Saturday, March 31, 2007

sentences

a drop of ocean.. sentence with a sea of meanings

i have been a rebel and want to escape from destiny, but "letting go" is the answer i got

dwelling in emotions is like drilling a hole in a plank, the deeper i drill, the deeper i sink.. one day later, i can always pluck the nail out, but the hole will remain forever in my heart

to me, silence is the best music to the ear, because i always try to listen with my heart

days of bloggin i then realise, i do not even understand myself, m i a pessimist or an optimist, an introvert or an extrovert, a person full of desire or a person taking thing lightly, impulse enslave my senses or my senses enslave my impulse

arh.. but one thing i know for certain, my words never scintillate wisdom, but sheer emptiness..

one sentence says it all, empty vessels make the most noise

Friday, March 30, 2007

stringendo

yeah.. 2 more weeks to exams! end of the reign of boredom! dunno y just love exams.. the push factor for me to mug.. dunno y but muggin is enriching and fun..? all the knowledge seem to link up as an 'organic whole' and yeah! the adrenaline rush.. always felt that i have pheochromocytoma nearing exams.. yeah i oso noe y i have become so tall.. i have all the factors to stimulate production of the grwth hormone.. low insulin cos i dun eat.. sleep a lot despite exams are nearing.... and stress! of course, so fun when there is hell lot to be tested and i still dunno so much!

woohoo~~~~ may not do well though but shld b able to pass even if i fail the main exam.. yeah! the ca helps.. less stress and tension since little chance of both failing or getting distinctions.. however dun hope to do better even though not quite possible.. i m sucky in explaining stuff.. but mcq is just fun..

just slacked away another week but started for some revision.. now must pick up a bit more speed.. accelerating ahead!

din fail to dream in the past wk too.. eh i wanna a solo piano recital in VCH when i m 65.. eh.. yr 2052.. as a culmination of my practise for a whole lifetime.. should be fun to keep my retirement life active and fun.. pls support if u are free on that day!

read abt mechanical watches.. amazing.. they are so cool! like the accreditation for chronometer and stuff.. ok after working for one yr i wanna buy one! but salary like not enuff leh? 20 more new medical schs accepted so more doctors and less salary.. nvm.. i nvr intended to make big bucks.. just enuff to eat and yeah.. buy one mechanical watch which can last for a lifetime! sound very materialistic though.. aniwae it more of embodies a spirit of accuracy and precision and carefulness.. and yeah the workings of the watch just look cool and complex! if we inject feeling into inanimate objects, i believe they will some sort of come alive.. there will be memories shared.. i used my previous pencil case for like 12 yr and my present shoes for 4 yrs.. tis not that i really want to save money but i just feel so comfortable using them that tis unbearable to throw them away!

plan to do sth after my main exam too.. (cross-fingers.. that is only possible if i dun fail and go for reexam) yeah.. but all these are just in the future.. tis so much happier to look forward!

WHEEEEEEE~~~~ hahahahahaha!

Saturday, March 24, 2007

cold

sometimes i can just feel the coldness in this world..

yes.. even in the ever-so-hot tropical country like singapore

wanted to cry but no reason to do so...

feel that sunako in yamato is just a reflection of myself..

really liked billy joel's pianoman..

comforted to know everyone has his own problems and mine is still not the greatest..

i think i m just too free..

i need a break...

Friday, March 23, 2007

waste

Y is it so hard to refuse people? After my very pro singing tchr left last yr, i tried out a few and met this not very pro tchr from whom i learnt nothing much.. so i stopped.. he ask me to join his choir and pestered me for like so damn long b4 i agreed to give a try last week.. Turned out that i learnt nothing from it at all..

i m a practical person, if i feel there is nothing to gain, i will not want to do such things.. but tis just SO hard to refuse people.. yah.. then my usual technique of showing unwillingness and drag.. but he doesnt seem to get it.. nvm.. i will try do the same thing again after a few weeks.. Tis like i have sung in a choir for like four yrs already and still ask me to join and learn how to sing even more substandard pieces? their std is like so much lower than my sec sch choir lor.. still wan me to help to strengthen the baritone part and dun teach me tangible tchnques of singing? wait long long..

