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Thursday, July 29, 2004
The medieval era...
Deeply in the mystical forest...
A whole civilisation...
A whole empire...
Of whats not seen nor heard...
Entrenched and Established...
Rooted on the Holy Scriptures...
Filled with all tribes...
The Elvens...
The Wizards...
The Muggles...
The Mutants...
Of whom the Monarch Reigns...
Filled with mystical creatures...
The Dragons...
The Phoenix...
The Unicorns...
Of which not seen on Earth...
An golden era of...
Sovereignty...
Reverence...
Mystery...
Danger...
Fear...
Irony...
Doubts...
Contradiction...
Yet an empire of Truth and of Justice...
Empire by the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords...
Of whom He reigns and rules...
Of His Holy calling....
Set Forth the Earthly Monarch...
Who is bondservant of His Holiness and grace...
In the land of Wonders...
Remembering On|7/29/2004 11:11:00 PM|
The beginning...
Monday, July 26, 2004
Yup another photo... same.... at least some are really beauty.... 
Remembering On|7/26/2004 12:16:00 AM|
The Beauties... at least some are haha...
Remembering On|7/26/2004 12:15:00 AM|
Before into entering into the beauties... how should i categories this MMmmmmmm...
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See these cute little kids...
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My Precious... Now now isnt this just beautiful... me and my big brother... Awww this is one the pictures in my precious archive... sharing it with you guys...
Remembering On|7/26/2004 12:12:00 AM|
Back to topic... Investiture... All set...
Remembering On|7/26/2004 12:08:00 AM|
Another scene... Upclose...
Remembering On|7/26/2004 12:07:00 AM|
WoW scene by the shore... Beautiful...
Remembering On|7/26/2004 12:06:00 AM|
These are my commonwealth classmates... saw the one in white beside the potted plant??? thats my biology teacher.. the one who inspired me, and spur the passion in me... one of my most respected teacher... To you Mr Lai, Salute!
Remembering On|7/26/2004 12:05:00 AM|
Sunday, July 25, 2004
Haha haha... finally after so long i found out how to post pictures... which means, i would be able to share the people out there not only my thoughts but also the beautiful things that are around me through pictures... how wonderful... all these beautiful pictures that i have... now i can share it with all of you out there...
well... the day was pretty boring... i studied the whole day.. with constant power naps... if i am doing the sciences surely i can survive without the naps but too bad i am doing my mathematics... trigonometry.. dread it... its a killer... neurone denaturator... calories burner... not even goalith can stand it... sometimes its really a miracle that something with only 3 sides can do so much damage... really sometimes the small things are truly the greatest destructors.. its the smallest that will mark the end of an empire... i tried and tried but i gave up halfway and went to do my chemistry haha just to find myself crawling back to the island of pythagoras...
Mmmm all the while i have been blogging in a letter form but i decided to take up a new approach... haha soon we will see what is it like... actually i am quite inspired by my big bro's blog... even the foul-est thing ever, is made so beautiful just by the sceptor in his hand... manificient... we might just start seeing the yellow bridge road... we never know... haha...
well... it has been a long day for me but i am sure glad its coming to an end.. now reflecting through my day.. and appreciating the many wonders that God has created... beautiful... of the many beautiful things that are around me... Mmmm... my bros... my sis-s... Mmm all so beautiful.. all so wonderful... though for some i know its starting to fade, but still will i hold on... regardless how would they treat me... regardless how they felt towards me... but then, all i know is i love them... and in life, many a times love just doesnt recipocrate... we just got to learn to live by it... thats why though i may like dawn... i may miss her.. how i hope i could be with her... but then i must know one thing... self control and self constraint.. she is attached... and what good will it make to tear a couple up... though yes, the prince does fall into the abyss of lovesickness... but then, he will have a way out... somehow... right now my focus is no longer on wanting to be with her... but wanting the best for her... just like for my bros and sis... i do not want to see dawn nor any of my bros and sis retain... i want them to soar and fly higher than what they thought they could...i took up educating.. and starting to grow passion in it... i am trying my best.. be the best educator i can be... praying and hoping i will be able to be that special tool who can edify and build... to help more extend their wings and fly... i see potentials... many... but whats the point of having potentials but not develop... potential is hidden it will never be a reality till its developed and brought out...
