erm

i went with my dad to his office today, in a sort of bring-your-kids-to-work fashion, except all the other people didn't have their kids.

it was the summer break in the uni anyways so it was pretty deserted. went around looking at various labs with some pretty awesome looking gizmos, like people testing out plasma screens, building tiny little structures using microscopes and whatnot. too bad i couldn't take pictures because it was mostly static-free environments.

i was kinda surprised to see quite a number of buildings that were named "shaw building". the image that comes to mind when i hear the name is usually that ghastly looking structure on orchard road. i guess mr shaw had really plonked down a fair chunk of his dough here.

hmm the building looks like it's leaning over

one of the many shaw buildings on campus

+listening to: living on a prayer by bon jovi

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and so i went to excercise...

i usually don't mind dim sum, but when eaten in excess they make you sick as i have felt thoroughly today. it's not that they taste bad. in fact they taste absolutely heavenly. but somehow it's like an overload of your digestive system, you just can't eat that much good stuff in one go.

and so... i went to have a little exercise as suggested by my mom. in the form of taking a walk up a "hill". she said it'll be good for me to have some fresh air, and that it was a just little taller than bukit timah. yeah, MY ASS.

almost all the way up

this part is almost vertical...

somewhere at the top

random basketball court at the summit, seriously

waited 45min for the cable car to resume because of rain

taking the cable car down in the rain

+listening to: fly me to the moon by frank sinatra

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of new philosophy, lucky bokke and so on...

i have a new philosophy in life: when in doubt, have faith in thy food.

i can't really remember much that has happened today because i felt like a zoo animal. it's nice to visit relatives and all, i just felt a bit lethargic and bored because i get the same questions about when i'm going to school and so on...

the highlight of the day was probably the food. the expression "to eat like a king" is more than appropriete.

and oh the man in black were beaten by the damn bokke on home turf. pure bad luck.

so back to topic: i can feel the fat rumbling through my veins and wrecking havoc on my coronary system. and i must be about 2 kilos heavier than i was in the morning. if this goes on, i don't know what would happen.

but having said that, i hope the culinary delights for tomorrow will even be better. anyway i was too busy eating to take photos of the food. understandable, really...

en route to food

still en route to food

yea i know i suck at taking pictures, i have no idea what that is

somewhere en route to food

+listening to: ain't no sunshine by unknown

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finally home

ah what an absolute poppycock of everything that could have gone wrong and went all terribly wrong.

first of all, my luggage was severly overweight as i have found out at the counter. erm you see i had a luggage allowance of 30 kg, and my luggage was 47.9 kg. and a suitcase can only contain a maximum weight of 32 kg. so other than the fact that i don't have another suitcase, it would have cost 480 dollars just to bring everything back. good golly.

special thanks go to SY for helping me lug all the excesses back. you're a life-saver!!! i probably wouldn't have been able to fly if you weren't there to help.

and so i parted ways with many of my precious things, which i'll have to come back to get one day (probably to some people's delight). ok i shall let the photos do the talking:

cam whoring at the airport

stuff i have to leave behind...

cam whoring on the plane

it's been raining nonstop

on the way home

still on the way home...

view from my crib

will have more updates with more photos to come!


+listening to: sweet home alabama by lynard skynard

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1

one.

it's the last number. the last kiss, the last dance, the last breath, the last...
when it's finally here, it gets to you. the voices inside my head, the voices...

the last time taking the train across town,
the last time on that endless bus ride,
the last time walking down my very own penny lane,
the last time breathing a sigh of relief at my own quiet place,
the last time seeing that familiar gate,
the last time smelling that fresh turf,
the last time seing those eager faces,
the last time saying goodbyes,
the last time treading the path home listening to the sound of trains passing by.

goodbye to romance.
goodbye.


+listening to: last kiss by pearl jam

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2

two.

it's an ambiguous number. it can mean unity at times, yet also harbours the ability to divide. it seems that two is the law of nature when it comes to a lot of things, like the continuation of the genetic lineage. even the inherent cellular blue-print from which we were built upon comes in the form of two chains intertwined in a double helix structure.


in jewish law the testimony of two is required to validate significant events; animals boarded noah's ark in twos; there are always two sides of the coin to everything; our limbs come in pairs of two; the finnish traditionally put two candles on their windowsill on independence day; the binary numbr system is based on two numbers.

ambiguity, polarity or togetherness? i think it depends on how you choose to look at any given matter. it's the outlook that defines the state of being, just like how the number two can give you a sense of ambivalence. i shall always choose to look at things on the bright side:

two.


+listening to: alone again by dokken

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3

three.

it's a wholesome number. it solves the discord created in the polarity of two, resulting in a new integration and wholeness. it's strange that humans can be thought of as a combination of the holy trinity of mind, body and soul. if you were to pick any two permutations, it just doesn't seem adequate.


in anthropology, the evolution of man is outlined by three distinct specises; the earth is made up of three layers from the core to the crust; hitler's empire is called the third reich; lenin died after suffering three strokes; the dog that guards the gate to hades in greek methology has three heads; the hindu religion has three gods; our visible world is three dimentional.

i guess the power of three is related to expansiveness and learning through life experiences, or to make something whole. when will i get to feel like a complete person, when will life come full circle? i'll have to find that out:

three.


+listening to: the tall fiddler by tommy emmanuel

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4

four.

it's a composite number. mathematically it is the first number that can be obtained from multiplying numbers other than itself and one. looking around us, the simplest solid - a tetrahedron, is composed of four sides. that's as basic as it gets.


there are four rivers in the garden of eden; we generally think of directions as the four cardinal points - north, south, east west; a year has four seasons; a month has four weeks; time is considered the fourth dimension; there are four states of matter in the universe; there exists four fundamental forces as we have learnt in physics; and there are exactly four causes in nature as outlined by aristotle.

four thus pushes us to make use of synergy, and to think outside the box. maybe it says something about the collective strength of individuals that will eventually come together to be part of a bigger picture. whatever it is, it's complex:

four.


+listening to: ten zen men by neil zaza

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