The Time Traveler’s Wife
I am so excited! Had no idea it was made into a movie!!! As I was reading the book couple of years back, I was trying to imagine how it will look like when Henry left his time and time travelled to another dimension of time. How he would vanish from the present and suddenly appear in the past/present. How it should look like when Clare saw him for the “first time” in the library when he had already been the love of her life most of her lifetime. Even though there was a sci-fi element of the book, I never felt that the kind love between Clare and Henry was not possible in real life. I like to think of it as Audrey Niffenegger was trying to portrait that true love would remain unchange in any dimension, even time.It was love that challenged the limits of time.
A little sth from somewhere else:
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose Worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
–William Shakespeare
Love is not love which alters when its alteration finds
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大家好，我回来了！
wah.. it has been more than a year. one of my longest break for blogging.
oh well, a year has passed too quickly I must say. Reading my last post brought me back to how I was feeling as I step foot to the society out there. Now a year into working life, I think I am getting more used to it. But I am not so sure if I excited about it. Haha.
Oh wells, many thoughts that are too difficult to put into words. Just like to say: “I am fine, surviving. and survive I will.”
I’m back!
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so tired of waiting…
as though days like these are never endingg
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histoires da ma vie
hoho hello world! to make up for the lack of updates i changed the look of the blog!! hees
learnt to use some new stuff on photoshop so i decided to test it on the new blogheader. i hope it looks okay. i was deciding between a few themes and settled on this one in the end. bad thing is that i wont have an offical blog title for now. cos when i have one, it comes out really ugly on the header. unoffically, the blog title is “histoires da ma vie” which means stories of my life in french. hmmm why french? well in case no one realise, my dad gave me the name “vivienne” in the french spelling. so i guess i have a certain level of affinity with the language. so why not name the blog that notes the different days of my life in french? haha.
the past month been filled with a lot of transitions and adaptation. glad that i can still keep part of my sanity even in new world i face everyday. the things i focus on, that i would read, write, hear or say have changed over just one month. instead of reading “the life” section of the papers, i find myself reading the business times. instead of listening to music over the radion, i tune into the news. i realise that i start to talk about various things in business terms. the topic of conversations with friends start to revolve around work and other stuff. and the occasional thoughts about my future and which direction should my career head. stuff that i dont usually think, speak, hear or read are walking into my life at a high speed. not there i dont like my work or the environment. i’m just shocked or surprised by how a person can actually take in all these changes and get comfortable with it just within so short a time. overwhelming life changes i must say. starting to work i realise is not just about learning what the job requires me to. apart from all the briefing about the different parts of the job. i realise that a big part of it, is learning to step out of your comfort zone. like i was telling HT when we were on our way home together. we really have to be nice to everyone. not just your direct colleagues or boss. but everyone else in the building. even the cleaner auntie that comes clearing my rubbish everyday. to put it simple. in the process of working, it will smoothen your character. but sometime i wonder, if this makes you more well-liked or just make you shed off whatever character that made you most unique in the first place? will i become so smooth that i lose myself and who i truely am? that is the last thing i will ever wish for. to lose myself.
oh wells. things are going well i guess. on the road to steady state then more thoughts will come.
ohh. there is also a new link: trooops.blogspot.com err it is jahmeee and gen’s new online shop. err just though i shld help advertise. there are relatively new. but they are definitely different from the other online shops that all look the same. the website is very uniquely designed so you can really the effort put in by the owners. do drop by and have a look. alrights tata~
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booo booo
first week of work.
er really not much to do. another than some readings and briefings from the rest of the team. rest of the time is really just OTOT. slowing getting use to going to work in the morning now. the life of being packed like sardines in trains during the morning peak hours are back. only difference is that. it is the same when i knock off from work. oso packed like sardines!!! oh wells.
ppl here are nice and friendly. willing to teach me and guide me along. my buddy is this very cute mother of 2 called adeline. other things common among us it that we share the same “lin” for our chinese name. haha. she is ever friendly always smiling at me and stuff. and calls me xiao mei! haha. i feel glad being able to count on her for many things at work here. bosses are nice too. very friendly with no airs.
