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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

30th August 2005

从小就听着童话故事长大。心里一直认为只要如童话的主角那般,人好,孝顺又单纯便一定会找到最后的幸福。一直抱着这样一个完美的世界的憧憬渐渐成长。即使在成长的过程中赫然发现真正的世界并不如想象中那般,我仍然坚信着自己的信念,相信好的人必定会有好的结局,相信童话是存在的,相信童话并不是梦。二十二年后的今天,我的信念动摇了。原来世界比我想象的更为不公平,更为不完美。原来童话只是个对於一个应有的世界的梦。原来童话并不存在也永远不会存在与这个世界上。原来童话只不过是个童话。原来即使再努力,我也无法碰到童话里完美的结局。我放弃了童话,放弃了我的梦,放弃了我的世界,放弃了我的所有。。。。。。

Saturday, August 27, 2005

27th August 2005 Saturday

A lot of people have been asking me why do I like Hermione so? Think it is about time I clarified. Most of my friends thought I like her because the actress that is playing her role is cute and pretty. I must admit that Emma Watson (the actress playing the role of Hermione in the Harry Potter films by Warner Brothers) is indeed real cute when she was young and pretty as she matures but my liking for Hermione started not because of her but because of what JK Rowling (the author of the Harry Potter series) said in one of her interviews. She said:

"When I started to write Hermione she came incredibly easy, largely because she is me. I was swotty, and I had that sense of insecurity underneath. I tried to compensate for that by getting everything right all the time, and, like Hermione, I projected a false confidence, which I know was very irritating to people at times. But underneath it all, I felt completely and utterly inadequate - which is why I completely understand Hermione."

That quote from Rowling really warmed my heart towards Hermione largely because I am in some ways also her. Ever since young, I have tried to excel in my studies. This was partly for my parents but also partly because I needed the confidence. I was never good at communicating with others and I am never good at any sports due to the lack of exercise as a result of the ever so frequent asthmatic attacks that hit me when I was young. That was why I needed the confidence that excellence in studies granted me. This confidence became so important to me when this image was smelted onto me. I tried to keep and maintain this confident and intelligent image by getting everything right at all times. Through this, I might have appeared swotty to loads of people just as Hermione did. But like Herminone, underneath all of these, I know I was never really good and inadequacy was what filled my soul. And like her, I long for someone who could understand the real me. Not the me that I projected. Which was why I fully understand and love Hermione.

Friday, August 26, 2005

26th August 2005 Friday

I am like an open can, full of money, placed in a dark corner, with a note - "Contribution will be appreciated".
Nine out of ten people that passed by me took out of me without putting in.
I do not blame them but......
Will you be the tenth that is different?

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

24th August 2005 Wednesday

I saw you through the door.
I thought you were waiting outside my sanctuary.
I was wrong......

I am waiting outside yours.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

20th Aug 2005 Saturday

有些回忆只能淋着雨
一点一点遗忘
如果雨停了是否有阳光
只能陪你在身旁
触碰不到你的伤
说不出安慰
我比你还旁惶

不忍看见你的眼里吹进太多的风沙
没有人的伤
会和别人一样
我象风中的火柴
用尽全身的光芒
温暖不了你
冻僵的手掌

我知道你会想念他温热的拥抱
我知道眼泪有种苦涩的味道
我知道你的微笑
在很远的地方
悲哀的是连你也找不到

让我在身边陪着你的心疼
就算等不到同一个永恒
回忆伤人谁都不要再追问
要知道你不会是一个人

让你在身边陪着我的心疼
就算等不到同一个可能
回忆伤人我们都不要再追问
要知道你不会是一个人
要知道你不会是一个人

我知道你不会是一个人

~<<不会一个人>>---陈晓东~

你永远都不会是一个人。因为我会永远的守候在你身后。即使你从来都未曾回过头。。。。。。

20th August 2005 Saturday

I tried building a sanctuary for myself. But I have built a jail instead. With walls so high that I can't climb and none could penetrate. With no windows that I could look out of and none could look in at. At a place so dark that I could not see ahead of me. With a temperature so cold that I could not feel. With silence so deep that I could not breathe. With me so alone that I could not cry.

I am not me. The real me is stuck somewhere, somewhere within the sanctuary, somewhere, somewhere within my jail, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere......

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

17th August 2005 Wednesday

爱是当你在我的身边,世界仿佛变成了我们同在的屋檐下。
恨是当我眼里只有你,你的眼里却只有他。
喜是当我从你的眼里看见了我自己。因为我知道至少那一刻,我拥有着你。
怒是当我发现他让你哭了。因为我知道真正值得你爱的人是不会让你落泪的。
哀是当你哭着对我诉苦。因为我分享了你的悲伤。
乐是当你再次站在我的身边,站在属於我们的屋檐下。

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

16th August 2005 Tuesday

Promises aren't worth as much as they used to in the past. Recall the marriage vow that so many couples made and the rising divorce rate and you would know. What is your view of promises? My view is.... "Never make them if you are unable or do not intend to keep them".

Sunday, August 14, 2005

14th August 2005 Sunday

Was reminded of one of my sister's little weird question when she was young. Thought it was stupid then but it kind of intrigued me a little today. She asked "Why do we have to study? Study so much also have to die. Die with or without knowledge also the same. So why study?". Thought it was stupid then and simply replied her "Because if we study hard, we can get a good job, earn a lot of money and lead a better and happier life." Guess what she replied me? She said "What if we die after studying so hard and before we even got a job? What if we can't get a good job despite studying so hard." Don't think I answered her then. Dismissed it as some sort of freak question that isn't worth my attention.

