This guy's sound is amazingly beautiful.. Godness sake.

I trudged along through each day in its turn, rarely looking up, eyes locked on the never-ending swamp that lay before me, planting my right foot, raising my left, planting my left foot, raising my right, never sure where I was, never sure I was headed in the right direction, knowing only that I had to keep moving, one step at a time.

-Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

Time

Time could become deformed as it moved forward. Time itself was uniform in composition, but once consumed, it took on a deformed shape. One period of time might be terribly heavy and long, while another could be light and short. Occasionally the order of things could be reversed, and in the worst cases order itself could vanish entirely. Sometimes things that should not be there at all might be added onto time. By adjusting time this way to suit their own purposes, people probably adjusted the meaning of their existences. In other words, by adding such operations to time, they were able—but just barely—to preserve their own sanity. Surely, if a person had to accept the time through which he had just passed uniformly in the given order, his nerves could not bear the strain

-1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

probably the best duet of all time

"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood


"I still remember when you squeezed my hand in that classroom. After that I wanted to be your friend. I wanted to get to know you better. But I just couldn’t do it. There were lots of reasons for that, but the main problem was that I was a coward. I regretted it for years. I still regret it. And I think of you all the time.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

E tuh’d seht frah uin luhjancydeuhc kad y meddma punehk. E tuh’d seht frah fa’na daqdehk yht fa nih uid uv drehkc du cyo. Frah fa’na ryhkehk uid dukadran pid hud tuehk yhodrehk, famm E tuh’d seht dryd aedran. Ed tuach’d syddan du sa palyica E vehymmo naymewat dryd frah oui’na dnimo eh muja, ajano susahd cbahd dukadran tuach’d ryja du pa pnaydr-dygehk, dryd oui’mm cdemm vaam mega dra milgeacd bancuh ymeja ajah drnuikr dra sucd ihaqledehk desac, yht oui femm vaam lusbmadamo lusvundypma dukadran palyica oui ghuf dryd zicd ryjehk aylr udran ec suna dryh ahuikr.

Yht drana lusac y susahd frah oui veht uid dryd ed’c hud esbundyhd fryd oui’na dymgehk ypuid un frah oui’na kuehk un fryd oui’na tuehk. Dra uhmo drehk dryd syddan ec dryd oui yna fedr aylr udran. Yht dryd’c ahuikr du vaam rybbo. ooee-kuk-ra deoo fuahahm raae-bae-baeoh.

LMTTC

Dilemma

should I save up or should I buy a macro lens?

*confused*

Photomarathon

walking back after the 15 hours marathon

what a photomarathon can do to you

2078 participants

shooting

Fort Canning Park

The best camera is the one that's with you.

-Chase Jarvis

Paramagic

Yesterday 21st of August I joined all other Parawhores in attending Paramore's second concert in Singapore. The crowd was simply so fanatic they would do just nearly anything to push themselves in front including crushing girls, although that I'm not proud to say.

The moment Paramore stepped out from the backstage, the crowd literally went frenzy. They shouted, screamed, jumped, and pushed their way to the stage.


The entire concert was incredibly epic. The crowd were so awesome that Hayley for the second time said the crowd in Singapore is the best throughout their concerts (Hayley said that the crowd in Singapore is the best during their concert last year in Singapore) . The Swellers too convinced us that Singapore crowds are the best of all.


There was one part I missed. Halfway performing Pressure Hayley stopped and tell this to us, the audience..

"I got a question for ya. I wanna know how many people have been to a Paramore show before? *crowd responded 'Yes'* Really? Well thank you, thanks for coming back to see us. Means a lot. I guess the more important question might be.. How many of you have NEVER been to a Paramore show? *even more crowd responded 'Yes'* *Hayley coughs* Oh I have one thing I have to say to you and that is, welcome to our family. This is it, you ain't going nowhere. So uh, family, we got one more chorus of Pressure to sing and I need to know that you're gonna sing it louder than you've ever sung before. Because every night we play show and get up on stage, and I sing till I can't sing anymore I just don't have voice at the end of the night, every single night. And it is quite possibly the most frustrating and the most rewarding feeling I ever have. So I want you to lose your voices with me tonight. And when you wake up tomorrow and your friends ask you how the show was, I don't even want you to be able to tell them because you have no voice! It is so bad, your friends will just look at you like you are crazy because they don't understand, alright? When they are going to want to understand so bad, so next time we come to Singapore, they're gonna come with you and they're gonna lose their voices too. And they're gonna repeat. Are you ready to do this with us tonight? Let's warm it up Singapore, warm it right up."

