+ Just a step away from paradise

yeah, another template with a lily on it

It is reported that a certain UN survey distributed around the world has failed due to severe problems comprehending the survey question. Surveys were distributed to various countries and continents to seek response to teh answer " What in your opinion should be best done to solve the problem of severe food shortage in the rest of the world?" There were problems however, in respnding to the question in 4 parts of the world. Firstly, people in Europe could not understand the idea of "food shortage". Secondly, People in Africa could not understand what was meant by "food". Also, People in China could not understand what it meant by "opinion", and last but not least, people in the USA could not understand what it meant by "the rest of the world". Thus, we see that the UN survey has inadvertantly failed due to the lack of a comprehensive response to that particular survey.

stolen from Luke's blog(which i thought was quite quite funny):

The European Commission just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have less letters. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away. By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaiining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

A pretty image i just had to record down - :

Two people sitting on a veranda
perhaps lovers, perhaps friends,
Maybe both, holding hands.

Time immortalised in a loving gaze
two people still, ten years later,
lovingly sitting on their beloved veranda.

Sometimes i sit and realise the odd understandable things my mind wants and wanders to, those short happy moments that encapsulate for a while a glimpse of part of a future, of part of my desires. This morning upon my bread and butter i realised that the sweetness of youthful dreams travel on not necessarily the same track and considerations that add on to our list as we get older, but nothign is stagnant, and everything can and will grow together, if we let it, and ourselves grow with it. Yesterday night however, in contrast, my cheek burnt in dastardly embarassment as certain embarassing moments came over and charged across the graphic plains of my memory.

As my life has been altered once
It can change again
Build higher walls around me
Change ev'ry lock and key
Nothing lasts, nothing holds
All of me
My heart's far, far away
Home and free.

I've always been in love with you,
i guess you've always known its true
You took my love for granted
Why oh why
The show is over say goodbye.

this keeps running in my head over and over and over and over. Its driving me nuts. then again, so is everything else.

As usual, Larissa is here to RANT RANT RANT.

Today was just a grumpy grumpy horrid day. Day started out with an abohorrent lack of sleep, a wonderful 4 hours due to a rebellious brain and nose that won't shut off for no darn reason. Dragged myself out of bed early to lug my pretty-but-heavy-when-lugged-around-for-too-long laptop to school, trying to kill 3 hours in between bk and starbucks ( which had a nice cushy chair +1point) whilst stil lugging all my baggage aroound walking from BUONA VISTA STATION TO HOLLAND V (yeah yeah, its not that far away but with that heavy bag + laptop it certainly is) then speedreading through historytext amids cramps and an increasingly wooly brain that now feels like it has the texture of a sponge and the consistency of glue, inable to contain anythign in itself. An entertaining history lecture blistered by the bloody bumpy and jerky ride home on a over-filled bus. 2 annoying girls in front of me who won't shut up, gabbering in horrendous cheena-spilled english that is completely jarring to my ears, and eyes since they have fat oozing here and there, and when they finally shut up and slept remotely reminded me of pigs. the long walk home that made me wonder what in the bloody world possessed my parents to secure a house on a hill since we need no vantage point nor protection from floods, and such height and obscurity just serves to further debilitate my knee caps and shoes which suffer a shortened life span due to the sheer distance of walking in and out daily. Home to slamming doors and unkind faces, a cold empty room smelling of past hurts and grievances, rude faces and disgusting service from the one paid to serve. What i might ask, gave her the right to tyrannise my life still bewilders me.

i hate today, i hate going home to such rubbish, urgh urgh urgh urgh urgh.

I suppose its high time i turned into a dizzy high school love again.

Someone who turns my frowns
into smiles,
My tears into laughter.

Someone who brightens the darkest of days
The scariest of thunder storms
Gone is my darkest hour.

Someone whose warm embrace
moves me more
than a friend's gentle words ever could.

Someone who feels like an angel
protects me with his warm white wings.
He has taught my heart to sing.

to jem: i love you baby, you mean more to me than anyone else, and no one can compare, ok?

To Scott, who has also nicely asked:

1) You are addicted to exercising
2) Hahahaha, try not running for a month, lol.
3) black... hmmm... prolly cos its a lot like you - solitary, and stands out.
4) Hmmm.... you're frank. Its a good thing to have, and hahaha. you make a good whining partner =p
5) first/clearest: Meeting you on the train on the Way to ACJC for the 04' invitationals. You said hello and we became friends ^^
6) Cheetah. Both run fast!
7) Hahaha... erm... is the 7 year plan a must?

