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looking back on today

I'm in a dilemma. I like my current blogskin but the quality of the images suck big time. HOW? hahaha. Can someone save me? I wanna post pics from my camera.
Anyway i shall blog in point form today yay because my mind is stucked.

1. today was graduation. i'm not like extremely overjoyed because no fwens came and support. but Sab came to take a pic! that was pretty naissss! Emily too! But i shall not post up the pictures cause the quality of blogger is abhor to the max.
2. i went to FROLICK & AWFULLY CHOCOLATE with Sab & Graciie! (: velly happy.
3. i am very inspired to write a song now.
4. and my dad just gave me 100bugs. yay. zaijian

When i was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band. He said, "Son when you grow up, would you be, the Savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned? Because one day, i'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade."

we've got 4minutes to save the world

Everytime i visit Brandon's blog, i see that he truly wants the best for the school and the student body. We need people like him. Not people who are running for the fame and popularity, that will soon be losing that passion. So, vote for Brandon Lee, again. And seeing how he manages his long distance relationship is pretty inspiring as well. (:

Will you choose to follow your heart or your better judgment?

Grace said that even when i'm serving NS, i still got em, and we can meet on the weekends. Cause we were on the topic of friendships and that its quite uncertain. <3333333333 so nice to have friends like this. I lurbs you many many, Grace.

and at the end of the day, love is what holds us together

I have completed my prison break series. You gotta watch it man i tell you. Even though the last season was a drop in viewership, the ending was a good one. Even though it was fictional, but watching how Michael & friends come so far, being through so much, it makes me feel for them. And thats how it's a successful drama. I'm so gonna make my kids watch PB next time. I love how it makes me reflect on life. When some people out there just want nothing more than freedom, we have it right here in front of us. We should really cherish what we have before we lose it. And freedom is often taken for granted.


Anyhow, I thought that the words on Michael's tombstone was really heartfelt.

Husband, Father, Brother, Uncle & Friend.

say i'll always be a friend, took an oath, imma stick it out till the end

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLA!

Today despite being laughed and teased at. I shall remember the naiss things! (: Latif bought a guitar for his younger sister. Oh my, if i'm a girl i'll marry him. He's dope to the max. Awesome brother man. And i saw Lingwei at Tamp 1! Omg happy to the max sia we is going to eat supper this week i don't care yay. Then she texted me, "so happy to see chewwww" totally made my day! Haha, so we ate Subway today and i'm velly happy.

I LIKE RANDOM TEXTS FROM FWENS

you and the glass affair

next week i am meeting a bunch of photographers for an outing and its called the "Glass Affair". Hopefully i'll be able to learn a tip or two from the veterans. Raffles area then maybe towards Tiong Bahru. Old shophouses woot!

don't look back in anger

take one step back and think. Glenn. Think. Because you would need to save everyone else. Look out, it's a beautiful world out there. Indeed. Thank you Sab (: and i'm so much more than this.

if life is a canvas, i'll tear mine up right now

FML NO ONE CARES ABOUT MY FEELINGS AT ALL. ANYONE, JUST PICK UP A GUN AND SHOOT ME NOW. IM NEVER GOOD ENOUGH FOR ANYONE. PEOPLE ASSUME EVERYTHING AND NOT CARE. IM EASILY FORGOTTEN. PEOPLE DONT APPRECIATE ME FOR THE THINGS I'VE DONE. IM ALWAYS REMEMBERED FOR MY FLAWS AND NEVER MY GOOD POINTS. SO MANY YEARS OF TRYING TO BE A GOOD PERSON. I SHOULD WASTE MY LIFE AWAY. DRUGS ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES. NEVER TOUCHED THEM. MAYBE I SHOULD NOW

IF THERES ONLY ONE PERSON WHO CARE, TELL ME. NO ONE PROLLY READS THIS SPACE. SO FML

we're all hostages to our own humanity

We're all hostages to our own humanity. And its true that, some will seek forgiveness while others will escape.

