Saturday, March 05, 2011
MIMU
I broke my last relationship cos it ran dry. But surely eleven years must have opened the floodgates of eternity. Alas I was wrong. I loved deeply, but it digressed into mere takings. There was little that remained truly, and I am devastated to know it could not go on. To make it worse, I was positioned as the hammer that drove the final nail in. That is not true. But who, would believe me now?
It also doesn't help that my work piled because of a simple case of miscommunication. Miscommunication. Such a long word, such a simple meaning, such a difficult understanding, such a gentle reminder, and such an awkward generic descriptor.
While the stranger that showed me the way back, somehow, I'm drawn to the invisible agenda, but more critically, I was duped into believing it will work. That somehow, I would be able to walk through the door of happiness just like that. I ended up just waiting, and waiting, and waiting.
It's been a long, long week plus, and I wonder why I did not stay put where I was. Thinking back, I suppose the Heavens gave me the best time of my life in a short 8 days. 3 of which was the only time I could ever imagine myself smiling silly, and the final day a tearful one. Yes, I'll keep imagining a reply. Yes I will. Yes, I know it wouldn't come. Yes, it will not.
By now I should be inspired enough to write a new album altogether. By now. Yeah. But by now, all I need is a kind reply to tell me it's over, that perhaps all these were but a poor joke meant to reveal my short time on earth.
I'm really maxed out like many times before. Somehow, this time it felt different. Somehow, it didn't seem like this is anymore exciting. It's painful, hurting, and making me sick.
MIMU for the 9th day. How many more days should I wait?
Monday, February 21, 2011
KOR TOAD KUP
The worst part is, it's so easy to fall in love, but so hard to love. And I'm really sorry for myself. Doesn't matter that I may have a heart of gold, or whatever else others say, nobody wants it for real. Perhaps everything came too late. Or perhaps I'm not content.
I can keep trying, but that's as far as I would go. That's it. Nobody will wait. And today, I'm sorry. I got lost but found a friend =)
Saturday, February 19, 2011
HEADED
Ir wanted so badly to get a massage, and well, given the situation, she can't. Ended up, now I'm sitting in this up market foot massage place trying to act as cool as I can... But the pain and tickle is shit. I hate this!!!! And the masseurs are still joking and having fun.... But I'm still trying to act cool,"$):/569$(2/($&?,,!!8:;)$,/;!&@ Ir i is so hate you!!!!!!!!!
The villa is nice! I so wish to put up some pictures but well connectivity is really awkward here. Should have signed for the plans. Anyhow, will post some when I can.
It's quite picturesque. Very to be honest. Never seen a place this beautiful in my life, maybe only in pictures. Quite unbelievable and I've got Ir to thank this time... Wish I'm good company enough.
Lol. This really cute Japanese teenage boy just finished his foot massage beside me! He's got no reactions at all OMG!!! @,,(:6kfxjks&,67oyd&?;€€?.\%+
A lot ran through my mind since I got here, and it doesn't help that I'm also here to work. The guys working here are extremely nice, but the efficiency leaves a lot of room for doubt. I can see the efforts, but somehow we aren't reaching our destination. I hope things turn out well on Monday.
Ok. Low batt, be right back once I get back to the villa. - 11.20PM
5AM already, and I'm just about to retire. Back in villa and brain's getting weak. Will blog more tomorrow.
Goodnight!
Friday, February 18, 2011
ONE THOUSAND
Today in Bangkok. Off to Phuket tomorrow. Noon flight, got to sleep soon =)
Monday, February 07, 2011
MAYBE iT WAS SO
What probably disturbed me more is how volatile human relationships are. No matter how hard we try, there's that hundredth to one chance it just craps out.
Perhaps my own doings are my own demise. What we do wrong will eventually have to be paid back. That's the way things be. And had been. Has been. Will always be.
Today is the sixth day that it rained on my party. And that's the longest stretch ever. It's time to rise above. And watch the clouds.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
TAKiNG TiME
The year started somewhat great, with loads of projects lined up that could certainly feed us for a while. Then I realised how pitiful it got just trying to manage the workload. Either way, it slowed down due to some postponements, and gradually just faded down.
Issues with the relationship surfaced yet again. While some says I simply don't understand, there are some sympathies for my predicament still. Honestly, it's probably not because I don't understand, but it's more like the bystanders don't really know the back stories enough to make a serious judgement about the case.
Anyway, it came to a final boiling point where personal emotions got in the way of official work, and that irked me big time. I'm okay with tantrums, but I'm just not okay when it's spent in front of clients or co-workers. It's unsightly, disgusting, and definitely not the best opportunity to air dirty linen. To make matters worse, it made the clients uncomfortable, something I would never want to over emphasise as grossly inappropriate.
But well, it still happened. And I exploded afterwards.
The difference this time is, I did not stop to control the outburst. I decided to just let it all come out. Those instances where you've put up with something for so long, and you can't hold it in any longer. Yeah, this time I have every right to explode. And why not? If someone else thinks they have a right to do what they did, why not I the right to react my way?
