The smooth surface,
Almost mirror like,
Watching it unknowingly,
I entered its flow,
Unconsciously submerged by it,
Fighting to grasp the sky,
Before being pulled down again,
Following it’s flow,
Unable to turn back,
The road is set;
I shall head to sea,
Can you see the future?
It’s unpredictable
✿Oracl3✿
Got it on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year.. sigh, just my luck.. (Mahjong was bad enough??) I think with the weather being so darned hot in the day time and so darned cold in the night..
It was still okay, as it was on the beginning stages, on the 4th day I got a reading of 37.5, so upon coming home from work, after dinner, I just took those bitter stuff, and went to sleep...
It abated the next morning, so I thought okay.. I will go to work then.... I was sent out of the office by someone at work, which I think was a good thing, as I could go home a tad early to rest...
sigh.. desperately trying to finish my opinion.. still feels like it's lacking some stuff, but my brain is too muddled to think.. argghhhh... =.='
oh and that meng, gave me the link to one of my favourite parts in the movie Windstruck that he loaned me aoens ago.. when we were still in Taylor's and which I cried buckets over.. damn.. he made me feel like downloading and watching the whole movie again.. which... is what i'm doing... i downloaded the OST already haha.. only 2 more parts on the movie to go ahha...
To everyone who celebrates it.. (Though it doesn't really matter if you do or don't, just enjoy the festivities!! XD)
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Yes!! Rejoice for spring is here..... Well at least in China it is...... Short history to Chinese New Year?
If I'm not wrong, Chinese Astrologists used to calculate when spring would be coming every year, and we would celebrate, the coming of a new year, of a new harvest now that the harsh winter has passed....
However, Legend has it that, every certain number of days, this certain monster would come out... the monster was called 年 (nien, meaning year in Chinese) This monster would come every certain number of days and wreck havoc to the village for 15 days, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
So finally some wise old men... or so they say, they could have been young guys for all I know.. but apparently, this bunch of wise old men,or maybe an old man? Discovered that ,this Nien creature... Doesn't like the colour red, nor does it fancy loud sounds, and also it comes out every 300 or so days... (or at the beginning of spring??)
Hence before the predicted time, the old men/young guys/old man told the villagers to deck themselves and their houses in red and to release fireworks, for the period of 15 days... and lo and behold the Nien creature never returned... So every year they celebrate it as such........ THE END...
That's one of the stories.... I guess haha...
Okay, enough with that.. now it's the year of the Ox...... which.... I've no idea what the significance is.. Since it changes on a yearly basis.. but next year is the Tiger year, so hence the recession..... Why a recession every time it's the year of the Tiger.. Apparently because 虎, in Chinese is pronounced as "fu" which means bitter.. hence a bitter life.. Sigh......
Curious souls about the Chinese Astrology.... why do we have 12 animals and why is there no cat???
The story has it that.. one day Buddha invited all the animals for a celebration/banquet... or you may replace that with the Jade Emperor (A Heavenly being, Chinese has a lot of deities) invited all the animals to enter a race... (Am not very sure about the racing thing... But I do know about the Bhuddha celebration....Anyway...) For these events only 12 animals showed up... and they were (in sequence) the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.
Thus the years of the Chinese Zodiac, were named in accordance with which animal arrived at the banquet first/ finished the race first...
Sometimes we get people asking, why isn't there a cat? If there's the rat and dog, where's the cat?
Well story has it that.. The Rat and the Cat used to be the best of mates.. But somehow when the Banquet/Race invitations were sent out.. The rat being the smart little thing it was, realised that there was bound to be some prize involved or something.. So being the cunning little thing it was.. it told the Cat that the celebrations/race was a day after the actual date.. so the Cat naturally believing it's good friend, slept through the day in which the celebration/race was held, and therefore did not make it..
The Cat upon realising it was tricked, vowed vengeance upon the rat.. and thus till today.. Cats chase and kill mice....
Another thing about the story was.. the Rat being such a small creature, how could it reach the celerbation/finish the race first...?
Well, the Rat being the cunning little being it was... rode on the back of the Ox, and just as when the Ox was about to reach the finishing line. it jumped ahead of the Ox thus being the first creature...
So now we have it that, a person being born in the year of the rat will be cited as cunning and smart... as is the same with all the other animal years.. Apparently we take on some of the characteristics of the animal in which the year we were born in...
And there we have it.... Some...little stories on our Chinese New Year...
When it first started playing I was like hey.... I know the place.. so I restarted it to read the front part, to know the venue.. and I was like damn! I really miss the place... Sigh....
I used to stay at my cousin's at Liverpool St... So, yes, am very familiar with the Liverpool street station... XD
Damn I really miss London.. The transportation system there was way better than ours.. as in more connected.. minus the "Man under the train" every now and again.....
T-mobile did a really good advertisement.. I think it must have taken quite a bit of work.. since they can only practise between about 1-2am till about 5-6 am.. that's the only time the stations are closed...
I still remember having to pick my sister up at about 12 at night haha... it was really that safe, that I could just run out like that to catch a train/The Underground to go get her at Victoria station... I miss that sense of security.... (However, there are still crooks & drunks, so you still have to be careful....)
