originality; cold-fire

Friday, January 19, 2007

This week has not been a good week. I was pissed & partly disappointed with a few things and faced with the tides of confusion over what the stupid lecturer was talking about. I ended up buying a 70 bucks textbook to help myself. This is called self-help. Furthermore, I am currently sick with fever and cough, and I just missed an outing with the scss gang to celebrate qin yi's b-day.

In fact, the only good thing was to get accepted into ddp, which I also have something to be sad about as I will eventually have to drop USP. Then I question, 'will the friends I make there still remain my friends? or are our friendship built on daily interactions and superficial talking? Not the indepth understanding of one another?' Still, the opportuniy is too great to be missed. A talk to a friend online the other night and a simple sms from an acquaintance sealed my decision. I guess I have long made the decision but I just needed the words to give me strength. Also, thanks to my 'part-time' for her great help in my essay.

Anyway, I started with the word 'pissed' because everything that can go wrong just seems to go wrong when I am slightly lazy. At 830 pm, my parents were going to bt panjang plaza and I asked them to do me a favour by helping me to get my photocopied material from the shop there. I told them that there were 3 sets of originals. When they got home at 9, there were only 2 sets. Thus I had to go down to ask for my last set of notes. My father (as usual) was (let's just say) not exactly helpful when I was preparing to leave the house. It turned out that the person placed the notes separately, when I handed them the originals all in 1 bag. To add on to my already pissed mood, they quoted me $18 which seemed to be over the rightful price. I asked them to count the papers again. The price was then counted to be $11! Bloody hell. I then asked the person to fasten the original back. I could have done it myself but I was pissed. The person was obviously pissed by my request but she just did it anywayz. That I have to give it to her. However, I did help her in the process of fastening when I calmed myself down substantially.

Then I vaguely recall that the last time I asked for a favour along this line, I ended up having to go and do the job myself. It is like there is somebody up there who is saying, "Dear Kenneth, it is not good for you to be lazy, u know?" pissed.... (This is a joke btw. I have calmed myself down with sushi supper)

The simple thing about me that I have realised again is that when something goes wrong, I do not go around blaming people or point out what could have been done to prevent it. I just do what can be done to make things right...

The Origin. 1/19/2007 09:54:00 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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