Raices!

The sky, the field, the softball players. A Monday evening

Raices is the name of Philharmonic Winds concert I went to just now! It's conducted by Mr Luis Serrano Alarcon and oh my goodness it's such a beautiful concert! It's really like seeing Spain and the Latin countries through my ears. So festive and so Spanish! I like it. I love the Libertango at the end too, it was just so sweet! :) Wish I can play it too heh.

I love the first song which is dances from the ballet Estancia. I love the 2nd and 4th movement which is the wheat dance and the final dance. The wheat dance was so good. The clarinets were as clear as a drop of water. And the solos etc just so fabulous. And then the last movement reminds me of a nice festival in Spain or something like that! So grand and happy.

And concertango... AMAZING. Kenneth Tse, the super awesome saxophone player just melted my heart away haha. I wish I could hear the song again and... This time round have a nice cup of wine with me heh.

Tomorrow is labour day! Yay I got a day to rest. But nahh I have work to do...

Oh well see you soon then!

I may be an easy going guy. Don't forget I'm a human and I know what's funny and what's not. Nevermind, thanks for training my patience. And as the saying goes, the lesser you care the happier you will be.

US Trip Part 1 - Chicago, The Windy City

So after a long time since my trip to the US, here I am going to blog about my trip! So I went to 4 states there. Chicago, New York, Washington and Boston. I spent the most time in Chicago. So I'll begin with Chicago.

As the name that she holds, Chicago is indeed a windy city. Not windy to an extent where it's like blowing scarily haha. But it's windy and nice. Cooling spring weather that you'll enjoy. I find it a very nice city to walk about. Well I stayed in Downtown Illinois so I'm surrounded by tall buildings and so on. It feels damn good to just walk around the blocks, looking at these buildings and so on. Very inspiring, walking in big cities. Urban inspiration!

This is the metro or also known as the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority). I love riding these trains. It's a different feeling from riding the MRT (umm duh haha). Though the trains look more "rustic" and "old" as compared to Singapore's MRT, I like riding it. People coming in and out from work, going home. And some youths would listen to their MP3s as they entered the train. And different music can be heard. Somehow I listened to lots of Jazz from their blasting headphones. Very nice huh. Well even though I didn't really take the CTA often, but those few rides that I took were really nice. Sadly I didn't have the chance to write inside it! I think it'll be an inspiring moment haha. And anyway, most of the places are within walking distance. That's why I decided to walk and not take the train :P

Food wise, what can you say? I'm a food lover so yeah, I really enjoyed trying the different food the city has to offer. I didn't take pictures of ALL the food that I ate but these are some of them which I ate. The first photo is Truffly Mac and Cheese. Yes you heard me right. TRUFFLE. It's so yummy! And it's US$7.99 a plate which I find worth it and affordable for a truffle mac. And I know this food from Food Network haha. Felt so lucky to have found this and eat this!

And the second photo is taken in my favourite Mexican food (I think it's like a Mexican food chain) called Chipotle! You get to choose burrito, bowl or tacos. I always choose bowl and I'll get: rice, carnitas (pork), guacamole, salsa and black beans. They're soooo gooood. I ate there like three times in Chicago haha. My meal would be completed by a bottle of apple juice. Oooh so yummy. Given a chance I'll try more culinary goodness of Chicago! :)


I visited two museums in Chicago. The picture on the left is Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Arts (MCA) and I love this place! It's so inspiring. Well I'm not an artsy person but I truly enjoy looking at the brilliant and inspiring art pieces that this nice contemporary museum has to offer. Whenever I go to museums, a wave of inspiration just hit me like that. Snap!

The picture on the right is Chicago's Arts Institute (it's spelt as institve though). Another nice museum with an awesome interior design as you can see from the photo. Just a sad thing was that the photography section of the exhibits was closed as it's under renovation T_T but the other exhibits are as lovely :)

This was taken from John Hancock's observatory tower! That water body is actually Lake Michigan. I thought it was a beach but well Chciago is located beside Lake Michigan so yup. It's lovely cause you get to see the 360 degree view of the windy city. Plus I was lucky for it was a fine day so the view was really good. I think it's a must to come here. It's like the empire building of Chicago heh. But of course there are other observatories like Shear's tower which my sis said it's also cool. But we didn't get the chance to go there so John Hancock it is then! The lift to go up is pretty fast ^^

This is Chicago's famous Navy Pier and I was once again lucky to have such a fine day here! The sky was just lovely and the weather was just fine. Well it has a mini "theme park" by the lake. I love it cause it gives me a sense that it's summer (but with 20 degree celsius lower haha). I didn't take these rides because the Ferris wheel was on maintenance, while I think it was too cold to take the swing. But nevertheless, I love taking photos of this place. And just see the smiles of people on that beautiful Wednesday :)

