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Be still my soul
Monday, December 29, 2008

Be still my soul

Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Cease from the labour and the toil
Refreshing springs of peace await
To troubled minds and hearts that ache

Be still my soul
God knows your way
And He will guide
For His name's sake
Plunge in the rivers of His grace
Rest in the arms of His embrace

Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Though battles round you rage and roar
One thing you need and nothing more
To hear the whisper of our Lord

Be still my child
I know your way
And I will guide
For My Name's sake
Plunge in the rivers of My grace
Rest in the arms of My embrace

Be still my soul
God knows your way
And He will guide
For His name's sake
Plunge in the rivers of His grace
Rest in the arms of His embrace



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the airport.

the airport.

I just came back from the airport. It seems a place I frequent quite often these days. Another reminder of the global economy. The place of good-byes and welcomes home.

Sylvia.. I'm gonna miss you.
*BIGGEST HUGS IN THE WORLD*
Have fun k! ;) Take care my dear friend.


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Boxing christmas ramblings.
Friday, December 26, 2008

Boxing christmas ramblings.

It's 7.31am, according to my computer clock. I'm actually up. and I can't sleep -_-

My whole family and I just sent off my brother at the airport. He's flying to Cambodia for a holiday. Though it's a short trip, I miss him already.

Christmas didn't start off well yesterday, but it did gradually get better, thanks to a few friends (: Most of all.. I'm glad it ended with dinner with my siblings at sushi tei in gardens. It has become our special place, whenever our parents are out and we have to find food for ourselves. We're gonna get the privilege card, heh heh. and we love that we the tee siblings stole christmas ;)

This year.. it just doesn't feel very christmas-y. Don't get me wrong - I love the food, the carols, and the company and especially family. I just.. feel so. I'm not too sure if it's lack of preparation during Advent season, or that I'm too poor to give presents this year (thanks to my overspending), or that it's just this year. *shrugs* Or maybe I'm thinking too much about it.

Guess what. Turns out Joseph wasn't just a carpenter - he was more talented than that. Bro explained to me in church that he actually was more of a artisan. He's a mason, haha! :P These translations really do affect the entire meaning of the word.

A friend of mine was talking about the term "Boxing Day", that it's apparently just called so because it's really a boxing day after Christmas. We were discussing that since it's just a pseudo name used here, we might as well just called it for what it is - 26th dec, haha! :P

Guess what. (yes, again :P) Turns out that traditionally, there is an actual Christmas Box, rofl! :D It basically was a box which collected alms for the poor and is opened after Christmas day. Interesting (: Time does affect the entire meaning of the word. (repetition, haha! ok couldn't help it. Typing with 4 hours of sleep here :P)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/boxingday.html

Then again.. the website says it's named thus as Boxing Day. Technically, boxing is to put something in a box aye? *grinz* ok i'm just nitpicking. haha.

I'll stop my rambling now. Maybe i'll hit the bed again.
It's 8.02am.


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Phineas and Ferb - Theme song
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Phineas and Ferb - Theme Song

There's 104 days of summer vacation
Till school comes along just to end it
So the annual problem for our generation
Is finding a good way to spend it

Like maybe!
Building a rocket
Or fighting a mummy
Or climbing up the Eiffel Tower

Discovering something that doesn't exist (Hey! )
Or giving a monkey a shower

Surfing tidal waves
Creating nano bots
Or locating Frankenstein's brain (It's over here! )

Finding a dodo bird
Painting a continent
Or driving your sister insane (Phineas! )

As you can see
There's a whole lot of stuff to do
Before school starts this fall (Come on Perry)

So stick with us 'cause Phineas and Ferb
Are gonna do it all
So stick with us 'cause Phineas and Ferb are
Gonna do it all!
(Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence! )


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twilight spoof, HAHA :P
Sunday, December 21, 2008

twilight spoof, HAHA :P

Pluggin' into: Ding Dong Merrily on High! (:

It's lame, but it's funny, HAHA.
Credit to little mei for recommending (:



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life histories and books' mystery (:
Monday, December 15, 2008

life histories and books' mystery (:

Pluggin' into: Take care by Copeland


So it's been crazy since the 5th of December. I've been going out non-stop. My body's aching. Yet.. I'm thankful for the accumulation of more sweet memories. One of which, was going to a jazz bar. I had had wanted to go into one for the longest time. That night, at the Jazz bar@Southridges with Selina and Dong, sipping martinis, enjoying music and heart-to-heart talk was real sweet. I loved it. and.. strangely.. I had a flash forward to the future, that somehow.. I see us doing this more often when we're older. Honeypear martinis babes! :P

