It's a 'black' day today.
Once I'm back home from school, I met a fine lady promoting to me about a facial treatment. I was quite interested in it as it's quite cheap. I just felt like giving it a try since I've never tried it before. But you know what?! After 2 hours, my face had some scars due to the poking (taking the blackheads off). Awww... I regret it. It's painful. The lady said that after a few days the scars will be gone. Hmm... Hopefully.
Haiz. And then I went to Sim Lim Square to search for my HP printer ink and a earpiece. As I was looking around in one shop, I accidentally dropped one of the displayed earpiece and it has a plastic covering. So the cover broke but the earpiece it's still usable. Then I have to buy it. In another shop, I found the earpiece that I dropped and it cost so much lesser.
I feel so cheated! All occured on the same day. I should have been good, go and meet Sihui and others for movie or go for an injection that I should take by this week straight after school.
God!!! Help me...
Monday, August 27
Sunday, August 26
Beginning of school life
Week 2 in school has ended.
Weeks ahead are really proper school time with tutorials commencing.
I have been busy printing notes and readings and buying textbooks.
Oh the TEXTBOOKS!
I only brought 3 books.
They cost S$109++. OH!!!
They cost a bomb and they weigh a ton!
And they will only last for 1 sem, which is 4 months!
Now, I have lots of readings to catch up with and I want to work hard for my grades.
I trust that God will teach me to study because the study method is really different from the past.
I trust that God will also be with me no matter where I am.
Weeks ahead are really proper school time with tutorials commencing.
I have been busy printing notes and readings and buying textbooks.
Oh the TEXTBOOKS!
I only brought 3 books.
They cost S$109++. OH!!!
They cost a bomb and they weigh a ton!
And they will only last for 1 sem, which is 4 months!
Now, I have lots of readings to catch up with and I want to work hard for my grades.
I trust that God will teach me to study because the study method is really different from the past.
I trust that God will also be with me no matter where I am.
Sunday, August 19
Joyful Friday
17th.Aug.07
Singapore Fireworks Festival
MOF (Ministry of Food) @ Marina Square
I was jumping with joy when Alvin asked me to watch fireworks at the floating platform.
It was really a fantastic experience.
Thank you, Mingwei for getting the tickets.
Thank you, Mingwei, Yanxing and Alvin for running over from Suntec to the platform.
I know it is really tiring. =)
Thank you, God for giving me friends who have brought so much joy to me!
@ MOF after fireworks
Fireworks!
Singapore Fireworks Festival
MOF (Ministry of Food) @ Marina Square
I was jumping with joy when Alvin asked me to watch fireworks at the floating platform.
It was really a fantastic experience.
Thank you, Mingwei for getting the tickets.
Thank you, Mingwei, Yanxing and Alvin for running over from Suntec to the platform.
I know it is really tiring. =)
Thank you, God for giving me friends who have brought so much joy to me!
@ MOF after fireworks
Fireworks!
Some are flying across the skies; some are blasting right up at my face; some are blomming far far away; some are hidden in the smoky sky (because of the pollution na); some are jumpping and flashing their way through the dark skies; some are just colourful remote control kites that they shoecase on national day...
Oh! So nice!
Boy With A Coin
This song featured on my blog is called 'Boy with A Coin' by Iron & Wine (Sam Beam).
It's a soft catchy song but it has a rather sad meaning.
Here's the lyrics:
A boy with a coin he found in the weeds
With bullets and pages of trade magazines
Close to a car that flipped on the turn
When God left the ground to circle the world
A girl with a bird she found in the snow
Then flew up her gown and that’s how she knows
If God made her eyes for crying at birth
Then left the ground to circle the earth
A boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans
Then making a wish he tossed in the sea
Walked to a town that all of us burn
When God left the ground to circle the world
I came across an explanation of this song by Manikay and I think his viewpoint is rather interesting.
