Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Still Not Packing
all i need is a crown to complete the look
makes me happy!
♥ 9:58 PM
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Confess!
HELENA
Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
HERMIA
I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.
HELENA
O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
HERMIA
I give him curses, yet he gives me love.
HELENA
O that my prayers could such affection move!
HERMIA
The more I hate, the more he follows me.
HELENA
The more I love, the more he hateth me.
HERMIA
His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.
HELENA
None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
I must be crazy, but i do miss studying literature. You never really lose the lit text you studied, no?
The sun is out and i'm quite pleased. Much as i've resigned to the fact that i will always appear fair, pale or even sickly (actually, this comes in really useful) - i've never quite given up on the sun. ABANDON YOUR PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS, GUYS!! I do get my daily dose of vitamin D.
I have been doing all i can to avoid packing, which pretty much involves me shuttling out of the house all the time. The class caught the Princess and the Frog, which everyone should seriously consider watching, even if it's just for the awesome soundtrack. I also had another birthday cake on that day, which caught me by surprise. These things make me feel extremely fortunate to be, well, me.
Life has been a flurry of excitement and i am quite tired of all the melodrama that has gradually taken foothold in my life. I just want to have my sister back.
It's too cliche
I won't say I'm in love
♥ 12:17 AM
Friday, December 11, 2009
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Feliz Navidad
I'd be lying if i say, there weren't any good days. This wasn't the most fantastic working experience, but definitely an enriching and fulfilling one. I think you learn to understand and love (most of the) people along the way.
Im so glad we bumped into Thalia and Hiu tung after work, especially right after our movie plans were being cancelled. They really brightened up our evening. And also, when was the last time we all met, really? The christmas lights in town made the whole encounter seem kind of surreal. I've been talking to Jie, Eugene and Krislyn and i think, subconsciously becoming more and more eager to fly over to Europe. Memories of the 08 Vienna trip have been spinning around my head for the past few days, and the anticipation simply builds up. I just want to camp at all those beautiful places and never come home.
As of tomorrow, i'm no longer a working class hero!!
I am going to wake up at 10 am and drink starbucks everyday ^^
♥ 10:55 PM
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
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I think about you all the time. It would be terrible if you are still in my thoughts when i am 80.
Sometimes i wish you would do something dramatic. That makes it a lot easier on my part to just, forget.
♥ 11:32 PM
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
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I intend to sleep in on saturday, wake up for a nice warm bath, lovely breakfast, and a good bask in the sun.
There.
I feel better already.
Work is depressing and draining. How do i even begin? I hate working in a place where Sickness is an old friend and Death is viewed as the norm. For example, I was told to do administrative work this morning. Well it sounded alright, until i realised that the stack of documents in which im supposed to work on is attached to a R.I.P label. It's contents explicitly state information such as 'date of death'. All in all, not exactly the most cheerful way to start off my morning.
Offering palliative care at the day care centre was also harder than i'd expected. I don't know how to communicate with a group of people who are about to pass on. I can't play mahjong, and i don't know how to say God loves you in hokkien. In face of them, i am more inclined to express negative emotions of fear and depression, which im not sure will be helpful to their condition. I should also mention that i played a lousy role as the only caretaker on the van. I've never been a fan of road trips, and i was about to cry/throw up due to motion sickness.
Worst of all, i feel like we've been taken for granted. I went into bitch mode or felt upset several times a day. Every day, i feel the need to pray for grace before i go to work, during work, lunch time.. all the time.
"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I daresay," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consentto open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold orsilver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" - A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
♥ 9:15 PM
Saturday, December 05, 2009
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WISH FOR NO INSECTS AT STARBUCKS
♥ 11:43 PM
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My mum just woke me up past 12am and went OH DEAR WE FORGOT TO CUT THE CAKE! HOW, YOUR BIRTHDAY IS OVER.
Quite obviously, my mum lacks the flair for event planning. I met her after work on thursday evening so that i could "help her carry the birthday cake home". We eventually winded up at the dining hall singing Happy Birthday song in the wee hours of the morning.
So its 5th december and i just celebrated my birthday all over again. I love my family, despite their quirky tendencies. Wish you were here, Jie! Anyway, the answer to the silly riddle is Myanmar (Dissect the word and express it verbally. Myan-mar. Myan-mar. Say it like any kopitiam-lovin' Singaporean would)
I had 3 cakes, and a lovely birthday. Thank you, everyone who attempted to execute a birthday surprise or wished me in some way or another, despite so many of you being abroad & at the class chalet. All these made me feel very loved!
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SAL programme officially ended today. These are the people i'm thankful to have met.
Working at WONGP has truly been a wonderful and invaluable experience - and i'm not just saying that because it sounds good. We had our fair share of legal work, but plenty of fun together as well. At work, Email = Adium, and the first thing that comes to mind when someone is not at their desk is a special place in our hearts (one that starts with a capital "P") Most importantly, the camaraderie amongst the interns is definitely something i can vouch for. I don't know whether we are going to meet up again (please arrange something!), and if we do, i don't know whether things will be the same now that everybody's moving on in separate ways. I'm really going to miss all of them so much.
That's the thing about life isn't it? We meet people, we laugh, we love, then we are supposed to bid them goodbye with a smile, and move on. Life is a process of losing people to circumstances, and im still learning to take it in stride. In any case, work shadowing at Hospice Care Association will start next week. I'm starting to feel deprived of my school holidays! But i guess it is a blessing to wake up every morning knowing that you are about to experience something you have never known. It's like.. there is so much to live for.
I realise i look fat in all the photos today. I would like to blame it on all the cakes!!
Still, i'm happier than an otter with a lolly ^^
"I say this world extends beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in, and I want to see that world" - Skins, from Dawson's creek
My main concern is the gloriously voluminous amount of food that i have been stuffing down my throat. Waaaay too much lah!
♥ 10:32 PM
