The adventures of a girl and her pen.

FAREWELL

2009-10-14T21:39:00.002+08:00

If you can't find me here anymore, it means i've left. to somewhere else. goodbye blogger!

A Rollercoaster life.

2009-10-10T22:35:00.004+08:00

I hate it when i allow external factors to take control of my emotions.

I get upset, emotional, angry, disappointed all at once.

I throw things, curse intangible non-living things like my math paper, draw black angry circles on foolscap, cry, start biting my nails, scratching my scalp, throwing pens against the walls, banging the door, stomping like a raging bull around the house, slapping the walls till my hands become sore, attempting to rip apart my blanket, having the urge to shout at my brothers who are enjoying themselves while i wallow in the sea of misery, giving my parents 'the look', being like an anti-social cat by staying at home, missing family suppertime, drifting away from close family members and friends just because everybody's so busy, silently scolding teachers who do not reply to emails from their students, staring at a white wall everyday for 8 hours, sitting at the same spot doing nothing but tests after homework, not exercising for five months and still not feel guilty about it, eating junk food the school provides during breaks, having feelings of self-doubt...

The grey cloud that looms overhead whenever i realise how much i still do not know. The anxiety and paranoia that something might turn out wrong--you forget the math formulae, or your calculator runs out of battery.

It's disgusting you know. How you're turning into somebody you despise.

I am loosing my steam, as i always do. Everytime i manage to find the catalyst to rekindle the flame. But this time, just 14 more days, i'm loosing it again. I know i cannot afford to, but somehow it just happens. why?

I allowed it to.

All of these. They make me upset. it only proves how weak i am in controlling my emotions. (I will not say 'I despise myself' as much as i want to. It just pushes me deeper into the bottomless pit of self-pity and feeling like a worthless pumpkin.)

There are roller-coaster weeks ahead. I need to make sure i do not loose my cool, nor my temper. I've got to hang on there.

Even if it means sitting through 100 three-hundred-sixty degrees turns. Now i'm going to make myself a cup of hot tea that would give me the owl-energy i need to survive a night's studying.

2009-10-08T22:27:00.001+08:00

thou shalt not be lazy. In 18 days.
thou shalt give all thou have.
thy hope is thy to secure.

Renewed light

2009-10-02T23:55:00.003+08:00

In the face of new difficulties,
you'll look back at older ones
and laugh at their triviality,
realise how insignificant they are now than yester years.

Then you look at the ones approaching,
those huge blocks; menacingly threatening.
Fear and panic sets in.

Turning back,
you'd see how you've surmount and survived similar blocks,
realise that this time;
you can too.

Newer light is shed,
brighter than never before.

Stars;coldplay

2009-09-22T09:11:00.003+08:00

Look at the stars,
look how they shine for you.
And all the things you do.

-coldplay, yellow.

Grandmother

2009-09-21T10:22:00.005+08:00

A Sunday morning.
I woke up to the knock on the door,
you've arrived.

This morning you came for breakfast.
A rare occasion for you were always travelling,
going somewhere,
working--cleaning offices.
And during times which you weren't, you settle in front of the sewing machine kit.
And sew,
pants, bags, mattress covers, blankets for the family.

This morning, we sat at the dining table.
I felt a tinkling of my heart,
sudden warmth enveloping,
spreading its long hands aound me.
(long forgotten)

Over pancakes, coffee and hot chocolate,
we listened to the ancedotes you pulled out from each of your travels
as we passed the butter knife around the table.

After breakfast,
you came into my room.
Glance fugitively around,
with a quick hand pulled out a crumpled ten dollar bill,
forcefully pushing it into my busy hands.

"Here, take, i don't come every often. The food cost so expensive these days. $5.80 for a bowl of udon. Use this to buy something nice for yourself."

