i have moved (yet again) -- http://singaporeanheartlander.blogspot.com/

see you there! (:

so, life goes back to normal again, but i'm already looking forward to the journey ahead (:

i love singapore.

guys, whatever you're doing, please remember to take care of your health. just had a gg combination of fever + diarrhea yesterday, and i can tell you it doesn't feel good. argh. hope to get well soon.

random quote:

"If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions."

koped it from someone's signature while looking for stuff on forums, and i thought it makes a lot of sense. there are times when we tend to think of the "what if"s in our lives, but the truth is, we'll just never know what the different outcome might be, because whatever choice we make will always be part of a chain of events.

oh. just realised that my previous post was my 100th post here.

anyway, wanted to post this on wednesday but didn't have to chance to until now:

do we tend to believe in things blindly? read this story today (been coming across lots of random stuff while doing research at work. haha):

'A child was watching her mother cook a roast. The mother cut off both ends of the meat and placed it in a big pot for cooking. When the child asked, "Why do you cut off each end?" the mother replied, "I do it because my mother did it that way, so it must make the meat taste better." When the child asked, "Why does it make the meat taste better?" the mother replied, "I don't know, go ask your grandmother." So the child asked the grandmother and she replied, "I do because my mother did it that way, so go ask your great-grandmother." When the child asked the great-grandmother why she cut off each end of the meat, her great-grandmother replied, "Because my pot is too small!"'

and the blogger said "Often, we find that some of the things we do, we do for no good reason at all, other than because that's how it's always been done."

hmm...i think it's kinda interesting how kids always like to ask "why", but as we grow up we simply become too lazy/apathetic to find out the reason behind things, and we take it that we should do certain things in certain ways because that's how they've always been done.

wow. haven't heard this song for awhile but i popped up on my mp3 player last week and it's been stuck in my head ever since. james morrison's voice is really good (:

Let me hold you
For the last time
It's the last chance to feel again
But you broke me
Now I can't feel anything

When I love you,
It's so untrue
I can't even convince myself
When I'm speaking,
It's the voice of someone else

Oh it tears me up
I try to hold on, but it hurts too much
I try to forgive, but it's not enough to make it all okay

You can't play on broken strings
You can't feel anything that your heart don't want to feel
I can't tell you something that ain't real

Oh the truth hurts
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before

Oh what are we doing
We are turning into dust
Playing house in the ruins of us

Running back through the fire
When there's nothing left to save
It's like chasing the very last train when it's too late

Oh it tears me up
I try to hold on, but it hurts too much
I try to forgive, but it's not enough to make it all okay

You can't play on broken strings
You can't feel anything that your heart don't want to feel
I can't tell something that ain't real

Well the truth hurts,
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before

But we're running through the fire
When there's nothing left to save
It's like chasing the very last train
When we both know it's too late (too late)

You can't play on broken strings
You can't feel anything that your heart don't want to feel
I cant tell you something that ain't real

Well truth hurts,
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before

Let me hold you for the last time
It's the last chance to feel again

"I heard he volunteered even though he will be retiring in just half a year, and my eyes are filling up with tears. At home, he doesn't seem like someone who could handle big jobs. But today, I was really proud of him. I pray for his safe return."

these are the words from a Japanese girl whose dad is working at the nuclear plant.

i (and i'm sure so does everyone else) seriously hope that there wouldn't be a nuclear meltdown. the nuclear plant workers who have volunteered to stay behind knowing that the radiation will certainly give them long-term complications even if it doesn't kill them, and the doctors and nurses who stayed to look after hospital patients who were unable to evacuate, these people really exemplify the human spirit.

may japan pull through this crisis.