happy new year

2006 was good to (and for) me.

did good for SPM.
tried out for a few scholarships,
got rejected,
learnt how to accept personal failures
(that was tough, i tell you)
and move on..

joined The Oral Stage,
took part in my 1st professional theatre production,
then my 2nd, next my 3rd.
met some of the most unbelievable ppl,
whom i'm super grateful to have
gotten the opportunity to work with...

poets, writers, playwrights, directors,
producers, stage managers, prop managers...
you guys are amazing
and till today,
i still cant believe i know
a bunch of ppl as passionate,
as efficient, as creative
and magically eccentric as all of TOS.
you guys ROCK MAH SOCKS! :D

then went to college,
got to know new people,
fresh personalities,
the nature of social politics (haha).
learnt that weirdos lurk everywhere
(and i mean everywhere)
amidst the casual human crowd...

joined the Mr/Ms KDU competition
on a fanciful whim
with fastest-made-best-friend gracie.
dabbled in the fashionista world of beauty pageants,
and won! :D

got accepted into ISKL,
suffered numerous frantic breakdowns,
and crazy tides of low self-esteem...
but emerged with the 3rd highest GPA
in the entire 11th grade for 1st sem
(that's ~150 ppl, k! woot!)

applied and got inducted
for the International Thespians Society
(sth i'm still pretty proud of,
God knows why haha).

experienced some of the most
beautiful things with cow,
and learnt who my true highschool friends are...

so many things happened that
i wont even begin to mention here,
but its a wonderful feeling
to be able to look back at your last 12 months
and know absolutely for sure
that you lived life
pretty much to its fullest :)

i'd say thank God and all glory to him,
but i think half the credit goes to myself, ngyek! :P

everything feels gooooood atm...
happy 2007, ppl!
rmbr to laugh and cry,
work and play,
earn and spend,
and live and love.

i'll see you next yr.

readin between the pixels

wwokay!
let's delve beyond the pink&blue
of my apparently diva-ish blog, shall we? :P
this is for benefit of
those-who-do-not-appreciate-embedded-meanings!
uncultured phillistines~~
*glare pointedly at a particular person*

let's start with the links.

the kitten in the photograph is artemis,
who lived with us a few weeks
before her notorious misdeeds drove my family
(includin me) so crazy that we gave her away...

the heart-shaped crystal is a pendant
on a necklace that cow gave to me years ago,
durin SPM year,
which i lost in the end *sniff*

the book and rainbow and butterfly
just means my love for reading
and for the magical world of imagination.

the tiara?
was put there cos i felt queenly(!!)
after winning Miss KDU 2006.
and also cos i think it's real pretty
(materialistic moi, ngyak, i know :)

and the wing is there
cos cow put it there in the 1st place :P

it goes back to 2 quotes:

"we are each of us angels with only 1 wing,
and can only fly by embracing each other"
-luciano de crescenzo-

and

"to the stars on the wings of pigs"
john steinbeck

so... think it cheesy, think it corny...
but know they all mean sth
to meeeeeee.....

think my writing+composition+blah's
gone right down the drain :P
readin every1's blog atm
and i think almost every1's more lucid than i am.

oh, visit miyo's blog hahahaha.
when i read her latest post
i laughed so hard it made my stomach hurt.

god, she's only 12!

the breakfast club

incidentally,
my latest dabblement in theatre
goes onstage next thursday!
visit our blog for more details,
and do come by and give urs truly some moral support :)

and to entice you...
here's our postcard.
hehe, guess which character i'm playing :P


the power of makeup, no?
venables said i looked like janet jackson.
heh, hopefully he meant it in the best possible way.

won't tell you what the show's about,
but everyone's bound to like it.
surely not everything la,
but at least a lil something.

it's my 1st production that i'm actually gettin paid for :)
and the character i'm playing is incredible fun,
ngyekngyekngyek...

so come see the breakfast club, ppl!

and see the amazing krystle do weird shit
you'd nvr catch her doing otherwise...

at long last!

sooooooo...
after a year of
(subtle?)nagging at his bovine highness,
finally, you are able to witness the final product
of our combined efforts :D

be awed, people, be VERY awed...
because this blog took a great deal of effort
and like he said, many sleepless nights
and panda-eyes... :)

we went through about a dozen different
versions before we finally settled on this,
and then we went through about a dozen different
images and fonts and colour-combinations
before this beauty was birthed...

i would post all the different blog-versions
we went thru, but now that hello doesn't work
the same anymore,
i'm just way too lazy hehe.

neway, back to bloggin am i.
so if thou art a long lost friend,
do let me know ur blog address,
that i may link you :)

u know how it is
when u find ur old diary?

when u see all the stupidly ridiculous things
u used to think, used to feel,
used to say...

when u read thru all the things
u did or didn't do,
how it hits u right in the heart
so that u wish to God u cud have been wiser somehow
back then?

all the way back back then...

it's always that way for me.
reading my old writing always
mortifies the hell outta me
and i'm always so embarrassed
i nvr want to revisit that dumbass younger krys.

so, here i am,
just came back to visit my neglected zyrked
and the funny thing is....
i don't feel it.

i'm not mortified, i'm not appalled,
i'm not blushing fit to kill at my flimflam childishness.

instead, i feel warm all over
revisiting young krys,
brimming with a sort of familiarity and surprise
at how much i've forgotten about the way i used to write.

i feel as though
i've just found an old friend
i haven't spoken to in ages.

u shud nvr write a word u
wudn't want to bring to ur grave.

i actually think...
my writing is worth that much after all.
imho, anyway.

i mean:
it's honest, it's fluent, it's flavored, it's me me me.

perhaps
its time to continue the journey.