I looked at the note lying limplessly on my hands.
Still.
Folded again and again into small rectangles to fit into your purse.
Then i looked into your eyes.
I saw the beginnings of cataracts formation--
the watery texture of the whites and dilution of black.
The face of grace and compassion
lined with a few more wrinkled,
whose cheeks now sagged further.
I put my hands on yours,
they were painful against your calloused ones.

On leaving,
I saw your familiar silhouette.
Bags and plastic bags slumped across both shoulders.

However,
gone were the lithe in your steps
as you walked towards the door
like treading on thin ice,
like a migratory bird--tired from flight.

I smile at the familiar,
tear for my cowardice,
cringe at the unknown.

Hair cut

2009-09-20T18:08:00.002+08:00

I'm finally going for a hair-cut.
finally isn't really a long span of time, it's just 2 months probably.

I am dreading the trip.
not because i cannot bear to part with my hair (that's trival!),
not because of the friction that toothy comb makes with my skin,
but rather,

afraid of not recognising
the person staring back at me.

Poetry

2009-08-30T13:51:00.000+08:00

This is a brilliant poem that i came across on the internet. It was written by a fellow scribber on "Sunday Scribblings" on the title "poetry". This was written by Gautami Tripathy.
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I've been waiting for you,
days trample on each other like magazines
filled with deep buzzing where words merge into images
perceptions recide in the jumble of blue memory
yet nothing comes to assert your arrival
I have not learned to notice your presence

stressed of a long day I seek you-
you who I must give back some day
to someone I don't know who

The grey divide between days and ends

2009-08-29T10:37:00.001+08:00

Weekend blues, have you ever heard of them? Thought they only existed on Mondays? Think again.

Saturday and Sundays are supposed to be passed with a deliberate dreaminess. Lower the intensity of weekdays by a notch or two. Slow things down and take time to smell the roses.
Monday to friday flashes by in a blur, things are done hurriedly; little time to breathe. to pause. even for a second of day's dream.

Come weekend. Coffees are supposed to be sipped, biscuits nibbled in slow mouthfuls whilst reading the saturday papers. Mornings should be spent lazily; idly. Afternoon are for seistas and teas or watching recorded television programmes on HBO. Evening comes, and it's time for a family dinner around the table.

But no.

Saturdays and Sundays are just as hectic as Thursdays. They're just as long as Wednesdays. The week's end almost feels like the week's days. Trudging and pulling heavy commitments and endless workload; desperately searching for a point to finally rest the tired limbs and soul.

Where did the weekends I used to know disappear to.

2009-08-24T17:09:00.000+08:00

SO... the plan is to study. It's as simple as this, nothing more, or less.
GOODBYE! i'm going on a hiatus for i have more important things to do.
till then, take care invisible readers and remember to look out for the sun.

p.s, i might hit back with some posts every now and then.

Flight and its relation with numbers

2009-08-22T23:20:00.001+08:00

I always imagine the day when i tear open the perforated slip of paper. What will the numerals be? Will it be a string of "One"s or some other humongously horrifying large numeral. The next eight years or so of my life is determined by the numbers on that flimsy piece of paper. How funny can that get? But that's the way it is.

Home is great, but it is too small. I need to explore bigger and vaster expanse of lands. I'm not an ingrate neither do i despise my home. It's just that, when you're thrown into unfamiliar places, you'll learn to treasure what you have more. My idea of going away, is to learn something and bring it back home someday.

So i need to get the lowest numeral as possible, it's my best bet of getting that coverted pass to go away.
But before that, i need to stop dreaming, and start charting the hours in my work from today.

Friday's rambles.

2009-08-21T23:07:00.000+08:00

Goodnight world, and i'll sleep now and wake up 6 hours later, and begin my day again.
monotony is something that i have yet to become accustomed to.
but i'm trying hard.

sometimes monotony might be reassuring. Its predictability doesn't catch you by surprise and this might even be something alluring about routines!

Should you feel stifled like me, then, good night. Maybe in dreams we'll have a different story to tell--of adventures, fantasy and knights.
But good morning again, for tomorrow will almost take on the same pattern as today. probably.