Somethings had been twirling beneath my skull... well but now i have a clear answer to them all... well.. somethings cant be forced.... if it should be, it will be someday... well i am still young... if it should be.. i will be with the morning light one day.. yet if it is not meant to be... i am pray till the end comes, and nothing will happen.. so why let it affect my work.. i mean surely it will bother me a bit but it should not be to the extent where my work is affected...i have a calling to fulfill... i am a destiny to pursue... i have many whom i have to stretch my hands to...
To God be glorifed...
Remembering On|7/25/2004 11:06:00 PM|
End of routine...
Well Well... haha its been era-s ago since i last blog... so miss me??? well i was rather busy.. i mean what do you expect from a prince??? slack around... no haha..
well, it had been rather eventful, new experiences, new worries, new vision, new strength... well, council work had once took me off track and i actually start to slow down in my work and actually pile up my work... now i am still trying to catch up.. very near to end point but not yet... still requires a few drops...
i took up teaching not for once, i mean usually i do, but i dont teach JCs i only help to tutor for upper sec chem and bio but now i help in tutoring JC thats new.. and seriously, teaching JC is a challenge... you have just learn the topic, being a greenhorn yourself you will need more equipments to tutor others.. yup, praise God for the wisdom haha... i actually made it... somehow i get to grasp the concept quite fast and firm but then again... you all know i am just too lazy to mermorise anything so even as i tutor i got to refer to the notes when i need to recite something... thats why i didnt like to teach the part of enegetics where there are the 11 type of enthalpy change... i have to highlight the points, but then i cant remember the definition, i only know what is it and how to use it... i think that amanda more power, she can remember every definition which i cant... but then i dont think i will go mermorising, as long as i can and know how to use it i think very good already, the definition part, i think in exam i just use the keywords and simple english to explain... yup!
Hahah then... as per norm, n0w i everydae started digging into my books and started studying and catching up... till now not bad... i can reaching the finishing point... math is the biggest headache trigonometry... if i ever meet pythagoras... i am bound to commit the sin of murder... why didhe in the first place have to invent the theory of trigo... rubbish guy... made me here fighting a war of sin cos tan cotan cosec sec... and the worse thing my excalibur is not working on any of them... But then with the super intelligence which God has made.. everything will be fine...
well... council so far had been great except the account sector...the account sector which is my department wow... big headache... its not about not being ableto acc for anything.. in fact every thing is accounted yet, useless... we accounted but no money to pay for what is accounted... anyway every thing will be fine... God will make a way... yup yup!
Mmmm... i have seen but didnt really spend time with my bros and sis for quite sometime already... i dont know if they still remember me this bro, but then certainly i still remember them and still love them alot... yet again for some. things are clear.. as far as i hope, it still takes the other part before things will work... so i wont really repulse on anything... i will just continue loving and trust me, i wont be that floating cloud... but then again.. some things only nature can make sense out of the most ridiculous thing... i really wish to build a stronger relationship with my bros, yet eiter willingness is a missing factor... or time is... quite sad... it takes a great amount of closeness before i can open my mouth and call bro... and 2 succeeded... l
anyway gravity is calling me... till next time...
Al Ti-ra veh Al Tif-Chad!
Remembering On|7/25/2004 12:26:00 AM|
All the Days of work...
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Now now.. this is getting interesting... there are more and more function in this blogger system.. haha.. anyway... Mmm indeed a new chapter.. but then again it isnt that new actually...
Mmm... investiture had been a great one... tiring though i took one day of sleep just to recover... Investiture day looks grand and big... we were anxious and everything seems to be high... our lives' are like going to be changed anytime... but then again the next day comes and everything was normal again... life didnt seem to change much... but interestingly ever since we stepped into office... we never have one morning assembly... we met up with wet morning everyday... we usually got drenched and for me... especially my shoe and feet... wow the smell was tremendously.... PUNGENT... haha i need to constant spray deodourant in order to temporarily rid that smell.. haha... imagine how terrible it was and i have to wear it for the whole day...