I've been reading novels these days, another thing I have always wanted to do [by the way girls, stop laughing - they're real novels okay!!! :P] Honestly.. it was Liv who started my interest up again. She was at my house when she caught a glimpse of T.S. Elliot's poems. When she asked why I wasn't reading, I replied that I had to study - exams what! and she said,

"Hello!! If it was your last day on earth, what would you rather be the last thing you were doing? Reading a book, or studying for exams??"

That was one powerful heck of a rhetorical question :P Thanks liv (: As of now, I've finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Cool book manz!! Thanks Daniel & Alex for following me to buy it! :D). Planning to borrow Son of a Witch from library and am eyeing his 3rd yellow book A Lion among Men. Currently reading Marshmallows for Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson. A little slow-paced for me, but just moving along :P

I remembered what it was like to get so immersed in a book, that everything else becomes mere background and the words jump at you, creating a new world, forming a new space, where you're just led in and the language just exhilarates. It was Fascination.

These days on the bus, I've been thinking of how to make this December more meaningful. I guess because I was really appalled by how I went through my Summer hols, and didn't want this to be a repeat of it. Basically.. I let it slip through. Just passed each day with the occasional going out and the rest pretty much watching anime. At the end of it, I felt rather unaccomplished.

This dec hols.. it seems more like a break for me, with the exams and all. and from the looks of it.. definitely seems to be more fulfilling (: I've been accumulating cultural capital, with my visits to the museums (I'm quite happy to say that Singapore's Art Museum and National Museum have exceeded my expectations, for now :P). Reading books apart from trashy romance novels (shuddup! :P), with a whole pile of books at my bedside waiting their turn. So far.. it's been great (: All i need to do is get up to run and get out my guitar. I've still got time (:

This really appealed to me. It's taken from the book i'm reading, about this woman Kendra telling this divorced father her hopes for her own children. WARNING: It's long. but worth your time ;)

"One of the things I'd want is for my kids to have strong beliefs. Even if they're not the same as my own, I want them to be aware of something other than their immediate worlds. That they don't have to sit back and accept stuff because it's easy, that they have the ability and right to effect change.

If I had a girl, I'd want her to know that she can be anything she wants and that she doesn't have to rely on her looks or clothes or hair or make-up to define who she is or to get respect from other people. I'd want her to know she has a right to be respected or noticed because she was born. I'm not talking about all that girl power nonsense, I'm talking about my girl growing up knowing she has the right to be treated decently simply because she was born.

And if I had a boy, I'd bring him up to know that being a man is all about feeling good about who you are. Not all that macho bullshit, but feeling so comfortable you don't have to disrespect other people, or put them down to feel good. You don't have to follow the crowd to be a man. He can believe in whatever he wants, think whatever he wants, be whatever he wants without worrying about his masculinity.

And I'd make sure that whether my child's a boy or a girl they'd know that they don't ever have to put up with being treated badly. Not ever. Nor have to do something because their friends are all doing it.

If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others."

- Dorothy Koomson, in Marshallows for Breakfast.

For our future children, to what they can become (:


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sleepovers (:
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

sleepovers (:

Pluggin' into: Stationary Stationery by Anberlin


How apt. I'm not gonna touch my stationery for a while, HAHA :D It has been an exciting time since the end of my exams. In the midst of 5 days, I've had 2 sleepovers. Fri-sat. Then mon-tues. How cool is that! Heh heh :P

and in the very essence of the word.. I slept over, lol! After each sleepover, I kept on crashing and napping. Today'll prolly be the first good sleep (at 1 shot) I'll have had in a while, rofl.

I must admit.. I feel very happy (: Rejuvenated from that estranged period of time with readings and books. Cheerful from all the many faces and laughter shared. It's a good life :D

I'm looking at my December in my schedule, and it looks packed. One month is just not enough for catching up and Christmas celebrations. Plus the reading of novels, watching movies, exercising, learning guitar and many other things I plan to do. Sigh a sigh.

and.. I've realised today, that I'll only eat raisins done by a special family friend. Her Christmas pudding and her mince pies rock. and she'll be 90 on Christmas day (:

Who wants to watch Madagascar 2??


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