my cubicle i would say is bigger than i expected. but looking at the states of the others’. i think it might be too small in future. for the files and papers i mean. so i think i shld treasue the moments when i still get to see my table tops for now. =] haha.
food ard this area is relatively cheap i must say. $2.50 can buy you a big bowl of noodles that i usually cannot finish. then again. i usually cannot finish my food also. haha. most of the time i finish 80% of it. cos i can get really hungry by the time i knock off from work. bleahs.
anyhows. i guess that’s abt all. it is just a week of many transitions and adjustments and adaptations. I tell myself to accept what comes first instead of anticipating them. take one step and a time and hopefully i will do fine. =]
tt’s all for first week of work. =] tata~
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random.
to the start of new beginings and whatever that waits ahead.
Hero- Mariah Carey
There’s a hero if you look inside your heart
You don’t have to be afraid of what you are.
There’s an answer if you reach into your soul
and the sorrow that you know will melt away
And then a hero comes along
with the strength to carry on
and you cast your fears aside
and you know you can survive.
So, when you feel like hope is gone
look inside you and be strong
and you’ll finally see the truth
that a hero lies in you.
It’s a long road when you face the world alone;
No one reaches out a hand for you to hold.
You can find love if you search within your self
and the emptiness you felt will disappear.
And then a hero comes along
with the strength to carry on
and you cast your fears aside
and you know you can survive.
So, when you feel like hope is gone
look inside you and be strong
and you’ll finally see the truth
that a hero lies in you.
oh….Lord knows dreams are hard to follow,
But don’t let anyone tear them away.
Hold on, there will be tomorrow,
In time you’ll find the way
And then a hero comes along
with the strength to carry on
and you cast your fears aside
and you know you can survive.
So, when you feel like hope is gone
look inside you and be strong
and you’ll finally see the truth
that a hero lies in you
that a hero lies in … you
mmmm that a hero lies in…..you.
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commencement!
I AM A GRADUATE!
It’s been ages since I woke up early in the morning at 6 am on weekdays for school. I have half the thought of skipping the whole photograhy thingy. But i figured I was going to take the train later, might as well go early to avoid scary morning peak hour crowd. got there slightly before 830 and I totally had no idea where I should go. Fortunately, li wei was already there and directed me to the robing room. so I temporalily dumped wilson, bummed into yixiu, janice and sarah outside the robing room and ended up inside the room. li wei was so cute. she claimed the speciality of hood-putting and started helping everyone put on their hoods while constantly telling us how the woman from the econs dept was trying to hurry us for the phototaking.
Phototaking was like: A TOTAL CHORE! unorganised, highly impromptu and very hot!!! when 30-40 ppl in their thick thick robes are standing side by side packed like sardines, it is total madness and entertainment! haha. plsu we had our mortar boards (AKA the square hat) on. everytime someone beside you turn her head you it will hit you! hahaha that was how close we were. saw the professors. bernice was so amusing too. she saw prof shin, our development econs II lecturer and she went pointing to him the seat in front of us. to her pleasure, he really sat in front of us! hahaha. cute. now i remember how much i really did enjoy his classes. After much organisation and squeezing here and there. the photo was finally taken. hahah.photographer’s instruction was: at the count of 3, look into the camera and make sure you don’t blink your eyes. weird things was, the more you say not to blink, the more I was tempted to blink. wahahaha.
after photo taking, mum, dad and granny arrived. mum bought me the linus bear lion! hahaha. and she bought the one with specs because I wore one too. haha. I kept calling it bear but in fact it is a lion. wilson kept reminding me. hahaha. idiot. then we headed into the hall for the ceremony. as expected, dorcas was beside me. nothing really exciting in the ceremony expect for the mere 5 minutes when we were ushered up stage to get our scroll. li wei was in front of me which made the whole process more light hearted and entertaining. I turn around into the audience and spotted dad and wilson. gave them a big smile and headed up for my 10 secs of fame up stage. the rest of the ceremony was just a lot of clapping and chatting with dorcas. boy. the ceremony is wayyyy toooo long. poor pro-chancellor. i think he shook like 500 hands? poor man.
after the ceremony, most of the time (or rather 99%) was spent walking around snapping pictures with my parents, wilson and my gang of NPGs and other classmates from econs. wilson willingly took all the pictures and was deprived of his reception. oppos. alrights.
