The Wheel of Life...

Life is a funny little thing.
I like to imagine it as this big giant Ferris Wheel that all of us are on.
Sometimes you're up high and sometimes you're down low.
When at the bottom, we take comfort in knowing that things will look up soon.
Conversely when at the top, we should not become proud and get too comfortable,
coz we may fall down at any time.

I realised that as we get older,
I see and learn much more about this wheel of life as we go along.
I've seen people meeting, people leaving,
people getting together, people breaking up,
people living their dreams, people dying.
Every ending is the start of something new,
since every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end,
just that we may not know it yet.

But throughout it all, what matters most are the people beside you.
Those who have been sitting along side on the same ride all this time.
Afterall, life would be much less fun and way more lonely if you don't have people to ride out the lows and enjoy the highs with.
What joy is there in being on top alone and having to face sorrows by one's self?


For that I wanna thank all those people who have taken that ferris ride with me at one point or another. Thank you my fellow riders! haha...
You have made my life a much more enjoyable ride to be on because of you.
For those who may be at a low point in their lives, don't worry,
the wheel will turn soon and things will look up once more.
Remember, you are not alone and that you still have people like me in that ferris carriage with you to give you all the support you need ok! Jiayou!













If Heaven and Hell decide

That they both are satisfied

Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you

When your soul embarks

Then I'll follow you into the dark

Then I'll follow you into the dark







"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

- 1 Cor 13:13

Have a Heart...

A youtube music video that I happened to come across late in the night that gave me jitters coz she is really that good... Another one with a song that sends pangs straight to the heart man.. Listen for yourself...





Anna Bergendahl performs "Have a Heart"on Swedish Idol.
Can you believe she's only 16 years old?

Once again, the answer boils down to a four letter word.

The Perfect Heart

Author:Unknown

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said “Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.” The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn’t fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.

The people stared - how can he say his heart is more beautiful, they thought? The young man looked at the old man’s heart and saw its state and laughed. “You must be joking,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears.”

“Yes,” said the old man, “Yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared. Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn’t returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges - - giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?”

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man’s heart flowed into his. They embraced and walked away side by side.

How sad it must be to go through life with a whole untouched heart.







Have you ever given a piece of your heart away?

Moments...

As the clock ticks noisily and the moments pass without a glance backwards, my mind wanders through a myriad of events. Past and present encounters flash pass the cinematic screen of my mind’s eye. I got to thinking about the topic of pivotal moments. Landmark events, life-changing scenes or crucial pit-stops in our lives that happened to turn our whole world around. That particular instance which steered us in a direction that would have been totally different if it had never occur.

Mainly, I was musing over the exact moment in relationships, be it friendships or love that sealed the deal. What was the drop that tipped over the barrel of water? When was the instant that it happened? The moment when you decide, “Yes! This is it. This is the brick that seals the foundation of our friendship. This is the reason why I’m entrusting my heart to this person, whole and completely.”

And after that particular moment in time when all seems to stop and revolve around that significant event, your relationship has not looked back since.

I’ve come to realize that I have had and heard about a few of these moments...

The moment when no words are exchanged in a time of grief and painful memories, only to have someone who cries silently beside you coz that is the only comfort he knows and the only thing you need.

To hear the words uttered in love that your heart knew but forgot.

To have someone whom you have been thinking about all day suddenly and miraculously appear before you at the most unexpected time and place.
Like a bus stop.

To feel a tap on your shoulder and turn around to meet the grinning face of someone you have been worrying about for the longest time.

The moment when you open the mailbox to discover a love letter sent from afar, together with a present made perfect in its imperfection just because it was delivered with love.

To have someone who not only stands by you when the rest walk away, but who also stands up against them and defends you in a time when you have no friends.

Small things that make a whole lotta of difference. It seems that the simple things are also the most profound. Maybe because when loving gestures, serendipity and fierce loyalty are concocted together into a potent mix, they cease to be mere things or coincidences.

They become the catalyst for souls to reach out and touch one another,

even if it is just for that moment.

The Road Less Travelled...

It has come to a point in time when there is an opportunity of choice.
A sudden plethora of paths to choose from,
multiple layers of tracks that lead to very different destinations.
Some seem broad and straight, while others are narrow and lead off to the dark unknown.
What they all share is this ambiguious quality, of a kind of distortion,
that you cannot be quite sure what it really is until you take it.

Narrow or Straight? That is the question.




“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

-Robert Frost


Sometimes I think I just need to do what is in my heart instead of what is in my head.
And I do hope it makes all the difference.

Something's missing...oh yah it's you and you and you!

Just a short note here from London to whoever might be reading this. I miss you all! Haha..just went through a couple of blogs and facebook pictures just reminded me of that void I've been feeling. Then I realised it's coz I'm missing all you people back in Singapore after being away for so long! Oh man, the things I've encountered. (From almost having to spend the night sleeping at the train station coz I got locked out to having to use a plug out in the hotel corridor to boil water coz the bleddy room doesn't have a socket!) Long stories. Can't wait to spill it all out to you guys once I get back. Until then, don't do finish all the fun stuff without me ah!

See you soon when I get back on the 19th june.

Shivering in the kitchen,

Me

Ever since the last day of school...

in case you have been wondering what I have been up to,


I have been...




taking the time to just admire the seasonal changes,
as the trees turn from green to yellow and crimson.

Standing there in the middle of the windswept road laden with fallen autumn leaves,
just breathing and absorbing the nice weather of Melbourne.




exercising. (well, almost something like that!)

Doing star jumps just for the fun of it at the beach with a friend.





smelling the grass. taking a nap. just lying there for the moment at the park.




playing with kangaroos and getting back with nature. haha.




feeding the birds by the waterside.

Enjoying the harbour and the silhouettes of yachts' narrow sails against the Sydney city skyline.

Sipping a cappuccino while watching people waddle by.



lastly, just sitting still and reflecting,
gazing at the beautiful scene as the sun dips behind the urban icons of the city.

That, to me is what life is all about anyway.
Though reality has something else in store for me.

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

- Paulo Coelho

The Middle

Just got to listen to this classic song of my secondary school days again...
Love the lyrics, it never fails to encourage me.




The Middle- Jimmy Eat World

Hey,
Don't write yourself off yet.
It's only in your head you feel left out,
Or looked down on.
Just try your best,
Try everything you can.
And don't you worry what they tell themselves
When you're away.


It just takes some time,
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything, everything will be just fine,
Everything, everything will be alright. (alright)

Hey,
You know they're all the same.
You know you're doing better on your own, (on your own)
So don't buy in.
Live right now.
Yeah, just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's good enough (good enough)
For someone else.



Hey, don't write yourself off yet.
It's only in your head you feel left out, (feel left out)
Or looked down on.
Just do your best, (just do your best)
Do everything you can. (do everything you can)
And don't you worry what their bitter hearts (bitter hearts)
Are gonna say.

It just takes some time,
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything, everything will be just fine,
Everything, everything will be alright. (alright)

Self Reminder

In the midst of studying and trying to memorize all the facts about Singapore's geology, lithology and rock forms... I seem to have forgotten the Rock of my life.

Time to come back to relying on that ever faithful and reliable source of support man...

With me all seems impossible, but with Him everything is possible!

Jiayou to everyone stuck in this exam rut!



I'm gonna blow that horn for help righttt about nooow....