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Friday, February 03, 2006

CNY 2006

Before I go into the topic, I was out with Liang wei, Zhong Wei, Hiang Kiat & Xin Ru to buy Wendy's b-day gift, yesterday. Just some highlights of yesterday's little trip:

1. Sony's new tagline: "Everything Else Is Just Noise" - I seriously think that this is so full of attitude!

2. 3 Sunflowers from the florist in Orchard MRT Station cost 40 bucks. - Met Gavin there. He was purchasing it for his girlfriend.

3. White Chocolate Ice-cream tastes exactly like vanilla. - don't waste the money

4. I saw the-guy-who-shall-not-be-named outside CK Tangs. - This year is going to be an unlucky year. Oh no.....

5. The next time somebody tells you to walk from Orchard to Plaza Singapore to share cab, don't listen to them. Take the MRT if you really want to (no matter how late or cooling the weather is).

6. Met a guy (from my camp) whom I thought was very good-looking but turned out that both Hiang Kiat and Xin Ru thought the exact opposite.

7. I am not going to CK Tangs jewelry section again. That stupid auntie, turned to Zhong Wei and said, " wah.. you very tall hor." She later turned to Liang Wei and said, "you also very tall hor." To add salt to the open wound, she later said, "my son's height is 183."

Anyway, Xin Ru was playing the role of Bok last night, and she practically pointed the finger at me and announced, "Kenneth go to orientation is to hook girls one lor." @%^*()_*^%$#

Her next comment was the 2nd similar comment I heard from a girl - "Your taste is too high le lah." To which, I disagree. Shall not touch on the sad things in life... sigh........

Now, about CNY...

I'm not sure but somehow CNY doesn't seem to hold the amount of mindless craze for ang baos as it used to be. I have not opened a single red packet from my relatives since the 1st day of CNY. I opened those ad-hocs ones which I didn't expect. e.g. my chief clerk. Somehow, I ain't all that interested. Probably because after 20 yrs, I kinda expect this amt of ang bao money. I don't expect it to be more. On the other hand, even if it were lesser, it isn't like I am going to be angry tt particular relative for that. In fact, I never did remember exactly how much they gave me. (This is mostly because I can never associate the red packet with the relatives - I dun remember who gave what.) On this note, I never did quite like the idea of going to frens' place to bai nian. I view is that I have never visited their houses on normal days, then it would be odd if I go during CNY.

In addition, CNY is now more about gathering together. I admit that I do not like a certain aunts and uncles, I do not have much to converse with them and I do not even feel comfortable talking cock to them. However, it is the very idea of coming together and sitting together that matters.

The Origin. 2/03/2006 09:37:00 pm

quotes

"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." - Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy

'How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn't care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears-
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on,
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity-' - How happy is the little Stone by Emily Dickinson

'This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.' - Morpheus, The Matrix

'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it if you do.' - Unknown

'There are plenty of people with good intentions who take the wrong actions in the end' - Gundam Seed Destiny

'Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.' - A.J.Cronin

"Every life has one true-love snapshot
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know
No life is a waste.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"

"A man can endure alot if he still has hope." - Clyde T. Ellis

" 'Appreciate It.' 2 simple words. A life span of gratitude." - Cinderella Man

"A boxer enters the ring alone. If knocked down, he alone could pick himself up and keep the fight going." - Cinderella Man

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Jame J. Braddock: I know this isn't what you wanted. But I can't win if you're not behind me.
Mae: I'm always behind you."

"People die in fairy tales all the time." - Max Baer, Cinderella Man

"Maybe sometimes people need to see someone do it so they can do it." - Father Rorick, Cinderella Man

"You always got ot figure you're not the best man in the world, there might be somebody better. That's the way it was. That's the way boxing is. The champion don't always stand up. There's always somebody coming up to take him. That's a part of life." - Jame J. Braddock

"If either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted" - The Queensbury Rules, No. 4

"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" - Motto of the King's Guard in Ancient Greece

"With each passing day in a good marriage, the love for your spouse grow stronger than the day before" - Cinderella Man

"I take responsibility" - President George W. Bush

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you sow a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny." - Samuel Smiles

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt - Shakespeare in Measure of Measure

"What does your heart tell you?" - Aragorn, LOTR

"To an outstretched hand we shall respond with an olive branch, but we shall fight fire with the harshest fire ever." - Israeli PM Ariel Sharon

"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. " - The Matrix

"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath." - Balian of Ibelin, Kingdom of Heaven

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter

"Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, LOTR

"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten." - Lilo & Stitch

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." - Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart

"Every man dies, not every man really lives." - William Wallace, Braveheart

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