And this! Is my favourite place in Chicago. It's the famous Millennium Park! And that's the famous sculpture called The Bean. My friends were telling me they saw this in the movie "The Vow" haha. Well it's a nice park and an inspiring place to just chill, sit down on the bench and as for me - to write. On the last day of my stay in Chicago I actually spent like 2 hours here. Taking photos and writing, alone. It was one of the most joyful and free moments of my travel, to just jot down my thoughts of this windy city in front of the bean! :)

Another favourite place of mine in Chicago is actually... A Starbucks in West Ohio Street! Haha. Which is just behind my hotel, like across a block. I always go here after a day of walking and travelling. I'll get my usual Chai Tea Latte to warm me up, then take out my journal (yes I used the notebook given from Poly50 haha) to just write down stuff. I wrote poems, and just scramblings and so on. And I will also take my diary to write. the day's happening. I love this Starbucks cause it's near, convenient and also the staffs are friendly! Like I've been going there for 3 days in a row and the cashier actually remembers me and "Hey it's you again! How is it going?". Wow right? And plus the place is nice too, and inspiring. And she remembers my order of Chai Tea latte haha. There was once when I ordered a venti instead of a grande and she asked me "not a grande this time?" Haha. So friendly of her :)

This is the "holy trinity" of my travel. My camera, music, and a travel journal. This was taken on my last day, writing my thoughts in front of The Bean at Millennium Park. I really loved it there! Was just listening to my surrounding as I was writing that post on my journal. Just lovely. Everyone around me was either reading, writing too or taking photos. It was a fine day, everything was just lovely!

So that's all for my trip to Chicago. Of course I have more photos but I'm just lazy to upload them here. Check my Facebook for more photos! And I'm uploading this soon to my Flickr so you can check them out there too. And yeah this is another photo of my diary and The Bean. See how inspiring it is to write in front of it right? All in all Chicago is a nice city. It has... Sort of the same feel to New York, but less "hectic" and "bustling" as the Empire State. I love walking through the tall buildings she has, and also the awesome blue skies and winds. Thankfully the weather was fine there, so far. I really love it. And also the people... So friendly! Like strangers would start a conversation with you. And one thing I recognise is that the people here know how to dress! If you enjoy walking in the urban landscape, Chicago is awesome for you. Well what else can I say, I hope I can come back to this windy city once again. And I really miss the weather and the friendly people there. One day I'll see you again! :)

Age is a funny thing

 Age is such a fuzzy funny thing. And time is his friend, that smiles along with him.

Okay I'm lying it's like 1:10 AM now on Sunday. But yeah thanks to my OCD I want to blog on the context of today so don't blame me. Anyway nahh it doesn't make a difference does it?

So today was a beautiful Saturday. And a hot one too. I failed so bad cause I ended up not doing ANYTHING which I planned to do today (not work). So my plan was wake up at 11 (which I did). Then head for Holland at 1, pick up my lomo photos, then have a nice cup of chai tea latte in Starbucks. Then go home, blog about my Chicago trip. Then go meet Jes and the rest.

And well I didn't do any of those except the last one. Which is meeting Ade, Jes, WQ, MF and Neal! Hehe. Such a long time since we met so it feels good meeting them again. I met Ade and Neal first. Actually I was damn early heh so I went to have a drink at Delifrance, then I met the rest. Then we had dinner at Long Beach to celebrate MF and WQ birthday (belated and upcoming hoho). Good lunch, and we get to see glimpses of Jay Park at IMM HAHAHA.

We wanted to get some dessert at like Swensens, but it was full. Then to Secret Recipe, and it was full too. So we went to Andersen Ice Cream! Had a nice fondue there. And yeah it was just great meeting with them again. And always enjoy the meet-ups cause we'll have a good laugh. And in one way or another we get to go back to the past. Always :) And today's special joke with Ade of me flatting my boobs! :P

Age is a funny thing. Well we've been going out for dinner quite a few times already. Since we're in secondary school, since we graduated, when they're in J1, J2 and so on. Yet somehow I didn't realise that the more meet-ups we had, is also a realisation that time is flying. Feels like as if it was yesterday when we just graduated. But hey, Jes and I are in year 3 now, Neal in NS, Ade and MF entering Uni soon and WQ is year 2. Yet I don't realise how much grown up we are all now.

As we go out more, I just felt this sense of difference in maturity in the way we talk about things. The way we talk to one another. The conversation and so on. Well I just feel happy for our friendship. And feel proud of how much we've grown up and matured together for the past 6 years. Though we went to our own ways, we still have the chance to meet up.

And soon we're going to our own ways once again. And I hope, but I'm sure, that we'll still meet up in one way or another :)

It just felt sentimental just now, as I looked outside my taxi. Passing through the buildings and roads. Realising... :)

Well. C'est la vie.

Age is such a fuzzy funny thing. And time is his friend, that smiles along with him.