Think about it. It's truly straightforward. Someone can do something they think it's right, why can't I then? It's not about wrongs or rights, but it's come to a point of somebody wants to do something, and so do I.
So yes, that's the end of the episode for now. What else can there be?
These few days has bad news or happenings piling in and knocking on my already very volatile state of mind. And it doesn't help that my birthday tomorrow is gonna suck big time. What's worse, I dropped the keys into the lift shaft earlier on cos I was too tired and losing focus, buttered my fingers there even though I wasn't carrying much in my hands. Oh, I haven't gotten new clothes, so that's the other bummer. The biggest whammy: my bed broke a few days ago, and I rushed to get a new one only to have them deliver soonest with me fixing it up myself - and now the bed is in, it's a little too huge for the room.
I'm so heavily distracted by the needless relationship bugs that I think I've become so numb and shut out. Damn the believers who thought love was forever. Literally. 11 years of pain, I'm done.
So the ultimate question, why ain't I happy? Because I was not treasured as who I am.
This CNY will suck big time. I'm just gonna hide at home and pray no one disturbs me in my room. It be best I get my own space soon, before the nagging pours in big time just for that.
Saturday, January 01, 2011
2011 FiRST
A picture to commemorate 2010 I guess!
Friday, December 31, 2010
2010 FiNALE
Happy 2011 anyway.
Last night I witnessed loads of cheer and happiness for a change. The managers and bartenders were having their last final farewell for 2010, celebrated with a slew of drinks and coffee-shop talk. I just sat there watching them. And I actually felt happy! LOL. I'm a sad creature.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
RiGHT ABOUT
Monday, December 27, 2010
MERRY CHRiSTMAS
Thursday, December 16, 2010
i SEEK CLOSURE
Let's recap:
Jan: Managed to put 3 other very dear individuals together to form the current team at work. Projects that spilled over from last year came through as the first projects under the new management. Steering the projects through with only one other working partner then. Things were just beginning to take shape.
Feb: Spent the Lunar New Year needlessly finding out waves of bad news within the extended family. But hey, who's to complain? This is probably the last New Year festival that I was actually looking forward to, since we got together to throw pineapples for good luck. We obviously did something wrong - something doesn't feel right.
March: I can't remember a single thing about March, except work and worries. Lining yup projects were difficult, and the economic downturn certainly didn't help. Nothing great about the month honestly.
April: Much like March, except that we totally missed out celebrating her birthday, a reminder that came just 2 days ago. So sore was she that I could not mend the damage at all. Here's the worst part: she got angry, I had to continue balancing work and holding the management together. The other working partner finally broke away from his previous job completely and joined in full time. Nothing in full swing though, since everything seemed to be in limbo. We also got a contract to teach. Projects stopped coming in, and the teaching/supervising project became the only bread winner.
May: Another partner joined, started putting a workflow together and pulling resources in proper. Nothing to report except that a storm was brewing that broke out the following month. All I could remember was: working through Labour Day.
June: Fights began breaking out, both at work and home. At work, getting used to my style became the buzzword, and fingers pointed fast and furious at the flaws. Nobody's fault, major mis-communications only that resulted in an almost complete meltdown of the managing team. Worst off, a family member closed shop, sank deep into debt, and I lent money that would probably not ever be returned.
July: More fights broke out - sporadic skirmish. Load of it. Morale was spiraling downwards, and recovering became a longer road. Projects dwindled in and just barely putting bread on the table. Situation at home hardly changed.
August: The Nation's birthday month, the company's dire month, the family's blank month. All the fighting was somewhat put to rest at work, and we were all trying to move on. Notable event: NDP sucked. I stayed home and watched, thoroughly disappointed. The Youth Olympics plucked no chords with us, except getting one related event project to work on. And yes, this project somewhat saved our sorry asses.
September: forth partner finally reunited. Hard battle to appease everyone, especially when individuals were under stressful conditions to perform, and put things together. Warped situations were hammered rudely into form, while personal agendas were being moved aside. Memorable moments: none. Work started pouring in for October through to December.
October: Total meltdown. Great way to start from scratch. Moods improved in all aspects, except my own. I was covering massive amounts of work, and frequencies started to knob towards the frantic end. Yes, it was all beginning to become clear we were all a joke. But to make it otherwise, extra efforts countered, but were simply insufficient to balance the backlogs. Best part, home was still - everyone was watching with anticipation to see if anything improved. Nothing did. I ran off to Australia in search of a shelter to fend off criticisms and everything else that had gone bad. 3 days later, I returned, fresh back into the melee.
November: Beyond-repair situation. I was maxed out, health dwindled. Too many projects to clear, working extended hours like never before. Company on the whole spelled trouble with failure to meet datelines. Panic pangs hit the air everyday. It was almost as if apocalypse arrived. Thankfully, some things panned out. We were saved somewhat. Then, her mom was diagnosed with cancer, and she's spreading herself so thin that I could no longer help with the cause.