PICTURES 1:
after everything we changed and headed for bugis to meet jamie, zijie and roger for lunch. as usual, everyone was late. like roger and jamie both messaged me to tell me they will be there at 230. dots. anyways. Ma Maison’s food looked very interesting on picture but the actual product looks like 60% different.
PICTURES 2:
and i don t know what got into roger yesterday but it was as though he was undergoing puberty 2. after ma maison we ended up in nydc. jamie and i got bored and we started playing with the elmo soft toy in the restaurant. haha for more info. refer to the pictures. hahaha.
PICTURES 3:
[c]aption: jamie updating elmo with latest news/ jamie comforting slightly depressed elmo/ jamie. er. communicating with elmo?/ linus reading the menu thinking about ordering/ nydc’s colourful menu/ NYDC/ eyore blinded by his ears.
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i love my nailssssss. haha
wahaha okay. the title makes me sound like a vain pot.
anyhows. as vain as i can get. i spent my day diy-ing french manicure. haven done it for like hmmm? 2 years? since my nails are in relatively good condition i though i would give diy-ing another try. haha. here are the results:
[c]aption: the tools/results: left hand/right! surprisingly i think i did a better job on the right hand. wahahaha.
ciao. *cough cough*
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about kids.
once again this year i participated in the children’s dharma camp. hahaha. even though year after year it gets tiring to manage these kids, some how i always find myself doing it year after year. i don’t know why, but i just happen to do it. But i must confess, I sort of “unwillingly” participated this year. I only agreed because ven miaoyu looked very desperate and I am still unemployed at the moment. But after the 3 days camp I realised that this could my last year participating in this annual activity. by next year, I would be working full time and even if I wanted to participate, my schedule may not allow me to do so. I feel so guilty and ashamed of my unwillingness and relieved that I did not let the chance slipped away in the end.
oh wells. buddha must have been watching over me for these 3 days. I had a bunch of kids that were relatively obedient I must say. Although, there are times when they get a little naughty and out of control, most of the time they were good kids and give me much happiness. A group of kids that were able to give me happiness, convienience, confidence and hope indeed. A little sidetrack. I went away for few hours for an interview with MOM on the 3rd day and came back for the closing ceremony. Two of the boys were so sweet. They asked: “老师， 你的interview有成功吗？” hahaha. and during the session where they had to share their thoughts about the camp many of them expressed their willingness to come back again for camp next year. =] I forgot how these kinds gestures from these little kids had always made me want to become their teacher again next year. buddha pls forgive me for my foolish thinkings before.
well, that marks the activity of the week. im currently having a sore and itchy throat with a lot of phlegm stuck there. a nose with one side dripping with mucous. and a head that is feeling heavy and groggy. and I just finished watching the LOTR trilogy. haha. okaes I know im slow. 
i think im gg to sleep. again.
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IM BACK.
kaes this is a very random picture. was juicing some oranges for granny this morning and saw one if the oranges like this. instead of the normal inner appearance like all other oranges. this one had a heart shape in the middle! how cute. and how weird. haha. anyways. thought i should capture this odd yet cool encounter to share with all.
alrights. updates.
1) still looking for a job. been to more than a couple of interviews. some looked a lot like normal offices with ALOT of cubicles. some looked really cool with amazing pantries filled with Jack n Jill chips and M&Ms. other had really WTH uptight security. oh wells. whatever. bottom of the story. im still UNEMPLOYED.
