life's mean reds.

If you get there before i do-- Colin Raye every now and then, songs sung a decade ago can still well up that wistful emotions in you. I read a note my grandma wrote back in 1923 Grandpa kept it in his coat and he showed it once to me He said boy you might not understand But a long, long time ago Grandma's daddy didn't like me none But I loved your grandma so We had this crazy plan to meet And run away together Get married in the first town we came to and live forever But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet instead I found this letter And this is what it said If you get there before I do Don't give up on me I'll meet you when my chores are through I don't know how long I'll be But I'm not gonna let you down Darling wait and see And between now and then, til I see you again I'll be loving you, love, me I read those words just hours before my grandma passed away In the doorway of a church Where me and grandpa stopped to pray I know I'd n

i had the most fattening dinner on last thursday but who cares when you are having a whale of a time with people who mean to you. and what better way to end the day knowing that you mean as much to that person:) call me someone easily influenced by people's opinions but i have to admit, nothing makes me happier knowing that i made that difference(however slight)to someone else's life:):) on a sidenote, the souffle i had at menotti at raffles city was really good stuff. im craving for it again:/ check out my look of xingfu-ness (:

an email my equally bored friend forwarded. To all Employees: Dress Code 1. It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a pay raise. 2. If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a pay raise. 3. If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore you do not need a pay raise. Sick Days We will no longer accept a doctor's certificate as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work too. Holiday Days Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday & Sunday. Compassionate Leave This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead friends, relatives or co-workers. Every effort should be made to have non-employees attend to the arrang

thank God for friends who bring out that little childishness in you:) (but i still cant believe i was talked into wasting money on neoprints:/)

a super lame(but i secretly think its funny) vid i came across when preparing for sunday school (: i hope the kids will enjoy this! (:

something that struck me during sermon today: "it doesnt matter if you did well in the past, we can always start now to finish well. we begin by wanting to finish well. Martin Luther says only two days matter in all eternity: this day and that day. once we decide how we want to appear before God on that day, we also decide how we will live this day. Finishing well is not a future consideration, it's a present obsession."

from The Alchemist -paulo coelho: "But i'm going back to the fields that i know, to take care of my flock again." He said that to himself with certainty, but he was no longer happy with his decision. He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. maybe, because that wasnt really his dream.

sometimes the people physically closest to you could be the very same people you miss terribly. you miss them so much especially when they are not themselves because having been so close to them, you've seen the side of theirs that you are the most in love with. pardon my sudden urge to be emotional. perhaps it's this realisation that my departure for australia is in actual fact much nearer than it felt it was gonna be that's causing me to hurt incessantly when i know im not making the fullest of the time i have now with the people i love the most :/

from The Alchemist -paulo coelho: "He was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them." isnt life like this sometimes? new situations, same lessons. but sometimes, we dont even realise that they ARE actually the same lessons that we are learning because we have been so used to the way we live our lives previously, so accustomed to the skills and abilities we use day in day out.Man, i guess, is a forgetful lot.

says a friend of mine, "there cant be platonic relationships between a guy and a girl unless there is a certain characteristic in the other party that you find slightly replusive." i shant debate about the truth of that statement.to each his own, really. but funny how there's always something about the guys i admire that i simultanteously dislike too. it doesnt stop me from liking them more; at times i think it's this very characteristic that makes me even more protective of them. hmm.i think i can be quite irrational at times. but then again, im merely giving justice to that cliche that "love is blind". so.

i reckon that God really does have a sense of humour. For a pretty extended period last year, i went through several struggles, wanting many things but not being able to get them for some reason or another. Tears, bouts of angst, impatience, all sorts of anger-filled reactions--ive probably went through a good half of them. unfortunately for me, they never really got about gathering much sympathy votes for me so at the end of the day, i was back at square one. i thought then, that perhaps by surrendering my desires to God, to pray for help, perhaps He will give me what i cant achieve by my own efforts thus far. Yet, instead of making things any better, He happily decided to make my wishes even harder to attain. so it was bugging me for quite a while, how failures seem to overcome me more than ever when i turn to God for help. but suddenly it's all clear. perhaps having had so much more time at hand now, i have become more involved in the world that im slowly becoming of the world