It's Friday

 Us

After ITP I somehow realised the... "real" value and the true happiness of this 5th day of the week that well, I tend to take granted for. Well after a long week there's nothing that beats the happiness of hitting the last day of your working day. Not that I don't like my work, I just can't wait for a good break on the weekends! Especially this weekend where I'm meeting my friends! :)

Today was awesome, had a great night out with Jolene, Sharon, Weiqi, Weilun, Fed and Yang Peng! So since Jolene worked until 9 the rest of us met at prata house for dinner first. Had a good laugh there thanks to Pow! Hahaha. Then we headed off to Marina Square where we pleasantly met Mr Sia, Ms Portia and Mr Tan CS! Man, feels like it's a small Tanglin reunion somehow :)

Then we decided to head to the bayfront near Esplenade just to sit and talk. It was good cause thankfully we caught the laser show so it was really good. I love the moment there. It was so chill. Nice breeze, just awesome. And we were talking about lots of stuff. Even though (sorry) I was ranting about my stuff too heh. But it's all good. I think we enjoyed that chat we had there :)

Jolene was hungry so we went to City Hall's mac! And the guys played bluff and it was so fun! But I ended up losing, having the most cards. Mehh I think I suck at lying hahaha. And then we went home cause we're afraid we couldn't catch the last bus and train home heh.

Well meeting up with them feels really good. Especially my 4E1'09 clique @ SP cause it's been a REALLY long time since we met... We met like last year OMG. Plus meeting Mr Sia really made the whole evening pleasantly sweet. And at the same time... I also feel how much we've grown up really. How much we've turned, transitioned and matured from young secondary school kids. To now young adults pursuing poly and Fed who's waiting for NS. Time flies!

Whatever may happen, well I hope we can continue meeting up and so on. And to Jolene jia you for ITP! We can do this and pull throuuuuggghhhh! Hehe.

Alright feeling rather sleepy and tired. But thankfully it's Saturday tomorrow! :D Gonna meet Ade, Jes, MF, WQ and Neal tomorrow too! Can't wait! :) See you all

I see the light

 Sunset yesterday. Just, so, pretty

Currently lying down on my bed, lazying around and blogging of course. I realised somehow after every day, I would feel so tired that I just don't feel like doing anything. Just wanna rest, just wanna laze around, watch TV and yeah enjoy the rest of my day. Plus there was band today so I am kinda tired really hehe. Nothing beats the joy of doing nothing, without guilt heh.

Anyway today was a great day. I received a good news from Dr Simon Tan this morning which TOTALLY made my day. Well yeah in the first week I was really afraid that I have no project to work on during my ITP. I was really worried like what am I going to present for the class in December later? What am I going to do for the rest of my ITP?

Then today I realised... I'm under Dr Simon! Well he wasn't around last week so I guess that's why I was feeling clueless about this. So do Yiyin and Huiwen by the way. And well.. Uhh I was clueless that I am under him too heh. I thought I was under Dr Tan E.L but nope. So I was told about my project which I'll work with him... And it's about cancer! OMG wish come true!

That's why I'm so happy today. I finally see the light which I'll be travelling to. I thought I'm going nowhere, to go nowhere. But hey, hello! Haha.

Today I learnt image stitching too by one of my colleagues. It's really cool. I really love how the images turned out. It's like amazing man. Wonders of science... And imaging.

And in band it's also fun! We played Indiana Jones! Brings back childhood memories haha. I feel old though, cause Huili and Khairul was asking me who's Indiana Jones! Haha. I thought they would know him but oh dear don't tell me it's like only my generation hahaha. And we played Harry Potter too! So nice. And as expected, so difficult...

But well, I enjoy band always. Well maybe now more, cause band I guess is the only activity that adds colour to my life heh.

Alright I'm heading to bed soon. See you all tomorrow! Meeting Jol, Pow, WQ, Weilun and YP! Soooooo long since we met OMG. Gonna be a great night! :)

I see the light~

Was today a better day?

 Niagara falls baby!

So well in the morning, I've made a decision to make today a better day! Yesterday was horrible, I won't let today be horrible too. And I guess I did it! :)

Cause at the end of the day, we're the ones who can make today better than yesterday

Well yeah I was kinda busier today so that's perhaps a reason why I feel better. My mind is being taken off somewhere so that's good. I guess it's well... Time can only tell. Time is a mystery really. Sometimes it feels like it's flowing very quickly and sometimes it's just slow.

Oh well. Just hope my 7 months will come and go happily and nicely. I know it's an experience I'll never forget so yeah... ITP is ITP. No matter what, it's unique.

Anyway I've lots of things to do so see you soon! Just a short update. See ya :)

If I had only 24 hours to live, what would I do?

Life of a foreign student

Sigh honestly speaking today wasn't a good day. Not the things that happened, nor the things that I did but more of the things that I felt. To put it simply, it feels just as if my heart feels really bleaghh and I just don't feel right. Somehow for the whole day I don't like how, what and why my heart feels that way. Heart and the mind are two different things. Playing with the heart. Sucks.