December: Exactly. Here we are, work on a good track, life in dire. What a situation to be in. Health on the declined so rapid I could've just woken up not waking up at all already. I seek desperately a way to rectify the current situation again. Believe me, stepping in my shoes is as good as stepping on a land-mine. She's throwing amazing mood swings, and is hysterical about what lies ahead when there isn't much to prove the situation to be worse than it is at the moment. I've gotten into so many fights till I'm hanging half-dead. Murmurs are back, and my cough wouldn't go away. I'm beginning to suspect something much more serious than I know off. I'm so desperate for sleep, and some love. All I'm getting is a cartload of bull.
Dear friends and the beloved departed, help me.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
WHAT HAPPENS
Terrible times in good times.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
REJECTiON
I will change that later.
Friday, November 26, 2010
UNDER THE MOONLiGHT
Friday, November 19, 2010
HANG
Friday, November 12, 2010
NOVEMBER
i can't remember when i crossed over to november. but i did nonetheless. i had plenty to write, but after a really long exchange with a friend, fingers a little tired, head a little wheezy.
enjoy november folks. i know mine is thrashed. argh.
Sunday, November 07, 2010
THE BURDEN OF PROOF
And today, it hit home again that I'm just indeed someone cut-off from all the good stuff. I appreciate the many things that I have, but the need to sustain their existence comes with many sacrifices that eventually takes some of them away. I can't even remember my last free weekend for goodness sake. I don't even remember when I actually laughed for real.
It's that hard. People change, things change, and change is the only constant. But I held steadfast to my will believing it can stay the way it is. Or at least myself. Then I found myself asking, have I changed? Yes, I have, in order to improve the unchanged that I believed to be causing me hurt. But nothing else changed.
Did change stop because I changed? Or did change changed, before I could catch up? Or could it be plain I didn't change, at all?
I fought hard for the fine little things in life, of which, honestly, I've achieve 3 frivolous things. Beyond that, there was really nothing else that shows I'm even anywhere near the fine things. I don't think this is whining anymore. I think this has become a de-sensitised assessment of my current predicament.
I wish I hard just left the country when I had the chance. Seriously. Being here stuck in a limbo for the last 10 years were truly the worst experience of my life. I can't imagine the difference in living, away from all these obligations that have finally now being taken for granted.
My decision to re-construct the company was a total mistake. I now do 3 portions more of what I used to do, and my paycheck continued to shrink because it's a brand new system in place. Utter failure.
Then, the decision to continue serenading the select few individuals in my life that I hold so dear, turned out to be the thrashing point. They cling on harder, to the point I'm about every part of everything. There is no freedom at all. I'm so stifled. Utter failure.
Just before that, I thought believing in people was my only salvation to be recognised. I believed so hard that trust and beliefs would give me a life. But it hit so fast and hard that I finally saw the true nature of being human, that there was never anyone to completely trust except for those who do, in me. I was so wasted, taken for a ride, used and repeated, and it came crushing down to teach me that one fine lesson of utter failure.
I really should have insisted on following my dreams of becoming learned in music, even if my folks had to sell the house back then. Look where I am now? Utter failure.
But no, I insisted that they needed not do that. Cos my sis was in University already, and my brother was aiming for his degree at the same time. I told my folks that I will be okay, that I had no flair whatsoever with books, numbers, theories, and the alphabets. I gladly offered my youth to take over the sinking business, and was harshly told not to butt in. The business fell apart eventually, and left whoever was left in a real fix. Not that I could have done better, but starting from young would have been their winning formula of subsistence. And swiftly, my folks told me to stay out of all Arts, and just try getting into University. My besties went through while I cried secretly at night. I visited them often at the campus, pretending sometimes that I was a freshman just to pretend I was getting a degree too. In the end. I'm still here. Utter failure.
Let me just perhaps lament for the last time that my mis-education was a misfortune, the greatest loss, and my worst experience. Yes, had I insisted to go study music when everyone at home said it wouldn't make money, but for fuck's sake, I could sell a piece for 25 thousand that my ex-partners eventually ripped off of me, I could be selling more at better rates now, be somebody, be somebody. Be somebody. Not like now. Struggling to feed. Yes, I should have insisted, instead of making myself feel better by thinking I was not cut out for it.
I asked the heavens when I got home: why? The burden of proof for me to find my destiny seems impossible.
I want many things to. But hell, I'm so sad now that I just don't want to be disturbed. I don't want to be pretending that I'm alright. Because I'm really not. And people don't understand, thinking I'm just some grouchy fool. I can't even regret when there was nothing for me to regret. I should have insisted on leaving, and left. And I did not, not because I stayed, but I was forced to stay. Why must it be so hard.
So today, I got home at 7am on a Sunday morning, doing work that others could not handle, not able to get out of it cos somebody's got to do it, and so I did it, the only next qualified person to do it. No money to hire someone who could. So I did it. And yet people lost their tempers when I did it. Why? Cos they feel I did what they should do when they cannot do it. They didn't do it eventually, cos I did it. I did it yet I got blamed for it.