Welll... life has been as usual busy with schoolwork and council work... but i am glad i am back in my school work.. thats what i call student... but then i found that my tutorials and my work are like a whole mountain before me...but well give me sometime and i will conquer the mountain...
Well... what about dawn.. Mmm... recently i was bombarded with a great question... one asked me... now that Dawn has a boyfriend.. "what will i do??? tear them up???" obviously my answer would be a no.. i am certainly not someone like that... then the one asked me again, " then why am i so bothered by it... " and i felt... oh yes quite true... like my bothers will make any difference... then i thought perhaps i can try not to like her... but then it doesnt work... so i just continue liking... but i tried to take my focus off it... put it on something else such as my studies... yup i need to catch up with my work... even right now at times i just sort of drop a few notes here and there to dawn... but this time my focus is to get her to do well and like the subject not because i like her or what then special attention.. i treat her as how i would treat any other whom i help... everything else i leave it to see how it goes in the future... not like i have any control over it... i mean on and on i do miss her... at times dont know to talk to her a not... fear that i might go overboard and frighten away such a great friend... even if cant be together fine... but she will always be a great friend to me... yup yup...
Mmm for my dear brother silvest.. erm yes i did sort of talk with him quite a few occasion recently but all very short ones... he is busy... and i guess he should be... prelims coming... i would be more surprised if he is free... not that i dont care about him anymore or what.. in fact i still love him as i always did but then again.. somethings are spelt out so clearly, actually i also dont know what to comment bout it.. quite speechless about that... but then of course i do miss him and stuff.. but then again.. he would like me silent... Mmm the mysterious silent prince... Mmmm... quite fit... over this also lets see how things go...
Well well... for academic... energetics for chemistry was terrible... not the chapter that is terrible but the note that is.. the note is horrible... not easily comprehensible... but then again.. to depend on it alone... i think i bound to fail the next common test...things are getting tougher but even if u give me a mountain higher than everest i will still conquer it... nothing will hold me down...
The dark age has to go... so must my eye bags go...
Remembering On|7/17/2004 11:30:00 PM|
A New Chapter...
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Not bad the last time i blogged was on the 9th and todae is the 13th... Mmmm... Well i didnt really get to blog and wasnt in the mood to blog anyway...
Mmmm i have been very very very very very very very very very very very very very very busy... from morning 6 wake up work till 12+, 1 sometimes even 3+, but still work dont seem to be completed... i mean yes, theres quite abit of work.. and i wasnt in the right mood to do them anyway.. and those who worked with me close enough would know that my work performance really depend on my mood one... when i am in the right mood... i finish my work fast and good... but when i am down or feeling terrible.. it will take forever for me to do even one simple piece of work... and still complete it without much of a standard... and thats what happened in this investiture... i mean its still my dry and down period but i have so many things to attend to... really... its horrible... but i still did drag it till now... many times really i just want to give up... but then again... i just say.. i will go on... even if the sky falls, i will still stand and infact i wil lift the heavens up... and with that i drag and drag... when i felt this heaven is getting too heavy... the high one up there just wisphers... I will make a way... go on... and heaven became sort of lighten a little... many things which i never which would happen happened... people whom i love just seems to fail me... and the disappointments are really tremendous... even right now thinking of some of the things that happened... My eyes are still tainted with tears... note tainted.. it doesnt go off that fast... the hurt i received was great... last time i got hurt before but this time... its way greater than any other time... it just stunned me... and the other thing that is rather saddening is that i fallen for someone whom i shouldnt... and i got so deep i cant seem to pull out... but then again... i dont really see much of a hope in it... at times, she is just so cute that i cant help it but felt like giving her a hug and a peck on the cheeks... but i know what i can do and what i cant... she is to me very precious... we tend to go home very late these daes... and i cant bear to leave till i know that she is escorted home or whatever... with all these bothering me, i just hide into my own world shun from the others... but such life cannot go on... even when the heaven falls... as long as i have my breath this kingdom will not perished... but will live and stand holy and righteous eternally... certainly God heard my cries... yet man dont... usually i mean people are either too busy if not cant be bothered to hear me anyway... sometimes not i want to live in solitude, in a loner life, but i am forced to really... i mean even if one dae i really end up becoming a bachelor... what can i say.. i will just say may i be blessed... yup..
its only the start... its only the stepping into the office and i am starting to feel like leaving... i am starting to wish that i could join the JC2s... my emphasis at the end of the day is still my academic work... i am still aiming a doctor or maybe a lecturer but importantly i am aiming to study high perhaps to PhD...