Another thing, if i wan to join choir, one impt factor would be to socialise and interact with people but the age group there is top of the population pyramid.. yeah, they are all very kind and nice pple, but there is not much common topic to talk about...

but i feel bad refusing him, he is very sincere in asking along to join.. but hasnt everyone got a motive? he just wan me to boost his choir and also more imptly show that not only the old, but also the young are interested in his choir..

argh! a waste of time..

bloggin is somewhat too.. i think i have summarised it well to be narcisism+self pity+boredom.. do pple really nid to be so repentant at times? some pple are not at all so reflective and lead a much happier life.. probably tis really that man are social creatures and demand for someone to listen to his grumbles and demand to be welcomed and popular.. No wonder pple want to be monks.. they are willing to give up their emotions for an inner peace.. eh.. not that i want to chu jia aniwae but this goes to show how much pple are willing to sacrifice.. meat and lust and elation and their loved ones.. wah.. i guess i have to stop, the more i write the more i feel sad and as if i m sitting in a booth, like a sinner repenting to the pastor..

oh yeah.. xr introduced anime yamato which i watched like 4 episode and now watching the 5th.. very lame but quite cute lah.. another waste of time but tis time i have willingly wasted cos i feel so DARN bored at home.. crappy excuse.. i have like 9000 pages to mug.. and not as if i have done so well in ca either.. tis study break! NOT holiday!!!!!!!

convinced myself to settle down and mug? tis a must to so.. i nid to lead a puritanistic way of life.. eat.. sleep.. mug.. mug.. mug.. eat.. sleep.. mug.. i really dun wan to take re-exam and waste my true last long holiday!

thousand of miles start with the first step.. 9000 pages start from the first! i shld start NOW! (aiyah.. still got 3 weeks.. wad the hurry?) no.. i really should start now.. (aiyah.. shld be can pass) cannot.. get all c report sheet very nice meh.. (aiyah.. work so hard probably oso get c leh? then waste effort wad).. i always wanted to do what my mind tell me to do, but the problem is i have a confused and chaotic mind..

ARGH.. i m getting psychotic le.. oh yeah.. i shld say i m very well.. not psychotic at all...

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

beauty

i always pitied the phantom, or quasimodo in notre dame and much preferred a happier ending like beauty and the beast..

after watching phantom for the third time, i begin to love such a theme much more.. it is a theme of love and being loved... it is this conflict that enabled the production of great tragedies.. in the battle of realism and romanticism, realism always triumph.. this musical also demonstrated more often than not, love is skin-deep.. phantom loved christine coz she is pretty, christine preferred raoul coz he is handsome, raoul loved christine coz she is pretty.. and beauty is skin-deep.. and love is skin-deep.. how cliqued.. how sad.. even though i believe that love is much deeper than the skin, but when taken to the extreme when one' is so ugly as phantom when no one in society can accept him, i believe if i were christine, i will make the same ungrateful decision.. for pple like phantom, scientifically or genetically, i would conclude that he has a much reduced fitness (defined as no. of offspring produced as compared to an average person). discrimination against appearance is always there and will persist.. darwin always wins..

yeah, anyone can happily say that pity is pity and love is love, pity is not love and love is not pity..
gratitude is gratitude, love is love, gratitude not love and love not gratitude..
then wad is love?

tis a show that can put pple deep in thoughts.. how i'd wish to watch the show the fourth time in broadway! ha! but no money..

crow

quarreled with mum for the past two days.. nvr quarreled with her for more than 3 or 4 yrs le.. i m nvr one who likes confrontation.. however there are things i feel i have to say.. in the end, i gave in to her.. as usual. not because i agreed to her ideas, but more because i love her.

i have learnt much wad love was in the past few days and i found that love is universal, be it conjugal love or parental love, the concept is no different..