rockwell avenue st 71

I guess we should be thankful that living in a small city allows us to reach our friends easily. Compared to those people who has friends who live across states. Start to be thankful. Today.

stay together for the kids

hwello virtual spacemen and spacewomen. i just came back from supper with aaron. RK house at chomps. Food was average but the catch up was great. (: talking about life, backpacking and photography. Too more row i shall meet eric and yingying for lunch and drink my favourite tehpeng from design canteen. Then tuesday i'll meet Grace & Sab to eat subway and frolick. Yay. Today i was quite in an angsty mood and i should not be. I felt bad being angry with Sab and she was feeling damn guilty. But it's not your fault silly! and i'm awright (: next time must stock up coke to chill the angstyness ah. Gd'night.

these empty metaphors are in vain, cant you see that the grass is greener when it rains

Art is an extremely precious thing. I do not know what to classify it as because it may be a noun or a verb or sometimes coming alive to make its presence known. I'm very privileged that i'm quite a musical person. And i'm slowly learning one small aspect of visual art - photography. Art to me, are in 3 popular area; namely Music, Dance & the Visual aspect. Correct me if i'm wrong aye. Amongst these 3, i feel that music has the sole power to break down the walls inside a person; walls of hatred, rejection, fear or loss. Dance has the ability to express itself really well but most of the time requires again, the music accompaniment. Visual Art is a deep one. Photography tends to capture certain emotions rather than expressing. But what the artiste is feeling affects the result of the artwork.

In this modern day and age, we use these things to express our emotions, views on things that we thought we can never change. But you'll never know how, one song you write, one artwork you draw can change the world. Like how Jason Mraz wrote "I'm Yours" in a limited edition EP which God knows who even owns it. And the next minute, it became the Grammy Song Of The Year.

sit with me, come and play

i just came back from my morning expedition. learnt something new! actually taking pictures in RAW format is so much better. Although the size of the file is so much larger. Well, i'm gonna get a bigger storage space card soon. Okay i should really head to bed nao. Gd'night.

the warrior and the dragon's tail

Hello earthlings. I bet everyone's asleep at this hour. 5:09am. I'm gonna wait an hour more before i leave my house to snap some pictorial moments of the blazing sun. Breathe in the lovely air and feel the peace of Mother Nature. Rejuvenating. Oh and before i go, please remember to vote for Eric, Yingying & Jiahui if you're a design student! (: zaijian and good morning.

lets watch the stars collide

I was supposed to cab down to marina barrage and meet the rest of the ClubSnap photographers for an outing at 6am. They were going there to sneak an attack on the sunrise. And capture it. Not literally of course. (: But i guess my bed needs me more. Haha, i know i'm a lazy bummer. Anyhow, i need a check on my temper. Don't know why i get emotional easily. I will go drink coke whenever i get offended or something. Heh. Good reflection. Enough for the night. Peace out.

So i told you with a smile, it's all about you

Kittens for sale.

Hello middle earth humans. whats up! Haha, today we busked in school to help some of em for their campaign. Pretty fun! Was so tired that i went back to sleep in lounge and saw these little kittens for sale (branda jiayi xinhui). Okay lets rewind this tape a little, yesterday i went to watch angels and demons! It was good! Considering all the phailed movies so far. The book was explained more in details though. Heh. I love the tuesday pompoms. The retarded things we do are amazing. But amazingly loving also.

and and and and thanks for cheering me up when i felt really down just now!
(: you you you you!

someday you'll see that everything is temporary

Elections, Day 1. Posters up everywhere and competition seems tough. Tension adds on between friends and all. Sab was telling me how sad she felt about how this whole thing is going and all. Anyway, i'm addicted to "Oceans" by Weiwen a.k.a For This Cycle. Especially the part where it says that we're not the ones to decide the ocean and its rising tides. Lets ride with the waves now.

we'll travel the world tomorrow

A late night greeting to you Earthlings. The time is 4:10am now and i shall text Sabrina a "meow". HAHA. Okay done. I texted her a "rah" yesterday night at around this timing as well. I kinda burnt my hand while doing light paintings on my DSLR. And haji lane through the eyes of a camera is phenomenal. Feels like i've stepped into another world of its own. Of colours & beauty. You should try it someday. Ghastly in a mysterious way.

