Defying Gravity

One day I will try

Photography by Yours Truly

I'll try to defy gravity

Okay this is random but I was trying to blog, when my Internet Explorer crashed and I couldn't continue blogging. Urgh so say hello to Chrome then! Which I'm blogging at now :D

Anyway today was an ordinary day, but also a hectic-for-my-camera day. Okay so well I went to my dad's garden and was happily shooting things around. Then the nightmare begins: I saw a freaking ANT crawl inside my viewfinder! I was so shocked, at first I thought it was on my lens, when I looked at my lens, there was nothing.

So I panicked and thought that the ant was still inside. So when I returned home, I opened the lens and blow them with a blower. I'm not sure if it's still there or not but... Lets just hope it's not. And well now there's this stupid dust speck on my viewfinder, should be cause of my blower. But it doesn't disrupt the image quality.

Well so much for a DSLR camera. I think it all comes down to how we handle it. And how take care of it. But I'm still left puzzled by how that ant went inside the viewfinder! It's so... Weird and amazing at times heh.

Anyway I've just downloaded Chrome, like finally. But it's a bit irritating cause it's in Indonesian now, like almost everything. Believe it or not, the words on this post now is being underlined in red, cause it doesn't read Indonesian. Eeeek. And I'm still finding the way to make English my default langugae. Which is really frustrating -.-

Alrighty that's all for the day I guess. Hmm guess what, I'm visitting the dentist tomorrow O.o after like 5 years or so! Hopefully all goes well, it's just a check up anyway. Okay see you soon!

Until I try, I'll never know - Defying Gravity

Shop

That's Wolfy :)
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Vero's Siberian Husky!

Well of course not, I'm not shopping this time, as what I usually did. I really hope that I will shop soon though! The word shop in this title refers to my mum's shop, cause I went to help her out today! Well it was planned to be just going-to-my-mum's-shop session but turned out I was helping her.

And well, this is the very few times, or in fact very first few I did this.

It was rather hectic, cause I was helping her to make order notes. So I have to write them carefully and correctly, if not wrongs things would be sent (choy). And I have to calculate them as well, and this is another hectic part. Cause if I calculate things wrongly, then... (Choy). Well apparently I'm not good with numbers eh. Lets just hope I didn't do anything wrong today.

So well today was spent at my mum's shop.

I didn't blog yesterday cause I fell asleep. But yesterday was awesome! I went to my dad's colleague house, Vero, to discuss about my room. Oh have I told you about my new room? It's finishing soon! And so we were discussing about the design and layout of the room. I've decided to make it a Japanese-like room. Cool or what, oh man I can't wait to stay in my room :P

And while on her house, we also played with her new dog. A Siberian Husky!!! And she's sooooo cute, really really cute. Check her pictures out in Facebook. And yes I took lots of pictures of her. Cause she's just too adorable.

Then I spent the rest of yesterday going to my dad's garden. Well I love it being there, it's a great place to wind down and relax, think of things, and let go of my trouble. It's so serene and quiet there, and the air is so refreshing.

Oh well, hmm, I really hope that this holiday of mine will be a good one, I wish it can be filled with more activities and I'll have more things to do. Sometimes it's right and wrong to have things (Eg: Reports, projects etc) to do. To have it I can kill time, and to have it I'm also making myself busy. But of course, they sort of disrupts my holiday.

Sometimes I just think, is it because of the fact that I sort of "dread" this holiday because I have nothing do, that makes it "boring". Or is it because the fact that I have nothing to do. It's all in the mindset I guess, I have to live it, and think postively about it.

But how?

Okay enough of my ramblings, I'm just hoping that my vacation here will be an awesome one :) I hope that as each day goes by, my holiday will get better and better. :)

Alright that's all for today, and yesterday heh. Not sure what I'll be doing tomorrow, but hopefully, I'll have things to do! See ya :)

Sometimes I wish I were a cat.

Hmm?