After she finished her talking, she continued the chorus she hasn't sang. And I believe the audience felt as if they recovered their voices and shouted even louder than they possibly could. It was simply epic.


There is one very magical moment to me in this concert. I was just 3 people away from the stage when in the middle of one song Hayley looked at my direction for about 10 seconds (she was letting the crowd do the singing at that time) and then smiled before she looked away. THAT moment was so magical I thought time stopped for a while. It is also the third magical moment that I can remember having in my life.


There were 3 girls who was behind me all the time and kept telling me to push my way in. One of them told me this, 'keep pushing dude! there there push push! get in there!'. The girl who told me that was beside me at the end of the show while her other friends are nowhere near her.


Paramore ended the show by presenting us Misery Business from their past album, Riot. When the song ended, a ton of confetti was blown and filled the whole standing pen area with confetti. It was simply a brilliant way to end the amazing night. Thank you Paramore!

I told everybody that I will be in the front row, and there I proved what I said to them.

Bali Trip

Tanah Lot

Garuda Wisnu Kencana

freshly drawn henna

the after effect of the henna

the sunset at Dreamland Beach

the breathtaking Kintamani

after Bounty

first time at Naughty Nuri

our second time at Naughty Nuri as well as our last night in Bali

Tampak Siring

A picture is worth a thousand words

Janice and Sonia.. Jayesslee!

These past few days I have been lacking of sleep and pimples have been growing fruitfully on my face. Though feeling really tired and sleepy I still woke up early to attend the service that Jayesslee was going to attend at CHC.


Throughout the service there has always been singing and some preaches. But there was a special performance by an Indonesian dance crew today. Right after the dance performance, Jayesslee came out and performed Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars. Jayesslee then talked about her mom and how they ended up believing in Christ. Soon after talking about their mom, they sang a Korean praise song and ended their performance singing Coming Home by P Diddy.

Oh, I nearly forgot! They also sang the Bubblegum Song, before they talked about their mom.

After Jayesslee's performance, the host suddenly said Jayesslee was going hold a meet and greet event. The moment the MC said that, I was like 'Oh damn! I am just so lucky!'.

The meet and greet event was so packed that people are all over the place. I was standing there clueless about what to do and where the queue starts when I met Taidy's friends. They invited me to join them in the queue and that they said I can share the same order sheet with them (we can't join the autograph and photograph session with Jayesslee if we don't have the order sheet of Jayesslee's shirt said the promoter of the event). Without any thinking I agreed in buying the shirt. The time came when I finally got my chance to meet Jayesslee. My God, they are so much more lovely in person, especially Sonia. I asked for them for autograph and photographs. I also went across the line and asked for a handshake with them which I still do not know whether I am allowed to do so or not, but anyway, who cares!

This is the photo taken from Victoria's phone

At about 1.30 me and Taidy went to meet Alek and Atok. We went to Fish n Co to have our lunch. I had Swiss Fish and Chips.

We finished our lunch at about 2.30 and I parted ways with them as I was about to meet my high-school friends.

I met my high-school friends at Vivo City and had a short stroll there then proceeded to Sentosa Broad Walk and headed towards Resort World Sentosa. We had another stroll around Resort World Sentosa before we decided to go to the Beach. Again we walked around the beach before we head back to Vivo City to have our dinner. We had a tough time deciding where to have our dinner when we finally chose Thai Express. We chit-chated here and there while we were waiting for the food and while we were eating.