2) due to my status of point 1. im offically rotting at home most of the days when there is not job interviews. i was quite lucky to have been kept EXTREMELY busy during vesak day and the series of events we had for the opening ceremony of our new temple. met loads of cool ppl, both local and overseas. had loads of stressful moments. but also had loads of fun. learnt a great deal about handling different types of ppl having different types of demands. haha. nvm. im glad we finally have a place call home and i look forward to seeing more new ppl coming to temple and spread the dharma. and i hope we will not only be here for 30 years but more.
3) im offically oso a spreeaholic. er. haha. been doing a lot of spreeing for stuff since i have had extra time at home. extra time at home means extra time on the internet. means extra time to shop online. hohoho. im starting to be worried for my bank account. haha oh wells.
4) continuation of point 3, in conjuction with the extra time on internet, it also means extra time on online shows. CSI NY, McLeod’s daughter, Gilmore Girls, The OC, 命中注定我爱你. been spending a lot of time on this. hohoho.
anyhows. gtg. we are celebrating granny’s bdae tonight. my beloved, cute granny is 82 today. 82- boy, what will i be at 82? oh wells. happy birthday granny. =]
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死神的秘密–普通的重要
好久都没有看电影了。好不容易考完试后和朋友一起看了不很不错的电影。
《死神的秘密》
还没看的时候，我只知道这是一部大帅哥金城武主演的电影。 XD
往下看，我却慢慢的开始喜欢它的细节，表达方式与故事里的小小意义。
故事里的死神，跟以往所看到的死神很不同。
没有凸凸的眼睛，恐怖的脸孔和吓死人的声音。
这个死神，很平静，，很可爱，甚至有一点和蔼可亲。哈哈
整部电影把死亡呈现得很诗意。
死神把要带走的生命当成是任务，是目标。
在目标人物和死神交谈里，对死亡总是散发一种无畏，一种勇敢。
最喜欢导演在表达生命里的小意义的同时，
在电影里的很多地方插进的一些诙谐的小插曲。
死神对音乐的喜爱，很搞笑。
死神的大老板是一只黑黑的拉布拉多犬。和死神沟通的像是一种心电感应。
很有趣。
每每当上司问到：“是要 ‘进行’ 吧？” 死神总是回答：“或许是吧”
仿佛他在希望可以在给即将失去性命的人，多一份可以活下去的机会。
电影的最后不忘为人们留下一点意义和启发。
在天空里的太阳，普通到不行。 一点也不特别，却很重要。
生命也一样。对死神来说，死亡很普通。对拥有生命和人生的我们，却是很特别。
生命对人们，很普通，很平常，却很重要。
有些事情就设这样。我们拥有太久以后，这些是活人就会变得很普通，不特别。
我们就会开始不珍惜，但却往往忘记这些不特别的事和人是如此的重要，如此的珍贵。
就像师父常说的， 我们都应该好好地把握当下，珍惜现在所拥有的一切。
因为或许这些人和事现在很普通，但却很重要。
the importance of the ordinary.
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slacking?
whees. this is a long over-due post indeed. been slacking like a pig for one week already. though I packed it with shit load of activities. after the exams, I spend 5 hours in a KTV room with the “polluting gang” polluting the world with our voices and laughters. had dinner at the foodstreet of Chinatown where there was this auntie that came to our table not once but twice to ask if we wanted drinks and another tissue selling auntie who approached us THRICE trying to sell tissue to us. She was able and looked pretty healthy to do other forms of jobs. So the whole gang of us didn’t buy from her. Anyhows, not in place to comment about what kind of jobs she should be holding since I myself is jobless. haha. had this very DIVERSE conversation with the gang. We pratically talked about everything under the sun. From graduation, to childhood memories, to love, to how shiling’s and li wei’s brother should change themselves to get gfs. (see I said EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN) wahaha. great way to end the last day of student life I think.