Anyway today is week 2, day 1. One week has gone from my ITP and it's... Pretty much alright. So far I've been doing lots of read-ups. So yup. Today is much interesting I guess. I'm given more things to read on Friday so this two weeks I'm going to do lots of read up. Plus today I was familiarising myself with a new program which I have to also learn within two weeks! I can do this!

Then after work today I went straight to Orchard to meet my aunt. She's been in Singapore since Saturday and tomorrow she'll be going back. Can't send her to the airport so I wanna come with her for dinner today with my cousin. We went to eat at Applebee's today and it's delicious as usual. Though a tad bland. Then we spend a few while walking around and shopping around and then back to the hotel.

Then I'm off to go home cause I've work tomorrow :/

Well you know I really love it when any of my family member is here. No matter how short the stay. It just feels good to have someone you know, you're close with since when you're young to be here. Well a family is a family. And to just know that my aunt is going back tomorrow, is enough to make me feel homesick -.- like I wish I could go back with her too. But nahh, I have school.

Talking about my title above... Well last night I somehow realised how bittersweet life of a foreign student can be. Or in fact, life itself. No need to be a foreign student. Life's filled with bitterness and sweetness alike. Some bitter moments we just taste it while it last, the sweet ones we enjoy it while it's still awesome. And somehow when these sweetness and bitterness mix, that's when your heart feels fuzzy.

Let's start with bitter. Bitter for well, we'll miss our family, we tend to feel lonely at times, for the new ones they'll feel homesick often, we miss our hometown, our country, our this and that. Sweet, we learn to be independent, we learn to manage time, we handle emotions well, we have an adventure, a memory and all in all, this experience of studying abroad is just - one amazing thing not many can get.

I've studied here for close two 10 years now. So... I don't really miss home that bad and often (not that I don't miss them at all okay). I mean thankfully I'm used to being here. I have friends, I have school, I'm used to the culture and so on. But when I miss my home and my family it just feels horrible urgh. Like really everything just doesn't seem right.

Honestly speaking I've been feeling pretty homesick for the past week, although it's been a week since I've been having my ITP. I'm just suppressing it I guess. Like a quencher which suppress a flourophore which prevents it from giving off that fluorescence. Okay yeah that's what I've been reading. And perhaps today just wasn't a good day and I went poof. There goes my heart.

Perhaps my homesickness, the silence, the transition I'm still coping with, the unfamiliarity and so on, all these mixed into a very uncomfortable feeling my heart can't take it.

Oh well but as Robert Frost says

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learnt about life: It goes on"

So yeah. It goes on, and well I guess only time would tell, only time would heal this uneasy feeling of mine that I've been grappling through. Perhaps it's the beginning, which most of the time it's the hardest. When life goes on, and I get busier, and my mind is off somewhere, I get to forget my pain and enjoy everyday of my ITP more (not that I hate everyday of it).

Through poly, I've learnt that whenever we start something new, or whenever we try something new, rule number one is to have an open mind. Meaning of an open mind is simple. You must be willing to change, you must be willing to adapt, you must be willing to try and accept everything that's given to you. I'm not only talking about the things we do, but how we feel, our mind and everything.

It's very tough. That's why it's always difficult in the beginning.

Alright I feel really good writing. I've been neglecting my blog, and my diary. It sucks. And I still haven't write about my US trip! OMG. I'll write two this weekend. And whenever else I'm free. Cannot neglect anymore :( See you soon! Here's to a not-so-good first day of week two, and...

AND AWESOME REMAINING OF THIS WEEK AND THE REST OF MY ITP!

Week one, DONE

So yes! The first week of my ITP is finally done "yay". Somehow I feel glad that it's all over haha. Even though it was only a week. Had a good rest for this week and I have a good weekend cause my aunt is here now in Singapore so today I spent a day out with her and my cousin! (Y)

Alright just short update. Not really in the mood of blogging heh. Sorry :P

Finally I get to write

Finally! I get to write! Hehe. Sorry for not writing. I was just damn tired that I fell asleep once I reached home. Plus the past two days I've been reaching home quite late so... Yeah. Anyway here I am now! Gonna talk about my internship! Not gonna talk much, just how I feel and how my days went hehe.

Anyway so the day of my ITP started on Monday. It was really good seeing all my friends again even though it was only: Vithya, Huiwen, Yiyin, Jesslyn, Chjia How and Ashley. But met some of my other friends from other course too! It's so awesome, finally get to meet them again! Really miss these people after two months of holiday haha. So it's good seeing them again.

The first day wasn't much, I was introduced to my colleagues and given some journals to read. And also doing my read up on some article and topic. And for the past 3 days yup, lots of researching and article reading cause I'm very new to the field. But all's good! I'm just hoping to get to know more, talk more and interact more with the people in my ITP office hehe.

Well I have to say this but... I really don't like the transition of school to ITP. I mean well maybe I'm just not used to this. But imagine for 2 years of your poly life, you go to school for classes, surrounded with friends, taught by lecturers, scribbling down notes, going for breaks, all the laughters joy and fun (especially the past one year with 5 of my awesome friends). Basically: Student's life.