Am waking up to lunch with Sab and prolly Graciie & Izak. Aye. G'dnight little ones.

they tried to kill chivalry but we got it all back

HAHA good friends pose same pose. tsk tsk.





Happy Birthday Graciie!

Today, a few of us surprised Grace in school! Did some candles thingy and did a performance with Eric, her eyecandy. HAHA. Eric has a nice voice, 9 years in choir. LOL. Haha, i really feel that he was really generous to sing her a song, feed her with a slice of cake and give her a hug. DSC President jiu shi ni le Eric Sim! So here are some pics from my cam! Pity it died halfway during the celebration. C'yall. G'dnight.

we'll write a song that turns out the lights

Today, today, today, today, today i got my long awaited DSLR!
Rah. HAPPINESS LEVEL 999999 nao. Yay. HAHA. It's a Nikon D70! Anyhow, so my virgin trip with my new toy was to Ikea at Queensway! Hope you enjoyed the pichass by an amateur down here. Share the joy with me as i embark on my photography journey. G'dnight yall.

Oh, the size of the images are injustice. Click on them to see the real thing! HAH zai jian.

Hope isn't something you create, it's something you let inside.

Pedro the Lion is loud in the speakers and the city waits outside our windows. She sits and sings, legs crossed in the passenger seat, her pretty voice hiding in the volume. Music is a safe place and she knows it. It hits me that she won't see this beautiful skyline for several weeks, and we'll be without her. I leaned forward and asked, what'd she say if her story has an audience. She smiles, "Tell them to look up. Tell them to remember the stars."

I would write her a song, because songs don't wait to resolve, and that songs has that special ability to reach beyond these high walls. Stories wait for endings but songs are brave enough to sing out when all they know is darkness. These words, written next to midnight, as hurricane and harbor, as both claim to save her.

3 years ago, Jon Foreman of Switchfoot wore the first TWLOHA shirt. At that time, it was nothing more to help a friend, tell a story. Chad Butler, drummer of Switchfoot wore it the next night. And then Deon Rexroat of Anberlin, for the next year. And more artistes like Paramore and some other great bands. The shirts were curious billboards and so wherever these bands went, the messages would follow- questions and confessions from folks wanting to learn to fight for their friends. It was conversations over lunch at the cafeteria, folks at work, strangers at the airport. "What does your shirt mean?"

We all wake to human condition. We all wake to mystery and beauty but also tragedy and loss. Someone smart once said that life is hard for most people, most of the time. But the vision is better endings. Restoration of broken familes and relationships. The vision is people finding freedom, finding life and finding love. The vision is a graduation, a wedding, a child, a sunrise.
The vision is people becoming incredible parents, people breaking cycles, making change.
You are not alone, and this is not the end of your story.


Somewhere along that night at Boca and this night where you are, our story bumped into yours. Thank you for being part of this love movement. It may sound stupid for most people, but being able to help someone in desperate times is something we can do to make this world a better place. Because TWLOHA-ians, this is how we roll.



PS: the title is from John Mayer's twitter.

yeah you bleed just to know you're alive

Zhou just tagged me in a photo and in this pic, you're supposed to follow a set of instructions to get a totally random album artwork, band name, and album name. So here's mine! I think its extremely cool & fun but my friends can't be bothered to do it. BUT i think LYNETTE YING will do it cause she's my loverrrrrr. Yay. Haha.

when everything's meant to be broken, i just want you to know who i am

The sky is pouring as though it has lost a beloved. The blowing wind's wrath is upon this side of the town. I'm now blogging at the comfort of my haven on my fave pillow yay. So before anything, whats up little martians? Hope today was a tad different from the day before. Better or not. The rain reminds me of the video of when the band played "Iris" in the rain while the whole crowd sing to the chorus.