in the chinese 250 idioms, one of the first few idioms is love thy house love thy crow.. i now finally realise the real meaning of this idiom.. the sentence we made to memorise "my brother's girlfriend likes stamp-collecting, love thy house love thy crow, he begin to like stamp-collecting as well" in a way has distorted the meaning of the idiom.. in the chinese tradition, crow is a bird of bad omen.. i believe that the true meaning of it is that if one love the house, he will not mind the crow with comes with it.. he is willing to tolerate it and accommodate it.

thats y there is the saying of love is blind.. there are two layers of meaning to it.. the first explanation is, eg, in a courtship, love is blind because one only see the good of another, not the bad.. therefore after marriage, the good begins to fade the the bad begins to surface.. with absence of true love, the union will not last long.. in the second, eg, in the presence of true love, the person is willing to be blind to the bad qualities of the other.. not that there is no such awareness, but rather there is the willingness to tolerate even though the other is unwilling or unable to change for the better.. in a long lasting relationship, this is wad that will lubricate and enable the engine to run longer distances..

i m enlightened of the gold standard in measuring love.. it is the ability to tolerate someone's behaviour, attitude or charater.. for his/her good has so much outweighed the bad, or simply, because i loved him/her..

Saturday, March 17, 2007

time

yr 1 i really have the luxury of time.. or only i think so? 5mth of hols.. i will sitting at home like a zombie for 5 mths!! worse than jail term.. must socialise more! (with egg? hmm..)

oh no, y i m blogging again! promise myself to blog at most once a week. ONCE A WEEK!

and another thing is under some bad influence.. i m also sticking my nose into the privacy of others.. how unethical! and to spam everyone's tagboard! how irritating... must refrain.. curiosity kill the cat.. MUST REFRAIN!

haha.. being facetious again (trying to be funny at inappropriate times). i think tis a caring act to peep at other pples blogs and read them aloud.. one will understand his/her/its character better and noe if he/she/it needs more help or concern.. only true friends will go such a distance to care abt the pple ard them.. to such sincere pple.. Salute!

i believe in a δΈ–ζ€η‚Žε‡‰ world (limited english vocab).. everyone think that he has become more independent and strong.. can depend on himself to feed himself, to help himself, to understand himself.. but actually, he nids as much concern and help as in those days of communal living.. behind every strong character has a vulnerable heart which needs to be caressed, he needs to look ard and see that friends are standing right behind..

y am i preaching? i ought to shut up.. probably i just has too much time now.. (yeah exam is one mth away)..

Friday, March 16, 2007

silenced

hmm.. i guess my rants and blabberings shld come to a stop.. at most like blog every one week or two weeks or one mth.. not that i have nothing to say but i have too much to say.. 90 yrs and it will never end.. my sec sch tchr always complained abt my talkativeness and sent me to sit with a quietest guy in class.. even more silent than egg.. and i got him talking too haha! but hmm i got more quiet and held back my verbose speech more.. haha.. probably coz i m single child and have no one of my age to tok at home.. just like egg?

i guess i m a hypocrite.. on the outside i seem to be facetious but on the inside.. just think too much.. haha.. aniwae only nerds share abt their thought on meaning of life and enlightenment.. unless one is a devout christian or buddhist or taoist who i m not..reminded me of my friend who thought abt the meaning of life before he commited suicide.. i m full of sympathy.. even though life is a blind-ending alley with death as the inevitable end.. one shld contribute to society and to the pple ard.. to bring joy or at least lend a helping hand.. no matter how tough life maybe.. one should religiously walk through it.. sh*t.. i m getting verbose again.. i love the word vicissitude.. tis a word george washington used in his first presidential speech to describe the ups and downs in his life.. yeah.. life is simply think less do more.. uncertainty awaits aheads but road will be straight when mountains comes...

egg and me on the outside are quite different.. one intro one extro.. ha! but on the inside when the shell is cracked.. not much diff.. probably i couldnt call myself a hypocrite as i nvr backstab or at least not that i noe of..

therefore i decided to shut up and stop blabbering and ranting incessantly.. sometime tis necessary to suppress one's feeling and impulse.. thats y i am a human.. not a tiger..