Well... on top of all the buziness... i remembered... one of my sister's birthday.. but i remembered it quite last minute like 3-4 days before.. i didnt really plan for anything.. then i just convict myself.. dont care how much work i must still go down at least to the nearest place to find something for her.. but then again... must know i am a terrible shopper... i dont know how to shop... and i dont usually do either.. then i really dont know what birhtday gift to give a person... then i just try to focus ans think what is good for her and i chosen her quiet spirit... i think the name is correct.. with all the work... somethings just slip off my mind very easily...but i remember its a purple book... and i found the content to be quite nice and quite easily digest-able... remember i do like to pick up anything and just analyse...i can spend hours staring at one thing just to find out and discover things for myself.. including prose... i just liekto analyse prose... yup... a little eccentric but thats me.. an analyser... and now i also must say i am a very unpredictable person... i just dont like others to dictate how i do something.. i will just take on something and find my own ways to do it... and i often do things which is not norm and not predicted by many... but well... sis vivien told me she is very touched by the present haha... well, she is my sis how could i forget right... its just that with that short time.. i really cant come up with anything better... i am so happy that she actually enjoyed it...
on the whole, well... i m still not fully back... but i am slowly picking up... but i am glad i got closer to many of my council mate through some chats and sharing... predominantly siying (Mdm li), alice, weijie and Wendy hahaha... yup.. but notice... its always the other gang.. usually not the other more said to be cool and funky group... but well i am glad i am the way i am.. i dont need to be funky i dont need to be cool.. i just need to be myself... i am still beautiflly made.. for my calling.. for my purpose... though she dont like this style of guys... but its really just too bad.. i wont say change my style just to become her dream guy... then i would not be myself but an image of her expectations... i will only change my weakness... but not the who i am...
Remembering On|7/13/2004 11:25:00 PM|
After so long...
Friday, July 09, 2004
I think by now.. you would have observed that my tone is getting lighter now.. more in mood to joke a bit.. well..today wasnt really that bad, just that its very busy... but its alrite... just a few more days only.. and after which haha i am going to hibernate...
well.. i spent quite abit of time on rushing my assignments... tryin to complete them.. and i really want to scold the 24th just now.. suddenly they like only tml got rehearsal... for God's sake... not only depriving me of my personal time.. but also my assigment time... my friendship times... my brothers and sisters time.. my sleep time and more.. i mean we kept rehearsing whats the main thing we learnt??? come on man somethings has to go by ear( but i still prefer year... more meaningful.. ) and mon we are going to have another rehearsal... come on above all we are students... we have so much more than just council... i seriously think that academic is still main course while council is just side dishes... i mean.. i can serve and be the most active councillor... but so what... what does that count up to be if i get a straight f???like as if the university will say.. oh 'f'aithful servant... you may have the course of your choice.. rubbish...
Mmm... somethings still remain the same without much changes... i really hope it to change but seems like Mmmmm... quite difficult but i trust that God will make a way... somehow... actually i really miss my brother... no matter what he is still my brother... but after the sms i really dont know if i shld go smsing him... i suddenly become quite quiet, rather i am almost silence... perhaps to him its better.. i never know... i mean he seldom really tell me things though.. but well... sometimes when you love someone, be it your friends, stead, brothers, sisters... as long as you love.. you will simply do the silliest thing ever known and truly i learnt what is love covers multitude of sin... i mean when you really love... forgiveness is easy... though yes the wound is still there.. you will still feel the pain and hurts... but you just cant place yourselves to really grudge or hate... i am serious...