To Daph, who will be much missed :(

Goodbye my friend,
Heaven has granted you new wings
to different skies with greener pastures.
Goodbye my friend,
Times spent would not be forgotten
nor thoughts on you lost,
Time will bring us back full circle again.

Goodbye my friend,
Fly beyond the farthest sea
to the land of the free
Goodbye my friend,
remember me by the old oak tree
patiently awaiting time's treasured passing,
It will not be long before we say hello, again.

From Jimmy, who very nicely did this for me ^^

1. You're the best poet I know. (Like, as in personally)
2. Get something published!
3. The red of autumn leaves - bright but also faded, somehow. Both that you're so lively and yet reserving a bit of yourself.
4. You're so enthusiastic about other people...
5. OBS, and you and Penny asking so enthusiastically about me and Keying. LoL
6. Puss from Shrek - cute, but sharp... ...
7. Why are you so sad sometimes?

I sit in front of my Lit texts, and for the first time in my life, horror of horrors, have no idea whatsoever how to approach them. Analysing them is not a problem, but i find myself with no direction whatsoever to do so. Lolita is a nice book, says a lot bout wierd habits and morality and how it shifts blah blah blah, but i've no idea how deep i shld go,or how to best prep in exam orientation. Exam orientation, bloody hell, maybe i shld pull myself out of this, and just analyse for the fun of it, so i'd stiop pondering everytime i pickup the text.

I find myself so rusty nowadays, i feel like parts of my brain are really dropping off, if they have not fallen already in my half-dazed trundlings around the country. I now sit and ponder on the relative existence of the possibility that i can even think nowadays. Sigh.

i cannot believe i am already swamped with work at week 1 of uni. Its positively shocking. i wonder, oh boy, what have i done.

going home on 48 today felt distinctly airplane-ish. Everythign seemed like it was when i am on airplanes - too cold seats, cold fingers and hands, a half-drugged sleepy sleepy me, disorientated lights that shine , the dark night sky, and even the silent in-flight movie (TV mobile had no sound today). It all seeemed so surreal, i wondered if just then the whole bus would grow wings and land me on my window-side. I like my bright red couch and its rouch comfort. It makes me feel cradled when i lean my body in it.

There is something about Lolita that scares me. I don't know if its the perverseness of Humbert Humbert (whom in my opinion is an exceptionally screwed up monster) or the dark nature of human sexual perversion cotton-candy coated in the beautiful language of monsieur humbert who presents his case. The obsessive, possessive nature of his love only disconcerts me, and its lavishment on the innocent heart and body of a 12 year old just brings me a distinct fear and cold clamminess to my heart. Too often i find myself hoodwinked into admiring his dogged care and love for the difficult character that is lolita, but i still can't get over the barrier of his age, or the constant backdrop of fear regarding his scandalous secret. I close my eyes only to see my mind frazzled with the disturbances this reading has laid on my mind. Paedophilia is hard to accept, but the seduction of the novel is beyond what disturbs, its also the fact, that human persuasion can so easily erase the moral lines of our conscience. Words that move like this are hard to find, but the absolute seduction into Lolita makes it a masterpiece. Beautiful to behold, but terrifying, at times absolutely mind stalling, on the reflection of our insides.

Sometimes i think in life its important to know your place in the small and big pictures, and thus avoid having too high expectations of what should be due to us. I suppose in a way that results in having a different set of expectations for different contexts, but it helps not confuse actions and reactions, and what should be proper for you to do either. Oh well. just a random thought really.

To joel and Jimmy, who have also very politely asked ^^

Joel :

1) Joel can't scare with his stares! haha.
2) Prove to me that you aren't gay by getting attached =p
3) Red, cos you are vibrant and metrosexual i suppose.
4) The fact that you can make watching a debate entertaining. We never fail to beam when you go up.
5) First and clearest: The guy we thought was really gayy at the first debate auditions ( i'm sorry =p)
6) A elephant. Very sombre i suppose, both of you.
7) Are you sure nothing's going on between you and .... you know who i'm talking about right?

Jimmy:
1) He's a basketball fannn!
2) erm.... hahah. Meet me and penny. Lol.
3) Blue, calm and cool ^^
4) You're really creative about your solutions. we couldn't have made it past more than half our challenges without you ^^
5) First and clearest: The guy who gave a real creative solution in our first challenge at OBS^^
6) Monkey - Smart!
7) Why is it that you travel so often?!?!

tut. 2 Quizzes to do, courtesy of Luke, as per normal : )

Name 3 schools you went to
SCGS(pri), SCGS, SAJC.