Thursday, March 15, 2007

enlightened II

yeah! first day of my 5 mth break.. shiok!

realised the wisdom of the word, enlightened.. always thought enlightened is 'ding!' light bulb lights up and we suddenly understand an idea.. but now i realised that there is a second meaning to it... a heavy load being lifted off our shoulder and heart also means enlightened.. i believe that is wad buddha felt when he achieve nirvana..

Western and Eastern culture do meet.. All roads lead to rome.. as all great ideas are as well

pondering abt life is a quixotic thing.. there is no productivity to tok abt.. delving deep in thought is an unproductive process and i believe tis sth that one shld not do too often.. thats y philosophers and romanticist have no food to eat.. thats y i dun wan to study arts in uni coz destined to lead a slack yet empty life.. furthermore, studies show that authors writing down their feeling tend to dwell more on their feeling tts y are more prone to getting crazy.. see wad has happened to hemingway and san mao and Iris Chang

huh. and i m still dwelling in thoughts.. another irony.. probably tis an inner desire of one to be heard and understood.. not necessarily by others, more by oneself..

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

enlightened

woo.. finally the ca is over.. haha.. yeah.. just 3 days and yet there is a whole year of syllabus to cover! finally the school has completed year one syllabus and they left us with one month to self-live-self-destuct b4 pros.. Arh.. At least can rest for two weeks i guess? Still dunno my result for this ca and how i will do for the pros.. hope not to repeat my yr again? Hope that today is the last day i step into the anat hall and museum.. One yr sure flies...

From this ca i have sure learnt a lot. Not in the sense of knowledge but in my attitude towards life. Two weeks ago, i was getting quite stressed up and frustrated about the workload i m dealing with.. Esp when i see pple beside u making notes which is thicker than textbooks, and their know-it-all confidence.. And i see pple poning sch to mug even more intensively and home.. And their indulgence in studying.. their brain is so full of anat physio and biochem that they forgot what they are supposed to do when they go to the loo..? i m amused, yet frustrated that y can't i do the same thing..? Y i can't concentrate on work, slack ard so much.. procrastinate till the last min.. do worthless stuff like exercising, reading books non-related to med, play piano, watch tv, do my part-time job without earning money (and blogging too)... Y can i just stay at home and mug, and mUG, AND MUG?

Last week, i suddenly understood that probably tis not my habit to be so diligent.. Tis not in my character to be so.. Tis definitely stressful to kick such a habit of indolence all of a sudden.. Anyway is there a need to kick off such a habit..? In the past, egg and me always leave things to the last, and yet we always manage to did it, didn't we.. Even though in hc, i always get E for my bio and egg never got beyond a O.. we all got an A in A level, didnt we? Huh.. moral of the story is no need to mug so hard.. Tis just that in the past i have someone to give me assurance that things will be fine.. Tis hard to find one now, when every single student is a ultra mugger.. I wont say that muggers have no life.. As their passion is in the subject itself and their passion to perfect their knowledge is commendable.. Confucius say if one love a job, he need not work a single day in his life.. I respect all muggers.. Oh well probably i shldnt use the term at all as it has its negative connotation to it.. Back to the topic.. yeah.. no need to be so mug... the lecture notes.. no matter how skimpy give good focus.. the more skimpy.. the more focus..

Oh well, anything wrong with me then..? i guess not, tis my ability to use small effort to reap great results..(not really great, but multiple times of my effort though?) Tis my sky-drop-down-use-as-blanket mentality that has brought me through many challenges.. and i will probably continue PROVIDED i dun get retained this year... i m getting more confident and cooler now, just like i had been before.. OH.. yeah, my ca result has not come out yet.. thinking of this my confidence is ebbing away again..

