「あき。こころ…」
sunsets & solacePlain White T’s – 1234
I heart this song! Perks me up..
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4
Give me more lovin’ than I’ve ever had
Make it all better when I’m feelin’ sad
Tell me that I’m special even when I know I’m notMake me feel good when I hurt so bad
Barely gettin’ mad, I’m so glad I found you
I love bein’ around you
You make it easy, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4There’s only one thing to do
Three words for you I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words and that’s what I’ll do, I love youGive me more lovin’ from the very start
Piece me back together when I fall apart
Tell me things you never even tell your closest friendsMake me feel good when I hurt so bad
Best that I’ve had, I’m so glad that I found you
I love bein’ around you
You make it easy, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4There’s only one thing to do
Three words for you I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words and that’s what I’ll do, I love you
I love youYou make it easy, it’s easy as 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4
There’s only one thing to do
Three words for you I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words and that’s what I’ll do, I love you
I love you1, 2, 3, 4
I love you
I love you© SO HAPPY PUBLISHING; WB MUSIC CORP.;
What I’ll do on my birthday
I can’t believe my birthday’s approaching me in another 7 days time. As I grow older, birthdays become precious days where I will take leave and spend the day absolutely as I like.
What I plan to do this birthday:
- Sleep and wake up late
- Go for facial and massage/ foot reflex?
- Go for a haircut
- Go solo-shopping, I just love spending alone time at bookstores
- Tidy up my room and finances
- Relax and chirp around like a happy bird
- Be happy & free~
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
After eons, I have finally been bringing reading and sanity back into my life for a while. Hopefully I will keep reading and find time to read. I’ve read Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger, this book and now am reading Morality Tale by Slyvia Brownrigg which I have started on and left off for too long that I have to re-start reading it again. So if anyone has good books to recommend or lend me, please support me in my reading mission and lend them to me. Much much welcomed!
Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.. basically is an autobiography of Murakami by himself with anecdotes on running. Some quotes I like and resonate to:
To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That’s my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body. This might sound paradoxical, but it’s something I’ve felt very keenly ever since I became a professional writer. The healthy and the unhealthy are not necessarily at opposite ends of the spectrum. They don’t stand in opposition to each other, but rather complement each other, and in some cases even band together.
I need to exercise! Because I have an unhealthy mind and unhealthy body too..
Another excerpt:
I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don’t get that sort of system set up by a certain age, you’ll lack focus and your life will be out of balance. I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people around me. I felt that the indispensable relationship I should build in my life was not with a specific person, but with an unspecified number of readers.
My opinion hasn’t changed over the years. I can’t see my readers’ faces, so in a sense it’s a conceptual type of human relationship, but I’ve consistently considered this invisible, conceptual relationship to be the most important thing in my life.
In other words, you can’t please everybody.
Prioritize, prioritize!
To be less hopeful
More difficult than I thought
More far away than I thought
From when I was young, I always had this thought.
When I really wish for something I shouldn’t hope too much or somehow it will become harder to come true.
When I embark on something difficult that I am not too optimistic about, I think of all the bad things that will happen and they won’t. But if I dream instead of the good that has yet to happen and be hopeful, they only become elusive.
I guess the true essence of contentment lies in here.
Some part of this thought still resonates with me.
Counting my blessings
Much as I’d not like to admit, this year is really a year of trials and tribulations for me. Of course, those who’ve experience much more, seen worse in their lives can beg to differ. But for me where I am in my life right now, I really wish to prevail this year soon and hope for better things to come. Thankfully, I still can hold close what and whom matters most!
Many things I can’t utter or am inept to, I only wish I will be stronger and not in expense of more important things.
Seems like a simple life is elusive but it’s still my dream. I will get there!
Jon Schmidt & a wedding
Jon Schmidt rocks!
This is an absolutely beautiful arrangement…
Also love this
I’m going to get one his albums I swear.