Name 3 things in your purse/wallet
Picture of Jem, identity card, matriculation card.

Name 3 things you like to wear
Tank tops, Togas and erm skirts! .

Name 3 things you always do when you are stressed up / 3 favourite activities
Eat ice cream, go to the beach and slack time with friends/boyfriend.

Name 3 favourite songs right now
Somewhere only we know - Keane, Runaway - Mr Pink, Bad Day - Daniel Powter

Name 3 favourite persons in life
Jeremy, Daffy, WL

Name 3 places you go on a daily basis
Home, School, er the bus stop.

Name 3 things you like to do
Sleep, shop, cuddle.

Name 3 person of the opposite sex that you hold hands before
Jeremy, My kindergarten boyfriend ( =x) erm, Leonard

Name three favourite fruits
LYCHEE, honeydew, watermelon

Name 3 things you are addicted to
Chocolate, milo and Jeremy :)

Name 3 career choices
not necessarily mine =p Lawyer, teacher, bartop dancer.

Name 3 plans for tomorrow
Go to school, drop off sim card for grampa and practise Japanese

Name 3 things that scare you
Cockroaches, Losing him, no more chocolate!.

Name 3 of your essential needs
Air, water, you:)

Name three things you are wearing right now
Blue striped coatie thing, white tank, Jeans.

Name 3 unforgettable events still in your mind
Memory walk last last Saturday, Fireworks on Tues, weds, and erm, my 18th birthday party^^

Name 3 of your favourite bands or musical artistes
Corrinne May, The Corrs, The Carpenters

Name 3 things essential in a relationship
Trust, Love, and Communication ( hee hee, TLC)

Name 3 things you want to do before you leave this world
Travel around the world, go skinny dipping( no really, i think it'll be interesting) and feed a tiger cubby!

Lied to the person you love most?
mmmmm... yeah. About the price of a skirt a while back.

Bluffed a person that you don't like/love him/her when you do?
=x no usually i just don't say anything.

Been trapped in a lift?
nope, don't want ot be either

Violated the law?
and i'd broadcast that here if i did?

Been in jail?
No, and never ever i hope

Love someone with your whole heart?
Yeah, :).

AHEM.no 2:
1.DON'T TAKE IT IF YOU'RE GOING TO LIE.
Tut, no i'm sure telling the truth all the time abt sensitive things would make perfect sense on the WORLD WIDE WEB

2.WHAT KIND OF SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
erm, a blue striped top

3. WOULD YOU KISS ANYONE ON YOUR FRIEND'S LIST? / 4. DO YOU HAVE "A THING" FOR ANYONE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST?
No to both. My lips aren't meant for everyone =p

5. HOW MANY PEOPLE ON YOUR LIST DO YOU KNOW IN REAL LIFE?
All i suppose, else i wldn't give them my emai addy.

6. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT TO HAVE?
I want 3, Jem wants a football team. i suppose we'll settle between 3 - 5 i guess.

7. DO YOU HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTH YOUR PARENTS?
errrr.... not really right nowww... unfortunately.

8. WHAT NAME WOULD YOU WANT TO HAVE BESIDES THE ONE YOU HAVE?
i have plenty of alternatives, but i like mine thanks.

9. WOULD YOU EVER MAKE OUT WITH SOMEONE OF THE SAME SEX?
er i'm straight.

10. WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOUR LAST B-DAY?
Beach picnic plus surprise party! :) perfect

11. WHAT'S YOUR CURRENT RINGTONE ON YOUR PHONE?
Harry Potter. Which the entire SA debate seniors seem to have too, so no one knows who's phone is really ringing =_=

12. WHAT TIME DID YOU WAKE UP TODAY?
0800 hours, but 0815 after rolling around in rebellion

13. WHAT WERE YOU DOING AT MIDNIGHT TWO NIGHTS AGO?
Talking i think, to people online.

14. DO YOU LIKE HAVING YOUR HAIR PULLED?
Don't even think about it

15. NAME SOMETHING YOU CAN'T WAIT TO DO?
hahaha....backpack across EuropE!

16. LAST TIME YOU SAW YOUR MOM?
Yesterday night

17. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WISH YOU COULD CHANGE ABOUT YOURSELF?
Everything! i'm a difficult person to love.

