"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-Joseph Campbell
Monday, February 22, 2010
learnt
A favourite stanza quoted from a book I just finished reading "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert:
Eat, love, pray. That's what we do, isn't it?
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
Eat, love, pray. That's what we do, isn't it?
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunday randomness
Today has got to be one of the greatest Sundays I've ever had, not the usual lackadaisical one.
Went for New Body class which provoked those lazy muscles of mine and borrowed 3 books from the library. Yeah am re-visiting the long lost hobby of reading.
I'm so looking forward to my first Korean language class this week!
And CFA exam, I feel so tempted to go for you this December. Registration by 17th March, I got to focus on my decision fast and glad AC will be taking up as well as he's such a motivator himself.
Last week of February is here. Phew.
Went for New Body class which provoked those lazy muscles of mine and borrowed 3 books from the library. Yeah am re-visiting the long lost hobby of reading.
I'm so looking forward to my first Korean language class this week!
And CFA exam, I feel so tempted to go for you this December. Registration by 17th March, I got to focus on my decision fast and glad AC will be taking up as well as he's such a motivator himself.
Last week of February is here. Phew.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
HK this time...
I went to HK on my 29th birthday!
Brekkie at one of the cafes nearby our hotel
Ladies market
some nice building
huge bo luo breads
@ the long escalator at Central
The fun babes I went with
most priced purchase of the trip... my birthday present for myself!
outside Times Sq
at airport before we depart from HK
I'm glad I had this trip. :)
Brekkie at one of the cafes nearby our hotel
Ladies market
some nice building
huge bo luo breads
@ the long escalator at Central
The fun babes I went with
most priced purchase of the trip... my birthday present for myself!
outside Times Sq
at airport before we depart from HKI'm glad I had this trip. :)
Friday, February 5, 2010
echoes of a 29
Call me insatiable, but I would really love to transcend back to where I was 5-6 years ago when major societal woes haven't saddled on my shoulders.
The world back then exuded buoyancy and euphoria. But I did not realise that these amazing sensations will evaporate with every passing year.
What's probably left now though, is still sufficient for me to thrive on the bigger life ahead of me, but only if I work doubly, triply hard. And I'm absolutely prepared for that.
Because one needs to work on their own happiness, nobody else but themselves. Only then will it harvest genuine happiness without requiring any fertilization to it, and it will last for as long as we are around.
Am I a better person? Perhaps I do age gracefully, but I would like to rekindle some zest back. The never-say-never and animated lady back then.
A list of never-ending wishes perhaps, but I really want deep down is just modest happiness that will make me smile all over again.
In another year's time from today which marks my existence for the third decade, I promise to be more remarkable.
Happy birthday to Xann!
The world back then exuded buoyancy and euphoria. But I did not realise that these amazing sensations will evaporate with every passing year.
What's probably left now though, is still sufficient for me to thrive on the bigger life ahead of me, but only if I work doubly, triply hard. And I'm absolutely prepared for that.
Because one needs to work on their own happiness, nobody else but themselves. Only then will it harvest genuine happiness without requiring any fertilization to it, and it will last for as long as we are around.
Am I a better person? Perhaps I do age gracefully, but I would like to rekindle some zest back. The never-say-never and animated lady back then.
A list of never-ending wishes perhaps, but I really want deep down is just modest happiness that will make me smile all over again.
In another year's time from today which marks my existence for the third decade, I promise to be more remarkable.
Happy birthday to Xann!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
seeking perfection
Flabbergasted enough, I have kinda recognised that I do actually need to seek perfection in myself.
Horrid truth that is, so much so that I refuse to let anything penalise me or dismay my spirit. If it happens, I should jolly well deserve a gruelling reprehension by any earthling.
The fact is, it is probably just an avenue of solace I need to reside in, so as to make myself seem perfect in a fog of demerits and shambles. Perhaps afterall, I'm just a pathetic being living on this earth just hankering for life's perfections but will never come to terms with it.
Because life's never perfect. Yes, it must be it. When you yield something, you forfeit something; and this makes complete good sense until today.
I do not know if I should attempt to learn being less merciless to myself, because at every turning point in my life, I should be moving forward indomitably and fearlessly. I detest being stranded dejectedly.
How long will this be? Do I really need to seek perfection? I need to go on to know.
Horrid truth that is, so much so that I refuse to let anything penalise me or dismay my spirit. If it happens, I should jolly well deserve a gruelling reprehension by any earthling.
The fact is, it is probably just an avenue of solace I need to reside in, so as to make myself seem perfect in a fog of demerits and shambles. Perhaps afterall, I'm just a pathetic being living on this earth just hankering for life's perfections but will never come to terms with it.
Because life's never perfect. Yes, it must be it. When you yield something, you forfeit something; and this makes complete good sense until today.
I do not know if I should attempt to learn being less merciless to myself, because at every turning point in my life, I should be moving forward indomitably and fearlessly. I detest being stranded dejectedly.
How long will this be? Do I really need to seek perfection? I need to go on to know.
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