water water everywhere and way too much to spare =)

Finally passed bike lesson 3 *woohoo* despite skidding and falling off and having a painful engine-is-hot-and-roads-are-rough lesson... to celebrate... it was nice to get on a bike again for the afternoon... a bicycle this time round. and of course good company always makes for a good ride. plus for once i'm not on my bangla bike so i had breaks and gears that work

Here's my photo journal of it. I must admit it has been a while since I played around with phototaking and all again but instangram has indeed made things a lot easier... it does feel a little like cheating though, to be able to just make them decent looking with one click.

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30.12.12 - of waterways and afternoon showers

the start of the ride... if only life had such clear signpost to guide you from place to place.

sunshine bridge... the clay rust colour that just seem to transport you to another place in another time

apparently these guys pop up after a bush fire... such a pretty red amidst destruction... life after death... the cycle continues...

Ben who even while cycling still closes his eyes when smiling for the camera...

adventure bridge... life's adventure: a narrow path over dodgy waters to get to the greener other side... thankfully.. bridges in singapore seems relatively stable and not likely to go falling down any moment.

 four wheels good. two wheels better! all animals are equal!

"wetlands" - not really what i had in mind when told this was the wetland trek. to give them credit, it was wet and there was land. the lotus flowers in all their pastel colours did make a rather nice sight for sore eyes.

self taken shots with an iPhone requires a lot more practice... so many shots before we got one right... but i guess it's a start.

cat's tail with out its fur... 

 And I... Gazing at stars... Stumbled over you... tripped... <3... and fell... painfully in love... couldn't get up... for ages...

life's full of little surprises if you keep your eyes open and stop to smell the roses...

Brain needs to stop thinking thoughts and start learning to relax so I can get around to sleeping.

Kangeroo hopping

Darwin 8th to 11th Feb
Sydney 17th to 31st Mar

Is this the year for Aussie trips?

Such silly worries about such inane stuff at times that it makes one laugh...

It's Friday Friday Friday!

3 more days till the end of the year :)

Let's definitely end this year feeling warm and happy ^^

Mehhh-ly and Meow-ly

sis just commented that my bed seems to be becoming a zoo...

my reply was that there are only two sheeps, two donkeys, a monkey, an anteater and my newest kitty addition =X that's hardly a zoo... she on the other hand has a huge ass monkey that would totally trump all my mini-sized animals.

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Merry Christmas Everyone =D
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make that three sheeps. gf just gave me one today  ^^ my sheep from NZ. it's called mehhh-ly... ^^

For you I would cry
For you I would try
For if I did not
Forsaken I rot

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not one of my better attempts ><

Wreck-it Ralph

watching Wreck-it Ralph brought back such memories of arcade games... Disney has outdone itself. I haven't been that excited about a cartoon since Toys Story and Monsters Inc. Totally awesome how they sync-ed the fantasy world to the real world.

but watching it with the sis does make the generation gap so much more apparent. while i did grow up with retro / arcade games. not all were known to her and it was also then where we realised how little exposure she had to the arcade even! hers being the generation of computer mmorpg games etc.

enjoyable nonetheless... ^^

glad we made the decision for a midnight cartoon instead of a midnight hobbit show.

Which came first?

Is it that you finally reach that stage in life where you can imagine yourself settling down and thinking about a future which allows you to picture a future with someone

Or that you finally found that someone you can picture a future with that allows you to move into that stage in life where you can imagine finally settling down.

End of year musings

We’re nearly at the end of another year again it seems… time for celebrations and solitude, reflections and appreciation, just being content with how life has treated us so far. The world has yet to implode on itself and despite crisis after crisis, the human race manages and have yet to destroy itself. There’s love and kindness amidst trouble and turmoil that makes you know it’s worth getting every morning.

Milestones and Highlights in 2012

• Gravical 2012 where Tonde was here again =)
• Sandy Visited (the first of many)
• Jakarta with Family
• Loft 360 (fun despite the disappointment of not actually getting it)
• Snowboarding trip in Korea with Peter (lots of falling down)
• FHUK Audit in London (still dunno whether it was more work or play)
• Going to the Zoo with Roberto
• Watching my fill of musicals
• Grampians with Ima!
• Taking part in a boulder comp after such a long time.
• Diving trip with Mich
• Leaving F&N finally
• Midnight meals and game of throne with Tracy and Andrew
•  Bali Diving Trip (USS Wreck was ticked off the bucket list)
• Chiangmai and Vietnam Trip with Alice
• Started a new job that’s totally not accounting!
• Visited MBS (like finally…)
• Visited USS  (also another finally…)
•  Climbed @ Batu Caves
• Met Ben <3

Seems like 2012 was another year of indulgence. Endless soul searching and escaping as is warranted with the Quarterlife Crisis phase. I must say that I pretty much got many things that i would say i was lucky to get (so many wants ticked off my list) and also got out of things that wasn’t getting me anywhere.