Don't ever ask me to do it here.. I might never come home alive..... =.='
Why haven't there been any updates as of late? Well one word, and one word only...
"Deadlines.."
Yes, all the working and studying people has this hanging over their heads, and I'm not exempted.. Though today I've managed to find some spare time... Hence this..
Little update as to what I've been up to, would be, well work... what else... but work's been involving a lot of research lately.. normal though...
My Australian colleague, John has finished his attachment, and we have 2 Korean girls now! They are quite cool, they can not only speak, English, but also Mandarin, Japanese and some Manglish! It's really fun talking to them, and I get to practise my Japanese with them too... A pair of nice girls :)
Besides that... My social life has been really active this month... going out almost every weekend.. *sobs as more money leaves the bank account...* So it's been tiring... cause my Mondays to Fridays are basically the usual, wake up-go to work-come home- do some work/watch something - sleep, while my weekends have been, wake up- do some work- organise outings- going out-come home- sleep....
I was actually kind of lazy to blog today, (more like dead tired...) but I just recently recieved this nice power point slide in the mail, with some nice quotes.. so am just going to reproduce them here.... and... ermm... go play with the blender before I hit the sack.....
Respect cannot be demanded, it must be earned. Respect is earned only by giving it away
A smart man learns from his mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others
Never walk on the travelled path, because it only leads you to where others have been -Graham Bell-
Always, there is a drop of madness in love, yet always, there is a drop of reason in madness -F Nietzshe-
Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for thsoe who lament, very short for those who celebrate, but for those who love, time is eternity -William Shakespeare-
Many people lose the small joys , in hope for the big happiness -Pearl S Buck-
A good plan for today, is better than a perfect plan for tomorrow -George S Patton-
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit -Bertrand Russel-
If a drop of water falls into a lake, it has no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus, it shines like a pearl. We need to choose the best place where we can shine.
When we reach for the stars, we might not quite get them, but we won't come up with a handful of mud either -Leo Burnett-
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do, is do the right thing. The worse thing you can do, is do nothing -Theodore Roosevelt-
Love me when I less deserve it, because it's then when I need it the most
If I could return to youth, I would commit all those errors again. But a bit earlier -Tallulah Bankhead-
Nothing can be taught to a man; but it's possible to help him to find the answer within himself -Galileo Galilei-
That's all for the time being.. I apologise for any typos, am too tired to check....
Yes, the year 2009 is here, and people all change with time, for better or for good.. even I've changed... but that's another story.... on to something else.. just wanted to get that off my chest...
ermm.. had a busy day.... today... sorry, make that yesterday since it's already 440am...
had badminton on friday night, came home at about 1 i think, showered and slept at about 2 something, had to wake up in the morning, around 930 for breakfast with mike.. woke up to her call, and had no peace getting ready, as james called me to ask about chambering stuff...
went to eat dim sum at DJ then came back around 1210? or earlier? put my laundry in to wash, Seoh came over, then at 1225 it was out again, for lunch along with xin yin and leong to celebrate a early birthday for leong.
came home.. around 4 something, tried to sleep... but what with the insistent text messages, i got so irritated, i finally turned the phone to silent and slept. Even the phone was feeling tired, seeing that I just charged it the night before, I actually had to charge it again.. that's how much messages I was getting??
woke up later to get ready to go out with michelle, for a super mini G1 gathering at sunway.
had trouble getting ready, as everyone seems to be hunting for me... still... =.=' I can't shower nor dress in peace!!! (-.-') and the fact that the clubbing plans for the night had trouble... it's either karaoke or clubbing.. which later at dinner it was settled to karaoke...
Went to Yuen's at Sunway, with nicole, siew kim and michelle... ate till about 9 something. .got home around 925, called gene, and he came round around 945 with leong and huey in tow...
and we went to karaoke where we were joined by yee jin, till 4, actually, we got kicked out.... and then we looked for the car, and got home now at 440...
so yeah.. what a day... my motto of moderation is gone... hence my consistent complaints.. I can't help it, when I go out, it's the whole day and non-stop.. why can't there be moderation in this??? but usually I don't complain when I've to stay home..... but still...
one thing about today.. really tiring.. but I found a new singing voice that I really like haha.. Gene has been dethroned.. but I don't think he cares anyway...
-Oracl3-
going to bed now... typed this in 10 minutes =.=' nights everyone..
Title: Minna, Shin nen ha omedeto: Everyone, congratulations on the new year (Direct translation?? o_O')
I really hope my title is gramatically correct.. Well even if it isn't... oh well.. *shrugs* Anyway, as the title says!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Hope everyone had a nice year end party, I sort of had one.. and well.. new year resolutions.... aahh.. sounds like something I make each year only to forget I ever made them.... I don't think I really make any resolutions any way.. .so that's that.... Maybe to try to get back to improving on my Japanese, finish translating the Ghost Hunt Manga, and well.. try to learn more at my new job..... be a better person?? Yeah, that's the reason why I don't exactly make new year resolutions.... We can make those kind of resolutions anytime we want :p
Anyway, here's to wishing that everyone had a wonderful 2008 and hoping for an even better 2009 for us... And some good luck in whatever you do!! cause we all need a little bit of luck in everything we do.. :)
Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.
