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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
got a new template. i think it's less cluttered than the previous one. i liked the previous one with its colourful boxes, and everything squished together in small little squares. but the small font wasn't that popular, so here we are. the picture really reminds me of
Heart of Darkness. it's got that dark yet beautiful, mysterious air about it.
updated the links a bit. got rid of some defunct blogs, as based on others' linklists, and changed some of the links too. candy, i added you! oh and i added the prompics too. that cute little flashbox thingum. under profile.
trip to malaysia was quite laidback, as it has been the past couple of times we went back. this was especially so since i've been feeling quite feverish ever since i left camp and it's still recurring even now. it's an on-off thing. i hope i get well before SIT test!
and my parents' friends are such nice people to give red packets to people they've never even seen before! really love the plastic $2 notes.
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when i was younger - about 4, 5 years ago. i asked someone, i forgot who, but it doesn't really matter, whether we would still use MSN when we were adults. i think the reply was that we would since the world seems to be getting more and more connected over the WWW.
i think differently.
i hardly see anyone online these days. i'm not sure if it's because of necessity or because of choice. whether there is even time, or when there is time it is spent on more worthwhile endeavours than rotting away in front of a screen. and it is true, adults do online chatting less too. is it any wonder? only students have such carefree lives.
i never really saw the importance of blogs when i was still in school, despite engaging thoroughly in it. people see each other everyday, anyway. not so anymore. a blog is an important tool to update people on what's happening in your life, especially when people lead separate ones. holding on to the past while moving on to the future. now wasn't that some rafflesian ethos, what with the double-headed gryphon and all. (see, i paid attention during sec 1 history class.)
i figured that the best way of living one's life is to immerse oneself thoroughly in the here and now. the present. it doesn't last long, and it's the only thing that one can enjoy fully by interacting with it in all ways. tell a loved one you love them, and get an instant show of affection. savour it. living in the past, or the future for that matter, works for some people. people who can't let go of their regrets or halcyon days, or people who always dream of a better future. i guess at different points, i was either one or even both. but it's quite.. pointless. it's a one-way experience that reaches a dead-end. faded cards, or an uncertain ORD date. you dwell on it, and ignore the things of the present, choosing instead to wallow in the mellow histories of yesterday, or look to the great days ahead without a thought of how one will reach there. i'm not saying that the past or the future isn't important. they are important relative markers, but they are just that. markers to illuminate the current path. how we should live our life as compared to before, and how we should live our life for better times.
bah, how pretentious of me to talk about being an adult when my age hasn't even dropped the "teen" part yet.
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this is my riflethis is my gunthis is for fightingthis is for fun...........the sun is shining like you knew it would.how could it hurt you when it looks so good?
mike just took up your time at
2:58 am
th time!