ipoditis

i'm horribly, horribly afflicted
n i blame it all on steve jobs.
seriously, who needs 30gb (much less 60gb!)
of music and videos?
who in the whole student/working community
can afford that sort of time?
the amount of time you take to rip dvds,
convert the files to mp4 or mpeg,
search and download mp3s,
sync them to ur ipod,
sort out all the titles and artists,
add some album artwork,
create playlists, contemplate new songs,
figure out how to download audiobooks and podcasts
seems to take up much more time
then actually listening to them all.

when does the novelty wear out?

untitled

two rejection letters.
one more pathetic credo shot down.
who said your best was good enough?

lyrical menstruality

i flip open my student diary
to look for last friday,
and instead of studious, multicoloured scrawls of
hw assignments, i find two pages
of pure, beautiful
blankness.

this is wut my academic life
is coming to, ppl...
a disregarding of everything :P
just kill me la
i don't even know wut i'm carrying
in my bag anymore.
if this sem doesn't end soon
i think my grades will nosedive thru hell.

climbing, tho, has been awesome.
we've started working out in the school gym
on thursdays, and God, does exercise feel good.
it makes you feel great about everything,
about your body, your character, your sweat, your life.

feel bored, stoned, jaded?
go climbing, ppl.
shred your tendons reaching for that next ledge,
plug your fingers into slippery granite holds,
stretch your body so hard it screams for joy.
turn your gaze on the dizzying vertical world below.
watch your challenges lie humbly
beneath your rubber-cladded toes.
take ur fill of Ceasarean victory,
and float down, breathe deep and happy,
then wait for that next wall.

odd that life shud feel so good and meaningful
while stranded at the top of a climbing wall,
but it does.

just finished white oleander today.
beautiful language, beautiful character
(only ingrid, not astrid),
not so beautiful storyline..
but janet fitch obviously wanted it that way.

if i could write that beautifully,
so beautifully that i could cause ppl to ache,
i don't think i could lavish it on the grossness of reality.
i'd paint my heroine out of proportion,
wash every dimension of her being into colours so vivid
it might help her step out of pages
and into the real world.
i'd give her breath the Midas touch
and let her tint the world with glorious wonder.
let every word she speaks
and every gaze she casts
leave the real world dazed in luminosity.

i mean, how much reality do we need?
let every bit of truth contain some fiction,
and every bit of fiction some truth.
life wud be a serious bitch w/o
such romanticization.
my life wud be a serious bitch w/o
beautiful books and movies.

neway, the crow-harsh appeal
of my reality's soundtrack
just screamed through the air.

bye sweethearts,
it's time for physics.

listless listmaking

i think i'm the laziest person in the world.
apart from another visit to camp 5,
i spent the entire weekend dozing around
and blatantly ignoring my Himalayan
pile of assignments.
all i rmbr of this afternoon
was a drowsy sweet-smelling nap
and a plethora of giggles spilt over
Calvin and Hobbes..

ngyek ngyek ngyek, life is good.

List of Things To Do
1. Econ Portfolio (which i think is due tmrw)
2. English - Comparison Essay, 3 Drafts 1 Final (due Tuesday)
3. Art Journal (due Thursday)
4. TOK Journal (sposedly due Tuesday)
5. World Lit Paper, 1400 words X2 (due sometime April)

krys the big, lazy parasite.

and, just to refresh my appetite
(and perhaps yours?),
a supplementary list!


List of Things To Die For
(well, not really :)
in no particular order

my own castle

to grow old this gracefully
(minus the makeup)

a macbook pro

MIT admissions letter

that bod!
and her cool tattoo

this cool ipod gelaskin

to be THIS geng

to be this geng

to live here for the rest of my life

to travel around the world

to be THIS geng!

to make this much money
everyday

to be THIS geng

for my daughter to be THIS geng :D

for my son to be this.. this... this :P

to have bondi-dogs running
around in my castle's gardens

to be this geng :)

to get one of these and
give it to mum

to have this hang on my castle bedroom wall

to share all of the above with this boy


enjoy the week, ppl (:

picture album

hello's gone forever, noooooo...
now i have to rely on blogger's
slowasfahk image uploader.
neway, thought it was time for some pics :)



our kakak just left on monday back to indon..
not sure if we'll ever see her again.
printed out pictures of our family
and relatives and of her with us,
and placed it in this envelope.
see how marcus gets his own sticky? :P
he didn't want to be left out hahaha!

this was last saturday, when we had
an open house steamboat dinner :P
that's dazhen (nephew) dozing on the sofa,
jia ying (niece) playing masak-masak,
and my cousin's super pretty fiance.
she's slimmer than me, omg!

this was at camp 5, 1 utama hehe.
that's me and nora on the kiddy boulder.

the rebecca portrait completed!
kinda hate the background still.
might have to touch up the yellow.
the whole piece looks like a
kiddy's party invite now.

valentine rose from my sweetie! :)
mum found this vase and replaced
the kopi-o plastic jar i used hehehe.
think it looks lovely.

ok, so it's the 2nd day of CNY,
we're in the lovely town of muar,
and after 1 blistering afternoon
we decide to visit the seaside.
our little miyo gets so excited at the sight of
a scuttling hermit that
she steps right onto gray sand...
which turns out to be part of
the marsh.

that's our little heroine, bare-footed
after having dipped her precious nikes
into 3 feet worth of GLOB, HAHAHAHA...


latest art project, still incomplete.
doesnt look very remarkable,
but i think this pic does it very little justice :P
check back again for the final update.

the backside of our art field-trip bus ;)


obliviously sketching the Petronas Twin Towers,
your resident blogger :)

another time, guys.