fantastic summary of what designers face these days:
credits: stcblog
chuckling,
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gray
is the color of my mood. am feeling tired these days. tired of a dead end job, tired physically, a general overwhelming feeling of tiredness. everything seems to be disinteresting, dull, uninspiring. i hope this does not last any longer. it is enough to make one go mad. even christmas this time, failed to lift my mood.
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symmetry
there’s something about this room that inspires one to want to own it, jump underneath the covers and snuggle in for a good night’s dream. is it the sparkling antique chandelier that illuminates sprinkles of warm glow across the ceiling? or the perfectly symmetrical lampshades with their matching curtains displayed oh-so-neatly? or that snuggly bed with the plush bedhead dressed up in plumped pillows and comforter?
it must be the symmetry. yes. the symmetry.
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How to stay young
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay ‘them’
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
to life,
fifi
drumming
i have always wanted to be able to drum. drumming is like one of the coolest instruments amongst all the musical instruments because it provides such a rush of adrenaline and energy and plus, it sounds so cool. been contemplating if i shd pick up this instrument for a long time already, should i? each lesson is around 1/2hr, and it would take 4mths to complete a beginner’s course. and there’s the concern of getting a real drum set, not those drum pads or electronic drum pads out there, which are actually more suitable for hdb dwellers like me. unless you live in a huge house with an underground basement/garage, then it would be cool to invest in a proper drum set.
but then, what’s the fun without a proper, traditional drum set?!
i want to learn drumming,
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to cruise or not to cruise?
been contemplating a year end trip for 2009, it’s either a cruise on the big ocean under the cotton clouds OR a road trip to KL/Genting. Don’t think it appropriate to go anywhere further, as much as both of us would love to. maybe 2010. any suggestions?????????????
a cruise would be great, hve always wanted to go on one, yes im that sua ku, havent been to one yet! i regretted not joining the superstar leo cruise years back when it docked at singapore, and now well, it’s permenantly stationed at HONGKONG, damnit. i guess i love the sea. that’s y i like cruises. as for road trips, i can imagine how fun it would be, esp when you are driving there yourself instead of being stuck in some stupid tour bus with corny names like golden royal horse or whatever (too corny to remember them accurately). talking about horses, scarlett has a rather interesting wishlist for her upcoming birthday !!!! check it out at www.mamaandpapa.wordpress.com! :)
time flies. you’ll see this again. i wished time flies only when i’m at work. that would be good.
toiling away in office,
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under the weather
been down with Gastroenteritis aka stomach flu recently and the frequent trips to the loo just left one weak and floppy. it is similar to having gastric, just that it is a very bad case of gastric, which gives you vomitting and diarrhoea and practically zero energy and appetite. ironic that gastric=not enough food/regular meals. now how are you going to heal if you have no appetite to eat?
illness is scary. it leaves you weak and detached from the world. detached as in disinterested in everything and everyone around you. no energy to care about your surroundings. all you feel like is wanting to expire. i have an irate fear of being sick, because i’ve seen my closed ones fall really sick and succumb to the illness itself. it is really scary. hard to imagine, but tough to witness. especially things like cancer. that thing is evil. it eats you up alive and leaves behind a foul presence of depression and helplessness. death lingers around impatiently, waiting to lay its stake on you. (thats why i think euthanasia is a good thing)
i think, being healthy and STAYING healthy is one of the best gifts that you could give yourself. most people i know fear growing old. we all fear the illnesses and weaknesses that comes with age, the inability to do things as easily as we can now. even simple things like walking could be a chore when we are old. even breathing might be hard for some. the things that plague us when we get old, could it be the things we chose to do when we were young, or could it be just plain bad luck? it could be both, but i think our lifestyles when we were young do play a huge part in determining how you are going to live your later part in life. as they always say, no pain, no gain. pain before sweetness or sweetness before pain. you can never have the best of both worlds.
have fun now, and suffer the consequences later. or work hard at giving your body and mind a sound health, and reap the benefits later. it’s always give and take. we might take our health for granted when we are young now because we can’t understand or feel the impact of what poor health do to us yet. but having seen what it can do to others, in a way, it is good because it gives me an awakening call of alarm, that if i don’t work hard towards a healthy lifestyle, the only person to suffer in the end, is myself. sure, there’s always medicine, therapies, medical solutions, and then again, there’s always money to consider about. even if you have all the money in the world, the agony of being sick will still precede over everything else.
hence to all my friends and family, i sincerely encourage you to take a step backwards from whatever “unhealthy” vices you are indulging in (at the moment, it’s indulgence), think about your health and future, and plan your very own health trip to a better lifestyle.
Cheers to great health,
fifi
i should start on something
new, or perhaps continue something that i had long stopped doing. like collecting perfume bottles. the thing is, i dont even remember that i used to have this fancy of collecting nice perfume bottles. perhaps i should do so again? got reminded when surfing thedieline.com, it would be nice to display all the beautiful bottles in a glass shelf, isnt it? but the dusting puts me off. have i become such a practical and boring person as i grow older, or have i just lost the fun in me? i should learn to forget about the practicalities in life, which are what restrict me from doing and accomplishing things.
i should even continue painting again. i was toying with the idea of starting to experiment with baking cakes a while back (cos scarlett’s bday is approaching and the commercial cakes out there are just too bland and it’s so hard to get a good cake designer at an affordable price can you believe it canele actually sells custom made cakes at 590?! who the fuck will spend that shitload amount on a bloody cake? some oxymoron, maybe). phew! pardon the onslaught of words in one breath. but then i thought of the things i needed to buy, the lack of a proper sized oven, time, etc etc and i kinda gave up the cake baking notion.
is it work that’s making me dull? or is it age? or some other unknown reasons? ugh, i hate giving myself excuses.
screw excuses. i am going to start on painting this week.
on the path to finding me,
fifi
oh, cool.
you have no idea how much i like this decal. now, to get an ipod nano OR an ipod touch? the phone is out for me since im quite contented with my trusty old samsung, but still need an mp3 player!
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