I once heard of a story between a boy, B and and a girl, G. B was sure that G was the significant half that he has always being waiting for and so, he told her about his feelings. B knows that G had some feelings for him too but she was not confident of committing into a relationship after being hurt in the previous one. She was worried what if B turns out in the end to be like her previous one. How could she possibly regain her trust of a guy after having her heart shattered to pieces? What if B gets tired of her one day and looks at another direction? What if the passionate fire of courtship turns into a cold meaningless routine in the future? She just knows that if she goes into another relationship, she also has to prepare for the possibility of feeling the sting of a breakup and she does not want to go through that tormenting painful sensation again.
B has also considered about the two years down the road where he would be leaving the country to study in England for one year. G wonders if their relationship could stand the test of time of being apart. However, B wants to tell G that when that time comes, there would not pass a single day where he would not think about her when he is abroad. He would miss her every single day. It is an obstacle but with the grace and guidance of God, B would do all he can to make sure that G is not left out or feel alone. When the relationship comes out from that trial of fire, it would be even stronger than before. The distance makes the heart grow fonder. B has never doubted his level of loyalty because he knows that he has God to guide him through all of it.
Right now, B just wants G to know that he wants to be part of the healing process of her emotional hurt and pick up the pieces of her shattered confidence and put it back together. He wants to be her pillar of support when she's feeling sad and down. B wants to be her companion in the journey of life together and shares his moment of joys with her. B wants G to look at it in another perspective. What if it works out in the end? What if B is unlike the others? In order to overcome our fears and worries, we need to face it and stare at it in the eye. All humans fall at some point of time, and we could only go further in life if we learn to pick ourselves up from our falls. G does not need to pick herself up alone because B would do it together with her to overcome her hurts. Relationship has two elements in it - either the mysterious passionate or the regulated pragmatism. If its just mysterious passionate, it is a relationship that is reckless and based on physical lust with no regards of future plans. If its just the safe regulated pragmatism, the relationship would turn out more like a business contract than natural emotions. A successful relationship has a fusion of both, the mysterious passion to keep the fire burning and the pragmatism to keep its rationality grounded along with other ingredients like trust, understanding and knowledge of responsiblity.
B will continue to wait for the day when G would hold his hand as a sign of her trust.
Friday, 18 July 2008
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Wanted
Lol..I waited for *someone* to watch it first before writing a review on this. Nevertheless, for unsuspecting people, warning : spoilers ahead..
Wanted begins on a humorous note regarding fat bosses and boring jobs although it's based on a serious theme called assassination. The protagonist's life was sorry enough and of course, he was glad in a way when he was introduced into an adrenaline pumping shady underworld organization. The storyline's a little corny but it does have a good twist in the end. Cross turns out to be father and not the guy at the beginning of the show. Wanted is a cool movie not because of its storyline but the physics and action motion that is involved in it. It was the physics that made the movie worthwhile watching eventhough one may not fancy its story progression.
The trademark of the movie is of course, the curling bullet. Everytime I watched a bullet curl, I always think of Owen Hargreaves/David Beckham curling freekicks. It's so distracting..haha. Some may think this is just Hollywood, but curling bullets are no myths. If I'm not wrong, the bullets must be of spherical (round..just like the old ancient times) instead of the modern pointed ones. In any case, the fighting scenes choreography is good and the train derailing scene just takes the audiences' breath away. For the acting part, I just admire Morgan Freeman. Gosh, he just has the commanding aura and is so eloquent in his speech. Top class performance from him. I'm looking forward to see him in the Dark Knight too..lol.
In some ways, I think that the Hitman movie should have injected a bit of those projectile physics for drama's sake. Overall, "Wanted" is a great movie to watch if you want to experience the adrenaline rush. Just don't think too much about how a bullet can go 360 degress and giving people headshots and finally boomerang back to the shooter. And the last words of our protagonist is classic : What the f*** have you done lately?
Wanted begins on a humorous note regarding fat bosses and boring jobs although it's based on a serious theme called assassination. The protagonist's life was sorry enough and of course, he was glad in a way when he was introduced into an adrenaline pumping shady underworld organization. The storyline's a little corny but it does have a good twist in the end. Cross turns out to be father and not the guy at the beginning of the show. Wanted is a cool movie not because of its storyline but the physics and action motion that is involved in it. It was the physics that made the movie worthwhile watching eventhough one may not fancy its story progression.