Now it's a drastic change where I'm interning alone. I don't talk much, no one talks to me much everyday. No lecturers to meet and no classes to attend. No friends around you, no laughter nothing. It's just silence, work and... Emptiness. But oh well I just have to get used to this I guess. But the fact that I'll be interning for 7 months kind of worry me. I have to change my mindset man.

Switch mode switch mode!

Anyway yesterday was awesome cause...

I WATCHED WICKED WITH VIVIAN!

Yes Wicked the Musical! OMG it's a dream come true and it's a wish that happened! To watch Wicked! It's just beyond words. I enjoyed every moment of the musical. The awesome songs (DEFYING GRAVITY!) and I discovered more songs of course, the graceful and hip dance moves and of course, all the characters and musicians! Everything is LIVE. Even the music. It was so good. Spectacular beyond words! Must go there and watch (sadly it's the last show and next week's show is sold out). Well in the future I guess!

After watching Wicked I'm just so inspired to watch more musicals! They're so lovely and nice :) Love it! Who wants to go to musical come and ask me ok! I might be interested (unless the musical is not something I like heh). I really wish Phantom of The Opera to play in MBS! I think it's awesome man. And more musicals please! Hehe.

I'll be going back to band tomorrow (Oh yes!). Miss band a lot. The feeling of playing with fellow musicians are just awesome. I really hope I can still play the clarinet well. If not, more training and practice it is then. Well if you ask me why I'm going back to band. Firstly, I didn't quit band. Get that first. I just sat out for MD (our concert last January) due to some reasons. Secondly, it's simple.

I entered SP, and I joined band. I want to graduate from SP, and graduate with the band. I don't want to just leave halfway and not leave SP and leave band at the same time. Band has been part of my poly life and I just don't want to let it go halfway through the course of my studies. Plus being a photographer for MD, and not someone sitting on the stage playing was really... "Heavy". Feels so different :(

Anyway talking about music, I just made a piano cover of Corrinne May's new song "Beautiful Life" which is from her newest album Crooked Lines! Check it out. I finally got my hands on the CD and yay, now I can listen to this awesome song everyday. It feels good to listen to this song every morning when I go to school! Reminder for me how beautiful life can be.

Here is the song! Hope you like it. Pardon the mistakes I made :P




And sorry no music sheet cause I played this by ear hehe.

Smile everyone! It's a beautiful life~

Back in Singapore

Okay I'm currently very sleepy... And tired... Just reached Singapore like 2 hours ago and when I reached home all I did was to lay down on my bed. Too tired. I'm going to bathe now and sleep! Very tired and I have to wake up early too, maybe get some breakfast.

Today was alright I guess. The flight back was awesome. I love Lufthansa's new fleet! Damn nice and neat. It's an A340-300 and it's so nice. Somehow the plane was really empty. Well it's the end of poly holidays but not school holidays so not many people go back I guess. Really nice plane, I like it! Hehe. Maybe I'll switch to Lufthansa again hehe.

Tomorrow will be the first day of my third year. Put it in a way...

It's the first page of my last chapter in poly.

Lets make my first page a beautiful one!

Nights. I'm damn sleepy

Holiday went poof

 Days of the year going by, gone.

As the title says, I just can't believe that well, this almost-2-months holiday has finally come to an end. I'll be going back to Singapore tomorrow and start my ITP on Monday. Time flies huh. February feels like it was yesterday. I really had a good holiday, that sometimes I forgot I've spent the entire month of March. With the inclusion of the US trip and so on. It's very good.

Sadly I didn't get to do all of the things I PLANNED to do in the holiday. Okay lets recap. This is what I wrote on the 24th of Feb before I fly back:

- Decorate my room (all photos printed etc!)
- Take more photos (praying for good weather)
- Do a timelapse (tripod checked!)
- EXERCISE (I've always failed in this one but lets see...)
- Eat and enjoy! (Miss my hometown food :/)
- Do my "projects" which consist of both videos and photography
- Write more poems (target: 2 per week?)
- Write more
- Compose more songs
- Play a new piece perhaps
- Relax and rejuvenate myself
- HAVE FUN! :)

Legend: Things that are crossed are accomplished. 

I didn't do a timelapse and I brought my tripod for nothing meoooww. But that's cause of the weather. It's been raining here almost everyday. How to take timelapse! Haha. Exercise... We'll leave that. No comment. My "project" umm only one of my desired one was done but not the other. No songs composed but I've been playing Adele and Corrinne May songs ^^

But not bad I guess. I get to do almost everything. Writing more is really a nice target accomplished. I've been writing on my diary everyday here. And thanks to Kikki.k's Journal Prompts (you can find this on their website or FB page), my Kikki.k 365 journal is filled with lots of interesting posts hehe. I love writing, it's a chance for me to go back to myself. And I truly enjoy it. I hope I can continue this habit back in Singapore. Which usually I... Don't.

