Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Oh My Tian!

It’s been AGES since I visited this page. I scanned through my last couple of posts and was shocked/surprised at my own writing/post. Hahah!! I can’t imagine myself having such a rush of reflections and actually typing them down.


Well, expectedly, ever since the last post, a lot... and I mean A LOT… of things have changed/happened.

But I must say, the blogspot website is SUPER SLOW AND LAGGY!! Something should be done about this.. Makes it hard to blog..

Then again, some things don’t change.


For example, since my last post of the nice clouds in SG, I’ve been away to another country, back to SG and now, a couple of months since the return, I doubt I ever had the time to pause in my footsteps and look up at the clouds in SG.

Haha! Literally too caught up in a life that’s, in my opinion, bringing me nowhere that I really WANT to be.

I can’t say what or where exactly I WANT to be in life but it’s definitely not here.


It’s not like I’m lacking in material goods or friends or entertainment… I cope pretty well with what I have (and don’t have). But aiyah, sometimes I wish that things could go my way a little more… I say a little more because I’ve been lucky before and still am. =) [Don’t wanna jinx myself or anything… I still need you, now and forever!! ]


Considering how I speed down highways and give irritating drivers a hard time (seriously, they deserve it. All of them!! Slow drivers, Fast drivers, Rude drivers, and the last category, the “stupid” ones), I always feel that there’s someone or in my case, a whole group of people (since I probably need that much), who are looking out for me… Hahaha!! (No offence to the drivers out there)


I guess being conscious of the fact that I’m already quite lucky helps me to rationalize things better, especially when things don’t go as planned or as smoothly. But I guess there’s this quirky thing called “Karma” that I can always blame on. Hahaha!

Nonetheless, it can’t always be an excuse, can it?

When the person beside you can do it, why can’t you?


Of course effort DOES NOT NECESSARILY equate performance. We all know that. We’ve all experienced that. It’s just that no one’s bothered to write a thesis and conduct a full blown research on it. After all, if you believe it, why would you even bother? Hahaha!! Interesting insight, right?


But assuming a normal distribution and having only 2 variables with 2 outcomes, the odds are 50-50, aren’t they? Performance = 0.5 (success) x (good) effort + 0.5 (failure) x (wasted) effort. And they all regress to the mean in the long run… So it’s just a probability? Whether you hit the nail on the head or not? As long as you keep trying, you should be able to succeed in some form or another.

Luck just helps to make sure you don’t have to try too many times before that happens…

An easier way out of this mess, I figure, would be to lower your standard of performance. So the probability of what constitutes a “success” would be higher. Perhaps 90% could be used…

Then performance = 0.9 x effort + 0.1 x effort

In other words, by just any sort of effort, you are able to achieve a kind of success that is well, easier to achieve…

Would life be easier for everyone else that way?

For You 給你

Composer: Eason Chan

Lyricist: Francis Lee (李焯雄)

不要把我推開

當堅持像無賴

當鑽石也變塵埃

我信 你在

唯有寂寞慷慨

骨牌倒了下來

想安慰找不到對白

那空白

可是我 相信愛

我信異想才有日會天開

可是愛 我相信愛

就算一切都像

獨白

我不要藏起來

當堅持像無賴

當鐵樹不會花開

我信 你在

唯有寂寞慷慨

恐懼侵蝕血脈

想安慰卻找不到對白

那空白

可是我 相信愛

我信異想才有日會天開

可是愛 我相信愛

就算一切都像

獨白

忍耐種種不能忍耐

不懷疑該不該

因為我信 所以你會 存在

可是我 相信愛

我信異想才有日會天開

可是愛 我相信愛

就算一切都像

獨白

可是我 相信愛

我信異想總有日會天開

可是愛 我相信愛

就算沒對你說

我愛 我愛 我愛 你會在

Monday, January 19, 2009

Nice Scenery

I came home from town today.
And when I looked up, I saw this..so I decided to take a pic. : )





I don't know about you, but I haven't been really paying attention to the skies recently.. HAHA!
I'm either outside until v late that I can't see the clouds cos the skies are too dark, or I'm cooped up at home so I don't get to see the sky.

It's rare that I'm back home at 6-7pm-ish to be able to see the nice clouds formed during sunset.
Anyways, I took these photos while I was walking in from the bus stop to my place.

