I'm waiting for these days

 The sun engulfed by the clouds.

It's another Sunday, always funny how time seems to fly quickly during the weekends no? Well, whatever it is, time flies, and we move along with it. It's week 6 tomorrow so lets welcome it with all the open arms and joy! Yay :) 5 weeks went by so yup, still have 23 more hahaha. Which I truly believe it will be gone in a blink of an eye.

Today was another ordinary Sunday I suppose, the usual run, the usual grocery shopping etc. Oh I cut my hair! Hehe. Yes yes some of you might feel that my hair is still short and why do I bother cutting it short? Cause I love short hair :P I come to an extend that when I feel my hair is thick, it's time to go for a haircut. When I can feel my sideburns irritating me, it's time to cut them off. And I even plan my haircut, and my next one. Ho ho ho. I just love myself in short hair, I don't know why.

Cutting my hair on the same shop always reminds me how much time has passed by. Cause I've been going to that shop since I was in primary 5. And the aunty still recognises me, still knows me, still asks me how's poly life and so on. And the occasional chat about the days when I was still in primary 5. How awesome is she eh? And yeah that's why I'm always reminded of how much time has flown by.

Went to eat at Holland in the afternoon again. Craving for some chicken rice but I ended up getting some roasted pork haha. So yummy! And I succumbed to a slice of Coffee Macadamia cheescake from Coffee Bean which is lovely as well, accompanied by a cup of Chai tea latte of course. Well nothing's wrong with indulging and pampering yourself once in a while I guess.

And went for my Sunday running session and oh gosh I don't like today. I don't know why but my timing was worst than last week's one :/ When somehow for the past 3 weeks my timing improves EVERY week. Maybe it's the fatigue factor, or the fact that I actually ran too quickly in the beginning and that's why I get tired easily. So yeah...

Somehow now I'm feeling really scared of Sundown. I don't know, I felt unprepared and just... Not confident about it. Well as I said I may not beat my PB this time round, but that doesn't mean I won't give my best shot. I will run and I will finish the race! That, for sure, will happen. I'm just hoping I can roughly maintain my PB and if best, improve it.

I feel Sundown is my literal meaning of defying gravity. I've been training for Sundown for the past 3 weeks already. As compared to SCMS, I trained it for 3 months or so. See the difference? So if I can really beat my PB in Sundown, I have really defied gravity! You know what I mean right.

Oh well here I come week 6! It's gonna be an awesome week, I know! With my sis coming to Singapore on Wednesday hehe. And Sundown on Saturday, and I have to continue my report and my research! So gonna be busy but I can do it :) See you! Have a great week ahead :)

I'm waiting for these days to turn into a memory. Something we can smile about, but something rewarding we can always look back upon. Like how my memories bring a smile to me, I'm sure these days will do the same to me :)

I guess memories are right

 I guess memories are right

They smile when I needed to smile

Talk to me when I have no one to talk to

Take me to another time, another place

Just like once, where I always do

Today... Was a headach-ey Saturday :/

I woke up in the morning as planned to go for the reccee with the year 3s band members at St John Island but urgh I woke up with a headache and I was sweating! Feeling rather feverish so I decided not to come. Don't wish my condition to be worst when I go there. Even though I already packed my lunch etc, so sorry for not being able to go :( I really wish I could though sigh...

Still having headache now, but thankfully fever's gone. I don't know why either!

Yesterday was a great night cause I fell asleep haha. Reached home at 10 and I lay down in my bed and I didn't realise that I fell asleep till 4. Then I woke up to change into home clothes and then, finally, I continue sleeping till 7 which I then realised I was having fever :/ So I decided to stay at home for the whole day. The day was really hot. But it's good to see the blue skies :)

At night I went for an impromptu dinner with Ade and Neal haha. Oh well we and our impromptuness heh. And was discussing something rather funny hahaha. I don't know, but my choice is ignorance is bliss. Though I find it'll be an interesting choice HAHAHA. And all the best to Neal for your field camp! You can do it! :D

Today when I woke up, those 5 words on the title pop out in my head, suddenly.

I guess memories are right

I don't know how they came about but well yeah. I guess memories are right. Maybe it's time for me to write a poem about it mwahaha. What.