My room is decorated as you can see from yesterday's photo hehe. More space to be filled with more photos! Shall print them more soon and bring it here and zoom zoom to decorate more. Poems wise... I did write a few. Most are written when I was in the US. And I like it. Haha :P

So well yeah. I guess this is all for my holiday. One well-deserved one to celebrate the end of my year 2. And I did enjoy this holiday very much. Though the weather in my hometown wasn't really much of a supporting thing (since it's raining almost everyday here). But it's always good to be back home. My family, my favourite food, my home and my hometown. Who doesn't love to be back in one's hometown right?

I think most of you don't know this but the US trip is really sort of a last minute plan that's not even in my agenda this year. And I didn't tell anyone about this trip until a day before my departure. Cause well... I just don't wanna tell the world (not necessary right?). But I truly enjoyed my time there. It's really an experience and an adventure I'll never forget. I'll be back for more, definitely. Maybe next time alone or with my friends. By myself, by ourselves.

As usual I feel that time always fly too quickly. Feels like year one happened last year. I guess it feels like as if year 2 just flashed by in the blink of my eyes. Perhaps the difficult times I went through, and the busy schedule of my research life. And also on the fun side, the happening aesthetics like my Green Desert Project, SPSB Korea trip and SP LEAP Mt Kinabalu trip. When fun and stress meets, time flies like a lightning flashing in the sky.

I came up with a line that goes like: Time is like a flowing river. When you put stones into this river, the area gets smaller and water will flow faster. But when you take the rocks and stones and pebbles from this river and make it empty, the larger surface area will make the water to flow slower. Okay sounds damn physic but the main thing is, when you put things into time, it will flow faster and when you don't have things in time, it will flow seem to flow slower. But time, is a constant. It can never flow faster nor slower.

So I'm wondering. If my 2 years in poly flow so quickly, won't my 7 month ITP seems even faster? Well... Not sure to that. But I'll definitely make the best out of this experience. It's going to be something for me, to be attached to a company and sort of "work" right, you can put it in that term. It'll be interesting. An experience in life not everyone can get.

So here I am ending this post with my line for year 3.

Year 3. It's now or never

Last 30-day challenge! Finally!

Day 30 - A picture of somewhere that you've been to

A picture of somewhere that I've just been to

  To New York

For a Friday is a Friday

 Visiting childhood through food

Finally got myself a haircut after like 1.5 months! Haha. Call me weird but I love to keep my hair short, nice and simple. Quite funny how I can't stand my hair up till a certain length. I'll feel the urge to go and cut it when it reached that length haha. But anyway urgh I feel my hair is very... Hmm a bit weird now. I think it's not spiky enough and it just doesn't look right. Will get it fix tomorrow.

I went to the tailor shop today too to get my pants sorted out and cut shorter and tighter. I think with me losing weight my pants have all become loose. Well better than buying new ones, I just get it fixed to make it fit! Hehe. Today was a rainy day in my hometown. Rained quite heavily in the afternoon and yeah. Good I guess, it's been cloudy but it never rained. So the rain helped to cool the weather down.

Sigh, I'm once caught in the middleman situation again. I guess it's inevitable. But I'll just tell myself that whatever choice I made, is made with a reason. Every choice I make and how things will evolve from the choice will happen for a reason. So yeah.

It's quite unbelievable how much time has flown. Tomorrow will be the last day of my holiday here and I'll be going back to Singapore on Sunday. So fast huh! It's been a month plus already... And I'll be embarking on my 7-month ITP journey. Whew, and I'm graduating soon.

Anyway moving on, time to go to 30-day challenge!

Day 28 - A song from your favourite band

My favourite band is... Sigur Ros! Haha. As you know it. And the song I choose this time round is Inni Mer Singur Vitleysingur! I really love this song cause of its upbeat and very cheerful and happy feeling it has. Very nice for a morning song to get you going. When I'm down I love to listen to this song cause it makes me happy again! :) Here's the song!




Day 29 - A song you want to play at your wedding

A song I definitely want to play in my wedding is hmm Joe Hisaishi's Merry-go-round of life! I think it's a perfect song for the event, like you know wedding is a part of life, a part of this merry-go-round we're living in! And if possible I want to play this song in my wedding haha :)

Photo wall

Right~ Today I finally did what I wanted to do this holiday. One of my target to be done. And that is to decorate my room! With all the photos I've printed and the frames I've bought from Ikea hehe. Still have more room for more photos but I'll save that up for my future travel heh. More adventure awaits! :)

My photo wall~ (Y)

Today there was nothing much either. Still having headache apparently argghh. Please, I really hope it will stop before my ITP begins. It sucks.

Anyway, back to 30 day challenge! I'm finishing soon! :)

Day 26 - Your earliest memory

Memory is a funny thing. Especially when you realised you've grown up, it's pretty difficult to remember the things that once happened when we're young. Even though at times, flashes of these memories would happen in our mind, but the full thing will never happen. Will never replay in our head. I guess we're too young, for our brain to fully record these memories that happen to us. When we're adults, we remember better I guess. Hence it's pretty hard to remember my earliest memory.