The best song to describe this moment:

歌名:夕陽無限好
歌手:陳奕迅

作曲/編曲/監製:E.Kwok
填詞:林夕

多經典的歌后 一霎眼已走
纏綿著青蔥的山丘 轉眼變蟻丘
這個剎那宇宙 拒絕永久
世事無常還是未看夠 還未看透

多好玩的東西 早晚會放低
從前並肩的好兄弟 可會撐到底
愛侶愛到一個地步 便另覓安慰
枉當初苦苦送禮 最艷的花卉 最後化爛泥

*夕陽無限好 天色已黃昏
 本想去憑愛 去換最燦爛一生
 想不到長吻 帶來更永恆傷感
#夕陽無限好 卻是近黃昏
 高峰的快感 剎那失陷
 風花雪月不肯等人 要獻便獻吻

多風光的海島 一秒變廢土
長存在心底的傾慕 一秒夠細數
每秒每晚彷似大盜 偷走的青春一天天變老
只可追憶到 想追追不到

Repeat *#

好風景多的是 夕陽平常事
然而每天眼見的 永遠不相似

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Lost

I woke up this morning feeling a bit lost.
I don't know what to do for Christmas and New year. Sigh.

It's a weird feeling. Like I'm wasting my life but I refuse to do any work.
Maybe I should go back to bed.

Sigh.

Love, Actually (I'm also not sure)

HAHAH!

Broken english.

Anyways, so many things have happened recently that made me wonder about what makes up a relationship?

Love?
Responsibilities?
Respect?
Trust?
Mutual understanding? or the so-called 'chemistry' that makes 2 ppl click naturally

What are the causes of 'affairs'? What are the causes of such 'fatal' attraction?

My guess is that the first thing that occurs in any relationship is the attraction part. Scientifically speaking, attraction is all about hormones and different chemicals in our bodies.. From what I know, it's the scent or whatever thing that comes out of one person that makes another attracted to him/her. Siblings usually have the same scent (because they have the same genes) and therefore, they hardly attract one another. (Because, "opposites attract, like repel")
Blah blah blah...

So what happens when one person is attracted to another? Is there love? Does love come before or after the attraction?

Then how do they stay together? Then responsibility, respect and trust, etc all come into play.
I've watched enough TV dramas to know that feelings can change. But then, do the feelings really change? Or was it a bad mistake from the start?? (Hmm, I just came up with this. And I'm feeling quite proud of myself.)

Question 1: Should 2 people who know longer like each other remain together?
Question 1a: What if only one of them has a change of feelings?

Question 2: How would you know the 'other person' is the correct one? And not another mistake?

HAIZ, such tough questions.. I'm having a writer's block.

My humble opinion is to simply let nature take its course.

I read an article in the Sunday Times and it was about women and how the fact that they tend to live longer than men makes them more prone to dying alone. It's really a very sad fact and while it's not their choice, I feel that it is kinda unfair that women have to suffer alone. Of course, there are men who out-live their wives.. but the naked truth is that whoever is left behind suffers..

This theory will only hold for couples. For those swinging bachelors and spinsters, I'm not too sure.. Would they have gotten used to the loneliness by then?

The bottom line is really to just make this lifetime as enriching and fulfilling as it can get..

Since no one really knows the correct way to live and love.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

End of exams!

Wow!!
It's been so long ago since I updated my blog!

The exams have just finished! : )

I can't wait to go out and play! : )

But still, a bit sian because I still need to prepare for exchange, etc etc.

Hate life. Doesn't end the stress doesn't end the frustrations..

: (

Saturday, August 30, 2008

戴佩妮 - 兩難

誰將你眼眶
染成一抹紅
誰用模糊語言輕易帶過承諾
幾度夢裡尋覓
踏遍多少愁
敢問弦月缺少了什麼
少了那一夜短暫煙火
只能懷念剎那閃爍
少了那一次流星滑落
只能將心意淡沒
我說去亦難留亦難怎麼辦
有些話只能偷偷拿出來紀念遺憾
我說愛亦難恨亦難分作兩半
有些人注定和寂寞相伴
有些人注定只能作伴


My song of the moment: )
The link to listen to it. Only IE! Mozilla cannot.
http://web.ezpeer.com/cd/c48467s124.html