"And i don't want the world to see me, cause i don't think that they'll understand. And when everything's meant to be broken, i just want you to know who i am. "


I am inspired to write a song like this nao. Go Glenn.

end of the world party

I am going to host an "end of the world party" when the day comes. Stock up little fireworks, snacks and a long list of invited guests. Haha, we'll sing and dance like we never did before. I'll steal some cars and we'll drive around town. Flood my room with marshmallows and cans of coke. And at the end of the night, we'll say goodbye to this planet. ( i secretly built a spaceship so we can all fly away. :D ) oh! i'll blast my home with classic tunes like Westlife and Backstreet Boys. Then there'll be favourite choruses and sing-alongs. YAY

Oh if you're reading this, you're invited HAHA.

i'll build us a time machine to the future

Whats up kids from the neighboring planet? Haha, i've been hooked on to Restaurant City recently. Tsk. It's really quite fun despite my bad impression of Facebook games. So recently i've been writing songs, excercising, meeting friends for lunch and stuffs. I shall try and get a silver for my Napfa test and get a 2months off. So till then, it's gonna be hell training yeah!

On a completely different note, it's strange when they say, they want a time machine to the past and relive their love lives, or whatever. I'd rather build one to the future, to know what it holds, and cherish the present. You coming with me?

we are more than most will ever know

We are more than most will ever know or find out. Its true. Oh wait, maybe you should try to find yourself back.

come onto an adventure this summer

courtesy of my very talented friend, Zhou.


It's a lazy Sunday afternoon. I've been sleeping in the morning the past nights, and i have to change this bad habit. Cereally. I'm listening to Remembering Sunday by ATL now, it's a pretty sad song talking about how the guy is searching for the girl who died. I like the duet part especially. Haha, and to my faithful commenter wongyingying, lets have lunch this week. :D okay zai jian.

Big City Dreams

When i'm old and frail, besides that good old friend on the guitar stand, i want to have my share of adventures. I want my kids to grow up knowing their dad has walked this earth in his glorious days. Life is as good as the memories we keep, or so they say. When they read my journal, they'll see that their dad has skipped classes, busk on the streets of some random city and he once worked part time in a cafe while backpacking with his friends to earn some cash for travelling. I want them to know that i was a huge Westlife & Backstreet Boys fan while i was a child. Maybe by then in their generation, Westlife would be their "Beatles".

And when my hourglass body filtered out its final grain of sand, these friends of old will come and raise this glass with me, to the memories we had. Stories of battle scars, pirate ships and wounded hearts.

trace this life back to the green and old

I think my new photobooth effect is highly coolzxxzxz. Haha.

we don't sleep at sleepovers

Sleepover last night was crazy. Izak told me to come over at 4am HAH. and there was Graciie, Sab, Izak, Farhan, BrandonLee, Dorothy, Desmond & Nicolette. 8 kids in a room. Squished. But it was a hell lot of fun doing nothing but talk and just laugh. On a completely different note, i'm listening to Olivia Ong on my Itunes and her voice has that enchanting spell. That kind of soothing music. Can you imagine her singing effortlessly with a guitar by the window in a monotone scene? Yes, she don't even need to try ya'know and the sound of music will birth forth from her alluring voice. In my opinion, she's the pride of our nation.

Oh by the way, i just wrote a new song inspired by my eyecandy but it's not about her in the end cause the girl in the song died. I know it may sound cliche but give me a chance to sing you this one awright? Lynette was my first listener followed by Sab. And they both love it. Super nice and encouraging friends i've got, worth more than a field of gold.

And i'm glad IZAK is running for TPSU. You have my world of support behind. I love you IZAK (not in the gay way.) Haha.



I'm a hesistant prized fighter, still trapped within my youth