But, there's one particular memory, a particular and familiar scene I have in my mind. Me, on my mum's lap being fed with baby food. The taste, the smell, the texture. Somehow I can remember that. I remember on which seat my mum would always feed me. That corner of the table where cans of milk and baby food will always be placed. I can't remember anything else, but just that sight of me, delivering spoons of baby food into my mouth. The rest, are just blur images I couldn't remember.

Funny huh? :)

Day 27 - Your favourite movie and what is it about

Favourite movie... It's very hard to say a favourite movie. Harry Potter is one, LOTR is one, Three Idiots is one, and more! But I would say... My really favourite movie that I really enjoy watching is Inception. Nothing beats the joy of getting you mindfcuked (sorry for the vulgarity). But really, I love movies that play with your mind, that makes you think hard and deep to follow the story. I think Inception did it well. And I really love everything about the movie. The plot, the characters, the action and most importantly, the theory and the story!

I remember a quote from the movie of how we never remember entering a dream, and that we always end up in the middle of it. This is very true isn't it? There are more quotes from the movie but I can't remember, but this theory above is what really makes me applaud inside my heart. At first I didn't get what the movie was about (the Japanese castle, the beach, and the plan stuff). Then as the story goes on, and the movie plays on, I went oooohhhhhh and damn I love that feeling! Haha.

Alright that's all for today. See you soon tomorrow! Can't believe school's starting... I mean ITP's starting on Monday, and that I'll be going back on Sunday. This is just too fast! :/

Pray for Sumatra

 In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothing you can't do~

I was so shocked to see retweets from my friend of the earthquake near the coast of Sumatra! It's a 8.7 magnitude so it's VERY huge. I really hope the situation there is fine and everyone is safe. And I really really hope that there's no tsunami! I don't wish 2004 to happen. It's like a nightmare for everyone so I hope it will not repeat itself 8 years later.

Anyway today was a normal day. My jetlag is getting better. Still having headaches but thankfully the nausea is gone. Sort of. I just had it again just now -.- But anyway I think it's getting better so yeah hehe. It was a rainy day in my hometown. Super duper heavy downpour and yeah. The weather's weird but oh well.

Okay moving on the to 30 day challenge~

Day 24 - Your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality

I'm born in July so that makes me a Cancerian! And I'm proud to be one. Okay I've read some of the character traits of cancer individuals and I think what speak to me the most are that: we're "closed" people, we forgive, but never forget and overemotional. Well there are a few others but I'll only talk about these eh? Hehe. Cause the list will really be long.

What I mean by "closed" is that we tend to keep things to ourselves. Which is both good and bad, good in a sense we can be more "independent" and be less a burden to others. But bad cause we'll be the victims of our emotions. Honestly, yes, I'm someone who loves to keep things to myself. They say it's our sign (the crab) that signifies this. We have a shell not many can break, and we always go back inside our shell (AKA we keep things to ourselves).

Forgive but never forget. This is very true for me. Well a lot of people say "don't we all forgive but never forget?". True in a sense but some forgive AND forget. Some don't forgive but forget. I think well forgiving but not forgetting is different. It's like this. Lets say you did something to me which makes me angry. Well honestly speaking yes I will forgive you, and in the future when we meet, I'll be as per normal to you, like as if nothing happened. But I'll never forget what you did to me and, again as a Cancerian, I will be on my guards with my awesome claws MEOW! (no link but I love meowing).

Last but not least overemotional. Well I'm not saying we're drama queens and kings but we tend to be emotional (over) and moody. I have to be honest but I'm someone who can get moody. I know I sound crazy but I call it my that-time-of-the-month. I'm not a girl, I know, but well sometimes (or in fact most of the time) I always have a period of a month where I'll feel moody and sad and emo and emotional for no reason. I'm sure it's the work of the hormones but yeah, just like to call it my PMS period heh. As for emotional wise I think we tend to use more emotions in most situations. Which brings my next point that we're intuitive people. Which really is true for me! It's kinda bad, cause intuition are not 100% right. Hehe.

Yeah I guess these are the traits which how my horoscope fits my personality. I repeat, MY. So please don't think I'm stereotyping all cancer people heh. Cause I know some cancer people who are different from me, and some who are similar to me. But mostly they're kind of similar! :)

Day 25 - Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play

I'm not gonna put my iPod but my iTunes. It's okay right? Hehe. So here goes!

#1 - The Nutcracker Suite - March of the Tin soldier by Tchaikovsky
#2 - Invisible Movies Part 1 by Adrian Enescu
#3 - W.O.W by Architecture in Helsinki
#4 - Prelude in G Minor, Opus 23 No. 5 by Rachmaninoff
#5 - Pictures at an exhibition - The Old Castle by Mussorgsky
#6 - The Sweetest Girl by Lil Wayne feat Wycleff, Rihanna, Akon  
#7 - Suite No 2 in B minor - Badinerie by Bach
#8 - The Gypsy Maid by Maksim Mrvica
#9 - Letting Go by Ryan Farish
#10 - Invicta by James Swearingen

So now, you should know to what kind of songs I love listening to :) Hahaha but don't worry this is only 10 songs. But yeah I love classical music. Nuff said.

