Friday, November 30, 2007

2007-11-30



12 years of my life, in a corner of my room. See the row of files in the left of the picture? all from jc; I wonder how much of it i actually did.


When we move on, who is it that we leave behind? and what of the ones who tried to hold us back -- do they look on with understanding or in denial. and so we glance back in triumph. and unguised delight



i have a splendid new vaio (my first). it's a notebook, and it's really gorgeous. it's been a few days since i got it, and i still can't believe its mine. i'd been saving for a notebook, but the one i had in mind was a secondhand with chipped paint or something like that. i would be able to abuse it and run all sorts of programs on it. that way it wouldn't hurt too much if i had to dispose of it, and i would be all the wiser too with regards to suspicious downloads (this is my first pc). back to the one i actually have now :) it's currently pristine white. but my room is a dust-trap so i am worried how long before it turns grey. and i hear excessive dust impairs performance. i do hope it stays with me long enough for the 4/5 year warranty to expire. i have a new mobile too :)
neither the notebook nor the hp were paid for by me. not yet anyway

i wish had a mechanism within me to guide me. it should preferably be infallible. if it isn't, i should have someone called Gahmen to blame the system's shortcomings on. that'd be convenient. something's broken, it's G's fault, go fix it. problem worsened, it could only be G's goddamn fault.
perhaps that mechanism already exists, i just am not clear how it works, i need an Adam smith, or, if you like, Freud to come up with a manual to the workings of the human psyche. they can do the messy delving, i'll do whatever the heck they say. yes I am in dire need of a heartware manual; i'm clueless about myself, boys, girls and people in general. everyone knows it
I wrote the below for myself when I was in sec 4 i think. it's fragmented, which is how i write all the time. Do you recognise the bits that were influenced by lp's travels? they are the berlin wall bit and the swarovski stationery bit.


Some things I would like to do in this life

visit the last of the ancient wonders of the world: pyramid Giza
see for myself the tomb of coffin of King Tut [all that gold $_$]
live in the desert for a time
or at least get to traipse through Cairo's bazaars. fully-clothed of course
I won't mind trekking the Silk Road. and see if I end up in China
If there I would like to go to the world's most elegant city: Hangzhou. famed for its visual and gastronomic delights, even the royalty came and rest their souls here
Hey, what's good for the Emperor's good for me. Who knows, I may even compose my Nobel award winning poem. That'd stun the world, myself included.

I want to stand on the sites of the ancient wonders, esp the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Skyrise greenery is the thing now in the city and S'pore could take a cue from there. But I'm not sure if any bit of it remains.

I wanna spend a night in the 'toxic' beaches of Thailand. Eat real red ruby.

Go 'City of love' the world's fashion capital.
visit factories & assure its guards I am a S'porean, not a copies-churning Chinese from China. What irony! I think I am just that! Hmmm...

Sit the Eurostar through the English Channel. to London.
Grey, gloomy & wet. My kind of weather. my kind of city.

I wanna visit the libraries , esp the one, ugh, forget it, can't even remember its name.
I wanna sit in the stands during a match b/n Oxford & Cambridge & feel the tension generated by famous or rather infamous Oxbridge rivalry.
I'd decide which side to sit on that day.

I wanna read entire ss of The Chalet School.
Visit Switzerland.
Eat chocolates, lots of chocolates. & go to Belgium to look got more, much more chocolate. I don't want some cocoa mass!! or milk chocolate. I want real true blue. dark chocolate
bittersweet. The real McCoy (not exactly the best Pl to put this word, I know). I'd hoard them.
I wanna visit Berlin Wall.
Buy Swarovski crystals studded -stationery.

I wanna learn Latin, Ancient Greek!

So many Pl, so little time, even lesser resources. [nice word] ;)

Argh.

My dream:
Roam the world at will.

I know I should really be a nomad