An untypical wednesday.

2009-08-12T18:30:00.001+08:00

I promise i'll start work tomorrow, and i'll work doubly hard. I promise!
Just give me another day to fight the monsters swimming in my intestines, laze in bed for a whole morning, then choosing to ignore the huge pile of work on my desk, pretending i didn't see the calendar (choked to the brim with "to-dos") stuck to the wall. Just sleeping the day away...lazy and idly as if nothing in the world mattered more than rest itself.

one more day of procrastination. I'll start tomorrow, i promise.

Lucky I still feel a semblance of guilt. it means that i still care about my work. 11 more weeks, including this, to go!

New

2009-08-08T07:41:00.001+08:00

I've decided to take part in this weekly writing thing called the Sunday Scribblings. (link's up there) Each week they post up a one word topic and lovers of words would write a story, a poem, or anything about it. I took part in it because it sounded interesting and hopefully i'll meet people who also love to write. So this week's topic is "New". I wrote a poem about it. An amateur, I might not be the best but i'll learn :)

3.30.
The sun sleeps in his little house in the West,
purring gently in slow rhythmic breaths.
And so does everything around him,
under the watchful gaze of the moon.

5.00.
The sun prepares to go to work.
He crawls out of bed, goes to the toilet and makes himself a warm cup of coffee.
In between sips, he thinks,
"Which route shall I use today"
"East, like always,"
Routines breeds familarity and he found assurance in it.
And so the sun puts on his coat,
and sets off on his journey.

Meanwhile.
Over the hills, nature shivers with anticipation
as they wait for his arrival.
The cool morning dew begins to form,
On blades of grass, furs of animals and windows of houses.
A condensation of the night's hustle and bustle.
The moon yawns, his eyelids droop down heavily.
"A few more minutes", he told himself.

0559
The sun walked four streets,
past six corners and two junctions
before he finally arrived at the east gate.

The gate.
With reddish brown metallic elements falling off its surface,
still stand erect, tall and magnificient.
It has watched the many suns walk past its doorway,
every dawn, at five, for as long as the planet's birth.

0600.
The sun pushes the gates open.
He takes his first step through,
Walks up the stairways to the sky,
takes the place of the moon,
and shines.

A faint orange glow,
then brighter, brighter
and finally a warm yellow hue.

Spreading across plains,
Through windows of houses,
past canopies of leaves.
Beckoning its occupants awake from their dreams of the night.

The sun shines.
A new day has arrived.

Where is the relief?

2009-08-06T20:54:00.001+08:00

Relief;
it is not overwhelming. It doesn't hit you like a wave, sweeping you away with its currents.

Instead what it does, is to sneak up behind you and gently pat your shoulder.
So light, it's easy to overlook its presence.
Sometimes, it hides behind a pillar,
observing, scanning, watching
and finally when you least expects,
it spring out like a jack-in-the-box
and says, "hello"

Tonight, it just doesn't appear,
though it is supposed to.

House (s)

2009-08-06T19:49:00.001+08:00

Living in the same white-washed walls,
eating from the same plates during dinner,
and breathing the same heavy-fogged air,
we're shouldn't differ too much.

But it's a pity.
The similarity only ends there,
for after it, we open the doors to the little worlds of our own,
enter. close. and begin,
leading seperate lives.
opening it again only for meals, weekends
and post-school days.

My house houses five houses.
These houses operate on different frequencies.
They have their own language, wavelengths and ideals.
Diversity is great in a country,
not a house.

Sometimes, in fact very often,
misunderstandings do arise,
and when it does,
so begins the silent firing of missiles between houses,
curses, expelatives hurled like comets,
raining down at ferocious speed.

crushing. destroying. down.
it offers satisfaction, but only momentary.
then guilt sinks in, and it stays.

But ultimately,
these houses still belong to one house.

I just wanted to ramble.