The trademark of the movie is of course, the curling bullet. Everytime I watched a bullet curl, I always think of Owen Hargreaves/David Beckham curling freekicks. It's so distracting..haha. Some may think this is just Hollywood, but curling bullets are no myths. If I'm not wrong, the bullets must be of spherical (round..just like the old ancient times) instead of the modern pointed ones. In any case, the fighting scenes choreography is good and the train derailing scene just takes the audiences' breath away. For the acting part, I just admire Morgan Freeman. Gosh, he just has the commanding aura and is so eloquent in his speech. Top class performance from him. I'm looking forward to see him in the Dark Knight too..lol.
In some ways, I think that the Hitman movie should have injected a bit of those projectile physics for drama's sake. Overall, "Wanted" is a great movie to watch if you want to experience the adrenaline rush. Just don't think too much about how a bullet can go 360 degress and giving people headshots and finally boomerang back to the shooter. And the last words of our protagonist is classic : What the f*** have you done lately?
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Hectic session cleared
I'm so glad that my Malaysian law presentation is over. It's been a hell of a time trying to complete it. So, technically, the difficult part of this week is cleared and I don't have to worry much until mpw presentations next week =p. Ahhhh..I only had like 3-4 hrs of sleep after rushing through the script and powerpoint like mad. By right this morning was supposed to be extra time for me to finish up but ack, i need to go to the SAO area somemore to help out with the law awareness week at 9am. At around 10.30 am, i cannot tahan liao and told one of the sem 2 that I need to rush back hostel to finish up my presentation. Fortunately, I managed to clear the last 10% and got the slides ready too. I was first to present haha..due to the "lotterry ticket" i pick two days ago. I really thank God that I have enough materials to last for 18 minutes of the presentation. (thanks also to the encouragement given by *someone*..hehe..really appreciated it :))
Btw, I've met the "legendary" moral lecturer Steven twice today. First, it was at the law booth where he just grab a handful of those declaration human rights article papers and then walked away. the other time was at the Amnesty international death penalty talk. Ummm..he doesn't look very friendly though as compared to Raymond..hahaha. Anyways, AI's talk offer an interesting perspective on death penalty since they're opposed to the usage of it. I can't really help much at the law booth today cos of my work burden. Now that it's gone, I can have a clear mind to help tomorrow.
Btw, I've met the "legendary" moral lecturer Steven twice today. First, it was at the law booth where he just grab a handful of those declaration human rights article papers and then walked away. the other time was at the Amnesty international death penalty talk. Ummm..he doesn't look very friendly though as compared to Raymond..hahaha. Anyways, AI's talk offer an interesting perspective on death penalty since they're opposed to the usage of it. I can't really help much at the law booth today cos of my work burden. Now that it's gone, I can have a clear mind to help tomorrow.
Monday, 14 July 2008
Nice little adventure detour
What the %@^%@^#%!!! I miss my bus ride in Singapore by 5 minutes..a mere FIVE minutes. As a result, I have to pay the effects and consequences that came along it which comes in the form of precious time and energy. *tooooooooot*
Anyways, I completed the primary mission of collecting my A' Levels certificate from Nanyang - the reason why I came all the way to the south in the first place. Probably the last time I'll visit that funny place..haha. I met up with Sandeep on the way to collect it but unfortunately couldn't stay for long since I had got a bus to catch. Btw, the School Graduation Certificate is neat document. I'm fortunate to have my history teacher as the form tutor to write my testimonial since he has got the vocabulary to describe me..haha. I wouldn't want a maths teacher to write my testimonial..haha.