Anyway I haven't showed you have I? Here's a lyric video I made to the song Beautiful Life by Corrinne May! I made the video kinda long ago but just sharing it now. I hope you like it! :) Man can't wait for her concert next month! It'll be awesome :D

Enjoy the video and don't forget to smile! It's a beautiful life~


I guess memories are right

Le drive

Wow I'm currently blogging with my cousin's laptop! Haha. Cause he sent it for repair here and we're making sure that the problem really disappears and nothing's wrong with the lappy. Damn I love the laptop! Haha feel like getting one too heh. Talking about lappy, I realised something is wrong with my laptop! Okay not the laptop but this weird icon appears on my file, especially PDF and PPT files. And it's the downloaded ones that have them.

OMG I hope it's not a virus! :/

And I was talking with Candy on twitter last night about getting Mac haha. Yes Mac is really tempting for me. It has Photoshop and Garageband and so on! That like completes my wish please! Haha. Oh well but I won't be getting one like soon, cause my laptop is working fine. I'm thinking of buying a new one after I graduate though. And yes I'm looking and staring and mesmerising at Mac.

Today was an awesome Thursday I guess. Had a meeting with Dr Tan again, and we talked and new task is given. He gave me an inspiration about something. I'll talk about it below. And since Vithya is still not well yet today I went to lunch with Saeyeoh and Niv! Thanks for accompanying me :D And also then Miss Kwek joined us. We had a great laugh together! :D

And I'm back to work.

Band was alright as well. We had sectionals and I get to practice Indiana Jones. Whew can't believe I'm playing first cause now is the first time that I play first part on clarinet in my life. But it's great, I'll play with my best ability of course! :) Band ended early today but we had a briefing after that. Hehe can't wait for the camp. My station's gonna be awesome.

Okay so what inspiration did Dr Tan gave me?

Alright I really hope just now I don't sound like a lazy guy to him asking about holidays during my ITP. I'm just asking to clarify cause I'm rather confused heh. But then he told me that well in year 3s, we have no holiday. Not entirely true, but metaphorically it is. And I agreed to him telling him well yes, in year 3 all we can do is to push ourselves hard and finish this last sprint of my poly life.

And yeah, his words gave me some inspiration. Like well I know FYP and year 3 and modules and CCA and life and the future is not really a perfect match to begin with. But well I feel that, let's turn the table around and make FYP something we don't dread. But something that turns to drive us through this tough and rough year. Make it a reward you will take from your polytechnic life.

We can do this! We're all in our last sprint already so lets go! :D

Alright I guess that's all for tonight. I want to rest early tonight cause last night I somehow don't get enough sleep. Oh well I have to break the habbit of sleeping late really. Once a habit is formed, it's hard to break. Cultivate good habits. Not bad ones. Nights! TGIF everyone :D

PS: My Moonlit Sailor CD is here!!! From Sweden! Woohoo :D

It's such a cold cold world!

Yup I'm currently listening to Paramore's song Hello Cold World! Actually I found this song a long time ago, thanks to an awesome Youtube user who made a nice lyric video of the song. I'll post it below hehe. It's such an awesome song! Really awesome. I officially found a new song for running haha. Perfect song to run, it will make you like just run, don't care about the world! Haha just kidding.



But yeah, don't care about all the negativities that we get from this world. Cause it's such a cold cold world! And I'll just make the best of everything I have :D :D :D

Somehow today makes me feel old. Cause... Okay not only today.

Somehow I feel that today was a Thursday. So this morning I freaked out cause I thought I forgot to bring my mouthpiece for band "later". Even though last night I packed my bag with an extra shirt (thinking I will be changing for the talk today which is a freaking Wednesday). Secondly on Monday I wanted to tell Kayheng that I can't come for the reccee on Saturday as I want to rest before Sundown. But the race is next Saturday! Hahaha. Oh dead, I'm growing old.

But well, we are all growing old aren't we?

Today was a normal day I guess... Just ordinary Thursday. Lunched with Cai Hong again as Vithya went back home halfway to see the doctor. Hope everything will be fine for you ASAP! Just take care and rest well hehe. Drink lotsa water. After work today I went to the sharing session for the LEAP Team Nepal and Kili who went for their expeditions last March/April. Thanks for the awesome sharing session today, cause it really drives me to accomplish my LEAP Advance too! :)

I'm aiming for Nepal. It's a beautiful country which I really aim to go. Plus it's one item from my life's to-do list so yeah... I hope I can go there! Plus seeing the photos from today's sharing. Ahh so gorgeous! And... Looked scary too. Oh well. I'll make this a come true! As Paramore says... It's not how you planned it to be but how you make it happen! Woohoo (still high on the song apparently).

Alright that's all for today. I'll see you once again. Ciao!