I really wish one day I can be a farmer
Photography by Yours Truly
Living simply everyday, without worries

Today was my first official day of my going back vacation haha. As usual I had this "first-day" vibe. I don't know why but it always feel like this. But anyway hmm lets not think about it and let me talk about it more.

Well did nothing much today, thanks to the rain today. It was raining really really heavily. When it was raining I was at my dad's office and I noticed the sky in front of me was sky. Nothing much was there but when it subsided, this trace of a tower ahead of me starts to appear, and when the rain stopped, there is actually a tower ahead!

See how heavy the rain is...

And in the late afternoon I go to my dad's garden. Since it was a first time for me there, it was wow. The place looked so much different back when I saw it like three months ago during June. I was so amazed, oh and it was cold as well. The place now looked so gardeny haha, with all sorts of plantations being planted there.

Oh, and since it was raining, it was quite muddy there, but it's fun I think haha. Reminds me of those days when I was young and life was so much carefree-er eh. Oh well yeah.

So stayed there for about five hours I think, I reached back home at about 9! Imagine that. Which brings me to my next point, the garden is an awesome place to feel sleepy heh. But well it's nice. The temperature, the surrounding and everything makes a perfect formula to sleep.

Alright that's all for today! I hope the next few days, or the entire holiday will be a good one for me! Yep! I want this vacation to be an awesome one. See you!

Time is the ultimate answer to almost all of life's questions

Home

Home sweet home
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And hopefully holiday sweet holiday :)

Oh well, I'm finally back home in Indo now, after such a long and chaotic day... So many things happened today, like I mean a lot. So yeah but anyway I'm just pretty glad that it's all over now and the main thing is I'm back now right :)

So here goes, the series of unfortunate events, of today :P

Firstly, my taxi got swapped by another passenger. Okay so basically I called a taxi, and there's another passenger calling another taxi and we're both waiting at the lobby. So... Basically she took my taxi! Thankfully her taxi didn't mind taking me to the airport. Oh, and she's such a nice driver. Her smile totally made my day!

Then as I arrived in the airport. This lady asked me to sort of "share" her luggage weight with me. Well I don't mind helping her so I agreed. But in the end she had to pay an excess of 14kg. Anyway, better than more of that eh.

Now this is when the chaos hightens, like the climax of my day. I lost my iPod touch! Oh my God... I was searching for it up and down the gate, and I still couldn't find it. Then I approached one of the personnels and... I was so lucky to find it! Turned out someone found it OUTSIDE the gate and returned it to him.

So to that angel, that wonderful, awesome, fabulous someone, even though he/she may not read this. A HUGE thank you to you! Thank you for finding my iPod and returning it to the personnel!

I guess, this was the Karma for helping the lady with her baggage weight?

Then the flight was not bad... As I landed in Indonesia... Apparently my luggage belt was shared by another flight from Jeddah. So it was filled with people returning from their pilgrimage, or those who worked there as well. It was full. Literally full. I couldn't even get close to the belt after some time...

After some time, like about 20 minutes. I was told that my flight's belt was shifted to another one. Without us noticing. And because it was there circling around with no one taking the luggages, they took our luggage and put them on the "missing luggage" room. How awesome.

But anyway lets leave all these problems aside. I'm back home anyway. Sadly one of my dog seems to be scared of me... I don't know why but must be because I'm wearing black. Cause she's sort of scared of people with black shirts -.-"

Alrighty that's all for this long day! I'm really looking forward to having an awesome holiday! Hope I'll do more things, and see more things, and SHOOT more things :) See you!

Hope what I've been wishing for will come true...

Froom

The pinnacle @ duxton

Lomography by Yours Truly

I wanna live here some day...

Oh well oh well, today I finally fell down, on my skates! Haha. So well basically we're all skating at the soccer court near FC3, cause it was sunny then. As we skated for about 15 minutes then... Black clouds started to come and haunt us. So we decided to head over to T11A. Well Albert (our instructor) asked a choice to either take off our skates and walk, or skate there.

And I chose to skate there.

