Wishful Thinking

So, are you still beautiful?
when I close my eyes, miles between us
and the smell of your hair lingers
remembering those eyes which gazed upon mine

So, are you still beautiful?
when I build castles in the clouds
and you're the princess of my utopia
remembering that smile so sweet

Yes, you are beauty itself

On Birthdays

Do some people think that their birthdays are celebrated only because their friends feel 'inclined' to do so? That the celebration, getting together, presenting of gifts and wishing of the celebrant's new age is done without sincerity? Do these people have so little faith in their friends? Just some food for thought I suppose.

I noticed some changes lately. Its funny some changes need a collective of other changes to be noticed. Im referring to people here. Used to think change was bad but inevitable. Now I just think its inevitable. Its how you deal with it that makes it 'bad' or 'good'.

Dear Dandruffs

Why do you guys multiply like mad? Is it mating season up there?

Forum Stuff on Hell

A quote from Dave Armstrong posted in a catholic forum
"The essence of hell is separation from God. God in effect says: "so you want to live apart from Me? You think that is a preferable state of affairs to living with Me? Very well, then, go ahead; see how you like it." Of course, God would have a great deal more love and compassion than that... but this is the basic idea. The Bible talks about God giving men up to their own devices and the hardening of their hearts....

C.S. Lewis stated that "the doors of hell are locked from the inside." God respects human free will so much that He is willing to let men reject Him and spend eternity away from Him, if that is their choice. Of course, those who choose this don't have the faintest idea of what an existence utterly without God is like, because they have not yet experienced it. This is the tragic folly of the whole thing.

The instant they do experience it, they'll know what a terrible mistake they made, and in my speculative opinion that will be the primary horror of hell: the intense, irreversible self-loathing, self-hatred, and regret at having made such a stupid and perfectly avoidable mistake as to end up in an unspeakably dreadful, hideous place or state like hell. We know from this life how difficult it is to live with bitter regret: the mulling over the "if only's" of life and our bittersweet journey through it.

Imagine doing that for eternity! And, of course, this is one big reason why Christians want to proclaim the gospel, so people can avoid that miserable fate, and can live eternally the way God intended them to live, without suffering and sin: complete, whole, perfect creatures, rejoicing in God's wonderful presence forever."

Househusband Kevin

Today, due to my brother's 72hr WOW marathon, I was left to do the gorceries. I also noticed a home appliance sale in Briscoes and decided to buy a new kettle, fry pan and Pyrex bowl.

How do housewives carry out this routine for...the 2 decades till their teenagers move out? There comes a time when even the most avid shopper/coupon collector/discount driven/chore doing person will just burn out. But it was fun for me today though, for some reason, I seem to be getting very used to spending time alone doing odinary stuff...I love spending my free time in the city reading magazines or books in the bookstores (there're about 6 bookstores along Queenstreet) Then later going for coffee (there're 4 Starbucks along this same street, 1 Gloria Jeans, and some others....talk about monopoly on Starbucks' side).

Yup, 1st week of uni started off pretty slowly. We had a plant visit to the brewery hehe.

Had to blog this

LOL...look wat I came across in Mei Qi's blog.

The Title: Dear Evil Red Acne

TELL ME HOW MUCH LONGER DO YOU THINK YOU NEED TO STAY ON MY FACE

gahhh.
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I should carry out dialogues with my facial features. :P

Wow

Look at this fact I picked up from a psychology book.
"In reality, the odds are at LEAST 50-50 that a person's moodiness on any given day is due to a bad situation, but we're more likely to think it's caused by a characted flaw."

Also, there's something called the atrribution theory.
It is the formal study of ways people generate explanations for what happens and the impact these explanations have on their behaviour. People are often biased in their efforts to explain important experiences.

Kinda makes me think twice before a 'judge' someone....feel kinda bad now.

Reflection

I trusted Him, and He has never let me down. It seems, the more aspects of my life I trust Him in, the better it has become. But it's always hard, to take the plunge. There's so many things I wanna let go and leave in His hands. I might as well be numerically correct and grammatically wrong and say there is so 'much' things I wanna let go. Not letting go in the sense that I don't wanna care about it all, rather I want to put my effort into, and realise that I've done what I could, the rest is in His hands. Sometimes its hard though, you have so many self-doubts, so many insecurites, its stupid that the biggest obstacle to you helping yourself is actually yourself.

Movie Junkie

3 days to go of precious holiday time...so precious...sigh....I'm such a coupon addict, I think Im comparable to those housewives who find coupons anywhere and use it to buy stuff with the excuse of 'Im saving money!'

To get to the point, I've been using my Student Card discounts and coupons to the max this holidays renting videos and eating at BK. I finished 3 movies in one night,
View from the top, Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle, and Anna Kreni..er.something...it's a drama.

So yea, tomorrow, it'll be Hui Min's birthday, she's getting old, you know,...the aging process...with the increase in skin surface area....:P I don't think she reads this anymore...hehe...Well, Im not gonna waste anymore time writing too much.

Thanks

Results for the first semester exams were out 3 days ago.
I'm happy, very happy.
Thank you God.


On another note, I rented Shall We Dance after reading Chris' rave review about it..and I liked this quote

Beverly Clark: We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."

Terror in London

City now a ghost town
Blasts bring back bad memories in New York
Mayor: It will unite us
Intelligence services unable to prevent London attacks
'Smoke poured into the carriage, but we couldn't break the windows'

Why do the innocent have to die? Tsunamis are one thing, but when one kills a fellow man, what does that one hope to acheive? Attention? Enforcing a view?

Advice

Prunes are GREAT snacks...but dun munch down a whole bag unless the room you're sitting in has good ventilation.

Movie List

These are the movie's I've 'done'. LOL..sounds wrong...but still

Mr and Mrs Smith
Garden State
Ray
House of Wax
Phonebooth

Im sure there're a couple more which I've forgotten, but I noticed how the seemingly low budget movies like Garden State and Phonebooth caught my attention. Looks like after a while, you don't care too much about the big bangs and Kablooies...its the performance of the actors, the dialogue, and the way the message is conveyed that matters...:) I feel like and 'enlightened' movie goer. Heh...I also realised that my movie 'reviews' should no longer include the story line...cos my reviews come SO late...e.g. Mr n Mrs Smith...I just watched it TODAY! Sad huh?

But I really like it though, is it realistic? I dunno...I always thought relationships had to be founded on honesty....but judging by how they handled matters in their marriage, I'm sure they'll be fine. Really witty one-liners, cute comebacks from both of them esp when they were trying to kill each other...and the gun scenes..very John Woo....woooo....