I'm so burned out. So tired to the point I don't even know if I'm awake or just sleeping. I took a power nap just yesterday in-between the work cos I was so tired, and I dreamt so much that I jumped out of my nap suddenly cos everything in my head felt so real. And last night, I thought I was fiddling with the computer, only to find myself already fast asleep on it.
Geez. I just yawned. I think I must be sleepy. I don't know. After all, utter failure as the burden of proof falls apart.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
RESOL
I so love love love
I so bored till I could make a wish above
That all things sickening be buried in earth
Thursday, October 21, 2010
MORAL GROUNDS
The peanut butter spilled, attracted tons of ants, and I'm rushing for work. That's how it feels like. Not helpless, just resigned. Standing between what could go awry and the freedom of expression, the moral grounds certainly has nothing in the middle. Either it hits, or misses.
I'm glad I'm actually home. Perhaps dealing head-on, face-to-face isn't my thing anymore. To make it easy, getting tired is the surest way to be undisturbed, and left alone. I like that. I missed that in fact. For a good while now I have to pay attention to someone else's needs. And it seems I cannot claim don't-knows.
Did I ever mention I got a B+ for my law test back in school? Yeah, and I was late apparently for a good 45 minutes. What does it show? Someone remembers and comes haunting! LOL.
Off the top of my head, it's really nice to be back home blogging. Really relaxing, cos I really love me-time =)
Saturday, September 18, 2010
DO WE?
It's so natural... everything that goes right has no share, everything that goes wrong has someone to blame. Greatest law of nature: Goodness is taken, Blame oft orphaned.
Friday, September 10, 2010
PART iE
Disappointing.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
PRiZE
Then I kind of looked at myself - have I tried enough? Strangely, I started wondering what it's like to win a prize. But more importantly, what does it take to win a prize.
Mediocre and untrained. That's pretty much about me. My craft is basic, and my hearing is going. What will it take for me to win a prize? And, will I ever win one? What will I say when I get one if I ever? When will that be?
I've been to some nice glitzy prize ceremonies, and honestly, looking at some predecessors receiving awards when they're old and grey doesn't feel too good. A lifetime of work, and only a moment of glory too late into their years. Once, an ex-instructor of mine who was teaching a bunch of us ad-hoc in our school band previously, received an award after getting off his wheel chair, in his ripe age of 80. It was late, but it never was too late to some. Thing is, would it be worthwhile getting one by then?
Let's focus on one thing: do I qualify. I dare say, not this life. The truth has moved on, but I guess it can't be helped to keep wishing. And point is, if wishes come true, and dreams are realised, then wishes and dreams don't exist. If they do, they are what they are.
What's with being poignant about it? It's all about keeping yourself alive, and surviving life itself. Goodnight cyberspacemen.
SLOW
Aah... patience... such a simple word, such a hefty task...
I'm still trying to grasp what I should be doing next. It does seem to point out that I've got options actually, I'm just not weighing them out at this juncture. Lazy maybe, but more like trying not to rush into things. Whatever's the case, I think I'll keep it cool too. Patience..
Monday, August 30, 2010
GETTiNG BACK
We were kind of on the roads a lot, given one place to the next is quite a distance, despite being between thirty to an hour's drive at about 100. It's nice to have the windows down and the breeze going strong in the face, blowing the skin backwards and circling round the head. Sneezing, of course, would be a bad idea.
There was this little violinist boy at the market when we were. Didn't take any pictures cos it wasn't exactly picturesque. But to be up that early in the morning was really quite something. He wasn't the best player I've heard, but least he could manage a decent tune. Something I would consider precious in my lifetime if it did come close to being special for a street basker.
Right down to being physically somewhere else, I think for once I brought my brains along and letting it chill out together. I'm not recharged to be honest, but the calmness did my some good when so many things were fired up on the wrong end for the last couple of years. But like I told Jean, her destination was one I didn't regret. Not the slightest, not a hint.
Oh well, perhaps I should travel more, and see what else comes.
Friday, August 27, 2010
FLY AWAY
Destination was, to be honest, really fantastic, even though it wasn't anywhere that people around me would go wow. Still, paying Jean a visit proved... organically a fabulous retreat.
King's Park Memorial
Some pictures to add a touch of colors to the blog finally!
Beauty
Jean's front door!
Ciao Italia
Home sweet home
And lavender grows in this town!
Nice~
Candid shot
Candid shot
Some harbor place...
Driven! LOL
Candid shot againz...
My perfect sky
Fish + chips place
Love the sunset
And that about rounds up some of the better shots using my phone's cam. Strangely, I was supposed to feel recharged... hasn't really sunk in yet.
It's hard to manage a few things at the same time right now, especially when I'm talking to colleagues about work and trying to resize the pictures here. Plus this really strange kid talking to me over MSN when I don't even know who that is. I'll write more tomorrow.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
FLY
It's been an easy evening so far. I'm kind of waiting for the computer to update to watch the show. It's taking a bit, and I can't wait! Spent a good few months editing it whenever I have the time, and now that it's done, it will be awesome to see it for myself in full!
