Sunday, March 27, 2011

notes in idolatry

duckie duckie...spot the duckie like the colors tho' =]

embroidery, watercolor & ink on paper!

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weili's back in town =]


@ mookata this thai style steamboat place n the 1st time i see them using LARD as the base for the grill!!


i don't look fair lor i look pale & washed out in this picture compared to the rest of the healthier skin tones =((
think i can get a role in twilight?? ;p


da birthday gal..

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Monday, March 21, 2011

gaining perspectives

i was hoping to get inspirational but nope, age just makes me feel more and more complacent nowadays. settling down comfortably in the routine and taking risk-less choices. turning a year older every year makes me feel like it's about time i own the world. you know 'seize the day!' kind of deal? but that should have been right after graduation when passion was fueled with youth. on hindsight i don't think my life would have turned out any different with the character i have been subconsciously molded into after 3 decades. regardless of the type of work i am doing. having said that do i see anything wrong with it? yes if i'm being compared to my peers. no if man itself can indeed be an island. this seems like a paradox in the society we live in because all of us simply have this unnerving instinct to 'feed off' each other. how can there not be discontentment or any resentment on my part?

it took me awhile. trying to figure out what i have learned and unlearned after all these years. would my life be any different now if i had taken another route? would i have reached for the stars and grabbed hold of my dreams? would i be any more at peace with myself if the situation were to be reversed? maybe. maybe not. you see that's the wonderful thing about life. the decisions you make and the choices you live with not knowing what the outcome would be. and sometimes you just have to make do with the things you are blessed with not second guessing all the time about the 'what ifs' that pass you by. the world is such full of possibilities and our lives do not end like simply like the story in a book...i know this is empty talk but go on you can still make a difference and create another tale because your chapter is not done yet! ;p

and in gaining perspectives some say wisdom i found out i no longer have any faith in humanity. of course i've always been cynical my entire life. but that's how i viewed the world. how the world treated me in returning favours. pfffbbt! i can't argue with that. it's the whole cosmos aka universe against a pathetic spark of light yours truly. now a totally new erm shall we call philosophy? *just to make it more outlandish* =D has dawned on me (which i know i have limited control over as well). hear hear! the humanity for which our race is based upon is ridiculously ungodlike. i know i'm not religious and i shouldn't be expecting graciousness from strangers and miracles to be performed. but how is it that humanity has come and fallen to such state? if i am a believer i will genuinely be very troubled that we are made in his likeness. why? because half the things humans do on a daily basis are enough to put the devil to shame and blush. i'm sure you are probably baffled by all the blabbering here but indulge me for a moment. the stories i hear recently mostly betrayals of the most unlikely of people are sufficient to make my head spin and rethink if i am any better than them or if integrity exists at all. seriously people!

if this is between friends who hold no bond to each other except for mutual obligation and camaraderie of having put together by chance events there leaves nothing to be said for turning his back on you when the opportunity arises.
if this is between relation by blood and nothing but pure family lines have brought together and intertwine the fates of your lives then commiseration be upon you for having met such malevolence.
if this is between closed ones whom you have decided to share the rest of a lifetime and embrace their beings regardless of all superficiality then woe and tribulation betide you for misplacing this love! ~_~

i know this sounds awfully deranged but i just think to myself temptations are everywhere so how does one not put himself in the path? is the happily ever after so unattainable and exclusive to the minority? can the masses not grasp this concept of self resilient and gratification of giving instead of receiving? are the generations so fickle nowadays? i'm quite peeved too about my non-denomination, religiously of course. is the whole purpose of segregating to try and cut me off and make me feel like an outcast? do these beliefs promote something we call equality or just a superiority of being in the 'know how' and tsk you'd never understand no m.a.t.t.e.r. how many times i explain? if you've found a meaning to clutch onto in life or a passion to invoke as your own it doesn't mean my life is any less worthy than yours beyotch..seriously if we both didn't stink of humanity i couldn't have cared less =X sigh~

=_= there's nothing i can do to reconcile all these emotions i suppose but a rant did me good and lotsa of chilling to catch up on till i hear less cries of calamities in the recent climate of things to be.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

exhausting trip to hk!



some language barrier led to the pop-up banner being set up manually using double-sided tapes till past 2am! this plus the hk air gave me a breakout the very next day T_T



spotted mona lisa made of toast in one of the new malls k11 @ tst








there were truckloads of people at causeway bay!! managed to get some shopping done at island beverley or fashion walk? malls hmmm not that cheap tho' thereafter went to wellington street @ central to try some famous noodle shops for the first time! i dunno why i always end up buying lots in hk when my colleague didn't at all...it's just an engaging 24/7 metropolis which fascinates me each time, the people their dialect the buildings the eclectic mix of old and new fusion of modern versus traditional foods and seemingly capricious nature of the fashion sense there..i like being the kaleidoscopic onlooker breathing in the bustling streets and shops sprung up from nowhere or trying to fit in between the skyscrapers....hk just does it better for me than any other cities in the world ^ ^

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