Archive for October, 2007

Sentimental Fool

s t a r m | s t October 31st, 2007

Lately, things been [insert appropriate word here]. It is just a number of factors adding up which made things [insert appropriate word here] - my thoughts, last year’s memories, her words, his words, rewind, repeat, rewind, repeat, round and round on the mobius strip.

I want to know the truth.

Love’s been forgotton and left behind..

blurred

.. we’ve been erased away…

If I lay here

if I just lay here

would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Grey’s

s t a r m | s t October 30th, 2007

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.

People have scars in all sort of unexpected places, like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of their old wounds most of our wounds heal leaving nothing behind but a scar but some of them don’t. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere, and though the cut’s long gone, the pain, still lingers.

What’s worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should have healed years ago and never did. Maybe our old wounds teach us something…they remind us of where we’ve been and what we’ve overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That’s what we like to think. But that’s not the way it is, is it? Somethings we just have to learn over and over and over again.

Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

- Meredith in Grey’s Anatomy

The Truth is..

s t a r m | s t October 27th, 2007

[backdated, months ago, at that moment when,]

.. what is the truth, really? whether
the clock turned back was true
to the two hearts, and nothing less
than sincere, and loved, and real,
but became helpless to remain, and survive so

or that deceit, betrayal and intents lurked deep, hidden
from the eye where not one crack
was revealed nor questioned, ’til too late
the sea of heartaches slash over,
never-ending words beating her down; whipping, lashing,

for not one, nor two, nor three,
but almost four have spoken out in similarity,
against; in judgement; and half not sought out
so pain’s the result, immense grief and devastation
- the consequences, but at whose expense?

[the heart believes him that no, but
the mind asks others that yes, could it be? and
everything in-between puncture and bleed, all
torn up, broken down, stomped on and ripped apart.]

[and now’s the present, written at this moment when,]

true is as true as the sun rising each new dawn,
as certain as a flower needs her water,
the heart seeks and aches, yet deep within
it knows, the core that holds the truth, which
has always been so, which has been inscripted since–

but does anything matter now? just like how
seasons come and go, people have their entrances
and exits. doors face her, close to her yet open to another,
maybe more, she does not want to know [but she does], so
Here sees her half turned to go yet turning stay

thus anguish and numbness co-exist; fighting,
clamboring, reaching, clawing, waiting
for that one chance to take over, to kill.
yesterday’s farewell, today’s heartache,
tomorrow’s memories, - they do not fade,

they intensify.

[it is at many moments she dream, those are dreams
devoutly to be wish’d. to dance, to love;
to laugh, to be. with him. she yearns for it, but
she wonders about that, and still she cry.]

Lacey and Lauren

s t a r m | s t October 24th, 2007

Functioning on Melb time. Yeurgh.. Zzz.

Have been catching ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ on TV and I’m just wowed by the performers, especially Lauren and Lacey. 

I want to dance like that.

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Batam Part IV

s t a r m | s t October 23rd, 2007

We have a secret mission for our trip - to seek out JCo donuts, which are reputedly as good as Krispy Kreme. :P

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Choices

s t a r m | s t October 15th, 2007

The world of complexities followed me to Melb.

I wish I know what to do, and I wish some things can happen. Really, really, really.

Batam Part III

s t a r m | s t October 10th, 2007

A slew of emo photos taken in Batam.emo hsDarn emo.emo starStill quite emo. Continue Reading »

Home and Away

s t a r m | s t October 7th, 2007

At the airport. Bye bye.

Oh not because happiness exists,
that too-hasty profit snatched from approaching loss.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here
apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way
keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

She said, “Don’t let Singapore hold you back.” But many things are holding me back. Things, people.. It’s true how this place can be like a dementor, sucking the soul and breath out of a person.

It was a moment of weakness. When I saw that, it broke my heart. Not solely because of whatever was shared in the past, but because of whatever little that I can be now. How can people erase others from their lives, as if nothing ever happened, as if nothing was ever shared between them? Is behaving like mature adults and being friends even an impossibility? *let down*

I’m always leaving Sg unhappy, it’s like a curse.

Am I, have I, was I, did I? Are you, have you, were you, did you? Were we, did we, haven’t we?

Was it all a dream, L?

Deaf Night Fever

s t a r m | s t October 6th, 2007

stage
IDD 2007 was a cool event this year!

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Yo, Check It Out, Yo

s t a r m | s t October 3rd, 2007

We. Are. Cool.

[For a better vidz, please click here. Addendum: Oops, you can only view it if you are a member. Quality is much better on crunchyroll than on youtube though.]

XTOMIC @ International Day of the Deaf [IDD] 2007 @ MoS.

Time spent to learn the dance: 2 weeks.

Time spent to clean it up: 2 weeks.

The cool instructors: Nix and Jas [The two in white in the dance].

Experience gotten: Priceless.

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