Shallow

 Miss those tree planting days

When peace and joy come in different ways

The smell of soil, the autumn's breeze

Where I let go of reality, setting it free

I'm currently writing this while listening to Distant World CD from Chrisvensia. Yes. Distant World. FINAL FANTASY SONGS! I sweat, FF is like one of the best memories of my childhood. Something that's worth remembering about, something I feel proud of playing. Though I only play like FFV (I think) VII, VIII, IX, and lastly was X. I did play FF tactics on Gameboy though haha. My favourite gotta be VIII and IX. X is nice too, but the first 2 are just special. Somehow.

I always feel sad whenever I listen to Final Fantasy songs. A sense of sentimentality, and a tinge of the good days of my childhood, the songs of Nobuo Uematsu, everything just fits in so nicely. And that's how I feel sad. And the sad thing is I don't know where did my songs go to! I used to have a bunch of FF songs in my computer. I think it's in my computer but it's.. Practically unused now. I hope can retrieve back the stuff I got there heh.

Anyway today was a normal Tuesday I suppose. What an unlucky morning where I lost my  phone's bottom cover! The one used to cover the simcard and SD. And thanks tot hat my phone wasn't functioning, it always asks me to restart and so on. So today after school I went to HTC Help Centre straight ahead (I was planning to run in school :/) And yup got a replacement now.

Vithya has been sick for the past two days, she's coming back tomorrow though! I hope you're feeling better already today so that you've the health and strength to come tomorrow hehe.

Today I just realised how shallow minded people can be. How dare you judge other people without even knowing the real fact. Nevermind, Karma will do its job.

But anyway at the end of the day, I went home and I put down my bag, changed and went right away for a run! It was like 7.15 PM by the time I ran. And so the sky was dark and it feels good to run at night, along the car lights and under the street lamps! Ran to Holland and back, it really feels good hehe. Seriously can't wait for Sundown now :)

And I cooked the fluffiest omelette I've ever cooked! So fluffy and nice, with tomatoes :D Damn I hope I can maintain the quality of my future omelettes heh. It's pretty hard to cook an egg. Fluffy and nice. Most of the time my eggs are either normal, ruined, and destroyed haha. Even my chorizo Spanish omelette wasn't as fluffy as today's one! So I'm proud heh :P

Ah cause today Vithya was still on MC, Caihong was kind enough to accompany me for lunch! I was just going back to my office when I met her and she asked me if I wanna go lunch together. Though she didn't eat as she ate ice cream already hahaha. Nevertheless thank you for your company and it feels good to know I have someone who shares the same thought as me! Apparently I'm not alone. And it feels good to know that :)

Yeah... I guess that's all for this Tuesday. What a day! Haha. See you then :) Going for tomorrow's LEAP Nepal and Kili sharing! Yep, I WANT to be the next one going next year :D

C'est la vie, la vie continue

Happy Mother's Day

 Inner Mongolia, oh Inner Mongolia

How much I miss you

Well first of all wishing all the beautiful mothers around the world a Happy Mother's Day! Well... Theoretically, it's not Mother's Day in Indonesia so... But who cares, doesn't need a Mother's day to tell our mums how much we love them and how wonderful they are! So to my mum, I love you! Hehe. Well... It's very hard for me, well I'm a guy, to say that to my mum like suddenly. I think if I do that she'll be damn shocked too. Hehe.

Today was another unfruitful Sunday :( Sigh, again I woke up late! Can't believe that I woke up late again even though I set like 3 alarms haha. I did wake up at 9 though, then at 10. And I told myself lets wake up. I sat up straight on my bed, only knowing to wake up again at 1130 :/ Oh well so I just woke up and I went to Clementi to get lunch and to go to Popular to get my pen refill cause it's empty heh.

I have to get used to eating lunch alone every Sunday now. I wanted to go to Holland but mehh wanna try something new so I went to Clementi instead. I guess the sucky thing about eating alone, one of it that is, that it's hard to find a sear heh. Cause no one will be there to help you "chop" seat while you go get your food. But nevertheless I found one just now, and was sharing it with an old man just now haha.

Solitary lunch, solitary happiness.

Then went for the usual grocery shopping and yup that's all for my day out. It was a normal Sunday as usual. I had some works for Space done! I hope can continue further sooner or later heh. And then I went for a run! Okay now I learnt that I should go for a run latest by 530. 5 is a perfect timing. I went to run at about 450 just now and finished at about 530 or something like that. I went for a long walk after my run! Ran 5K today :D :D Actually more, about 5.6 heh.

