yoooooooooo
Shimei is back!
so much for the lofty ideas of playing with Adobe for the whole week. But due to unfortunate turns of events, she has no time for Adobe. AT ALL. Ditto. sigh....filled with work after work...wat a waste of time. She feels that her time has not been utilised properly...every day trying desperately to fill up the aimless hours with constructive activities. Wow.......... and she is off to lala land where she can dream and imagine the imposible coz
Nothing is Impossible
Impossible is Nothing
;)
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
wooohoooo
1 week since i wrote...
reading computer art magazine now...really cool and they teach ya how to use those designing programmes and tools....
very eye opening indeed...i am very inspired to do some arty farty things now...hee
meanwhile, check out this cool webbie
http//:monkey-design.com.tw
till i manage to get myself get away from the ADOBEs.....enjoy!
1 week since i wrote...
reading computer art magazine now...really cool and they teach ya how to use those designing programmes and tools....
very eye opening indeed...i am very inspired to do some arty farty things now...hee
meanwhile, check out this cool webbie
http//:monkey-design.com.tw
till i manage to get myself get away from the ADOBEs.....enjoy!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Families
Have you ever wondered why there were such?
Brothers and sisters that you have, that you grow up with. Who are they really? Are they just some people who share similar DNA traits and characteristics with you? Or are they just some existence you were put with?
I always wonder why are there family disputes. Wht is it that someone can be so giving and understanding to a friend, and yet be so unreasonably demanding and unforgiving to family members.
I guess there is much truth in the saying that " A neighbour nearby is much better than a relative faraway."
Singapore is so small. I see my extended family every week. Yet I feel we are so far away. As if we were worlds apart. Why? Because of the inability to understand each other. Our mouths were given to us not just for consumption but communication. Communication in the sense of working out differences, or similarities that pushes people apart. Like poles on the magnet repel. same concept I guess. Voice box is used to speak. Our ability to differentiate tone to show our pleasure or displeasure. Our minds to articulate the art of good communication. Some were born with the natural flair for speech. But no one is excluded from the ability to learn and perfect it.
What ever it may be, my sisters and I have made the silent resolution to never fall out with each other. With the experience we had, what our parents taught us and what we saw them go through, we know better. Their strength and resilience in the face of being the black sheeps of their families
and disappointment taught me. Money cannot buy the relationship. Cordial greeting of each other doesn't mean you know or understand me. I am more than what you see. My ldepth in my life can never be reached if it's watched like its a movie. Because in a movie, you never see what goes on behind the scenes. And the perspective is only of the director. Another may have done it differently. A movie is the least reliable source for theory generation. So let no one's life be like a movie. It's too degrading to even think about, you life's worth.
In this world where the fine line between family ties and friendship is becoming blurer and blurer, there's only one way we can look to. HEAVEN.
Have you ever wondered why there were such?
Brothers and sisters that you have, that you grow up with. Who are they really? Are they just some people who share similar DNA traits and characteristics with you? Or are they just some existence you were put with?
I always wonder why are there family disputes. Wht is it that someone can be so giving and understanding to a friend, and yet be so unreasonably demanding and unforgiving to family members.
I guess there is much truth in the saying that " A neighbour nearby is much better than a relative faraway."
Singapore is so small. I see my extended family every week. Yet I feel we are so far away. As if we were worlds apart. Why? Because of the inability to understand each other. Our mouths were given to us not just for consumption but communication. Communication in the sense of working out differences, or similarities that pushes people apart. Like poles on the magnet repel. same concept I guess. Voice box is used to speak. Our ability to differentiate tone to show our pleasure or displeasure. Our minds to articulate the art of good communication. Some were born with the natural flair for speech. But no one is excluded from the ability to learn and perfect it.
What ever it may be, my sisters and I have made the silent resolution to never fall out with each other. With the experience we had, what our parents taught us and what we saw them go through, we know better. Their strength and resilience in the face of being the black sheeps of their families
and disappointment taught me. Money cannot buy the relationship. Cordial greeting of each other doesn't mean you know or understand me. I am more than what you see. My ldepth in my life can never be reached if it's watched like its a movie. Because in a movie, you never see what goes on behind the scenes. And the perspective is only of the director. Another may have done it differently. A movie is the least reliable source for theory generation. So let no one's life be like a movie. It's too degrading to even think about, you life's worth.
In this world where the fine line between family ties and friendship is becoming blurer and blurer, there's only one way we can look to. HEAVEN.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
woohoo!
feel really good today as i slept like almost 12hrs last night. Dunno y i was so tired so juz plopped down the bed and slept through. anyways, evn if i din sleep , oso dunno wad to do. pick up my bass and guitar, dabble here and there with adobe illustrator and photshop. pick up some new things.
What an unexciting life. Period
past few days, i started taking bus from the back of my place instead of the front, so I finally get to sit down. Yay! so now, there's more space for me to observe things around me. And I noticed in recent days along the way to work that Singapore also has a phenomena that I never noticed till now. I saw beautiful rays of sunlight shining through a thick foilage. The seemingly even rays that try to get though to the ground, I fins absolutely gorgeous. The only other time i saw it was in Santa Monica forest area. ( if I remember coorectly). And another time that I saw this sort of rays was after work while walking to the MRT station. There was a bunch of dark clouds looming overhead and at the edge of it, juz peaking out were rays of sunlight from a place seemingly faraway. It reminds me of the beauty on this earth. Nature is there always. No matter what you do to it. Destroy it for man's selfish purposes and nonsensical wants, it will still come around. Nature is part of this earth whether we like it or not. I'd say its a phenomena of "what goes around, comes around". yeah, we destroy it, and all it does to us is bring us much discomfort in the sense of increased natural disasters, warmer weather. I'd say, "You asked for it!!!!"
what a pessimist. right?
hahah
feel really good today as i slept like almost 12hrs last night. Dunno y i was so tired so juz plopped down the bed and slept through. anyways, evn if i din sleep , oso dunno wad to do. pick up my bass and guitar, dabble here and there with adobe illustrator and photshop. pick up some new things.