So far, things have slowed down a fair bit. Perhaps making next weekend's trip would be great to keep the peace for a little longer. Jean thought I was flying 2 days ago, and was screaming at the other end when she found out she got the wrong dates. Good too that she called, like she said, might have ended up at the airport with nobody to pick up. LOL.
Geez. The updates are really crawling.
I realised I've not been posting pictures here for a long time. Maybe I should do that when inspirations hit or something. Good evening cyberspacemen!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
FiNALES
Sunday, August 08, 2010
PLAY A GAME
Okay, maybe somewhat, but it just makes the situation worse by pissing everyone else off. LOL. That much I'm sure cos I'm pissed.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
WHY THE RAiN iSN'T
Honestly, I didn't want to blog about the rain today, nor colors, nor the rainbows. I just need someone to listen to me. And blog... you seem to do that just fine. You listen patiently, and your never once did say anything that hurt me. You certainly won't go away whenever you felt like.
I've been having it hard at work. That the workload is already heavy, the people made it most unpleasant, tense, and very demoralising. I wanted to be good at what I do, but with no formal education, it's a really uphill task. I wanted to improve, to learn, but people had shut me out many times. So I learnt on my own, used my own hands, my own ears, and that got me to the best I can be, but is still far from what the younger peers with a great education, have achieved.
I've tried my best. That much I can vouch. You cannot imagine how many times I've secretly wet my pillows, or when I stare blank into the distance, given up all hope, given up all courage and determination. But each time I come back stronger, I get beaten even harder.
Why isn't there ever a fair punch pulled? I see how easily some people get to where they want to, yet I struggle like a battering ram against walls after walls. It almost feels like there is no cause. There's just more pain waiting.
It also hurts more when the very people I trust that gave me the encouragement, are also the ones beating me down.
I ran away from work today, cos it felt just like that same time 5 years ago, that I was no longer welcomed, no longer needed. Am I not good enough? Or am I simply in the wrong place? I regret carrying on. I regret. Very much. I should have stayed on my own, die a horrid death, and return to the workforce. That's about it. I regret. I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed that for the last 2 days, I wake to insults from mom. I'm used to it, it used to hurt. Now it just disappoints. That I am nothing but a ball to kick.
Why do I even want to do this, seriously? I should perhaps just stop. Quit. I thought about going automatic, robotic. Go through the motion, get through life as is. Really, what are all these for.
I don't like it here anymore. Blog, you seem like my last friend who understands. And that makes me very pathetic.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
WAH LAU EH
Thursday, June 17, 2010
5TH 2
I slugged to work today amidst the light drizzle, froze my ass off in the office, thinking about too many things to be of comfort. Was certain that at some point in time, it'll end up as with the befores - the looking forward dissipates into wishful thinkings, then re-engaging in routines that would certainly bored the ends off me.
What with a fistful of eagerness to accomplish my own findings eventually ends up always, as a comedic take on fantasies and childish thoughts.
Not too sure why, but tonight I suddenly played Lavender. It was nostalgic considering the circumstances it was recording in. And of all things, I found myself awed by the ability to form correct lyrical musings and really pull it off as some serious discussion topic in musical form. Other than that, what appears to be massive efforts, is really just passionate tries.
Oh, did I mention the Mac glasses are back?! We've been lunching out, upsized, and I'm getting new glasses and running out of places to put them in the office. I got to find a way to put them to good use. Nice glasses to drink from if I might add, just a little too brittle when it breaks, and they break real easy. Bummer.
As usual, mum's dumplings got rave reviews like always. Good thing that if she ever had an off day on her cooking, it usually happens in-house, and not when they are done for gourmet-mad individuals. But well, they are good, and that's all that matters.
I'm getting out of hand on myself. Help? Got milk?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
5TH
"My mum was complaining about how 6th aunt scored $20K at the lottery after my 5th aunt apparently visited her (6th aunt) in her dreams. Mum was lamenting about how 5th aunt could have blessed her younger sister and not her, and she went on for a while more, with the conversation ending in a pretty light mood. I mean, mum wasn't angry or anything and she just said all that in jest, but it was her missing for 5th aunt that came out blaring.
I went back into my room after packing up the hall a little I think, and there laid my 5th aunt in a bodhisatta posture on my folded sofa bed. She rang out with a bright smile on her face, loud and sweet as she had always been, "Play your music!" I was pleasantly surprised at her presence, and made no attempts to argue.
I remember resting the stuff I was carrying into the room down, then popping in a CD into the hi-fi system. The song 'Misty' came on, something I wrote many years back. As the music played on, she sang along and said again, "Play your songs!" I smiled, and started digging for more CDs. The day went on with hardly any chatter, just plain enjoying the music, the quiet, the breezy sunny afternoon, and the peace that she somehow brought with her.
The night passed quickly, and the quilt had me covered from head to toe from a really deep sleep. The sun was up and I knew it, but refused to acknowledge the brightening day. Snoozing, like they say. And as I laid with sheets over my face to block out the light, I heard a sudden scurrying of feet that circled round me once, and stopped for a really long moment. Next thing I knew, somebody lifted the sheets off my face in a snap that woke me up in a slight discomfort. What greeted me was the sweetest face, smiling and beaming in awesome delight. There was no indication whatsoever of a wake-up call, just seemingly a gentle reminder to rise already.