I was already halfway walking to the taxi stand when I realised that I forgot to take my newly-bought formal clothes. So, I ran back all the way to get it before rushing off to the taxi stand once again. When I reach the taxi stand, there's no taxis and there were like 3 extra people in front of me(and they just suddenly appear just when i wanna take taxi). After these pesky pple, I had my taxi and thankfully there's like no jam on the road but there's lots of traffic lights! Argghh..and when i reached the bus area, I rushed to the counter but the worker there say the bus left liao. I was like wth...only 5 minutes. But shit already happened and nasi sudah menjadi bubur. I then went back home to take some refresher and milk to quench my gastric stomach. Anyways, I would say it's a small blessing in disguise because I found out that I actually forget so save my presentation script onto my thumbdrive. So, in being late, I had a second chance to save it and prevent myself the tedious task of rewriting it all over again..Whew! *relieved*
After I had rest enough at home, I started my journey or rather "pilgrimage" to Larkin at Johor Bahru. First up is MRT trip, then switch to bus 170 (lost count the amount of times I keep beeping my ez-link card from coming up and down the bus). Oh, and the Singapore checkpoint is so *toot*. I spent a good 45 minutes standing down there to get my passport chop. Thankfully, I had good Muse music blasting at my ears to keep me company. After checkpoint, take 170 again to Larkin and reached there about 1.50pm. I was wondering if I would end up getting stranded there..haha. Then, at that bus station there, I just hop on to some random bus after some peddler sold me the seremban ticket in which the bus is about the leave. Of course, there's some worry that the random bus would end up at KL instead of Seremban and I would need to waste extra time travelling again. Again, God is good and the random bus did stop at Seremban. Once I reach there, I see no bus going to Nilai available there and so, I take nice little jaywalk around the street of Seremban to the KTM station. I found out the way after some scouting mission last month. It was nice to have a seat in the train and finally, the airport bus that goes to Inti was right at the Nilai bus station when i reached there.
And so says Stan regarding his little "adventure" today after missing the bus by just 5 minutes. That 5 minutes translated into the whole day of "amazing race mode" and he's still screwed for his presentation day on Wednesday :)
Anyways, I completed the primary mission of collecting my A' Levels certificate from Nanyang - the reason why I came all the way to the south in the first place. Probably the last time I'll visit that funny place..haha. I met up with Sandeep on the way to collect it but unfortunately couldn't stay for long since I had got a bus to catch. Btw, the School Graduation Certificate is neat document. I'm fortunate to have my history teacher as the form tutor to write my testimonial since he has got the vocabulary to describe me..haha. I wouldn't want a maths teacher to write my testimonial..haha.
I was already halfway walking to the taxi stand when I realised that I forgot to take my newly-bought formal clothes. So, I ran back all the way to get it before rushing off to the taxi stand once again. When I reach the taxi stand, there's no taxis and there were like 3 extra people in front of me(and they just suddenly appear just when i wanna take taxi). After these pesky pple, I had my taxi and thankfully there's like no jam on the road but there's lots of traffic lights! Argghh..and when i reached the bus area, I rushed to the counter but the worker there say the bus left liao. I was like wth...only 5 minutes. But shit already happened and nasi sudah menjadi bubur. I then went back home to take some refresher and milk to quench my gastric stomach. Anyways, I would say it's a small blessing in disguise because I found out that I actually forget so save my presentation script onto my thumbdrive. So, in being late, I had a second chance to save it and prevent myself the tedious task of rewriting it all over again..Whew! *relieved*
After I had rest enough at home, I started my journey or rather "pilgrimage" to Larkin at Johor Bahru. First up is MRT trip, then switch to bus 170 (lost count the amount of times I keep beeping my ez-link card from coming up and down the bus). Oh, and the Singapore checkpoint is so *toot*. I spent a good 45 minutes standing down there to get my passport chop. Thankfully, I had good Muse music blasting at my ears to keep me company. After checkpoint, take 170 again to Larkin and reached there about 1.50pm. I was wondering if I would end up getting stranded there..haha. Then, at that bus station there, I just hop on to some random bus after some peddler sold me the seremban ticket in which the bus is about the leave. Of course, there's some worry that the random bus would end up at KL instead of Seremban and I would need to waste extra time travelling again. Again, God is good and the random bus did stop at Seremban. Once I reach there, I see no bus going to Nilai available there and so, I take nice little jaywalk around the street of Seremban to the KTM station. I found out the way after some scouting mission last month. It was nice to have a seat in the train and finally, the airport bus that goes to Inti was right at the Nilai bus station when i reached there.
