life can be sweet

I feel so alive right now.


So this was what it feels like.


This was it. Is. Not was. Cause right now, everythings gonna be in the present tense.

hail hail hail

One more time, let us hail

by Rishik Menon

we were the ones

the ones they wanted

we were the warriors

who answered the call

we gave it all

alone and united

no one before us

to help catch our fall

we were the few

the few that were summoned

educated from the start

that we could have it all

we were the few

promised the hereafter

of legend and history

of our own to call

why was it us

was not what we wondered

no questions no fuss

of this duty we bore

they gave us their trust

Our victory they hungered

So we took up their banner

And rode out to war

LOTR intro

The House is changed.
I see it in the laundry.
I feel it on the Floor.
I smell it in the air.


Much that once was is lost. For now none who remember it live here.

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10 points for whoever can identify the inspiration for that. whoo!

Bill Jean. Thats my...

Stardust was lovely.

Claire Danes is captivating...

mmm...


Lit paper in a week. Im off

thoughts on air con

So once upon a time, we were told to save energy and the earth, by keeping our air conditioners to the low temperature of 24 degrees celcius. A temperature that did not require much energy from the air con, considering our room temperature was only 27/8 degrees.


Times have changed and our room temperature is now 32. It thus requires even more energy to keep the air conditioner at 24.


So today, we are told to save energy and the earth and keep our air conditioners to the low temperatures of 27 degrees celcius. Presumably of course a valiant yet reasonable/practical effort to stop global warming.


Now all those years we tried keeping our air conditioners at 24 degrees. And our room temperature was still rising. Could the fact that air conditioners are one of the greatest contributors to the green house effect have anything to do with this?


There is something horridly cyclical about this trend of avoidance. Something horidly ironic of our refusal to bite the bullet. I just know it is.

clicking the wrong buttons again

Contemplating the complexities of Zeno's Paradox in Relation to Jumps in Motion

by Rishik V. Menon



It takes me that way
what? It takes me away
in slow motion, in coffee cups
in single lettered grades.
But those are just flourishments,
and i cant care for them as much
as I do, when it takes me
and is taking me during the 'nows' of my life
cause during the 'nows' its always in
slow motion. And 'Now' is always the
best time, so take me today.
And its taking me now, in slow motion
And now im under rain,
head dislodged from my slouch
eyes held firmly by playful lines to the clouds.
And now i see the rain, and drop by
drop falling, down playful ropes from
the clouds, teasing, blinking, in solid slow motion.
In fluid slow motion, it takes me away.
And green shines bright under orange streetlights
which to my eye, I might decide to take
as the moon. And the ropes roll off the green,
and I watch it roll onto me, as it takes me away.
And now I know Im in the rain.
And now im ignoring all the sounds, cause the
streelights mean, streets, and they distract me
from the 'nows'. So just my eyes are held firm by
them lines, to the beautiful black, the auroral orange
(which I have decided is the moon) the still green
and the globules of bent light and space time
in slow motion in 'now'.

i hate youtube... okay, so maybe i dont.

I wonder when i grow old...


Will i be able to afford a house like Kyle's?



And just sit back with a bunch of friends and listen to Eagles, Beatles and Michael Learns to Rock.



I wonder.

serendipity

Todays episode is called serendipity!
are you ready? lets go!





If my parents didnt move to pasir ris i would never have met dharvin.
If I never met dharvin, I would never had appealed to St Patrick's.
If I never went to St Patrick's well... alot of things wouldnt have happened. anyway...
If I had never put Band as my 2nd choice I probably would never had ended up in cricket, scouts and prefects
If Nicholas GN had never went to Temasek in PAE I probably would never had appealed there.
If I never had as awesome a CCA record (with cricket scouts and prefects) I probably would never have got into TJ
If I had never got into TJ I probably would never have wanted to do Arts
If I had never switched to Arts, I would never have met my awesome class and joined alpha
If I had never joined alpha, I would never have become house captain
If I never joined my class, I would never have friends who reminded me about my tamil A level (which I almost forgot)
If I never returned early for my Tamil A Level I would never met lich studying History and reading the model essays
If I never Met Lich that day I would never have known about those essays or the key to scoring well.
If I never bought those model essays I would never have felt as good as I do today.



Wow, dammit. Life is good to me. I swear it is. I swear upon life, its been so sooo good. Oh how thankful I am. So soo thankful. Sigh.

Sidney-Sussex. Sounds scrumptious. mmm!


25 days to go. Gonna pour all I got into this.


Well... not all. But more than I usually would. Good Night world.
Oh, how life is good.