2009-07-18T04:26:00.004+08:00

my biological alarm clock is all wired up the wrong way round. it's 3 am and surprisingly, i am up. doing the things i hate to do, but i've got to do. the house is dead quiet, everyone's sleeping. i smell the "late night- early dawn" scent. it's haze, i think. then ocassionally a bus drive past the road, otherwise, it's just me and myself.

i like this time of the day, surprisingly again.

i'll let you wreak havoc on my body for another 5 more months, or less.
after it, i'll make you pay back. double the price.

Straying thoughts

2009-07-17T20:38:00.004+08:00

It's the time of the month again.
where my thoughts run astray,
far from my grasp or control.
I only find out when i notice it
isn't there.

Someone told me they were at the london bridge last summer.
Last winter, they strayed again to some faroff place.
I never knew.

Sometimes they take 2 weeks,
on most times about a month,
these days, it's unpredictable--
how long they take to arrive.

but alas, they always show up at my doorstep,
tired and stoic.
and i'd take them back,
regardless of the time.

The Journey towards Purpose

2009-06-11T20:17:00.003+08:00

The teacher teaches. The doctor treats. The policeman maintains order and the cleaner, cleanliness. Every social hierarchy has its purpose.

Everyone has a purpose in their lives.
Something written in a book,
that is stashed at the top shelf,
of the cobbled cupboard,
in a dilapidated straw hut,
at the furthest parts of the earth.

The journey is only as treacherous as what we tell ourselves. The quest is simple; it is not difficult as what it may seem to be.

All it takes is the courage to discover.

The Wait

2009-06-09T19:53:00.004+08:00

Waiting for bus 1000 today,
it dawns on me that we've all been waiting
for something all these while,
isn't it?

(Do not lie)

waiting for duskdawn,
alovelost holidays solacelovefriend themoment.

(I am waiting for something not quite tangible in the form of an envelope.)

the wait time could be in seconds, months, years or decades.
It doesn't matter. (we're would be waiting all our lives anyway)

so long as It arrives eventually, which It will.

(I have faith in you, and in us)

2 June 09

2009-05-27T19:56:00.004+08:00

This time, i will be silent,
and see who remembers.

Elaborate party of most sixteens, or fanciful and expensive gifts even brief birthday well wishes from acquaintances and strangers might come along with the day. If you are lucky.

but i am saving luck for next time.

i do not need much, to begin with.

Inspirations from "Elizabethtown"

2009-05-25T21:31:00.007+08:00

I know how to play this game

one, two, three and I'm safe

count real slow to five

you couldn't keep me around if you tried

-summerlong by kathleen edwards

I'm driving on highway 69. Come, take a road trip with me. Feel the kiss of the wind and sing out loud with the stereo. We'll be free once again.

Together we're headin' home and ain't nobod' gon' stop us.

Ramblings #7

2009-05-22T17:36:00.007+08:00

when the clock strikes at midnight,
the party ends and the magic looses its effect
and all turns into a shimmer of dust.

Upon realisation,
people drag their weary bodies home
in an orderly procession.
As if waking up from a dream that
never did begin.

Glasses

2009-05-21T22:52:00.003+08:00

people keep telling me to wear my glasses. but they are just two pieces of glass and i cannot see perfectly even with them on. But when your eyes are destroyed. what do you see with?

Rambling #5

2009-05-19T19:49:00.001+08:00

This whole thing is a facade, nothing is real.
tomorrow when you wake up, the sky will be blue
again.

2009-05-16T11:20:00.002+08:00

"Time is nothing."
-The time traveller's wife by Audrey Niffenegger

then what is everthing?
could it be absence?

D.I.Y a poem

2009-05-05T20:37:00.003+08:00

(This space below is for you to D.I.Y your personal poem.)

Follow these instructions very closely:

You may write anything,
or nothing at all,
Draw something,
it doesn't require much thinking
and have fun inventing!