And so says Stan regarding his little "adventure" today after missing the bus by just 5 minutes. That 5 minutes translated into the whole day of "amazing race mode" and he's still screwed for his presentation day on Wednesday :)
Sunday, 13 July 2008
Everything except work..lol
As of now, Stan has not completed even 25% of his Malaysian law class presentation. And half of his day would be gone tomorrow as he would be travelling back. That's because Stan is distracted by so many things yet again..haha. Today, I have drums to practice, Muse live performance songs to immerse in, a brother to help, get a set of formal clothes and *someone* to think of =p
Haha, I really miss my good old drum set with titanium cymbals. It felt superb to play on it once again and this time, I'm not restricted to a one hour limit or some set without a proper right cymbal. Hmm..it's nice to experiment with a couple of new beats too and revise back a few of the new ones that I learnt. Anyways, I'm feeling quite full now after drinking mama's home cooked soup. It's being quite some time since I tasted her cooking..hehe. Oh, I missed listening to a subwoofer. I think if I managed to find some extra cash, I will get one to go along with the my speakers at my hostel. Muahaha, then I can rival those noisy pesky brats below me. I should let them have a taste of Matt Bellamy's electric guitar distortion, Dominic Howard's left-handed drums and Chris Wolstenholme's kaleidoscopic bass guitar at subwoofer level.
Gosh, I think I need to get my arse working at the completion of my script. Looks like I don't need to sleep tonight. Maybe I'll catch sleep at the returning bus trip tomorrow.
Haha, I really miss my good old drum set with titanium cymbals. It felt superb to play on it once again and this time, I'm not restricted to a one hour limit or some set without a proper right cymbal. Hmm..it's nice to experiment with a couple of new beats too and revise back a few of the new ones that I learnt. Anyways, I'm feeling quite full now after drinking mama's home cooked soup. It's being quite some time since I tasted her cooking..hehe. Oh, I missed listening to a subwoofer. I think if I managed to find some extra cash, I will get one to go along with the my speakers at my hostel. Muahaha, then I can rival those noisy pesky brats below me. I should let them have a taste of Matt Bellamy's electric guitar distortion, Dominic Howard's left-handed drums and Chris Wolstenholme's kaleidoscopic bass guitar at subwoofer level.
Gosh, I think I need to get my arse working at the completion of my script. Looks like I don't need to sleep tonight. Maybe I'll catch sleep at the returning bus trip tomorrow.
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Catching up on old times
I was supposed to meet Tai Guan at the bus-stop opposite my house at 11.30. I thought I was late when I came down at 11.45. I saw a guy with quite short hair(army cut..haha) listening to mp3 at the bus stop and I thought that it was him waiting there. So, I laughed and said hi to him. No reaction and he gave me a funny look. Instantly, I knew I said hi to the wrong guy and I quickly walked away. So embarassing and pai seh! Anyways, I told him to find me at the MRT cos I need to buy a new ez-link card. Even he can't recognise me because of my longer "rocker" hairstyle.