So imagine this, from the court, to walking to T11A via the staircase near the FC3 studying area, then down the slope at T14 (I think...) and then T11A. So in total, I fell down three times! One was when I went out of the field, two when I wanted to go up the stairs, three when I went down the slope. So awesome! Thanks to the guards for protecting me.

So anyway that's all for my skating lesson. I think it is really fun! Now that I can skate hee. Thanks to our two instructors who taught us for the past 5 days. I can finally skate. I think it's just really nice and worth it to be able to learn another skill it. Be it for recreational or for serious business. A skill is a skill eh.

After skate today I went to Holland. Da bao-ed Crystal Jade fried rice... I have a sudden craving for it. Anyway something happened at C.Jade just now. My plastic bag was swapped wrongly by a waitress, so customer (let say A) got my food, and I got A's food. But she realised it before passing it to me. So it was too late by then, gotta wait longer for my food.

Never mind, thank God I'm not so petty. Really.

Meeting Neal and Jes tomorrow. I'm really really interested in getting an infrared filter! The result was just so awesome! I read it in a magazine, it's really cool. I hope Cathay photos has it... Cause I'm going there tomorrow with Neal. And I'm looking for a fisheye adapter as well. Hopefully they have it for a 62mm lens.

Alright that's all for today. Will be going back on Sunday, time flies huh! Oh, and my luggage is pretty small now... I can't fit my tripod in! Now I wonder if I shouldn't bring it back. But I want to hahaha. Okay anyway see ya!

Doesn't everyone of us have a terminal illness? Cause we'll die someday anyway.

Hoppipolla

Oh yeah, as I've told you I fell in love with the song Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros right? So here goes a cover of its intro. Sorry I glitched the middle part, but this is the best so far, out of the 20 or so takes :P

Thanks to Joel for posting the song on FB haha! I really like it now.

Enjoy! Comments welcomed! :D

Glide glide

Hopefully I'm not too late but..

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Happy Mid Autumn people! :D

Hehehe, I can finally skate now! Well sort of, I mean skating as in gliding and stuff. Haha. Well tomorrow will be the last day for the skating SPDP. The four days have been awesome though, it's really cool to be finally able to skate! Yay, I don't have to cycle whenever I'm in ECP or something like that haha, I can skate now! Woohoo

Anyway the skating lessons are fun I suppose. We play games, and most importantly, learn how to skate! So yup, sadly, somehow somewhat, it always rained from like 3-5 (which is our skating lesson timing) for the past 3 days. It's weird I know, so we've been skating at T11A, which is a bit not smooth on the surface. Nevertheless I can still skate heh.

And to Nivedha don't give up! Continue to work hard and I'm sure you'll gliiiidde! :D

Band on Tuesday was awesome too! We sight read like 6 pieces I think. First Suite in Eb!! Oh my God I love that song. I always imagined me playing that when I was still in sec 2, that's when I first heard it I think. And now I'm playing it! We also played Joe Hisaishi works and Impressions of Japan. Both are awesome, even though I feel Hisaishi's works are better on piano :P

And we also played Marurodam, composed by Johan de Mejj. Very sweet and nice song. I thought it was a song about his country (Netherlands) but when I searched it on Youtube, turned out it was a place where there are miniatures of places of Netherlands! No wonder it's called a miniature symphony for wind band.

But the song is awesome. As we played it, I really feel that the song depicts Netherlands, especially the movement for the windmills, and the parliament house.

Yesterday Nivedha and I decided to go to Syazwan's house too! Well thankfully the skating lesson yesterday ended early due to the rain, so we went to Syazwan's house for raya raya! Haha. We played Wii there, which Weiping owned, totally! Mwahaha. And oh gosh, I gotta love the food haha. Oops, sorry for almost finishing the food ><>

Alright I guess that's all for today. I didn't go for band today cause I'm having flu. Shucks to have flu and you're allergic to paracetamol. Alrighty, that's all for today!