Upon completion,
write your address,
and read what you say to youself,

A Gentle reminder:
All punctuations may be used,
except fullstops,

(

,)

nothing comes to an end,
it continues,
perhaps in another form or time,

Mother(land)

2009-04-29T18:57:00.005+08:00

Since young, I have felt this passionate love and patroitism towards my Mother--a love so insurmountable that nothing could ever waver my fortitude about growing up, aging and finally dying within her embrace.

But as I grew older, I saw people around me leaving to countries I'd only visited in dreams. And then, there're also people coming back, and they bring with them tales of exotic foreign lands--joyous and animated in its every remembered detail...

I began to think, and imagined myself travelling, living in these places. I decide that one day I shall travel to them all, maybe even live in their cities and farms for a few years. For, Mother is too hot. She is too crowded and mundane. Mother, who is made up of nothing but concrete and marble.

But eventually, there is always something endearing about Mother--her ability to tug at my heartstrings, winding me back, without resorting to forceful means.

Tonight, as I lie in bed, I will think about the things that defines me as her child.

chickenricedaddymummysataykiasuclaypotsteamboatdurians

Ramblings #3

2009-04-28T19:19:00.003+08:00

I am spending way too much time doing unnecessary things.

This love affair with the Mr. Computer has got to end.
My husband (biologychemistrymathenglish), is starting to suspect and Before he finds out, i will have to say goodbye to Mr. C.

for I do not want to jeopadize our marriage.

I talk to myself.

2009-04-25T20:22:00.004+08:00

I'd like to brainwash myself occasionally and have taken a liking to self-talk recently.

I tell me my dreams and goals.

For this year, the next and the next...

I tell me many things,

fanatical and ludicrous ones,

but all waiting in line to reach the point that says,

"Mission accomplished"

I tell me to "Not give up, because you might be a step away from your goal."

And now I tell you,

to close your eyes and find your me.

Ramblings #2 (know and don't know)

2009-04-17T21:52:00.004+08:00

I know a moderate amount of things. There are many that I know, and many I don't.

I know I should learn more of how to--
remember less and forget more,
of some things.

I know that I should use more brains,
and less heart on some occassions.
Problem is, these organs cannot be controlled.

Sometimes,
I do not know the answers.
To things I assume to know.

(like how to forget more, and remember less)

2009-04-05T15:22:00.001+08:00

'One is never better served than by one's self'' ."

-Claude Debussy.
(one of my favourite composers)

Ramblings #1

2009-04-03T19:02:00.004+08:00

Cowardice disgusts me,
like the way genocide disgust the world.

how,
ruthless political agendas,
through signatures and words,
destruct.

like Echinda wearing smiles.
fooling everyone,
everyone but herself.

(dedicated to the coward, may they find their courage)

J. R

2009-04-01T22:06:00.002+08:00

"You don't even know me but one day i'll get up the courage as you pass by.
you'll see."

-vegetable car, joshua radin.

EARTH HOUR. 2030--2130

2009-03-28T20:48:00.003+08:00

IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE,
every. single. one. of. us.

(turn off your lights, pray for an hour. it doesn't hurt to do our bit for the planet we live in.)

Pho,fear

2009-03-26T00:12:00.002+08:00

People are afraid,
everyone of us.

Heights, Cats, Rats,
Darkness, Laughter,
or even the number thirteen.

But this is not fear,
for you know where it comes from.

Then again,
some phobias cannot be defined,
this is fear.
for we do not know what are we truly afraid of.
and yet,

we are scared,
everyone of us.

What am I afraid of?
What are You afraid of?
What are we all guarding ourselves against?

2009-03-21T10:07:00.003+08:00

when i grow up, i want to travel, visit new places, meet new people, try new dishes. an island, a country, a region, then a continent. how nice would that be!

Big things expressed simply.