Back from USA

 The bean at Millennium Park in Chicago!

My Favourite place there. I love it.

Hello everyone! Finally I'm blogging. Oh gosh I've not been feeling well since I got here. First was jetlag, I went KO when I reached home on Sunday. Similar to Monday as well. I've been feeling unwell since I got back. Feeling nausea and having headaches. Search the symptoms and these two are part of jetlag symptoms. No wonder. But the feeling's horrible really. Hope it will be gone soon!

Anyway I'm back now, the trip was really awesome! 2 weeks there and it was really fun. I went to New York, Washington, Boston and Chicago. Didn't expect to go to so many places but well I did, and it was really fun to explore USA. It's really a beautiful country and I love the urban vibe there (especially New York and Chicago). But I did drive by beautiful sceneries from the countryside. Best of both worlds!

I really love Chicago and New York. Well it's been a dream of mine to travel to New York and it came true! Walking through Manhattan and Broadway did it. And Times Square! It's like... They're screaming to me: NEW YORK! And I got it. I love walking through the streets of Chicago as well. It's nice and the city has a warm vibe to it that I love. And I really enjoyed walking through Millennium Park! I love the bean (Y)

It was a good trip and I'll definitely be back there. New York especially. Not enough! :P

I've decided to do a post on each place I visited. So it's going to be nice and easy, instead of just blogging about the whole trip. Plus you know me, I don't like blogging about my every detail of my trip but more of the thoughts and experience of it. It's gonna be interesting. One by one I'll clear them off. But now I need to clear my blog challenge and promised! :)

Anyway I'll be uploading the photos to Facebook so you can check them out first :)

I'm going to clear off some of the questions per one shot! So it's faster! :)

Day 21 - A song you want to play in your funeral

A song that I definitely want to play in my funeral is Ara Batur by Sigur Ros! Also their famous Hoppipolla. Ara Batur is really special. When I found this song, I was listening to it everyday. And whenever I'm sad, I tend to listen to it as well. There was one time when everything felt wrong, I was feeling horrible. So I just sat down, closed my eyes and listened to this song. And I cried! The song is powerful really. That's when I decided to want this song to be played in my funeral heh.


And I even thought of like making a playlist before I die to be played in my funeral :P Like well I think make my funeral more musically happening HAHAHA. Anyway here's the song! :) Beware of tears



Day 22 - A song you play when you're happy, sad, bored hyped or mad

To me a good song is one that you listen to when you're happy, sad and mad. Cause it means it can make you happier when you're already happy, make you feel better when you're sad and calms you down when you're mad. And that one song is Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros! This song has been in my playlist ever since I discovered them in 2010 (I know it's damn late, but I'm damn grateful that I discovered this song thanks to my friend Joel! :D). It's practically the song for every situation I'm experiencing! Go check them out at Youtube cause I've put this here for a couple of times heh.


Day 23 - How you found out blogger and why you made one

Okay actually I first made blogger when I was in sec one. It was so.... Arggh I don't wanna remember it cause it's very "childish" hahaha. I think it was called adhianto-my-blog or something like that. And all I post was "today this happened I ate this and that" or "today I went to Mac with my friends" or "OMG tomorrow got 听写 or tests and I never study!" then it goes on and on. But then I somehow neglected it and stopped blogging till... I don't know when. I chanced to blog at Windows Live but stopped as well.

Then something reignited me again to blog in sec 3, in September to be exact. One reason was I was tempted to blog thanks to my fellow friends who blog as well (Annabel if you read this, you're one of them! Heh). And also I was reading this article of how people blog to improve their English. With O Levels approaching I used this opportunity to blog as well, hoping I can improve my English as well.

And last but not least, I feel it'll be a great platform for me to express and pour my emotions out. It feels good to evolve from my blogging. You can read it from time to time. I think I've matured through blogging. And you can see from the words I used, the things I blog about. If you want to express your feelings, blogging is really a great platform. You can try it out, there's no harm really. Here are my first two posts. DO NOT LAUGH HAHAHA.

Monday September 1 2008

First post!!!

Ok... Here's my first post... And I don't know what to post... Enjoy...

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Life's symphony...

New Blog New Life?

So here I am with a new blog! I don't know, I blogged in Messenger Live before and it's kinda boring but enjoyed it anytime. So all credits thanks to Annabel for helping me create this blog! Thanks a bunch! Ok, I may not post as many posts as I did in Messenger before since I gotta be used to it yeah? Ok hope there's no prob in my blog (better not) and hope you guys enjoy my boring blog...

Testing.... Testing...

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