realised i remembered a lot of the things syaiful shared with me. i spent the evening asking “is this the friend who…. this this this and that that that?” i guess information is easier to remember through incidences.

“law abiding citizen” was an interesting watch . i can’t believe i mistook gerald butler for clive owens and jamie foxx for denzel washington. where is my mind thesedays?

i also realised nachos are incredibly salty so i shan’t eat them anymore.

walked to middle/prinsep street for supper. i have fond memories of middle street, mount sophia and upper wilkie road. i shall walk there more often – interesting array of shops.

met new people, ate at new places – all things new brings me smiles.

i laughed a fair bit tonight – i haven’t laughed much in january. it was good to laugh.

as for day 18 – 21.

no delightful moments to register.

day 17 – the daily smile

i was quite annoyed the whole of today. nothing was exceptionally delightful other than a short conversation in the afternoon.

maybe re-arranging my table count as a smile. it’s so much neater and cleaner now. i realised i have a lot of documents with me. maybe i’ll have a bigger smile when i eventually finish clearing it. that and my 30 over copies of magazines.

time.

where is it when you need it.

it’s not cheap but it’s pretty.

the misool eco resort in raja ampat, indonesia.

utter gorgeousness.

the andaman, langkawai.

utter gorgeousness #2.

maya ubud resort & spa.

utter gorgeousness #3.

i wanna go!!!

ideals stripping

i’ve stripped away most of my room ideals. i reckon i just need a big table and lots of shelving space.

bye bye wardrobe.

i must learn to be practical.

hur hur.

since i’m here trying to be ms practical, i have decided to change the table top layout of my 90cm short working table.

can’t wait to do my mini revamp tonight.

day 13 to 16 – the daily smile

due to my hectic work schedule, i no longer have the time to blog daily but i still take note of the things that delight me everyday.

i was sharing with beet the other day that it ain’t easy finding delightful things in our everyday lives. or perhaps, i’m not easily delighted. all the more we should strive to find something delightful everyday or else you’ll be amazed by how many days we spend living without delight.

day 16

- playing with my niece/nephew
- seeing nan quan uncle getting married. the photo montage is awesome.
- having a good conversation.

day 15

- completing 98% of the books for 2 companies.
- eating ayam penyet @ bedok corner

day 14

- meeting a friend for the first time in this great 2010. come to think of it, it’s my first time eating @ jumbo? i don’t think i ate there before.

day 13

- i don’t think there’s anything pleasant on this day.

twitter convert

these nights, you can’t find me on msn but you can find me on twitter!

it’s fun when you have friends on it.

everyone tweet tweet!

day 12 – the daily smile

i tried blogging from iphone but the app crashed. i don’t know why – everything on iphone keeps crashing on me lately…even ipod.

my smile for the day:

coming home to sweet and sour pork. no kidding. that’s just how dull my day was.

i actually squealed when i saw it on the table.

i have given up on gratitude. i just feel too damn tired.

i forgot to find the smiles!

resolution #10.

day 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 – where did the smiles go to?

let me try to recall.

day 11

- i was quite angry today actually. doing OT and clearing some work was probably the highlight of the day.

day 10

-kelvin’s wife. she’s adorable.

- listening to “belief” from john mayer’s where the light is concert!

day 9

- finding a lovely notebook @ prologue and the birth of some creative ideas for a project.

day 8

- writing poems

day 7

- writing poems

belief makes a heavy sword

the solo in the beginning really gets to me. i didn’t think it was such an awesome song until i heard this version.

it gives me chills.

slow dancing in a burning room

stripped down cover of john mayer’s “slow dancing in a burning room” by david carr.

gorgeous.

gorgeous.

when is it my turn. haha.

overtime begins

it’s 8.50pm.

i am still at work!