Reflecting upon that incident now, perhaps the reason that I did not answer that question is because I simply did not know a suitable answer to that. Now, many years after that incident, I also do want to know the answer to my sister's question. What are we studying so hard for? For knowledge? Or simply to get a good job and get good money? But is having a good educational qualification equal to a good job and good money? The correlation is lesser than what you perceive you know? Look at Bill Gates. He probably didn't even have as much knowledge of Physics and Chemistry than the average A level student. But the amount he makes in a day is that of what a professional might make in his whole lifetime. So what does that mean? What is the purpose of life? I mean what was our creator thinking when he breathed life onto us? What was he expecting us to do in our lives? Is life just a journey waiting for death? If so, what is the purpose of life? To wait for the end? Or the purpose of life is to make a better life for ourselves and others? Or what? Haven't you all ever wondered?

Gosh. All that schoolwork and stress must be getting to my brain.

Friday, August 12, 2005

12th August 2005 Friday

What is important is not who you have to share our happiness with. What is important is who you have to share our sadness with. Who will be the one standing by you when you have nothing but yourself?

Will I be the one?

Thursday, August 11, 2005

11th August 2005 Thursday

I rarely post twice on my blog on the same day. But after reading a line on my friend's description in her friendster account, I couldn't resist the temptation to start another post and share what she wrote. She wrote:

"Some people go to the extreme ends of the world in search of the treasured. Only to come home and realise it is a only foot away from them"

Found this quote both true and beautiful. How true it is that people often neglect what is around them for something that they believe is out there, at the far end of the world, only to realise that what they have always wanted has always been beside them. How beautiful it is when people rush back to seek their loved ones from afar after a fruitless search. Perhaps it is the leaving that really taught them what is really important to them. Perhaps it is the leaving that made what has always been beside them a treasure. As I have always asked: "Why must it always be till then when we lost something before we learn how to treasure them?" Mankind just never learns.

11th August 2005 Thursday

I seem to be losing the focus of my life with every passing day. Just realised that I have been living life day to day, routinely with absolutely no idea why I am doing this? What am I aiming for? What am I doing this for? What is my final destination? Whenever I pause to think about these questions, fear starts to grip me as I realise that I am unable to even answer these basic questions. I mean everyone should have a goal to work for as a form of motivation in life. Even organizational studies teaches us that goals acts as a form of direction and motivation for employees. So what? Am I losing my direction in life? Well, come to think of it. You can't lose something that you have never had in your possession before? If my life has lost its direction, what was its initial direction before it was lost? I couldn't even answer that. It seems as though my life has been fixed since the day I was born and I am merely walking a route that has been mapped out for me. Aimlessly. Lifelessly. Accepting whatever that comes along the way, good or bad. Is this the way I want to go in life? If not, should I try branching off the main road? But what if I don't like the side road? What if once I branched out, I lose my way and never meet up the main road again? But if I stick to the main road, what will be my destination? Should I just wait and see what is at the end? Am I alone on this road? Why do I feel so alone?

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

10th August 2005 Wednesday

卖着火柴的小女孩独自在街角亮着一根又一根的火柴。火光照耀下的她心里到底是什么样的一种感受?是怨恨?怨恨这个冷酷的世界?是自怜?可怜着自己冻僵了的身躯?是喜悦?欢喜至少有火柴微弱的光陪着她?是伤心?为着孤寂的自己而伤心?我想大概都有一些吧。。。。。。

她是否在火光的怀抱中找到了她所需要的温暖?

Monday, August 08, 2005

8th August 2005 Monday

You can't get hurt by something that you don't know......

This is what we say when we try to keep something from someone. What we fail to realise is - the probability of he/she finding out is larger than what we perceive. We fail to see that when the person actually finds out the thing that we have been keeping from him/her, the hurt is much larger than what it would have been originally.

A trust betrayed is a trust betrayed, no matter for how good a reason........

Sunday, August 07, 2005

7th August 2005 Sunday

They say that your true friends show you who you really are. But how do they do that if you have never shown them who you really are?

Thursday, August 04, 2005

4th August 2005 Thursday

How is it that it only takes a second to fall in love with someone but a whole lifetime to forget someone you love?

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

3rd August 2005 Wednesday

Reached school rather early in the morning today. It was early despite the fact that I have eight thrity classes. On my way to class, I brushed across an old man sweeping the dead leaves off the floor. Spent a little time observing him subconsciously since I was early and the amount of dead leaves that have covered the floor since the last time I saw it simply astonished me. I have never really taken notice of dead leaves covering the floor but I don't recall any scenes of leave littered school floors as I searched my memory. Of course leaves do fall and cover the floor everyday. Hence, it simply amazed me as I have never really thought of how the school floors remain relatively clean throughout my University days. Well, you could say I took it for granted. Reflecting back, it just dawned on me the tremendous amount of things we have always taken for granted. The roads along Orchard seem to decorate themselves with every passing festival. Hotel toilets seem to clean themselves with every use. Rubbish chutes seem to empty themselves even before they become full. Leaves seem to lift themselves off the floor and disappear after everyday. Even the meals that your Mum cook. Ever pause to appreciate how they always turn up whenever you are hungry? The sun that never fails to rise everyday. The rains that keep the temperature and humidity under control. The stars that offer lost travellers with directions. The shooting star that you wished upon. How about the rainbow that you have always loved? And a whole lot more things that we have always took for granted because they seem so insignificant.

And know what is the most amazing thing? All these seemingly insignificant things, when taken together form the amazing world that we live in. And who could say that the world is insignificant?

How is it that when no one owes us anything from the beginning, we got all the things we got? Every little thing in life is a gift.