So anyway I went for a new route today and I went for a run at the Sunset Way track! Not the Dover one. It's been like 7 YEARS since I ran there, or 8. Cause I remember I used to run there with my sister almost every Sunday morning there to train for our Napfa test. Yes a primary 5 kid running 2.4 for it haha. But nahh I was walking and running then :P

Somehwo it's quite funny cause I've always have the thought that it's 4.8 K in one way. So today I was thinking of running a 9.6 K through and back. But well I was surprised to know it's only 2.4 and the run was really great, my timing improved that's for sure, but I still need to improve. I'm almost there :) So yeah the weird thing was... When I was young I somehow feel that 2.4 K was such a long long and endless track that I was so happy to finish it.

I guess there are two possible reasons. One that I was still a kid, small body and the world looks so huge to me. And two... I'm a better runner! Mwahaha. Duh, I mean I wasn't really trained then right.

But it's just funny how much... The world has changed. How much I have changed. Being a kid, being a primary 5 kid. Oh and I even remember asking my sis to rush back home cause I want to watch Yu-Gi-Oh at channel i. Back then the channel still existed! Haha. And I love their weather forecast song. Now it's no longer here heh.

Oh well those were the good old days when I was still a young boy, still innocent and yeah. Cute. HAHAHA. Can't believe that it was 8 years ago. Now I'm in Poly, a grown up young adult and well, my chapter here in Poly is also coming to an end. Time flies.

Alright that's all for today! It's 12:11 now, I've been dragging to blog oh gosh. Shame on me. See you soon! Here's to an awesome week 5 ahead! Have an awesome week everyone :)

Sundown Lets Go!

 Sundown here we come!

It's passed 12 AM now, but again I want to blog int he content of a great Saturday! Hehe. Well the afternoon was not so great. It was great... Slacking around. Oh so lovely. But then NONE of my plans for the day was executed. I failed once again, but nevermind I guess, time has went by so I can't possibly return the clock can I? Whatever it is, I did have an awesome night though!

Anyway my plan for the day was to actually wake up like 10 AM, then do some of my "projects" hehe. Personal one that is. I ended up waking up at 1130 -_- oh man, but nevertheless I quickly rise and shine and then I went to yeah, start on my project. After about 30-45 minutes of lazying around in bed. Mehh. anyway so yep, I did one already. And it feels good! But my "major" one wasn't done :/ I want to do it tomorrow hehe.

You will see them soon.

At night I went to collect the Sundown race pack with Doreen, Yong An and Saeyeoh joined us too in the end! So did Alicia. Oh man now I really can't wait for the race! My second 10K marathon and I'm so excited about it haha. And best is that I'll be running with lots of friends! So yup. And I think I'll really enjoy running beside the Singapore night scenes. So gonna be exciting.

There's still two more weeks though. And I gotta keep on training and pushing! :)

Then we went for dinner at a new mall... I think, opposite Expo MRT. Well honestly speaking it was my first time today that I stopped at Expo and went inside there. Yes, I know, I'm slow. Dinner at Bagus haha, really yummy and it feels good to have a nice chat with the 4 of them again! So miss my GT :( Hope we can all gather once again in one fine day! :)

All of us head back home, but I went to meet Jes, WQ and Neal! It was a Korean restaurant and it's awesome haha. Should go there another time! And my first time drinking Soju with Weiqi! It's nice, since it's only 20% it's so much better than vodka, and we can drink shots without feeling bleargh. And I love their onion pancake! So yum yum. Will go back!

And to Neal all the best for your field camp! :)

Somehow I realised, as much as I love to simply laze around and do nothing on a Saturday, I feel that the more I do nothing, the more this sulky feeling will reach me. It's just... I don't know. One of the best things to do in life is to really laze around without feeling guilty, laze around because you want to, because you plan to. I have to make my weekends more meaningful I guess.

But the weather is playing too. As much as I would love to go out for a shoot, or simply wonder around and so on, sometimes the weather is just not on my side  and I can't do the things I planned to do either. Like today I wanted to go to ECP before meeting Yong An and Doreen. Firstly, I checked the weather online and it says it was going to be rainy from 2-4 PM. Then I looked outside my window, it was cloudy and sunny at the same time. I feel so lost heh. I ended up not going.

Next few weekends I should e busy... So yeah I hope I can get to go to some places. I kept telling myself that I need a getaway. I need to go somewhere. But I never make it happen. And the only person that can make it happen is who else, but me.

Human nature. Or... My nature.

Oh well alright that's all for tonight. I'm going to have a great Sunday tomorrow! See you all soon, I seriously can't wait for Sundown! Though I might not beat my personal's best (PB), that doesn't mean I won't give me best shot in the race. Alright nights all!

We're all growing up.