Attended my 3rd wedding this year and of a primary school bestie, Aishah. So among my group of close friends that have shared my life at different stages, both my 2 primary school close friends are married, 1 of my college buddies married 2 years ago, waiting for the other 2 to give me good news. None from my secondary school yet and uni as well. Happy for them to have found their companion and start on a new phase of life together. 2 more weddings of my ex-colleagues this year to go and expecting 2 arrivals of a baby boy and girl! Why am I feeling old.. and broke??
Of good friends, Anna Sui & NafNaf
Good to catch up with good old friends, especially when I’m dried and shrivelled by work etc.
Good to know that 2 good friends in our circle have gotten together (though I renounce the fact that no one tell me about it until now!)
Bought a limited edition Anna Sui tray that’s so pretty, right?
though I haven’t thought about what to use it for and whether to use it in the first place..
And checked out NafNaf with the dear good friend.
The savings book
Jocelyn married William this day. At the end of the wedding party, Jocelyn’s mother gave her a newly opened bank saving passbook. With $1000 deposit amount. Mother: ‘Jocelyn, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your marriage life. When there’s something happy and memorable happened in your new life, put some money in. Write down what it’s about next to the line. The more memorable the event is, the more money you can put in. I’ve done the first one for you today. Do the others with William. When you look back after years, you can know how much happiness you’ve had.’
Jocelyn shared this with William when getting home. They both thought it was a great idea and were anxious to know when the second deposit can be made. This was what they did after certain time: – 7 Feb: $100, first birthday celebration for William after marriage – 1 Mar: $300, salary raise for Jocelyn – 20 Mar: $200, vacation trip to Bali – 15 Apr: $2000, Jocelyn got pregnant – 1 Jun: $1000, William got promoted ….. and so on…
However, after years, they started fighting and arguing for trivial things. They didn’t talk much. They regretted that they had married the most nasty people in the world…. no more love…Kind of typical nowadays, huh?
One day Jocelyn talked to her Mother: ‘Mom, we can’t stand it anymore.. We agree to divorce. I can’t imagine how I decided to marry this guy!!!’
Mother: ‘Sure, girl, that’s no big deal. Just do whatever you want if you really can’t stand it. But before that, do one thing first. Remember the saving passbook I gave you on your wedding day? Take out all money and spend it first. You shouldn’t keep any record of such a poor marriage.’ Jocelyn thought it was true. So she went to the bank, waiting at the queue and planning to cancel the account. While she was waiting, she took a look at the passbook record. She looked, and looked, and looked. Then the memory of all the previous joy and happiness just came up her mind. Her eyes were then filled with tears. She left and went home. When she was home, she handed the passbook to William, asked him to spend the money before getting divorce. The next day, William gave the passbook back to Jocelyn. She found a new deposit of $5000. And a line next to the record: ‘This is the day I notice how much I’ve loved you thru out all these years. How much happiness you’ve brought me.’
They hugged and cried, putting the passbook back to the safe. Do you know how much money they had saved when they retired? I did not ask. I believe the money did not matter any more after they had gone thru all the good years in their life.
“When you fall, Don’t see the place where you fell, Instead see the place from where you slipped. Life is about correcting mistakes.”
My first & only Sad Sam+Honey!
I have seen this and pondered many many times whenever I walked into the shop at Suntec City whether to buy this and on our last visit there I decided to perhaps buy it and dar bought it for me <3
So Sad Sam+Honey are sitting by the side of my bed now. Btw if I press their paws, they will smoooch (make smoooching noise) and they really smoooooooocchhh for very long.
P.S. The only reason why I am not blogging as intermittently is because of 2 things. One is that I so sick of facing the comp at work the entire day I don't really want to touch the comp when I'm home plus the fact that the laptop i have at home is more or less defunct. Two is that it is reflective of my state of mind.. I'm just restlessly thinking the things I should/ want to do but not get down to doing it. Just feel v restless and tired at the same time. What's wrong with me? I can't believe I'm going to be 26 in another 58 days .. I just wish for this year to pass by now. I think the only best things for this year are dear, my family&friends and maybe just a thankfulness that things could have been worse but not.