Then well this is something that happened yesterday.. but i didnt really mention.. Mmm shld i mention... Mmm... alrite a brief one... well, bout me and dawn.. well.. i think sometimes she dont need to direct but i think i get the clue... and i mean clue.. she really wont go direct.. its like hints.. and she dont need to talk to you to hint to you... she just need to use interception to make her point.. and well... i get it... sigh... somethings are just not meant to be i guess... i really dont know what to say bout it... but how i hope things will go the way i want it to.. how i wish somethings can just happen... but it doesnt, but for events which i dont wish it to happen.. it just happen.. i guess what you fear most is the most prominent...
For so long i have never talk to sister vivien.. arh today finally got sometime out... and we just have a great chat.. we talk about quite lot of things and i gave her an update of hows my life been going... she also comment that raymond is quite handsome... Mmmmm... come on.. dont look at me like as if i some sort of jealous freak... i am a gentleman... a fine young prince you know... you never know whats behind a prince charming.. beware of fairy godmothers.... they are dangerous... dont understand what i meant... go watch shrek 2... at times the true beauty lies in the prince uncharmings...
Alrite... gravity is catching my eyes....
Remembering On|7/09/2004 12:19:00 AM|
Mmm...
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Mmmm.... great that my brother is once again back in business... but sigh... for me i havent got back to business.. i mean for many i think you might think that i am... but seriously i have not.. but in crowds... i dont want to be a spoiler... so i still keep my cool and my smiles... though sometimes its really hard to keep it...
today alone... well... i was ultra busy.... working here and there like a bee... thought that would take my mind off some things for a while... but nah... somethings just stays on... i still wasnt able to truly smile... what exactly happen... Mmm not many know.. in fact only me and kor knows... in fact one big part of it concerns him... its a hard time... troubled... pain... its plain hardship its like the whole heaven collapsing on me... seriously .. many times i wanted to give up... i want to just weep... but i didnt i just stay on.. hang on... pull on... drag on... but still one msg is all it takes for me to just cry... yup...one sms... just one... after pulling and dragging for so many weeks.. one sms... and all just flowed like a fountain... And imagine at that moment i am talking to siying.. i practically just talk nonsense... she will get what i meant.. i wasnt able to compose myself at all... sometimes i really hope things to go the way i want it to... but many times it just wont... sigh... its actually quite difficult for me to accept that... i am still learning to... and in this period of time.. what made matter worse was that it was a period of coldness...its like me migrating into the arctic... theres not a single bit of warmth... i am already in pain.. yet the wound was aggravated by frost bite... its really terrible and horrible.. but i kept going saying it will soon be over... even the ice cap in the north pole melts... the day will come... move on... stay strong... and something just inspired me... God will make a way... indeed.. somethings are starting to take shape... but some...
well... one after another... it all happen.. i just felt that i am getting more and more detach from the world... i am getting more and more detach from my brothers and sisters... somehow its all straying apart... even between me and dawn... sigh... but sometimes my feelings i cant hide... like today alone.. she injure her neck somehow... and seriously i saw her i was very heartache... howi hope God would just lay His hands on me and say all power has been given to you go heal her... its like though i know somethigns are too far fetch to even dream of... but i stilll wish to see the smiles and her safe and protect and strong of course... sigh... dont talk bout that already.. my heart enough crack lines already...
then now... xin min, she resigned from her council rank... i mean i really dont know what to say... for many of these 2nd intakers.. from the beginning when we have election and stuff like that.. i have been with them.. from the start till now i have been following up with them... some didnt make it but we still continue to contact each other... some who made it... i just hope for the best for them... for xin min to resign is something i dont wish it to happen... but since its her choice.. may she be blessed... even for me all i can tell her is... stay strong... i mean really not many know that i am going through a very hard period now... its still not very good but its improving... better than it was when it first started...but only 3 knows it... the rest dont... so i can still keep that sort of cool and tell her... for every mountain we have to climb... for every hardship we have to endure... even if the sky falls we must still stand strong to hold it up... as i tell her that.. the thing that appeared in my mind is this whole period which i am still enduring... i enter the back of lt5.. i know i cant keep my smiles any longer... i actually bang my head on the door... to just keep cool and put the smiles again before turning around...
sigh... sigh... some pains even the strongest painkiller in the world cant kill the pain..