Destins et Desirs

Sweat

Alright, I'm currently in FC5 right now. Was hoping to enjoy its cooling aircon while I transfer my lomo pictures which I developed today into my laptop while waiting for band. Oh well. There's no aircon. Are you kidding me. So yeah it's sort of warm here. I'm trying to adjust the temperature with my body, so that there's not heat gain. I'm sort of okay now :P

Anyway today or in fact just now I had my skate 2nd lesson. It was pretty alright I guess. The first lesson we had yesterday was awesome too, thanks to the people who have taught me to ice-skate on Thursdaym, everything made sense yesterday and I was able to glide. Today was even better, I tried to glide faster.

But the only problem I had was... Stopping. I could not stop! It was rather scary. I didn't want to bang onto people so yeah, all I could do was slow down and come to a stop eventually.

So well it's 5.48 now, waiting for the clock to turn about 6 or so then I can go for band. Been such a long time since we had our band practice. That was about... 30th July or so. So it's about almost two months already. Hope I won't lose my tone and stuff. Hopefully.

Alright I guess that's all for today. I know I'll be freaking tired tonight after band so I knew I won't be blogging, the probability that I'll blog tonight (if I didn't blog now that is) will be like 0.0089? So yeah. Okay see ya then!

PS: Thought for today - Don't judge its book by its cover. And also don't judge a book by its first few pages.

Emptiness

Pondering over the sky

Photography by Yours Truly

Taken at an Indian Temple in Chinatown.

To realise that my exams are over, it just feels really weird. Like you know, Sunday evenings are usually spent by me for studying. I'll plan of what to study, which to study and what to do. Now... What's there to study? Haha! Anyway... Time to enjoy I supposed. As from my previous posts, you can see how much things I wanna do during this holiday eh :)

Anyway yesterday was awesome, invited to Syazwani's house for lunch with some DBS1A02 friends. Yummm I really love her mum's food. Especially the pasta dish with the bakso-like-sausage! Then we took pics and then off I go to meet Sandra and James for the photo-hunting session :D

Okay this is random but my chrome just "shut" and I have to restart my comp and now I'm back :P

Okay so well met them at Chinatown for the shoot shoot outing... I'm sorry for being late! ><>

I'm in love with Black and White photography!

Haha yup, pictures in Facebook. After that James went off while Sandra and I took bus to Orchard. Sandra went home, while I went to meet my sis. Had dinner with my sis and home sweet home!

While today I went out, again, and this time round I went to buy mooncake! It's Marriot ones! Oh my God, thanks to me being an M1 user, I get a 20% off for mooncakes! Great or what hehe. And oh I bought a new reed too, cause mine sort of bent. Bleah. Time to season a new one.

You see... This is the joy of after exam. Seriously, everyday is like freedom. Out and out and out, to somewhere and not to school. But sometimes it's a bit weird either, cause you are so used to studying intensively for the past 3 weeks or so, and now you're off and free. No studying and stuff. As weird as it may have sounded, trust me, it'll feel weird.

So I guess it's all about the balance, too much of a good things is bad, so thus too much of a bad thing. It's alright to have fun, it's alright to get serious. It's EVEN BETTER to be both at the right time, at the right place and at the right balance. Life is about balance eh.

Okay I guess that's all for today. Tomorrow will be the start of my SPDP skating! How sweet and exciting it is right! I can't wait for it to start, cause it's been a dream for me to learn how to skate. It's really boring to cycle all the time in ECP, skating should be fun right :) Okay see ya!

Life is a play, and it is filled with thousand, if not millions of ironies.

List of things to do

I'm at the National Library now with my sis. Since I'm doing nothing here, decided to blog! Just to crap around. Thank God my sis brought her laptop here hehe.

Anyway I think I can list the things I want to do during my holiday... Sounds like a good idea isn;t it. So many things I wanna do, hopefully I can achieve em all.

So here goes!