Do read on!
to me, this song goes to show a lot of things.
firstly, the boy finding something valuable (a coin) at the site of a carcrash. the first thing that came to my mind was that he'd acquired something innocently at the expense of someone else, the people involved in the carcrash. it goes to show the frugal nature of living; something of worth at the expense of another.
it also brought to my mind how humans, as a collective, have desensitized, and can't be brought to feel the pain and suffering of others. the reference to bullets and trade magazines shows two heavy mainstays in our world; the bullets representing violence, and the trade magazines, commercialism and the dependence on/obsession with money.
i think "God left the ground to circle the world" is an expression on behalf of God, painting him in a human light, stating how he loses his faith in people when they become obsessed with their selfish needs and wants. the car flipping is a consequence of God no longer watching over the people due to their selfishness. the coin may also be symbolic of something that makes him forget all the violence and economic strife in the world.
the second verse presents a much harsher image, though it is put with eloquence and subtlety.
i think Hag has hit the hammer clean on it's head with the reference to the girl and the "bird" she found signifying rape, which is pretty much the most severe loss of innocence a girl can face.
in this stanza, the reference to the eyes being made for crying and God's absence is to show the girl's resentment to God, who she feels deserted him right when she was born, leaving her to suffer through the trials and tribulations of life with no one to look out for her.
the last stanza refers to the same boy who found the coin in the first verse, and shows a bitterness so profound that even that something precious he found in this life (the coin) is no longer the same valuable it was to him.
hence the rough treatment when sam says the coin was "crammed in his jeans". disappointed that nothing the boy wanted came of the coin, he threw it away into the sea at the cost of a wish. this is symbolic of him giving it up in a show of repentance, hoping that his giving up the coin will make the situation better.
i think the last couplet shows that the boy is ready to accept whatever is to come, hence his walking back to the town that all of "us" are burning, again symbolic of the fact that humans, as a collective, are laying the world to waste.
keeping in tune with the previous verses, the absence of God is again mentioned, the link again established that it is because of a lack of that something good (even though God is absent, his presence to me is shown in a benevolent light. that he is absent is how his lack of affection manifests itself) that people live their lives with reckless abandon.
the underlying theme of this song is ultimately the loss of innocence and the absence of Godliness, interwoven with a social commentary that deals with the two concepts intermittently.
Brilliantly done.
I'm addicted to this song, and i don't know when it'll be over.
It's a soft catchy song but it has a rather sad meaning.
Here's the lyrics:
A boy with a coin he found in the weeds
With bullets and pages of trade magazines
Close to a car that flipped on the turn
When God left the ground to circle the world
A girl with a bird she found in the snow
Then flew up her gown and that’s how she knows
If God made her eyes for crying at birth
Then left the ground to circle the earth
A boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans
Then making a wish he tossed in the sea
Walked to a town that all of us burn
When God left the ground to circle the world
I came across an explanation of this song by Manikay and I think his viewpoint is rather interesting.
Do read on!
to me, this song goes to show a lot of things.
firstly, the boy finding something valuable (a coin) at the site of a carcrash. the first thing that came to my mind was that he'd acquired something innocently at the expense of someone else, the people involved in the carcrash. it goes to show the frugal nature of living; something of worth at the expense of another.
it also brought to my mind how humans, as a collective, have desensitized, and can't be brought to feel the pain and suffering of others. the reference to bullets and trade magazines shows two heavy mainstays in our world; the bullets representing violence, and the trade magazines, commercialism and the dependence on/obsession with money.
i think "God left the ground to circle the world" is an expression on behalf of God, painting him in a human light, stating how he loses his faith in people when they become obsessed with their selfish needs and wants. the car flipping is a consequence of God no longer watching over the people due to their selfishness. the coin may also be symbolic of something that makes him forget all the violence and economic strife in the world.
the second verse presents a much harsher image, though it is put with eloquence and subtlety.
i think Hag has hit the hammer clean on it's head with the reference to the girl and the "bird" she found signifying rape, which is pretty much the most severe loss of innocence a girl can face.
in this stanza, the reference to the eyes being made for crying and God's absence is to show the girl's resentment to God, who she feels deserted him right when she was born, leaving her to suffer through the trials and tribulations of life with no one to look out for her.
the last stanza refers to the same boy who found the coin in the first verse, and shows a bitterness so profound that even that something precious he found in this life (the coin) is no longer the same valuable it was to him.
hence the rough treatment when sam says the coin was "crammed in his jeans". disappointed that nothing the boy wanted came of the coin, he threw it away into the sea at the cost of a wish. this is symbolic of him giving it up in a show of repentance, hoping that his giving up the coin will make the situation better.