18. IF YOU HAD 300,000 DOLLARS... WHAT 5 THINGS WOULD YOU DO WITH IT?
Buy presents for EVERYONE! Donate some to charity, buy jem a Guitar and more toys, and for my gramparents to go on holiday, and mummy too!

19. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN AT YOUR CURRENT JOB?
er. Student. 2 days?

20. HAVE YOU EVER TALKED TO TOM?
no, never met him. who's he?

21. WHAT COLOR UNDERWEAR ARE YOU WEARING?
hahaha.. hot pink, i think.

22. LAST THING YOU ATE?
Tempura.

23. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE MONTH?
July, it always seems to have the most pleasant memories for me :)

24. YOUR LEAST FAVORITE MONTH?
January. new year blues it always seems.

25. WHAT'S THE LAST PIECE OF CLOTHING YOU BORROWED FROM ANYONE?
er. a Big tee from Jeremy.

26. WHO IS GETTING ON YOUR NERVES RIGHT NOW?
My sister, and my mother. hoo boy.

27. MOST VISITED WEBPAGE?
The Google start page. i always start with that what.

28. LAST PERSON YOU TEXT MESSAGED?
Jeremy:)

29. LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU SAD.
sigh. sorry darling, but its still you.

30. WOULD YOU TAKE A BULLET FOR YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Most probably...yes. if i had one who was with me for years on end.

31. FAVORITE KIND OF DRINK(S)?
MILO! ROOTBEER! Floats!

32. IF SOMEONE YOU HATED DIED, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
I'd probably feel sorry and upset, mourn him/her for a while then forget all about it.

36. HAVE YOU KISSED SOMEONE IN THE PAST WEEK?
yeah, course i have :)

37. LAST EX:
Leonard

38. IF YOU COULD TELL YOUR LAST EX SOMETHING WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
" i think you need to go reevaluate your own character" but really, i prefer not to speak to him ever again.

39. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR EX WOULD SAY TO YOU?
i don't want to think about it.

41. WOULD YOU GET BACK WITH YOUR LAST EX IF YOU COULD?
heaven forbid, thankewverymuch

42. HOW MANY PIERCINGS DO YOU HAVE?
3, 2 on one ear.

43. TATTOOS?
no i don't believe in body vandalism.

44. IF YOU COULD GET PIERCED ANYWHERE WHERE WOULD YOU GET IT DONE?
i have enough, thank you

45. WHAT ARE YOU MOST SCARED OF?
The future.

46. DO YOU LIKE BEING ON STAGE WITH A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WATCHING YOU?
i don't mind, but its not like i get a real kick out of it.

47. WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU WENT TO THE MALL?
Sunday, yupp.

48. WHAT KIND OF CELL PHONE DO YOU HAVE?
erm, Nokia 6111. i like it very much:)

Figures. I think i've finally come to a juncture where i really cannot be bothered to be so bogged down anymore. Faith ultimately is a choice, and its also a choice of what you want to believe, and how you want to believe. No one put a knife to my throat and told me to believe everything the bible said and the church preaches, no one told me that i had to accept all of its teachings. I have brains to think with and a heart to listen with. Its not difficult for me to know whether what someone is telling or preaching to me is right or wrong. I guess what is more important is my appreciation of the fact that someone died for me, that someone loves me enough to be with me all the time, to be my shoulder to cry on and my shelter from the rain. That someone loves me unconditionally. I think that's the crux of my faith and what is really the essence of it. Love. To love myself, my neighbour, and everyone the best i can, and to care and show appreciation for those who love us as well. Simply because i find great joy in it, and i personally feel that is the best way to breakdown all barriers. I don't have to listen to the bing-bang politics up there, i don't have to live my life according to a book. Faith is what i create from my experiences and understanding of my own religion. It may be different from other people, but it doesn't mean its wrong. Most importantly, the beauty of faith lies in believing in something that may not necessarily be empirically proven. It isn't the brain that moves it, it is the heart. (and no, i was not indoctrinated today, i just realised i made myself unhappy thinking about what is going on in teh church, when i am not the church, and the church is not the only thing that makes me believe. He is. )

Whilst I sit and ponder on my relative stupidity of dragging myself out of bed early this morning and trundling down to NUS when i had NO LECTURE AT ALL, i figured i might as well ponder upon other things here, outside praying that i get to keep my four day week after my lecture mix up, which hasn't yet proven to be that disastrous for my time-table so far, i hope =x
School's starting but i have yet to find myself in any sociable state at all, in fact, my desire to even talk to people today has practically evaporated, outside the mad hassle of me trying to find out where my other lecture was supposed to be, or if it were around at all. =_= oh well, its no matter, least i got it sorted out. sigh.