[What happened next can only be explained in person.]
Still, the little boy soon ran out the room, leaving me to wake up in a slight stupor of sorts, but getting up to a brand new day. I tried looking around the house for the little chap, but he seemed to have just disappeared into thin air. And that was when I opened my eyes to a bright sunny day, as if all that was a mash of time."
I called mum afterwards, thinking how she might have missed 5th aunt cos she was out the house early. It was as if my late 5th aunt had come to visit, and she could not find mum. So while I slept, she needed someone to tell my mum that she's alright and doing fine. That's all.
The feeling of serenity and familiarity was not scary, or anything like that. But the very ache of losing her to cancer could have taken quite a toil on me personally for a while.
I remember rushing to JB a couple times cos she was in pretty bad shape, 'critical condition' like my 6th aunt mentioned. The frailty of the situation, circumstance, and 5th aunt herself was a sight that no one could comprehend in full. Once, when she needed blood, I did not hesitate to sign on a transfusion donation towards the blood bank, so that she could use the emergency blood first, while we replenished the stock in the bank. The shortage was blaring, and needless to say, any arrangements is a good one.
And despite my extreme fear for needles, I went, convincing my brother to do so too, as 2 packs were needed, and I could only contribute one.
Alas, no blood saved her.
The day she passed on was a strange day. I can't quite recall, but I wanted her to gain respect of her new status, and move on, and not to look back at the young children that she left had absolutely not willingly left behind. The exact moment of her death was also not witnessed by anyone, something all of us could not live with for quite a while.
I wish she's in heaven now, looking over all of us like a shining star.
Her great fancy over spicy savors will never be forgotten, as with how she would nap at grandma's feet in the afternoons, making it difficult for grandma to get up from her easy chair. Did I also mention how funny she can be?
The little one, is no mystery. I know it's a vision, and a vision that will happen at some point in time. My baffles are, who is he, and what do we have to do with each other. I've been pondering about it for the entire day, but all clues stop short of announcing what it really all means.
It's been a while since I've had visions. This one will lead to something very massive. If the visions re-engages tonight, I might not be too keen to find out in real life. Perhaps for me, sometimes keeping things dreaming and alive, is better than being come alive, and passing by.
The affinity and emotional values at this point in time is overwhelming. I've been overworking and over-clocking my hours - I hope none of these are contributing to the sights, even though the pleasantness was real enough to make my heart wrench and ache in absolute kindness and love. The aptness of this post would have been just a very gentle passing comment to remember what ticked 'back then', and had lead to something, for the better or for the worse.
I've been yawning. Goodnight cyberspace.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
THE GREATER
It's been so long since I've actually came home early enough to do anything constructive, only to find myself smacked seated watching youtube and chatting with someone online. Then, it's already 3:30am in the morning... tired, not showered, sleepy, and very looking towards nothing.
Oh well... if only life is really just having a bud and watching the game.
I want to write music again.
Monday, May 17, 2010
YESTERDAY
So there. I've thrown in the towel, yet many things continue to creep up and seemingly breathes hope that just doesn't make anything better. It made me continue to believe, yet strangely, nothing is moving towards the final drive. If I was driving, the car must have crashed at just about every turn, even brushing with sparks on a straight road beside another.
How can I move on when there is really nothing left to believe in?
I used to say, that when you've nothing, everything else is to gain. True that. So do I really need to lose myself even, just to make it worthy and capable? Because, that's what is really getting close to being. Losing myself.
I've got some neat pictures that I've been wanting to upload. So here's one, that I really thought made sense.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
KEEP
I've come to accept all that's left behind, and it's a pity that attempts can be juiced out into tangible forms of results and scores, as compared to a translation of energies. The more I try, the harder it breaks.
Kenny, if you're reading this, honestly, go for it man.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
WHAT THEY SAY
I've recently been pricking my conscience over who I really am, where I am headed for, but incredibly, how to spin a truthful tale. It's humbling how people point out my mistakes in the hope that I improve, but more importantly, humbling even more because I've exhausted all my knowledge in dealing with things, and beginning to learn a whole lot more with help, rather than just plain sailing into the unknown, thinking everything that has come to pass, will repeat, materialise, and eventually take root, seeding the future paces rather than impeding them.
But well, we all learn. I would gladly be anywhere, doing anything, than here pondering about, nothing.
Monday, April 26, 2010
MiSNOMER
Time seems to be flowing so fast. I don't even recall accurately how old I am, how long it's been, and why I'm still here, lamenting, suffering and wallowing in denial about the state of things. Perhaps there is a reason for all this, and it's only ready to show itself when I least expect it. Yeah, then it'll look like a total pleasant surprise when nothing else really worked, cutting through the depression like a hot knife through frozen cheese.
I terribly need to re-strategise living. Somehow, things are working, but not working fast enough. The longer the hours that I toil, the more unworthy the situation becomes. The harder I work, the tougher it gets to comprehend.
