Love is not “sometimes, under certain conditions.” Love is “always, no matter what.” You can’t love somebody one day and then not love them the next.

That’s not love. That’s attraction. And it’s important to realize the difference between an attraction and distraction. We say “I love you” but sometimes it means “I love you when you look good and dress nice and don’t make mistakes.”

- Leighton


Thank you for highlighting the difference between blatant attraction and love. I think people feel empty when they aren't loved. And in desperation, they go for makeovers, workouts, manicures, plastic surgeries, wanting to be loved, but they don’t realize that what they would get after that is not love, its just attraction, its just lust. Its “I love you because you look good, dress nice and don’t make mistakes”. Never love. Yet what they actually wanted was just love, being loved when they wake up groggy-eyed with bad morning breath, dress in dowdy old shirt and pants and make a few stumbles in life.

Considered yourself blessed and lucky if you know you are being loved, always, no mater what.

Shayna's 21st & Villa Bali

Finally an entry of pictures instead of words! =D
Realised that my recent entries have been pretty 'wordy' with a serious lack of pictures so I shall let pictures do the work for this one, its 2plus am in the morning and I'm dead tired.

Last weekend was Shayna's 21st birthday bash! As I was busy clocking OT for work and couldn't help to choose the present, I make the birthday card. Haven't done any art and craft for goodness how long and my skills were rusty. Only managed to complete the card in the end after 6 hours of non-stop trial and error.



Rest of the guys penning down their birthday wishes on my ahhem 'masterpiece'.


And what other better way to spend our time while waiting for the card to be ready beside cam-whoring..? Haha!




Shayna, the birthday girl looking drop-dead gorgeous on her big day. Having only slept an hour for the past 40hours,I looked like crap in contrast.


We loved the backdrop that Shayna and Calverk artistically decorated.


Oh, Guess what?! Chongtat brought along his new polaroid camera and it rawks! My first time taking such photos and they are so cute! Credits to Liming for the photos!


More pictures from the night. Ripped them from Liming's FB cause no surprise, my camera screwed up again. Its definitely time for a new cammie!!




It was a great night with the s24 gang as always. Always nice catching up on each other's school lives and discussing future career prospects with the guys. Looking forward to our October babies' 21st parties!

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Met the girls for dinner at Villa Bali on Wednesday and had a good time. Shared the chef's platter with beer. Not a fan of beer myself and couldn't finish even 1 glass, but well, it was 1-for-1 promo! Haha.

Missing Chunrui and Beverly's pictures. Would have to wait for the rest to upload before I can get theirs. Heh, I've been 'stealing' photos from FB.



Kaiwan's looking uber-adorable in her new braces, makes me so wanna get mine done asap too!

That's all for now. Its 3am. Waking up at 6 later. Gawd.

Busy like a Bee

Like all happy times, the long weekend passed much faster than I expected.
It is a quiet day at work today. Everyone seems to be tied up at their desks, trying to clear a weekend’s load of work I’m missing my buddy who so happens to be my colleague and shares the desk with me. Guess we won’t be seeing much of each other with the start of our new school semester and other personal obligations to fulfill. I predict a short one this week.

Lessons officially start tomorrow and I would be tied down by tutorials and revisions, on top of my 5-day job at MND. Meanwhile, coming weekday nights would be occupied catching up with old friends and discussions for collaborations. Things seem to be picking up for me, finally, especially in October and November. Would be going back to my first and foremost passion (guess which!) and possibly a job in the industry related to my pursuing degree. Shan't say too much here lest I change my mind. ;)

So people, do pardon me if I may seem out of reach meanwhile.

Of Geeks in Rompers

Do pardon me and allow some narcisism. For I'm crazy over rompers and oversized glasses. Last weekend has been a great one, albeit a tad damaging on my figure (and his pockets!). Was eating non-stop, and I really mean it, tummy's disgustingly bulging now and I would have to abstain from wearing body-hugging clothes. That means no bodycon dresses. =( And I just bought a couple of new ones. Superficial stuff aside, its gonna be a looong weekend! Looking forward to it with a 21st birthday bash to attend and planning a night's rendezvous with my love.

But before happy times, September 18th is gonna mark an epoch in 22 years of my life. And hopefully, I'll have the courage to see it through and get what's got to be done, completed, even though I awfully dread it.

And oh yea! The Kushinbo buffet got us planning on a trip to Hokkaido. Gonna do more research on Japan and travel deals. Konichiwa, Japan!

Tumblr Addiction

I look forward to my daily A.M. dosage of Tumblr each day. The one thing which never fail to push away any negative thoughts on my mind, ease the frown lines from my face or stretch my lips to a smile. It feels like a drug addiction. A good one though because it is where I'm getting a big part of my inspiration and motivation. Does the author know this? That his writing is making an impact on someone else's outlook in life. He may never know, for we are continents apart, living opposite time zones and speak different native tongues. Each day, the weather varies. So does the environment and its people. There is no constant. Except it. It is always there, everyday, every minute. And accessible anytime, just a click away. And this is the key to its attraction. It provides relief. And with relief comes security. No contemplation nor hesistation. Thoughts and motives stated down in black and white or represented by clear images. Slate-clean. No ambiguity. Which probably explains why I'm so deeply infactuated.

The Eight-Hour Apart

Yesterday was rainy and cold. So is today.
But why does the chill feel especially so? Probably because the warmth from your embrace is long gone.
Since 8 hours ago.

L O V E

"Everyone says that love hurts, but that's not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality, love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes someone feel wonderful again."

And I would love, to love. =)

The Simple Life

Some tell me this world we live in is actually pretty simple and not to think too much. Yea, this place we live in may be simple, but the habitants are not. We, being the only living thing on Earth who has the ability to think, rationalise and exercise control over our innate instincts. But instead of using this nature's gift to simplify our lives, we complicate it.

We fill our simple lives with wrath, greed, envy, lust, pride and many other contaminants. Don't tell me it is human's nature to err. Who said so? Who made it such? We humans or another higher-being up-there? We manipulate and deceive to get what we want, or rather, what we think we want, which more often than not, can be quite alot. Who cares who might get hurt in the process as long as we get what we want. Noone. Sincerity and honesty are long-forsaken. We have forgotten that what we can achieve with these can be so much more rewarding. Perhaps most of us are scared. Schemes cunningly devised and traps laid. Lies buried by more lies. We continue to plough on in this never-ending vicious cycle we trap ourselves in.

But things are actually quite quite simple. Just us, who aren't. So let's start living our lives simple, just be sincere, and honest. Wouldn't it be nice, you think?