2009-03-19T18:46:00.003+08:00

Absence diminishes small love, and increases great ones; as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

(1613--1680
Duc de La Rochefocauld)

it's amazing how people so ancient can come up with a quote so impactful like this. Unassuming, bare and naked--put across plainly and to some point, blatantly. So much that when I stumbled across it, it jumps out and screams at me, well literally. So, i replied, "hell, this is true. damn right."

Snail + Mails

2009-03-11T20:57:00.004+08:00

i love snails,
i love mails.
their surprise,
like a prize.
A priceless posession, an addition to .....

Voices.

2009-03-11T20:23:00.004+08:00

----

now dual voices speak,
one stronger than the other,
in a roaring tumult within the narrow channels of my ears.

like waves beaching up shore,
lesser the serenity,
greater the discordance-
in disagreements.

i am amazed.
at how a short span of time (3 months)
have the ability to rob away,
passion-
and what used to matter.

this rush of life,
i thought i understood so well.
now turned its back against me,
and flew-

away from my grasp.

(i should be completing my work now.
oh shut up!
i forbid you from speaking.)

Sights at a playground

2009-02-20T22:51:00.003+08:00

I see,
children engaging in a game of tug-of-war,
which turns a little too violent.

I see,
people engaging in lively banter,
of which words turned into knives,
and smiles into fists.
piercing through flesh,
without regard for the heart.

I see,
parents playing with their kids,
blissful and contented (is it?).

then turning away, victimised.
by the ghosts of doubt and jealousy
plaguing those bonded by a sacred oath.

Dusk decends,
birds return to their nests,
but these people stay,
they have nowhere to go.

their homes,
raided, bombed, destroyed,
by their own bloodied hands.

where is home now? (CRIES OUT LOUD)

Happiness in numbers.

2009-02-08T11:49:00.004+08:00

one house,
two occupants,
three meals,
four seasons,
five children (if you don't mind the noise),
six fruit trees (one of each fruit),
seven o'clock dinners.

and thus the heart sighs in content.

2009-01-29T23:13:00.001+08:00

i have decided to end it. here, and now.

attention diverted,
to the skies above,
from the view ahead.

In-fat-uation is, now officially O-val.

Cravings./. children

2009-01-23T20:08:00.000+08:00

i don't crave for many,
neither do i crave for much.
just one would do.

the sun is hot and the ice-cream is melting!
up comes a boy and he tries to lick it away,
who then stumbles upon a rock,
falling on a little girl,
who loses her balance too,
and the grip of a balloon in her hands,

which flew...

up,up and away!

whee!

2009-01-18T22:06:00.000+08:00

"Life can only be understood backward.
It must be lived forward. "

-the curious case of benjamin button.

2009-01-11T00:58:00.001+08:00

Hooray!

i have just sailed pass a week of school in my little boat quite peacefully.

I'm sure the thunderstorm and sea monsters haven't quite arrived yet.

However, i don't quite know how to sail through those storms and fight the monsters yet, albeit being at sea for the past 3 years.

i had better start to learn now

Quites-- do they really mean something? or are they just decorative words; lost at sea.

love

2009-01-08T22:15:00.000+08:00

to understand the true meaning of love,
is to experience it.
that's why there are still wars.

nobody understands love,
the way it is suppose to be understood.

The tired heart.

2008-08-24T18:09:00.000+08:00

The heart despaired.

It stood alone,
in the cold, clammy night,
at the edge of the city.
With the October monsoon,
hurling raindrops resembling
violent comets.
Earth-bound,
Heart-bound.
Each threatening to destroy.

The heart,
tired from fighting,
laid on the ground.
All exposed;vulnerable.
Bare.

Resistance

2008-08-24T18:06:00.000+08:00

She forced herself to fight,
against thoughts that threatened,
against the lump that rose.

Taking solitude in blanks,
directing her thoughts to pen.
With its inexplicable vengeance.

She bit her lips,
tasted metallic,
something foreign,
familar.

Hot angry tears.
Exhausted and melancholic,
she did not attempt,
to resist.