February 2012
1 post
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January 2012
20 posts
“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself...”
– Anthony Robbins (via justbesplendid)
a space that is honestly mine. →
because i still want the world.
i thought wanderlust had left me behind, at least for a little while. i thought hey, i gotta get the house in check, gotta get my licenses, work that bit harder - there shouldn’t be anywhere that i would be so very eager to go to in the near future.
and its true, i’m happy being in singapore right now. but its the world of people that passes through your life that livens everything....
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– ― Roald Dahl (via justbesplendid)
It is ironic that we have these big idealistic i want to win the world kind of dreams, and yet at the end of the day it is people that satisfy us. It is crazy how we want to plunder the depths of the sea, to reach to the highest point - yet it is the warmth of a sunny day, a quiet moment spent that strikes us. I feel humans are so very contradicting and for a lack of better terms, moronic. At...
Denise. Man up.
In all experiences & circumstances:
You’re 21 -
You’re 21;
You’re 21.
Old enough to know better, young enough to still be learning. (Key word being old.)
And in just this one case: if you’re happy, then I’m happy. That, alone - must be it.
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...”
– Ray Bradbury (via eletheowl)
“The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?”
– Albert Einstein (via eletheowl)
Mark yourself well.
After I’ve gotten my tats, I caught myself checking out others’ as well. Much in the same way we brand cows and animals to mark them as property - we have branded ourselves.
Recently I saw a girl who had two hearts tattooed side by side, and I wondered at the story behind. Maybe I was being quite a snob, because I honestly spent some time trying to figure out why she had two hearts in...
"Arresting."
- 2012
December 2011
36 posts
Who and what do you surround yourself with?
“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”
– Freddie Mercury (via sirmitchell)
How lives change.
Your one decision today will be felt months later, resounding in your heart-waves and reverberating through your world. Your decision, made your way.
I don’t regret my decisions, but I miss certain familiarity and people. And these are the memories I take out so very often that it may still appear I am living in the past, though physically entrenched in the present.
But missing is a good...
“Sometimes I think we waste our words and we waste our moments, and we don’t take...”
– One Tree Hill (via eletheowl)
Someone was just telling me a couple decided to forgo their relationship. “If it was because of the girl, he would have held on - but it was the family.” They came from different backgrounds, of different religions, and I guess it is needless to explain the eventual decision to split.
It is true though that when you marry, you promise till death do we part unto the other party and the...
Watched Sherlock Holmes with the emokids earlier today, and I was totally taken with Sherlock Holmes’ pure wit and eccentric maniac behavior. On hindsight, I guess that’s what made him what he was - a brilliant first class detective - that insatiable energy and the need to move and make things happen.
In comparison, at the ripe one age of one and twenty, I do feel a tad battered and...
What is it about others that intrigue you?
For me it is the idea that there is more than meets the eye. You may be just anyone on the streets, and you are your own person. You have your history, your own set of memories and talents, griefs and joys.
I like that. I like listening to all of your stories, memories, the way you view things. I like how people are different, yet so strikingly similar. I like how I can be down in the dumps, but...
“Can we do a website in complete 3D? Maybe users can print out 3D glasses to look...”
– (via clientsfromhell
)
“when i described how robert wore the same clothes over and over, changing them...”
– The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
“And once you lose yourself, you have two choices: Find the person you used to be...”
– One Tree Hill (via eletheowl)
“I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a...”
– Abbey Lee Kershaw (via theyvegotfakelove
)
He leads me beside quiet waters.
My father is a sea-man, darkened by the sun and (seemingly) the most comfortable on sea rather than land. I remember stories of him getting a driving license, but for reasons unknown, decided to not drive at all.
His side of the family came from an off-shore island, entering Singapore proper because the island was to be used for other purposes. He was a bright student, who skipped school to play...
“If you take a book with you on a journey,…an odd thing happens: The book begins...”
– ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via justbesplendid)
So in this lifetime and within this soul - it is...