344. paddlepop and swenson

saturday and sunday's cip was the most fun and meaningful i've had in a long time. it certainly beats collecting newspapers. painting with the class was very enjoyable, even though the house was hot and stuffyl. and there were greenish-pink paddlepop on the wall, which eventually still turned into strawberry milk. the lady was also quite kind (and clean, luckily), but she named me samson, which was misheard as simpson and swenson.

wiki says:
"Samson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) (Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16).

Samson is a Herculean figure, who is granted tremendous strength by God to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats unachievable by ordinary humans: wrestling a lion, slaying an entire army with only a jawbone of an ass, and destroying a temple."

anyway, it would be good if more of such cips could be organised :)

posted by datf @ 2/28/2011 07:45:00 pm 0 Comments

343. happy cny

its cny again. i used to be quite excited about it, but it doesnt seem to interest me as much anymore, although its still my favourite holiday. now its just almost like another holiday to me. i remember years ago when i still thought it was extremely fun and i come home to school after cny celebration to be greeted by my grandma and aunts preparing for steamboat for reunion dinner and praying. its full of festive spirit. but the last few years, it was coming back home to nothing much but waiting to go to a restaurant for reunion dinner instead. of course, i wouldnt mind not having steamboat because i dont want to tire my family out preparing for it.

maybe its something else that i feel is lacking, or that the feeling simply just faded away. i just feel more and more adverse to holidays. i feel like i just want to attend school everyday, forever, and lead a routinal life. am i getting too accustomed to school? how do i get back the holiday spirit?

posted by datf @ 2/04/2011 11:21:00 pm 0 Comments