I used to update on happenings. But there's so little that has happened, I don't even know what else to update besides complaints against whatever's about broke.
Oh, one hard-disk failure at the office last week, cost a bomb to get back all the data, and guess what, the pinch hurt deeper than a break-up. Why are things failing?! Where is that light at the end of the beautiful tunnel?!
Gonna hit the showers. See if anything else comes up when I get back. Boo.
Nope. Nothing new. Good night cyberspace!
Monday, April 05, 2010
UNCRASH
Anyway, after sending Kev home, we passed by 2 accidents along the expressway. I literally screeched to a stop and jumped right out the car when I saw the first scene: 3 people were trying to get a person out of the wreckage. I kinda ran towards them, and thank goodness, nobody was hurt. Shocked perhaps, but that's about at that point.
The second one was even more horrendous. A cab driver smashed right into the barriers, and probably spun a couple times before stopping. He was okay too, in shock and disbelief. An ambulance came for him but that's about. There was really nothing more we could do. You should have seen both accidents: the road barriers were up-rooted for quite a distance, and both accidents were barely a 100 meters apart.
It left a deep impression really. That life is so precious and fragile at the same time, it doesn't make sense to be toiling or to be hating. It's not the first time I stopped to help where I can whenever I spot an accident, but fact is, the reminders smack right into my face in times like these.
That got me thinking why people continue to squeeze themselves so hard. The last trip Jean made back to Singapore, she left me one good word: resilience. And I thought this is what I needed. A collective word to gather what really needs to be done, and put in their places. Now that I've got this word, I'll be sticking by it for a while.
Too many stupid issues, dependencies, and drama already, and I'm just about had it up there.
Didn't help that my band mate pulled out of a charity gig, because "directions were different" and he's "over-pampered by our fans". Truth is, we never had any fans, but only friends. I never treated them as fans. Cos they aren't. Heck, I wouldn't have people who actually appreciate what I write or sing or play, except for friends like them. What fans?!
Then the bombshell dropped. I don't relish the gift of friendship when people just don't value it. I get pointed the finger one final time because somebody couldn't claim responsibility for his stupid actions. If you read wrong, forgot, or screwed up, admit it, life moves on. Instead, he pointed the finger at me, and said I insisted on the course of action. That is not something I am pleased with.
So there. Resilience. Since people are so prone to self-defensive defiance, I'll let them be. Sure, go get your own fans. Go get your own shields.
I ain't got no fans, ain't got no shields. I'll admit when I did bad. But I'm happy. The very least, I'm honest enough to admit I'm crap.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
PERHAPS HOME
It's tiring to keep up, and the robust facade is slowly cracking up.
My pity is so plush, that I'm beginning to feel rich welling in sadness.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
HADN'T
But after all, this is real life.
I'm very burdened by the constant on-the-moves, and its wearing me out too much to have any more effect. I spoke to unmoving people, and gradually just grew too tired to go on talking. Thankfully, of course, there are spurts of stupidity that cracks up the scenario like some unplanned choreography. Sweet, in the bitterness.
Whatever that has happened so far, I've come to learn some important lessons, that although I know I did, I just cannot remember at the moment.
Anyway, I'm just too tired to do anything else. Gonna retire for now. More tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
GREEN
Been missing a lot of blogs lately. Been busy definitely and way blown-off my line of thoughts on too many occasions to even begin with. Good thing is that the situation has locked down somewhat, but the paranoia sets in just because it feels weird to be having free time.
For the last 2 months, I'm either still at work at this hour, or fast asleep because I was too sick to keep myself up. As for tonight, I don't know. Seems like an easy night to just... you know... blog.
Finally got done with the show. Exhausted from like a hundred rehearsals and over the show itself, massive responses from the people who showed up, complete with fan cue cards that read "Nightsound we love you" and "Forever we remember you!" LOL. Those were the highlights, awfully cute and heartening.
Then that's it. The end. All done and packed to go back to where we all came from. I would have loved to just keep hitting the roads with the band, keep making music, keep enjoying music, keep listening to other music, keep exploring music, keep loving music. Perhaps, not this lifetime. Maybe some day we be back in the limelight.
Listening to Alicia's New York, made me wonder if I could be traveling somewhere too. Go places, see places, enjoy, find some inspirations somewhere. Then a friend in Taiwan wrote, said the weather's been freaky cold. All I ever got here was the sun. Hot, humid weather that gets an occasional dose of showers. And here I am admiring the cold in Taiwan. I still remember this old Japanese couple who came over to Singapore to do some research with premium access to the Studio Gibli Museum. I want to go there to. See Totoro and maybe catch the Cat-bus.
I can't believe I've stayed here all these while for all the wrong reasons. It's stifling but I can't seem to find a good reason enough to excuse myself from this place. For the folks, the family, for like everybody else except myself. I want to get somewhere. And I hope soon. I'm getting depressed just being here.
Laments laments. That's what you're here for bloggy! LOL.