Remembering On|7/07/2004 09:15:00 PM|
Back to leave a note...
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Mmmm.. for the past few days i havent been blogging... actually not because i am busy.. but i am bothered by somethings..Mmmm... Dont know really what to blog... i will be back.. someday... soon i hope.. when i know what to blog...
Remembering On|7/06/2004 07:56:00 PM|
The Prince who weeps...
Saturday, July 03, 2004
Mmmmmm... well the full dress rehearsal... worethe blazer look good in it... if its the past... u wld be seeing me jumping and there happily playing with it... but i didnt today.. its like nothing special, just another day... didnt start my day positively.. can expect not that positive end either...
Investiture is coming well... i shld be anxious but dont seem like i am... well for council... slowly i think i will be the best there.. not because i am the highest calibre... but because very few things for me to make mistake in... i seriosuly wont be noseing on anything... i will just do my part and help when i have to... the rest... since we have the president... i mean our president is such a great conflict resolver... our Vp is such a nice guy... surely they can settle things...
Well... went doing my admin work in council room... then alrite think its time to go... i just saw everyone is busy.. guess i shld not disturb their momentum... let them continue... then... Mmmm kor turn around and told me bye.. i was i shld say shocked??? i thought he is enjoying there... and i thought he wont really notice either... and i also dont want to disturb him while he is having his fun so.. actually i vanish...
then when home... do my work.... as per norm... and still in that blank blank mode... everyone is saying i am becoming restless... jess keep asking me.. what happen to me today... like how do i explain what happen rite... but well... still pulled it through... had quite a nice casual talk with princess... well.. we haven had that for ages... but this time i am not that grumpy.. so i didnt flare up... i am still like that blank type... also duno what to answer also...
but still manage to talk something... and carry on the conversation...
Well yup..thats for the day...
Remembering On|7/03/2004 10:41:00 PM|
Another Day...
Friday, July 02, 2004
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And thats what i am for the whole day...since morning... still as speechless... i really dont know what to say... but i am slowly coming to know whats in me...whats affecting me so much... but this time its really way too private to say it here... yup yup... i can just say sometimes its really hard to love... but at least i am glad i did.. and still am... at least now i know i have changed... i am no longer a man of his own world... now with all the business.. seriously i am becoming tired...i will soon be half hibernating... i need to concentrate more on studies... v often i am worried bout what the future holds... but i guess i am too worried.. i think i might as well just enjoy the present and let future worry for itself... but so many things i cant bear to leave... so many things i dont want to leave... if possible i want them forever... but its not for me to control... all i can do it pray and hope for the best... hope that somethings never change..
Remembering On|7/02/2004 07:20:00 PM|
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1 July 2004
Alrite how interesting can this day be??? not very ... well.. i got back my biology paper... the one i failed... and well... main mistake lies with the essay... sigh... not sufficient points and didnt put in the keywords... then GP... oh theres one more with 39marks... shoot.. so with 36, i am only the highest in my class..
Then busy busy and busy... didnt even do my studies... i went on doing the tribute thing... then... alrite i am convicted once after investiture.. i will only do my part of share and concentrate on my studies... my tutors are there all ready to coach me anytime... they are already standing guard... and i mean all...Ms Lee, Ms Goh, Ms Lim and even Mr Mathai... yes.. they are already there waiting for me to shoot them with questions... i mean they are all so geared up... how could i not be...
Well then as the night proceed... i started to have a sms conversation with kor... Mmmmm this one isnt a very happy one.. quite solemn one... Mmm quite?? actually very... what is it about??? its doesnt matter.. at least now i know what he is going on in his mind... and i know truly what's his feeling... yup... for that i am glad... well... at least i know.. i know now... yup... i also dont know what i shld say or want to say... i m speechless... yup very speechless... but everything will be the same again soon.. just that i think i will need to recover from the speechlessness yup... the very fact that it can keep me so speechless... i can just say, it matters to me a lot.. otherwise, wld i even care... at least on my part i know whats my thoughts and feeling about it... and i know his too... yup... Everything will be solved very soon...very very soon...
Remembering On|7/02/2004 06:55:00 PM|
A solemn day...
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