CEO of Intel Andrew Grove once said Only the paranoid will survive in today's world... Dun think need to be paranoid at all. Chinese got saying if god want you to perish, he will make you paranoid first... Thats more true.. Relax and lay back.. I m paying 18k per year to ENJOY an eduction, not to SUFFER from it.. i have definitely grown in this short period of time.. Tis good i come to a realisation, otherwise i will be waiting and hoping for a mirage, just like the pot of gold at the other end of the rainbow.. Tis important to enjoy the process and not only waiting for the outcome.. just Monte Cristo waited for so many years for his revenge, but revenge isn't as sweet when it come.. however the process made him a resolute man that make him strong against all adversities.. Stressful life lies ahead but i think i will enjoy the adrenaline rush and sympathetic stiumlation.. but most of the days are still relaxing aren't they?

Talking about destressing, i sudden found a great technique.. i chose myself a music therapy.. i would choose two pieces of my choice, one agitated and the other calmer and more flowing.. for last week, i manage to learn two pieces.. wad a great achievement during exam period yeah! one piece was bridge o'er trouble h2o.. plus singing.. cool! vent away all my stress.. i believe the beauty of a song partially lies in the lyrics, if the song strikes a chord with what i feel, then tis meaningful and says the things that i want to say but dunno how to express in words.. then a chinese contemporary piece of folk music, autumn moon over the Calm Lake.. Very useful, esp when i played yesterday when i still have one year of syllabus to cover..(Din complet in the end though coz play too much).. Immediately it teleported me to a faraway land... the ripples... the yellow moon (remind me of serous demilune (half moon) in the submandibular gland), the clear water.. the fresh breeze.. the trickling water, the lonely old horse.. the old man by the lake with his heart as clear as the water.. xi shi with her flowing long hair.. the lao dao with the horsetail like thingy dabbing the thingy gently in the air... ooh.. i felt like i were zhugeliang in kongchengji, there is no soldier in the city but by the confident way he play the qin, he scared away thousands of cao's soldiers.. hell lot of appegios, two bloody pages with hemi-demi-semi-quavers.. more effective than hanon or scales.. feel pro while playing even though i not pro ..sigh, y m i always wallowing in self-admiration, self-pity, fantasies and my own emotions? Oh well, i m not a mugging robot anyway... If music is the food of love, play on..

toking about blogging.. hmm i wonder.. tis just a act of indulging in one's feeling and emotion.. in a way tis a exhibitionistic behaviour+wallowing in self-pity+narcissism.. in another way tis therapeutic to do some self toking.. yet tis different from writing a diary.. sensitive issues are censored and tis something that tis alright for everyone to read or what one wan everyone to read.. tis ironical isnt it.. when writing diary, a personal thing, becomes a public thing.. when things that one doesnt reveal to his closest people, he reveals to some who dun noe him that well.. reminded me of those anon pple calling in to radio station spitting out their heart and soul to a stranger, and not someone close like parent or frenz.. what a weird world that has evolved.. yeah.. i believe bonds btw pple are not as strong as before esp with the advent with sms.. "got thing just sms lah!" "huh msg you later" in words of sms, u cannot sense the nuances of feeling, msg like 'i m very happy' can mean thousand and one feelings.. therefore i still call egg.. huh..(sounds gay though...) tis for sure that there are very much lesser common topics to tok about.. but still got some lah.. our lives are boring aniwae.. really no life.. so still got some crap to crap about.. yeah.. friends nowadays hard to be found with us ourselves building a barrier to protect ourselves from harm and others building a barrier to protect themselves from harm.. not really harm but.. hmm i dunno how to describe.. doesnt matter anyway.

what a load of incoherent crap.. i dun think i m enlightened.. more confused rather.. i hope i did a better job in explaining y oliguria is resulted from blood loss.. otherwise.. huh! sky drop down use as blanket!

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

worries

enlightened by the following article.. truly golden words and jaded talk.. will cut and paste it into my scrapbook
http://book.cyol.com/content/2005-07/25/content_1090559.htm

My reflections:
Why worry about problems with solutions?
There are so many problems without solutions.
Why worry about problems without solutions?
Worrying will not change the outcome anyway...
Right.. Consoled myself for not being able to revise finish for ca? huh.. i guess so..