The Playlist Top 20s.

Songs I could put on repeat forever on the iPod besides Jay Chou's of course.

3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Ryan Tedder - The Look
Creed - My Sacrifice
Nickelback - Far Away
Heart - Alone
30 Seconds To Mars - The Kill
Jay Sean - Down
Craig David - Insomnia
Madonna - La Isla Bonita
Lifehouse - Blind
Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Owl City - Saltwater Room
Little Boots - Remedy
Lady Gaga - Eh, Eh (Nothing else I can say)
Micheal Jackson - Billie Jean
Broken Strings - Nelly Furtado and James Morrison
Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls
Neyo - Because of You

and lastly, my FAVOURITEST...



1:49 onwards ( awwwww... you can see me melt into a puddle )

And yes, the cynic me heart Enchanted to bits and pieces.

:)

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Music Video of Giselle and Robert dancing from Walt Disney's Enchanted:

You're in my arms
And all the world is calm
The music playing on for only two
So close together
And when I'm with you
So close to feeling alive

A life goes by
Romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting, waiting here with you
And now forever I know
All that I wanted to hold you
So close

So close to reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
And now you're beside me and look how far we've come
So far we are so close

How could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
We're so close
To reaching that famous happy end
And almost believing this was not pretend
Let's go on dreaming for we know we are
So close
So close
And still so far

by Jon Mclaughlin - So Close

Yay-ness

So I did not bring my brolly out for lunch today and had to walk back to the office in the rain. The super big droplets rain kind of downpour.

Got super drenched and my cheap cotton top smell bad soaked with rain water. I had an evening class and was dreading to go to class smelling bad.

But, lucky me, I got to change into his workshirt. Oh, and it was perfect because I had my black leggings on.





It is so easy to grab your guy friend's shirt and wear it as your own. Maybe that is why the fashionistas call it 'The Boyfriend Shirt'.

:)

FIGHTING.

Muay Thai anyone?

I'm serious. I am thinking of trying the unlimited $150(monthly) boxing+muay thai package. The most awesomeness part? The place is the training facility for reality TV series - The Contender Asia.

Fight Works Asia

I think I can be a good fighter.

HAHA.

Friday the 13th.

It rains everytime I wear my favourite black dress. Grrrr.

But the rain failed to dampen my TGIF mood.

Anyway the X'mas deco at Vivo's quite nice. There's this fascinating blue-ish shiny blink-blink tall thingyy erected at Sentosa and I have no idea what it is. We were standing at the roof arena of Vivo totally mesmerized by it.

It's been awhile since I let my guard down...

I had a lovely night. Thank you for the random-ness laughters :)

Mind Over Beats.

Sometimes, you've got to think with the gray matter up there and not let that pulsating pink thingy get in your way. Your brain screams "WEIGH THE CONSEQUENCES"; and your heart whispers "just... fall."

But how do you stop your heart from skipping beats?

How can you tell your brain to break your heart?

At times like this, I wish I didn't have a heart for the brain to constantly ponder over.

The heart complicates the simple brain.

But when the brain eventually does some thinking...



This is what happens.

Oh-i'm-so-screwed.

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I think I could like you
But I keep holding back
Cause I can't seem to tell
If you're fiction or fact
Show me you can laugh
Show me you can cry
Show me who you really are

Deep down inside

Do you feel somethin happenin?
Could this be for real?
I don't know right now but tonight we'll reveal

by Jojo, How to Touch a Girl


"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
-Jean de la Fontaine

On the Downside of Technology.

I think the world has grown too used to modern technology that along the way we lose human touch. Ironic that here am I typing away on blogger, relying on the infamous Internet.

Do we really laugh out loud when we type LOL or smile silly when we use emoticons like this? =)

A few days back, I received an sms by a friend who asked if I could attend her wedding in December. Yea, I got a little irritated but then again, being nice, I replied a confirmation.

An invitation should be personal.

Invitation(from dictionary.com) :

–noun

1.	the act of inviting.

2.	the written or spoken form with which a person is invited.

See, an act. WRITTEN or SPOKEN. Not Short Message Service. Shouldn't an invitation portray a form of happiness? I cannot feel the emotion via SMS. I don't feel the need to congratulate. I don't feel like I am important enough. It's like I'm invited only to make up the numbers.

If I ever get married one day, I'd make sure the person invited feels special. And if time permits, I will personally customize each and every single invitation card and hand deliver. I don't want my guests to feel obligated attending my wedding just to "show face".

It all bogs down to one's perception of technology. While some unknowingly abuse it, others manage to do good. And yes, you can say that sometimes I do struggle to keep my human touch when using technology.

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What ever happened to the age old tradition of serenading your love like Romeo? Or the olden days much loved communication of writing love poems with ink? How about the mushy poems and the lovely hand made gifts? Who actually fold those paper stars/ hearts nowadays?

And how do you say 'I Love You' on sms?

I will MARRY the first guy who writes me a love letter.

Without hesitation.

An Absolute Good Read.

Life and How to Survive It

- Speech by Adrian Tan, Author of The Teenage Textbook at NTU convocation ceremony 2008

You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers.

Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.The good news is that they’re wrong.

The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.

I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless.

There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.I’m here to tell you this.

Forget about your life expectancy.After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end.

Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.The most important is this: do not work.Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.Work kills.

The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.Resist the temptation to get a job.

Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things.

The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.

There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Don’t work.
Avoid telling the truth.
Be hated.
Love someone.
You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.