for owen, since he so politely asked ^^

1) Owen has got a cuddly bear stare =p
2) Why don't you go and set up your own UN, lol, in SA
3) Green. Must be your MSN font i think. hmmmm
4) I like your creativity - always helps when we want sexy cases =p
5) First and Clearest- The first junior i tried talking to at our first meeting with u guys, albeit not too successfully =_=
6) A bear
7) What do you actually want to be?

Today i felt like a little fish in the big pond, one of those tiny moments in life where you aren't quite sure what you can do and will do, and that you feel so small and incapable of anything, because you feel like you don't know anything. I suppose its one of those insecurity snippets where you suddenly get gripped with a inherent fear of the future, and a severe irrational doubt of what you can do. Not that you can't do anything, it just suddenly FEELS like you can't. Hmmm... But that aside, i realised that there are some things about me that i should change, bout the way i see certain things, about the way i deal with them, so we shall see as time progresses how far we come and how far we'll go, and how far i will go by changing myself. Xuannie asked me today if we all had changed, and i think we did, but perhaps, as the same blood runs in our veins, we still are, inside, very much the youngguns we were before, just equipped with a bigger brain and less naive heart.

i start school tmr. I am excited and not excited at the same time, which is no real matter simply because i will have to bring my bum to school anyway, be it drudgery or not, and for the essence of the matter having something to occupy me is always a good thing, since i can be a attention seeking whore when i'm positively bored, so like all little children i really should occupy myself, since it is proven necessary. i'm currently suffering from a bout of anti-social inertia and probably will be all thumbs at making friends due to my absolute lack of desire to, and thus will probably spend my uni life conversing with the squirrels and pigeons that inhabit nus. oh well. tmr is a new day, i hope it'll be better than this week, bah.

My God i swear i could kill someone right now. WHAT IS HER BLOODY IRRITATING PROBLEM. Just because u think someone can protect you you believe you have the right to behave in such a bratty manner? when pple point out to me that you are a bratty, brand-conscious selfish little twat, that i let you step all over me, i tell myself its not true out of pure love for you. But of course, you manipulate it don't you? i don't mind if u crash my room early in the morning to borrow mundane things like bags, to lend u my stuff so you look better in front of your friends. I never denied you help if u really needed it, nor have i ever ignored you when you pissed me off big time. But you like to push limits and ask for the things u know i will not give, and when i ask for help ignore me. You just behave in a really bratty bratty manner, and that is enough to piss me off for the rest of the day.

Thank you, for ruining my happy sunday.

Annoyed annoyed annoyed. Yeah, that's pretty much how i spent today.

little things that annoy me , conversations that annoyed me, actions that annoyed me, coincidence that annoyed me. You name it, it prolly occured today. Which makes everything so brilliantly perfect as a annoyance. Today i was spending most of it in a bad moood, more things happened to make it worse, and thanks to the sister i'm now positively seething.

Thank you everyone, for just helping to make it worse.

My mouth burns in quiet contentment of too much chicken rice chilli and lots of laughter . Tea was lovely waffles and ice cream and peppered with lots of interesting events and joel lamenting over his comical stare and owen's cuddly bear one. Debater gatherings are never boring, even if we ended up with a crap debate today lol. just catching up and having fun and laughing brought colour to my cheeks and an extra jauntiness to my step, simply because such good clean fun is so hard to come by. Chicken rice is awesome stuff mannn :) sometimes i wish for a mental camera to take all these perfect candid moments and keep them in my mind. i'm so afriad i'd forget these moments, and recording them can never fully reflect how i feel about these things. But at least i write, so that i can remember, remember that i lived and felt and laughed.

Tmr will be another friend day, which makes me feel happy again. I like having lots to look forward to, and i love everyone of them anyway, so tee hee, i feel so happy.

Wooo.. it feels so good to be able to relax for a week =) its like having a nice break just before term starts so that i can enjoy myself just fine. The fireworks for the past 2 days have been breathtaking, more so because of teh company that i am with (*hug to you). Standing at the esplanade in the warm security of someone's arms and having exquisite fireworks jumpdancetwirlexplode in the sky is truly a nice experience. I really liked it =) even if it was ridiculously crowded on tuesday :) but still, thank you for taking time off to share those moments with me, i really appreciate it.