Life was good to me this year... as good as i hope it was for everyone else...
So exciting that so many people are embarking on their next phase in life...
Happy holidays and may the new year bring new opportunities and experience!

Lesson 2 done. Now for a good night sleep with no worse case scenarios filled dreams I hope.

Paradigm shift

How when what why

Processing speed definitely needs to be upgraded. I'm way too slow at understanding what is happening.

Or perhaps I'm just in denial and refuses to see what's in front of me

I've been looking for someone to shed some light
Not somebody just to get me through the night
I could use some direction
And I'm open to your suggestions

Living every moment twice...

I'm starting to be convinced that my subconscious is a paranoid and pessimistic bitch. Why else would I spend my nights dreaming of the worse case scenarios of the major events that would happen to me...

On the bright side.. I wake up knowing what not to do to screw up my day... Rawr

In bed at 9pm. this has got to be some record.. life is awesome..

It's Monday again but the blues seem to be in check for once.

Despite knowing how tired one gets from a weekend KL trip, I don't think I'll ever stop doing it cos there is just something about dealing with cabbies, praying for good weather, navigating the streets, long sleepy convos, figuring out old-new routes, awesome company that seems to bring back some meaning to why I drag myself to office during the week.

Life's mysteries....

Antz

Coincidences do happen~!

Similar toys... Similar phone numbers... I wonder what else we will discover...

Someone out there

Been so long since I last doodled... The new upgrade on art studio lite is pretty nifty though ^^

Seem to be on the verge of falling sick again... Why so lousy these days I wonder... Think I need less restless sleep but my mind just refuses to cooperate.

the disciplined pursuit of less.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/the_disciplined_pursuit_of_less.html

the irony is that i feel like i have too much things on my plate right now that i can't even do the life audit i probably should.

am i gonna end up failing cos there's just too much options available and i end up a master of none?

one of these days when i'm free-er i really should do that audit. how can i be doing so much and yet feeling so lost i wonder. i've really been avoiding the BIG question of direction so much so that it's not doing me or the others who give a damn about me any good i think.

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week was absolutely tiring. nonstop deliverables at work plus a christmas celebration thingy smack in the middle.

sat was bike lessons. i finally got around to passing lesson one.
then going down to m1 to complain about my phone.
then accompanying my parents
then clearing the work that i didn't manage to finish on friday
then spending time with Ben
then Ikea - meatballs and christmas
then passing yishun vouchers to the freshies
then ice cream and general happy lazy stuff

and suddenly it was sunday already

waking up
then rushing for bike theory lessons
then rushing again for level 1
then rushing home to clear more work
then being so tired i'm probably going to fall asleep any moment.

and just as suddenly. my weekend was over.

so much for my promise to not over-commit. i'm still a sucker at saying no and still a sucker for being lazy first and then suffering for it later.

ahhhh... my calves just cramped up.

if you're happy and you know it....

it's amazing how happy and at peace you can make me.

really really really looking forward to the weekend.

Lucky I have BeEN

Reckless abandon

It's so easy to give in to temptation

live one day without thought of the next.

No thoughts about the future

being happy

now

for just one moment.


Screw consequences.

Your future self can deal with it.

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one of those moments where the pieces can't fit together cos you're overcommitted and you just wanna throw everything up in the air and hope the wind takes it all far far away and gives you the excuse to just get away from it all. i hope i last till my next holiday although thoughts of

when did i become so weak i wonder?

will this be the dosage that I need.

Ahh. So tempted to go. Pilgrimage to get the psyche back? To meet people again and get out there and away from this little shell i seem to have hidden myself in. Is it worth using 3 days of leave to do this? Tough one... considering I haven't exactly been really training that hard and will probably get owned... badly...

and so the final countdown begins

31 more days until the new year....

decemeber should be nice and chill. no courses at asia. weekends just focusing on bike lessons and nuahing. attending weddings. swimming perhaps. slowly clearing work in the office. celebrations. hanging out with friends. shopping for presents...

i hope these 31 days doesn't fly by too fast. except maybe 11 to 26? =P hahahaa.