i think the last couplet shows that the boy is ready to accept whatever is to come, hence his walking back to the town that all of "us" are burning, again symbolic of the fact that humans, as a collective, are laying the world to waste.
keeping in tune with the previous verses, the absence of God is again mentioned, the link again established that it is because of a lack of that something good (even though God is absent, his presence to me is shown in a benevolent light. that he is absent is how his lack of affection manifests itself) that people live their lives with reckless abandon.
the underlying theme of this song is ultimately the loss of innocence and the absence of Godliness, interwoven with a social commentary that deals with the two concepts intermittently.
Brilliantly done.
I'm addicted to this song, and i don't know when it'll be over.
Friday, August 17
我是一个大学生！
Aww... I'm in school now and I'm doing the tutorial balloting before my lecture starts.
And it's taking so so soooo loooong to load.
I'm fainting soon.
Well, I just have this realisation that I am a University Student!
That has been my dream since young!
When I was young, my ambition is to get into University.
But as I grow up, so many things get into and out of my mind that I forget my childhood ambition - being a University student.
Yesterday, it just suddenly daunt on me that I am so blessed to be able to fulfil my childhood dream.
And what's more? In a good Uni. And in a course that I want to be in.
Thank God!
我是一个大学生！
And it's taking so so soooo loooong to load.
I'm fainting soon.
Well, I just have this realisation that I am a University Student!
That has been my dream since young!
When I was young, my ambition is to get into University.
But as I grow up, so many things get into and out of my mind that I forget my childhood ambition - being a University student.
Yesterday, it just suddenly daunt on me that I am so blessed to be able to fulfil my childhood dream.
And what's more? In a good Uni. And in a course that I want to be in.
Thank God!
我是一个大学生！
Monday, August 13
A visit to NTU
steps, Steps and More STEPS!
No lectures today; so I went to NTU to visit Sarah, Esther and Yangyang and also to roam around NTU!
Well, this trip is good good!
Makes me realise how good NUS is. haha!
And I did not make a wrong choice. Heh heh. =P
There are just so so So SO SOOOO many STEPS in NTU. Walk a little and you need to climb 3 flights of stairs. Then walk a few more steps, you need to climb another flight of stairs. And when you think that all is over, you're WRONG(!), there's more stairs for you to climb!
WOW! These will certainly make you lose weight!
So I thank God that I am in NUS. I'll not have so many steps to climb. =)
And I thank God that NUS is smaller than NTU, otherwise I'll be so lost. =)
Thank you, God!
No lectures today; so I went to NTU to visit Sarah, Esther and Yangyang and also to roam around NTU!
Well, this trip is good good!
Makes me realise how good NUS is. haha!
And I did not make a wrong choice. Heh heh. =P
There are just so so So SO SOOOO many STEPS in NTU. Walk a little and you need to climb 3 flights of stairs. Then walk a few more steps, you need to climb another flight of stairs. And when you think that all is over, you're WRONG(!), there's more stairs for you to climb!
WOW! These will certainly make you lose weight!
So I thank God that I am in NUS. I'll not have so many steps to climb. =)
And I thank God that NUS is smaller than NTU, otherwise I'll be so lost. =)
Thank you, God!
Friday, August 10
In Your loving embrace
God gave me a little gift, a poem, when I was vexing about the bidding process.
Here it goes...
How my Lord, bring me to Your quietness
Take me away from the worldly desires
Put me in the loving arms of Yours, My Lord
And bring me closer to You
In Your presence, I have nothing to fear
In Your mercy, I am cleansed from my sins
Now I’m standing, as a justified child
In Your loving embrace
It actually comes with a tune at that time, so it makes it a song. But now, I forget the tune. Hee. =) It still nice.
Thank you, God.
Here it goes...
How my Lord, bring me to Your quietness
Take me away from the worldly desires
Put me in the loving arms of Yours, My Lord
And bring me closer to You
In Your presence, I have nothing to fear
In Your mercy, I am cleansed from my sins
Now I’m standing, as a justified child
In Your loving embrace
It actually comes with a tune at that time, so it makes it a song. But now, I forget the tune. Hee. =) It still nice.
Thank you, God.
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