After dinner, I went to buy a frame for my Jayesslee's autograph while my friends waited for me. Then I requested to go Giant to look for tempe. I have been wanting to cook tempe at home but couldn't find them at Giant. We went back home after that.

I fell asleep on the bus while I was standing and there was a lady amazed at the sight of me sleeping while standing. Hahaha..

A Little Thing Called Love

I totally recommend this film.

It is a Thai movie, but trust me this movie is just that good.

Just for your information, this is a romance comedy movie.

I'll not write anything about the story-line here, you'll have to watch it yourself. But don't worry you won't regret watching it.

Oh btw, the lead actress in this movie is Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul. She is very pretty, and I like to look at her so much xD

my heart's a stereo

E tu hud ihtancdyht fro E tyna hud ycg ran uid.

Ed'c ayco vun sa du ycg udran vasyma vneahtc uid, pid fro tuh'd E tyna ycg ran uid?

ur, yht ymcu, ajanodesa E vaam mega daqdehk ran E'mm aht ib hud daqdehk ran yd ymm. Palyica cra'mm nabmo dra daqdc jano cmufmo ajah druikr E ghuf dryd ed ec ran dnyed, pid cdemm ed sygac sa drehg dryd E's hud cibbucat du daqd ran.

-_________-

ed paydc vun oui cu mecdah lmuca

This is a random memory I recollected a few weeks ago. This happened a long time ago when I was a little kid. My father brought me to a place that looks like a hospital. He then talked to someone and then asked me to wait at a corner where there are benches for people to sit and wait. I was sitting there for quite some time when I looked up I saw a statue of a man being hanged on a cross. I was wondering why would anyone make such a statue? Wouldn't the man being hanged be in pain? Why would he be hanged?

Now though, I understand what that statue was about and why He was hanged. When I was bigger, I realized I am quite familiar with that statue of a man being hanged but I never recollected that random event until I was in Singapore.

Marina Barrage

I am at Marina Barrage while I am writing this post. Kecil invited me to join her and her friends. This place, Marina Barrage, I should admit has a beautiful scenery.

Last year my parents ask if I would like to join them to Marrina Barrage and I lazily declined because my dad said Marina Barrage is some kind of field. So I thought it is something similar to football field and will be a waste of my time going. Now that I am here, I regretted not coming with my family back then. This place is a perfect place to just read, sit and drink something chilled.

By the time it was noon, the surroundings gives me a calming sensation. I just feel that life is not that bad (studying and working is definitely not something good).
When it was around 7 that I decided to leave the group and have a little walk on my own. Kecil was busy chatting with her friends back then.

So I walked towards Marina Bay Sands direction as it has the best scenery. Sat there for 10 minutes and decided to go down to the toilet. When I'm done doing my business in the toilet, I saw a bridge and went to that direction. The moment I reached the bridge, I can smell the fragrance of the sea. The smell that I have long wanted to smell. Haha..
I stood there gazing at the sea and the light the ships and building produce. I believe I was there for at least half an hour until kecil called me and asked where I was. I was kind of blur the first time she called and thought nothing about it. It was until the third time she called that I realized what she was talking about. and rushed to where she was.

I would definitely come back when I'm totally bored. Haha.

Not long ago I bought another writing of Haruki Murakami. A thick book titled The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. I haven't read the book yet but I supposed it is a good book as I remembered my friend told me it is a good book. I have yet to finish reading my Norwegian Wood (also by Haruki Murakami) but I have bought a new book.

Everytime I read Murakami's writings, it is as if I was drawn into the world he was describing. The way he writes a story is amazingly unique, he used mostly metaphors to describe his writings. On one hand it is rather difficult to understand what he is trying to say, but on the other hand you can get absorbed in the world Murakami created. When I say you can get absorbed, I mean literally absorbed.

Well, I am currently enjoying my holiday. Doing part time and hanging out with friends. Recently I enjoyed working. The atmosphere there has been good lately. In the spare time I can chat with my colleagues there. Mostly are fun people except for certain people.

Anyway, enjoy your holiday peeps.

good old song