What an unexciting life. Period
past few days, i started taking bus from the back of my place instead of the front, so I finally get to sit down. Yay! so now, there's more space for me to observe things around me. And I noticed in recent days along the way to work that Singapore also has a phenomena that I never noticed till now. I saw beautiful rays of sunlight shining through a thick foilage. The seemingly even rays that try to get though to the ground, I fins absolutely gorgeous. The only other time i saw it was in Santa Monica forest area. ( if I remember coorectly). And another time that I saw this sort of rays was after work while walking to the MRT station. There was a bunch of dark clouds looming overhead and at the edge of it, juz peaking out were rays of sunlight from a place seemingly faraway. It reminds me of the beauty on this earth. Nature is there always. No matter what you do to it. Destroy it for man's selfish purposes and nonsensical wants, it will still come around. Nature is part of this earth whether we like it or not. I'd say its a phenomena of "what goes around, comes around". yeah, we destroy it, and all it does to us is bring us much discomfort in the sense of increased natural disasters, warmer weather. I'd say, "You asked for it!!!!"
what a pessimist. right?
hahah
Monday, June 4, 2007
yet another inspiring song from Corrine May about the power of a mother's love.
"When will you be home?" she asks
as we watch the planes take off
We both know we have no clear answer to where my dreams may lead
She's watched me as i crawled and stumbled
As a child, she was my world
And now to let me go, I know she bleeds
and yet she says to me
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be prayin every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
Autumn leaves fell into spring time and
SIlver-painted hair
Daddy called one evening saying
"We need you. Please come back"
When I saw her laying in her bed
Fragile as a child
Pale just like an angel taking flight
I held her as I cried
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be prayin every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
ohh...
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
"When will you be home?" she asks
as we watch the planes take off
We both know we have no clear answer to where my dreams may lead
She's watched me as i crawled and stumbled
As a child, she was my world
And now to let me go, I know she bleeds
and yet she says to me
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be prayin every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
Autumn leaves fell into spring time and
SIlver-painted hair
Daddy called one evening saying
"We need you. Please come back"
When I saw her laying in her bed
Fragile as a child
Pale just like an angel taking flight
I held her as I cried
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be prayin every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
ohh...
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
Sunday, June 3, 2007
been a long day today...
I muz say, I haven been walking in the love that I blog about juz days ago.
yest had worship practise and for once in my life I felt so inadequate. I felt angry at myself.
Why can't I help everyone I want to ? Why can't I go help mum and also play in the team at the same time?
Is it all because of bygones and differences that could not be set aside that this generation has to bear the grunt of it?
It's so overrated.
Anywayz, dun wanna dwell on things that doesn't make me happy.
on the other hand, somwhow I feel that I'm a very simple person but others don't agree. The other party seems to think that because I travel alot so I am not simple. How do you really justify that? Travel, per se, has become and is still becoming cheaper and cheaper as the years go by. It's no longer a past time or action that is enjoyed only by the rich. Moreover, travel has taken up so many different forms that it does not justify that someone who travels alot is not SIMPLE.
I don't live in 5-star hotels, I don't shop alot when I'm overseas. Moreover, when I am actually overseas, 50% of the time I am working there. So it's not really 100% holiday.
What goes?
Simplicity doesn't mean u live in rags and shelters without a fixed roof over our head. To me, simplicity is just being who you really are in front of people. No pretense. No currying of favour. No two-headed snake syndrome. Simpliciy is when the job you go into is not based on the $$ you can earn but a sincere passion for what you do. A simple thing that can keep your drive in life and yet not burn you out for the material things in this world. Man can never be satisfied. U get more, u only want even more. It is when life is more about the intangible rather than the tangible. That's when life's complexity blurs and merges into this simplicity that goes a long way.
I muz say, I haven been walking in the love that I blog about juz days ago.
yest had worship practise and for once in my life I felt so inadequate. I felt angry at myself.
Why can't I help everyone I want to ? Why can't I go help mum and also play in the team at the same time?
Is it all because of bygones and differences that could not be set aside that this generation has to bear the grunt of it?
It's so overrated.
Anywayz, dun wanna dwell on things that doesn't make me happy.
on the other hand, somwhow I feel that I'm a very simple person but others don't agree. The other party seems to think that because I travel alot so I am not simple. How do you really justify that? Travel, per se, has become and is still becoming cheaper and cheaper as the years go by. It's no longer a past time or action that is enjoyed only by the rich. Moreover, travel has taken up so many different forms that it does not justify that someone who travels alot is not SIMPLE.
I don't live in 5-star hotels, I don't shop alot when I'm overseas. Moreover, when I am actually overseas, 50% of the time I am working there. So it's not really 100% holiday.
What goes?
Simplicity doesn't mean u live in rags and shelters without a fixed roof over our head. To me, simplicity is just being who you really are in front of people. No pretense. No currying of favour. No two-headed snake syndrome. Simpliciy is when the job you go into is not based on the $$ you can earn but a sincere passion for what you do. A simple thing that can keep your drive in life and yet not burn you out for the material things in this world. Man can never be satisfied. U get more, u only want even more. It is when life is more about the intangible rather than the tangible. That's when life's complexity blurs and merges into this simplicity that goes a long way.
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