Oh, and i tried ironing again, and am pretty much confirmed an undomesticated little princess, which therefore would prove adri's theory that i am from a tai-tai school - mainly brought up to stand there looking cute, and talk because we've got rich husbands to hire servants and chauffers and waht not. blehhh. but i still maintain that my uniform is not facial-blotter blue.

for daph:
1) Daph can't spell properly sometimes =p
2) Try when u go to america, flirt for the fun of it =p
3) Hot pink. Hmm... i don't even know why.
4) Haha... you've got interesting taste in activity, lol. its never boring going out with you.
5) First memory - Somewhere down in P1 when we were doing group work together. Clearest - sometime in second orientation, talking bout marriage.
6) Puppy! ( i think cos of our stuff toy family)
7) Would you ever...... haha... i suppose some things shld be better asked in private, lol.

I came home today with many presents from a country far away, courtesy of my aunt and cousins to whom i've yet to say enough thankyous and give enough hugs to. The air smells deliciously of ang zo ( a BIG favourite of mine, red wine chicken) and gives my tummy delightful rumbles of the anticipation of indulgence in yummy dinner.

things at home seem quiet and dull, irreflective of the underlying tensions and currents that spark each other within the quiet four walls of minds, where i know the dark desire to lash out sits in more than one heart, at that noisy dinner table where we partake in a meal just like family and yet not. I suppose sitting and watching, from a place so far removed and yet somehow still at the centre of all this puts me in an odd position, and i seem to speak in opposites today, how strange.

last but not least, to Adri, who has been so kind as to humour me *grin*

1) Adrienne has a cute dog named Shadow
2) lol. Wave the british flag on national day!
3)Orange - Largely because its your favourite colour
4) You really dare to be different, and it shows EVERYWHERE, i love looking at the way u dress especially ^^
5) first - erm, meeting her at the library outside with leonard clearest - dragging her to some orientation game as a person with the name starting with 'A', in exchange for chocolate =)
6) A Tiger =)
7) Would you ever migrate to London completely?

reply to this comment and,
1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your blog

So tag my tagboard yeah? its been a bit inactive *hint hint*

but first, some answers from the pple who did it for me ^^

From Scott:

1. I think you have a cool family
2. I challenge you to abstain from chocolates for a year
3. Blue. (I think its because of your uniform)
4. I like the way you always make the effort to say "hiiii"
5. Clearest memory. that would be the day at the esplanade amphitheatre talking about life and girls and boys.
6. You remind me of a possum. Cute lil things.
7. Were you ever interested in me? =P

From Luke:

1) You seem to have a perpetually cheery disposition, nothing gets you down for long.
2) Take up coaching SA Secondary and put together the SA Dynasty! =)
3) Blue - shade of the ocean (and the SC sun dress I guess)
4) You definitely stick by your friends. That's super admirable.
5) First - 2003 JGs, where you debated. Clearest - that surprise birthday party =P
6) It'll have to be a rabbit. A very hyper one.
7) Do you ever see yourself aligning SA with mainstream debating?

a year ago, i held a happy secret in my heart. A year later, i'm living it out still, a happy open secret that makes me smile in my heart and feel so sweetly happy.

HAPPY FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!! today was a pleasant pleasant day, taking a trip down memory lane, going past out usual date haunts, where we first held hands, where we first dated, walking around the esplanade, which is pretty much our place - i think at least 70% of our dates and outings end up there somehow. Happy Happy meals at central and katong =) Jem being happy and excited about food makes dinner so much more yummy. late night stroll by our beach and our special places, pretty moon shadow and stars out as if just for us, the ships that added starry twinkles to the midnight black sea, and the soothing ocean breeze. Somehow or other it made me really appreciate everything that we had together, because it really doesn't feel like we've been together for a year at all =x Somehow or other it doesn't, but no matter what, one thing stays true : you make my world so much more beautiful, your existence paints my night and day with bright happy colours and adds an extra freshness to the air.

thank you so much for everything, and may we have another year to come and more! ily<3

If i never knew you
the trees would not have been as green
nor the sea as blue,
nothing would sparkle they way they do in memory of you.

If i never knew you,
the air would not smell spring-clean
nor the sky don its brightest of blue hues.
Beauty would be embellished by the absence of you

If i never knew you,
life would cease to be a real experience
love would be attained and lost
no one would show me that the window to my soul
was open all along.