We went to Nanyang office and asked them for the A' Level certs but the office was closed. Darn, this means I had to go on a Monday morning and then rush back to Seremban afterthat. In the end, we decided to go Cafe Cartel to have our lunch. I've decided to pick Western food cos it's hard to get proper Western meals in Nilai. Anyways, I ordered a combo of spaghetti and sirloin steak together. The bill came and guess wad, the service charge + tax was 17% of the bill which was about an extra S$7 per person. Zzzzzz..but fortunately TG managed to squeeze out a 10% discount using his student card. Haha..we had a great time chatting bout stupid old times at Nanyang, all the funny bunch of folks that we came across before and also on our current different experiences. Later went to lepak in the usual areas of Kinokuniya, HMV and Yamaha music store..lol
Anyways, I'm absolutely delighted with my purchase from the music store today. I got Muse's live CD at their Wembley concert 2007! They titled that album HAARP, another connotation to Matt Bellamy's fascination about conspiracy theories..lol. Mine was the special box version and for an extra S$1, I got mini posters of the band members!..haha. Muse live performances are usually mind-blowing and to own them in high quality audio version plus also the DVD video..wahahaha. Now, I can listen to "extended versions" of Stockholm Syndrome and some of the songs in the album also got the extra electric guitar solo and riffs. Definitely a dream compilation for rock lovers :)
We went to Nanyang office and asked them for the A' Level certs but the office was closed. Darn, this means I had to go on a Monday morning and then rush back to Seremban afterthat. In the end, we decided to go Cafe Cartel to have our lunch. I've decided to pick Western food cos it's hard to get proper Western meals in Nilai. Anyways, I ordered a combo of spaghetti and sirloin steak together. The bill came and guess wad, the service charge + tax was 17% of the bill which was about an extra S$7 per person. Zzzzzz..but fortunately TG managed to squeeze out a 10% discount using his student card. Haha..we had a great time chatting bout stupid old times at Nanyang, all the funny bunch of folks that we came across before and also on our current different experiences. Later went to lepak in the usual areas of Kinokuniya, HMV and Yamaha music store..lol
Anyways, I'm absolutely delighted with my purchase from the music store today. I got Muse's live CD at their Wembley concert 2007! They titled that album HAARP, another connotation to Matt Bellamy's fascination about conspiracy theories..lol. Mine was the special box version and for an extra S$1, I got mini posters of the band members!..haha. Muse live performances are usually mind-blowing and to own them in high quality audio version plus also the DVD video..wahahaha. Now, I can listen to "extended versions" of Stockholm Syndrome and some of the songs in the album also got the extra electric guitar solo and riffs. Definitely a dream compilation for rock lovers :)
Friday, 11 July 2008
It's a small world
I was really really really thankful that she reminded me about my passport. Imagine what would happened if Stan got stranded at Larkin bus station or the checkpoint..lol.
Anyways, today I got a lift from Veida's father who happened to be fetching his own boss to Johor Bahru. The first part of the journey was driven by Veida because his papa want him to practice his driving..haha. Then we stopped halfway at one of the overhead bridge restaurants to have a break and Veida's father then took over the driver's seat from there. What happened was that all 3 passengers (me, Veida and his father's boss) were sleeping soundly in the car and that influenced him to feel sleepy too. Then, he really cannot tahan already and then stop at one of the rest area to take a 15 min nap. To stop himself from dozing off, he got a couple of crackers and sweets. Everyone in the car actually had late nights. 3 of us slept at abt 2 am while Veida himself slept at 5 am since he had to complete his project work. When I had enough sleep liao, I had a nice chat with Veida's father.
The world is indeed very small. I overheard Veida's father speaking about Sebana and I told him that my uncle (my papa's eldest bro) worked there before. When he heard my uncle's name, he exclaimed his surprise cos my uncle was actually his boss back at Sebana and they worked together before. He also know my aunt's from Melaka. Woah..imagine what went through Veida's father mind..his son's friend turns out to be his former boss' nephew..lol. Small world indeed.
It was very nice of Veida and his papa in giving me a lift. I'm really grateful to God for giving me such wonderful friends. God bless them :)
Anyways, today I got a lift from Veida's father who happened to be fetching his own boss to Johor Bahru. The first part of the journey was driven by Veida because his papa want him to practice his driving..haha. Then we stopped halfway at one of the overhead bridge restaurants to have a break and Veida's father then took over the driver's seat from there. What happened was that all 3 passengers (me, Veida and his father's boss) were sleeping soundly in the car and that influenced him to feel sleepy too. Then, he really cannot tahan already and then stop at one of the rest area to take a 15 min nap. To stop himself from dozing off, he got a couple of crackers and sweets. Everyone in the car actually had late nights. 3 of us slept at abt 2 am while Veida himself slept at 5 am since he had to complete his project work. When I had enough sleep liao, I had a nice chat with Veida's father.
The world is indeed very small. I overheard Veida's father speaking about Sebana and I told him that my uncle (my papa's eldest bro) worked there before. When he heard my uncle's name, he exclaimed his surprise cos my uncle was actually his boss back at Sebana and they worked together before. He also know my aunt's from Melaka. Woah..imagine what went through Veida's father mind..his son's friend turns out to be his former boss' nephew..lol. Small world indeed.
It was very nice of Veida and his papa in giving me a lift. I'm really grateful to God for giving me such wonderful friends. God bless them :)
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