1) Take more photos!
2) Take more photos of my dogs :D
3) More photos of my city
4) Attempt a sunrise/sunset shot
5) Go for a photoshoot outing somewhere, out of my city
6) Learn more piano songs (Joplin's Bethena is on my list)
7) Perfect the Merry-go-round of life
8) Finish my album (Which I'm supposed to finish last year -.-")
9) Not sure if I wanna bring my clarinet and practice
10) Learn to drive!!! :D
11) Visit the beach once more (I think I'm going to hehe)
12) Write more stories and poems!
13) Perhaps produce another video-song thingy :D
14) Read and master more photography skills
15) Work in my dad's garden (I hope I can...)
16) Lose weight (Three words: HA HA HA)
17) Exercise more!

Well and many many more, if I were to continue writing this post will be a page long :P

Anyway today I went to buy my tripod! I think it's a worth-it price, a 91 bucks tripod, with an offer to 58 haha. Thank God it was on sale, so it's pretty good. Nice and sturdy as well. I think it's awesome. I don't want to buy like 100 over tripod. Not a pro one yet eh hehe.

Then my sis and I went to the library, till now, cause she's looking for books for her project. So yeah hehe.

Alright I guess that's all for the day. Not sure what I'll be doing now... So yeah. Hopefully I can kill time meaningfully till then. Alrighty see ya!

It's ova!!!

Skating!

Photography by the nice lady who took it for us

Really enjoyed today guys :D

It's over! It's over! That nerve-wrecking and tough two weeks are over now! Woohoo. Time to enjoy the holiday I suppose! I was so happy when we were released today after A&P test. It's like a huge weight just flew off my shoulder... Whew.

Anyway A&P paper was okay. Screw bones! Oh my God, my answer for bones are like super duper ridiculous. Firstly I skipped flat bones, which is the skull! That is so easy right? Next I self-proclaimed-ly call short bones into cuboidal bones. How awesome! And my best answer for this: Long bones are... Long... Mwahaha. Well of course I did more elaboration :)

So after the long and dreaded test, some of us went to Kallang Ice rink to skate! Woohoo. Well it's been like ehh 8 years or so since I last skated. I remember that once when I went there with my NYU friends. The year before I joined PTPS. Wow, that's long.

And of course I could not skate... I could, but not so smooth. At least I can push myself around the rink, and well it was fun! I will try to go again next time :) After skating some of us went to Settler's cafe and we went board-gaming. Haha I really really had a great time there. I really like playing board games, especially with friends!

Met my sister for dinner at Orchard while the rest headed home, that's all for the day I suppose. Picture in Facebook :)

Okay that's all for the post. I'm free! I'm free! I really really really very very extremely definitely awesomely hope that I will have a great vacation! Well I've listed down the list of things I wish to do during the holiday. Hopefully I can go through them, and do them as time goes by. See you!

Thanks for the awesome day DBS people! (To those who went for the skating :] )

Last paper!

I wish I can one day be an independent traveler.

Lomography by Yours Truly

And travel the world, and see it with my own eyes.

Yes yes! My last paper will be on this Thursday and... I haven't start studying oh my God.... Well tonight I am! I'm currently waiting for my water heater to heat up heh, take a bath and I'll go and study. My plan for the night is to study reproductive system and perhaps, other chapters. Will be studying the whole day tomorrow so yup yup! Hope I'll have enough time...

Anyway my mum just went back today, so I sent her off at the airport today with my sis as well. So sad, two days of fun and I now have to return back to reality. Oh well never mind, it's the last paper, so at least I can look forward to something after that - the holiday!

I spent last night at the hotel after Biochem. Oh, Biochem was fine, screw denaturation of proteins though :( but well it's over already. Hope I'll do fine! So well yeah ate dinner with them, and today did a bit of shopping. And lunch and yeah. Sigh, 3 days seemed really quickly. It's just as if yesterday when my mum came here you know.

And today I wasn't feeling well when I returned home from the airport. I don't know but I felt a bit feverish, nauseatic and was having a headache. So I took a nap, and didn't know I fell asleep for like 4 hours. So yeah, didn't study. Well thankfully I read up my book yesterday, so I didn't feel so "shocked" when I start studying tonight.