Spent the next two days pretty much slacking at home, surfing the net, watching trashy movies and CSI NY. Did my duties to feed my half pet mandy at wilson’s place. blah blah blah. Sunday was the day I finally surprised the crowd at temple after I MIA-ed for almost a month. Normal day at temple, plus spending sometime talking to the youths and JH. shits these kids are growing up faster than I thought. Many new faces and stupid JH was irritating me by repeatedly introducing me to the youths again so as to make his point that I have MIA-ed too long from youth class. idiot. Stupid me forgot to wish my mum happy mothers day when I saw her in the morning before leaving home. BUT I made it up with a big hug at temple. see I’m a good girl! haha.
Spent the rest of the day helping out at the mothers’ day dinner. Ushering the GOH up and down the stage, holding his lucky draw box. damn. Wished they got someone else to do that job.
Monday was the day of the chalettttttttt! was late. something I did not planned but happened. wahaha. wasn’t very up for socializing that night. Only made conversations with Kenny and Clement’s gang. and pretty much kept myself busy by eating. I M PIG! Throughout the night, I repeatedly felt I was too old for chalets and staying up the whole night. I was starting to question why a bunch of girls would actually PAY to stay up late and not sleep. wahaha. Anyhow, I did manage to stay awake til 7am in the morning til I finally gave up and slept for two hours before heading home with the rest of the gang.
Wednesday and Today were pretty much divided among temple and interviews. There came these two guys from BLtv, Taiwan who are here to do some filming for the new temple. My job was to entertain them and help them out in whatever way I could to make their filming work smoother. I would like to say thank you to brother Heng Lai and Gisy for their company. Cos without them, I would have suxed at the job. The two guys were very nice, friendly and professional. Shared many interesting conversations with us. Was glad to have been of help. Interviews were okay. but not sure what is gg to happen.
alrights. school is offically OVER. and i offically do not know what to do with my life. how great is that right? bummer. been frantically trying to send out applications this week. surprisingly, I actually got replies for interviews only to realise that they are not really suitable for me. darn. I need to send out my application more wisely or I’ll just be wasting stupid time away. AND. im trying to break news about me wanting to go on a trip to my parents. sigh. I need to plan my speech and pick the right time to say it.
ahh. what shld i do? hmmm. forget it. I need to sleep.
nites world.
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她來聽我的演唱會
她来听我的演唱会
在十七岁的初恋第一次约会
男孩为了她彻夜排队
半年的积蓄买了门票一对
我唱得她心醉我唱得她心碎
三年的感情一封信就要收回
她记得月台汽笛声声在催
播我的歌陪着人们流泪
嘿陪人们流泪
她来听我的演唱会
在二十五岁恋爱是风光明媚
男朋友背着她送人玫瑰
她不听电话夜夜听歌不睡
我唱得她心醉我唱得她心碎
成年人分手后都像无所谓
和朋友一起买醉卡拉ok
唱我的歌陪着画面流泪
嘿陪着流眼泪
我唱得她心醉我唱得她心碎
在三十三岁真爱那么珍贵
年轻的女孩求她让一让位
让男人决定跟谁远走高飞
嘿谁在远走高飞
我唱得她心醉我唱得她心碎
她努力不让自己看来很累
岁月在听我们唱无怨无悔
在掌声里唱到自己流泪
嘿唱到自己流泪
她来听我的演唱会
在四十岁后听歌的女人很美
小孩在问她为什么流泪
身边的男人早已渐渐入睡
她静静听着我们的演唱会
不知道为什么每次听着一首歌，都会有一种莫名的感动。
是不是不管发生什么事，不管谁离开，还是谁出现。
生活还是一样过，地球也会继续转动，时间不会因任何人或事而放慢脚步。
而被伤痛的心也只可以选择变得更坚强。
更坚强。
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have i found the person that thinks the sun shines out of my ass? =]
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18th April 2008
[c]aptions: trying to look demure but dunno how successful haha/ my idea of 我爱地球! haha/ the “big bear” joydeep and the row of girls who decided they should all wear black and denim/ wearing black and trying to look like 黑社会/ parkie~! and us. he was so surprised by us. i think. haha. we all love his ”bowl cut hair” wheee~!
alright. that was last day of 16 years for me. what about you?
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