Hmm... can I blame some people for a change? Can I blame my folks for letting everyone else do what they want, let them fail, then got me into a tight spot to achieve big cos everyone didn't live up to their expectations?
Can I blame my teacher for calling me a bad egg cos I didn't read that magazine my friend just threw over to me? And I felt like shit for many more years after that that I did no wrong, but felt like as if I did? And I kept feeling like I'll always screw up somehow?
Can I blame my friend who misplaced my best friend's note book, and my best friend thought I hid it so that he couldn't study for the test? And made him angry with me for days, before we found it under someone else's desk? That made me feel like I got shot in the war-zone by friendly fire?
Can I blame my colleague in the army who let go of his side of the load, and nearly cracked my spine? Had me in pain for years after, with no respite? No cure? Just a really bad ache and sprain that won't go over? That I could freeze in bed sometimes at night, and just go numb for hours?
Can I blame the people who made use of me to get what they want? Made me write music for their selfish reasons, went on their way thereafter and forgot about me? I ain't asking for credits, I want to keep working together?
Can I blame my ex-manager who never gave me a chance to stay in the company, just because the boss hired me and she didn't? That she got angry just because her authority was side-stepped by the boss? Her boss? And she wanted me out that bad that made me thought I was a bad worker? Unworthy for the company?
I would love to go see New York some day. But before that, Taiwan's night markets will be fun, and Japan's cityscape must be a sight to behold. Oh, perhaps Australia might have something's nice, like an old friend and her home? LOL. Heard plenty about Thailand, South Korea, Cambodia, and even Vietnam too, and where was I all these time?
Fucking life. Do I need to wait till I'm 50 years on, made a tidy sum of savings just to spend it all over the world in frail health and diminished mental state? I love looking at pictures, especially those of my younger friends who traveled tons. Almost seem like I was there, and that affinity gets closer cos I know them. Oh gosh. This life is pre-destined. And mine's really badly programmed with mediocre to rotten luck and opportunities. Imagine getting hired, and 4 months later told to take over the manager's position just cos the boss couldn't stand having a manager that sells more products than him?
Kudos to Soda Green for taking their step forward. Love the music.
And thanks Alicia, for keeping me coming tonight =)
Monday, February 08, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
HiNGE
So the show has a very big plus point now: everyone who's coming are genuinely coming. Woohoo~!
Friday, January 29, 2010
NEW
It's been a very very grueling month so far. With the incorporation of the company, I'm drowned in work and administration almost with no end. Good thing is, there is finally something to look forward to, since I can finally work in a team rather than go solo. So many things have happened, but nothing feels a light as it is right now. Perhaps I've grown a little older, learned a little more, and seen a little wider, heard a little deeper.
I'm trying to get Project X finished. Regis had tried his best to make the deadline past Friday, so I have till Monday morning instead to hand in my work. He's a sweet little guy, just quite blur and lost in his own world. Greenhorn maybe, but well, I'm not complaining as long as my things get done.
Exciting time come tonight - I'm finally gonna catch one of my favorite singers in a brand new showcase. Got the most expensive tickets at $168 a pop... burnt a really big hole in the pocket... just hope its all worth it.
As time wears on, I've also began to realize how much I've neglected some very precious people. Rest assured, I'm trying desperately to keep my temper in check and not just flare out over my own frustrations. It's quite simple to put things where they are once I figure out what they are in the first place, so I'm taking it with ease instead of haste right now.
Maybe they were right. Patience grow as you grow. Of course, that's subjected to the right kind of cultivation and not sowing seeds of pain for myself in the end.
Been on steroids and antibiotics for a few days already, after getting infected with a terrible unending cough from K. Recovering well, but I fear for next week's show - if I ain't got a voice, there ain't gonna be no singing. That be a major major bummer, considering it's gonna be a closing act of sorts. Keeping my fingers crossed on this one.
I'm beat. The steroid's making me floaty, but the cough syrup's making me drowsy. When two opposing sides collide, it just ends up as one big mash of blob - as like me right now. Anyway, gotta catch some winks. Later y'all cyberspace.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
RE-WORK
While I'm about to close the company's accounts, and setting up the 2010 one, and in the midst of finishing up production on Kenny's film, "3 Days Grace", I'm struggling to complete the ever elusive show details in February. Re-arranging songs over a span of 8 weeks isn't my strongest point yet. Granted, we are progressing somewhat in the likeness of decent, parts still feel flaky and out of control. I have to admit I'm excited as much as irritated by the amount of things to be done, and certainly, the show is something I'm plunging a lot of efforts into.
Then again, who really cares?
I'm leaving the hair long for now till I decide what to do with it next. And while that is growing, I'm getting tangled messes just about every other day with hair wax and spray, just to keep them in place. But the weather's been a little strong, and the winds are really not keeping them in check. Time is something I badly need, yet, I can't wait for time to pass.
Made many new friends at the shoot, and people are adding me here and there on FB. Strangely though, gaming on FB is seriously a big thing, and adding friends means getting more credits or power-ups! LOL. I Like!
Whatver...SLEEP TIME!