Okay, enough of two days of fun! Time to go back to reality and study. Alright I'm going off now. See ya, can't wait for exams to finish really! And hopefully I can have enough time to cramp everything, all chapters, tonight and tomorrow!

A thought, I thought of today:

Whenever I'm in Changi Airport, be it me going back, sending someone off, or fetching someone, I always look at the departure board. And tell myself, how I wish I could board that plane to London (or other destinations). Well one day, I wish I can board that plane, and have an awesome time there :)

Screw AP Chem :(

If only humans' heart can be as pure as a drop of rain water

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There is no such thing as war, hatred and suffering.

Anyway, yes as the title says it... I don't think I did well for AP Chem. After the paper, I realised how many mistakes I've done. And they are all so.. Infuriating. Well the buffer question was so wow, I did that question two times and my answer turned out weird! Thank God it was just a 5 marks question, and hopefully I can get working marks... Yup.

As a total, I've estimated a loss of about 15 marks. And hopefully that number stays there.

Never mind! Lets get going to Biochem yes.

Well so far been revising Biochem, doing its past year papers. I'm not sure if I've done enough, but I've decided to leave most of its memory work to tomorrow and Monday afternoon. Hopefully that is, supposed, I can cramp all of the info within those 2 days. Or.. 1.5 days even.

Hmm and oh yes, my mum and sis is coming here tomorrow! Oh yeah baby haha, it's been such a long time since my mum came to Singapore. That was about 4 years ago. Well not only that I'm happy cause she's coming, but I'm also happy cause her wish has been granted. She always tells me that she wants to go to Singapore, but no time. So there she goes tomorrow! Hehe

Right what else... Hmm oh yes, I've been hooked by this song by Sigur Ros, an Icelandic band, which I hear on Joel Papa's wall. I like the melody and harmony. The song may be as simple as it is, but I just love it.

And... Today is September 11th. To some, it may be a painful memory of the tragedy that occurred nine years ago. But I hope to the rest, it serves as a painful reminder of the importance of peace and harmony. May those who had lost their lives 9 years ago rest in peace, and to the members of the family, I hope they have regained their strength.

Sigh, that's why whenever I see a shooting star, my wish, my first wish that I hoped for is world peace. Even though I know it will not, and it will never happen. But when the human race one day realises and understands, who knows world peace will be achieved?

Okay that's all for the day. Good luck to me for the remaining two papers. Whew. Two more! TWO MORE!

As much as I love music, I realise I can never make it a career of mine.

3 more!!!

3 more and that's it! I'm free from this torture I call exams~ Anyway here's a very very short post from me :) Gonna continue studying for AP Chem tonight!

Anyway Maths paper was fine I think. I love the part that we only have to do as much questions as possible for section B, cause I didn't know how to do one! So I did everything so... I think it should be enough, and enough to be okay haha!

So well AP chem it is, tomorrow! I really really hate buffer. I don't really understand it. I even re-do tutorial 7 today, just to "familiarise" myself with it more. I know it sounded that it's too late... But yeah. Full steam ahead tonight!

Okay that's all for this short post. Just a quick review and update. See ya and.. Wish me luck!

Affirmation

I'm currently in love with this song by Savage Garden! Decided to make a video with this song, with my photos. Basically I just choose photos that suit the lyrics of the song. I'll post it at the end of this post later hehe.

Anyway umm Bimmun test is finally over! I think it was alright, but screw that tetanus toxoid thingy. Eek, I've never love tetanus. I remembered how much I hate taking tetanus shots when I was young. And uhh yeah. The rest is alright I guess... Hopefully all goes well!

Math's up next! I gotta swear, there's so much thing I gotta learn and do. Rawrr. I must make sure that I'll make this weekend as hectic as possible. Heh, with Math of course. Alright here goes the video I made as promised :)

The lyrics as followed:

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe that your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

I believe forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse TV evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye