snapshots of summer [i]

This Summer, we all fell in love ♥

how not to sayang a face like that?

A good part of my July was pretty family-centric.. Week long getaways in Phuket and get-togethers galore.

~ IT'S A BRYCE BONANZA! ~

at patong beach


up high/ down low
playing with domo-kuns!/ 1 year old (irl) vs. 1 month old (on purse)


the chuas in thailand
jie shielding the world from her flu


sleepy b


b's first experience with sand!/ tickled b


now b tickling jie


famshot

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blogs are the new..

I have been doing a downright embarrassing job at keeping this alive in 2009. 4 posts in June, 4 posts in July, 4 posts in August? Va circa 2008 WOULD DESPISE THIS. I mean compare this and this. See how much harder the scroller had to work last year?!

Seriously what is this f*ckery?! So document I will. Even if it means pulling out photos and anecdotes from months ago because for some reason all the nothingness I was doing back then was just a huge dampener on my blogging mojo. I don't want to look back on 2009 and remember nothing, you know. The cerebrum is overrated. Blogs are the new memory.

You know, its true. Dependency and expectations are the work of the devil. Have I not know this for years?! How do I manage to lose this simple easy as 3.14 concept.... Pretty much every day? Its repulsive, really. Repulsive.

ETA:
I thought i had realized.. especially since this tweet of yore - but sometimes grasping this is like understanding molecular physics (or on a smaller scale in my case.. like swallowing pills) - yes, it is the way of the world. a fact of life. may seem tough but you just gotta get past it. Everybody does.

But god dangit why is it so bloody hard to digest?

So i will never be 1st 2nd 3rd 4th............................... Bah I've never been any good at winning anyway. I've always settled quite nicely in 'Mediocre' tyvm. So why is it so hard to settle for 22nd place this time around? I mean 22 is a perfectly fine little number is it not? If it were the size of my waist I'd be ecstatic. If it were the number of billions$ I had in my Swiss bank account I would be happily vacationing on my diamond encrusted yacht in the South of France . Look I'm 22 years old and it's even a semi-glorious time! So why is it so hard to just settle for 22nd place? I shouldn't be so hard on 22!

Maybe.. Because they don't give shiny medals and prizes to 22nd place losers winners. Maybe because 22nd is a good 20 places too far behind - Maybe I should just come to terms with this pronto. So yes, I'm selfish. Yes, I want to be a winner, this once. But alas, yes - I'm coming in a triumphant 22nd place. Celebratory ribena shooters, anyone?

牛肉粉

The grand ol' age of 22 and I can only depend on this to cure my headaches:


très pathétique *cue dramatic sigh*

instamatic karma

With a desktop background like this.. Work instantly becomes 19830132x more palatable.

So I officially joined the working world 3 weeks ago.. A proud member of the rank and file of Singaporean society. And after day 1 I immediately gained a newfound respect for all the 9-5ers (and in our case 830-6ers) who a) have a social life b) conscientiously do their work c) DO IT WITHOUT STABBING THEMSELVES/ SOMEONE ELSE. It's amazing guys. It's probably obvious to the rest of the world but the pillars of our society are not (only) children they are our white collared workforce (although ironically the ones building the pillars are the blue collared ones.) WOW I have not blogged in a while I do have a lot of accumulated brain gunk to get rid of.

I'm more than thankful for this stint and opportunity, but boy staring at a computer for about + 14 hours in a day is.. Not fun. (What. I need my youtube/ skype fix when I get home you know.)

BLOG MORE, EVMW. if not for anything else, to document your 2009. you have been doing a downright shit job lately. Posts dating up to 3 months ago on your main page? SHAME. ON. YOU.

exquisite

There is very little I wouldn't have given up to be there with for her.

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我再好
不過你一個指尖

A year on and I adore you more than ever
Happy 26th bb, you make us all so, so proud
Armed with your incredible talent, remarkable charm and clever wit.. (Not to mention your heartbreaking smile and the omnipresent mischievous glint in your eye).. The world is yours for the taking.

You are always, always worth it.

FAT BUNNIES
MAKE ME
HAPPY ♥

irl bunny hops and hugs
and it begins

blasphemous? yes.
true? very.

I DIE.
♥

we are here, we are now

together we are infinite

"Ah, how can we bear it?"

"Bear what?"

"This, For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?"

"We can be quiet together, and pretend -- since it is only the beginning -- that we have all the time in the world."

"And every day we shall have less. And then none." "Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?"

"No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run.
But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere."