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12:33 AM Friday, August 27, 2010


Yesterday...

Sent Adelaida off to France. Saw Jannah Cheang for the first time in light years. Ah... Sec 1/2 feeling came back again. I just don't know how to react when Jannah was so amazed to see me. I had a half-bad day yesterday. I'm really sorry J.C.

So instead of going to the Astronomical Society Annual General Meeting... me and Marli went to Geylang to buka. Cos by the time we would reach school... the whole thing would have ended. We went to Darul Arqam to pray Maghrib first and I met Kak Syikin and Ustaz Omar. I liked that they still remember me and recognise me. Marli liked his accent too. Who cannot like his accent? I brought Marli up to the Library... my baby. HOHO. For the first time, I saw a male librarian. It's been female all these while man.

Ah Geylang was nice. FOOD SMOKE FOOD FOOD FOOD. Clothes. I bought flared pants and Marli bought a blue skirt. WOO HOO Cheaper than Bugis can! Will be going there more often before Ramadhan ends! Mak wants the pants too! Loud speakers LEYLONG LEYLONG. Auctioning off new carpet smells woven into elaborate geometrical and flowered designs. A lot of "Kak! Kak! Dik! Dik!" and the best part was, there wasn't toooo many people because it was off peak day. A weekday night. LOVELY.

Here's to FREE WEDNESDAYS MAN! :D :D :D




Hocrux?
12:16 AM


Today, I'm happy that Daryl Tan contacted me for the first time in how many light years. Today, I'm happy that Nur Fadilah Jubir came to visit in school. Today, I'm happy that I went home with Nadirah Norrudin. :D And I'm happy that Aminah returned to school. I'm really happy cos of that. Ah I got a confession to make. I KISSED AMINAH's BABY CHEEKS TODAY cos I so happy to see her k (and knowing what she went through) I freaking happy to see her back in school going to lectures strongly. And I missed her a lottttt. Ok don't be jealous I never kiss you on your cheek before.

Haiz... so behind readings...

I am close to many people. But it's not a bad thing. Because different people make different emotional aspects of me happy lei. No man is and island. And I am so interested in things that you're not interested in. And I am in a situation which you're not in. So I have to find people on my own.

And you weren't there at every single moment of my life, and neither is anyone I know but all of the people I am close to, including you, they know important bits and pieces of me that they keep really well. Do you want to rethink again why you are close to me? I know, now, you're beginning to think that I've changed... Survival of the Fittest. People change to survive. But you're still my friend. I am still a friend to you. I still care about your wellbeing. Which is why I don't like that you don't tell me how you're feeling and if you need help. And I'm dissapointed when you say we're close. We're supposed to be close. But you pushed me away when I offered to help. And you don't even know that I'm in USP. You didn't ask me how school was for me. What were you looking for actually? Whatever you needed was there... you just approached it in the wrong way.

Saying that just made me feel like Lord Voldemort, making Hocruxes. Instead of objects I use people... but doesn't everyone leave an impression, an image, a memory of themselves in other people?

I realise that praying together as a Jemaah regularly with a group of friends really somehow makes us closer. There's just that bond. It makes you love them no matter their flaw. It's because you love them because of Allah, because of God. I just realised this. That's how I feel with my MJI clique. That's why we always meet up more than once a month. We just like being around each other but we don't really know why. We like to make each other happy, we like to make each other laugh. We don't like it when bad things happen between us. Or to us. And we will support each other all the way if those things do.


Please rethink your opinion.

Because it hurt me.

But ah well, I guess that's your opinion and your life to live.

I'm actually really happy with mine right now. Are you happy with yours?




12:55 AM Tuesday, August 24, 2010


So many activities.. I don't know what to join.




To Find:
12:37 AM





“ I just want the world to slow down. No, I want the world to stop. Right now. How can time just let things fall apart. Because for me, things fall apart, and they never know how to be put back together. Things will never be put back together. No matter how hard I try, I know I’m going to lose you. You’re one star in a sky of a thousand, but you’re the brightest one, and I know you’ll fade. You’ll fade until I can’t find you anymore. I can’t find you anymore. ”




9:13 PM Monday, August 23, 2010


What if, I don't have a dream?

What if, I lost my dream?

What if, I forgot my dream?

How then, can I take baby steps to achieve that dream?




Special Relativity
11:54 PM Saturday, August 21, 2010


Ok this is what makes me so astounded twice every week, I've only heard of this concept of Einstein's by name... and wondered about it in a touch and go manner. I'm quite glad I'm taking this module, UNL2201: Time Space Matter. Makes me learn more about the Universe.. makes me understand more about my world, and what I've only read in the Quran about how the universe is constantly expanding, now I know better. But not only the universe, my mind is constantly freaking expanding when I'm in the Seminar Room cos it really takes some time and pondering to wrap my mind around these. Here, have a look see and see if it doesn't blow your mind away. If you don't, ah I guess it's just relativity!





"My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that" -From Alice in Wonderland.

This module makes me run like the Roadrunner.... BEEP BEEP.




9:01 PM


The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. - Phillips Brooks

kind over matter


they say





uninspired
8:56 PM


Imma just stick w my homies. The tried and tested methods are always the best innit?

But I got to deal w the sorting hat first.

Listening to my playlist does me a deal of good.

One feeling blocks my whole living process, messes up my decision making, makes me let down the people who shouldn't be let down, makes me please the ones who don't matter...that much. I didn't realise that I still feel this way. That yearning, the unintentional search... since when did I become this pathetic? Finding comfort in the company of others hoping that it would replace that feeling? Why? Why? Will it be better when i hit the half-way mark? Will it be better then? I think I just have to realise that I just HAVE to live with this feeling till God shows me the way. I can't help but to wait around for something that's not going to ever pop up. Keeping my phone close by me... argh. Pathetic. And how long has it been since..? Just have to hope that it becomes less significant than it already has become now...

I feel disappointed of people... people I haven't even met yet. Is that possible?

Sometimes, I'm too nice for my own good. And I haven't really learnt to say NO to more subtle things. (no drugs and ciggies are not part of it).

Guess it all boils down to the normal adaptation routine I go through when I settle in a new educational institute.

I shall henceforth, listen more to that gut feeling... and give it more significance.

I totally hate fake sincerity (ironic much) so don't go and fool me with it.





8:50 PM


Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum, 1914-1943




3:01 PM




Why do I remember the moment that you first popped into my life? Why can't I remember this moment for other people?

Is it a real memory or is it a created history?

Was it repeated reinforcement?

Will this happen again?






10:41 AM Thursday, August 19, 2010


Why do I get so affected by how the world works and how it doesn't? Nature's law amaze me so. I agree with Isaac Newton. He can predict the movement of the heavens but he cannot predict the crowds.

I guess to each his own and you only have to account for yourself. You only have to answer for yourself in the end.

So let be what the masses do and how they do it.




1:04 AM


Sometimes I wonder what kind of friendship this.... because it's so apparent that we don't make an effort anymore... and it's so obvious that you don't really care anymore... I don't believe that this primary school drama is happening in this college age.

If I faded out would you be worried?
If I suddenly went overseas one day and stayed there for a year/migrated and kept mum about it would you have noticed?

No?
Then we're not friends... we're not even distant friends... you just know me by name.

Friends are not people who you plonk into your life just when their ties with you and who they are as a person benefits you. Those are networks and those fit in an entirely different category, mutually understood by the two parties. You need to understand that you need to spend time with them and invest in this relationship. You need to understand the subtleties of a push and pull relationship. Sometimes you need her just because and sometimes you need to help her just because. You need to understand that.

I've moved on. And by now if I don't really approach you with a smiley face, then you need to take that message and go.

Disclaimer: one 'you' does not fit a single entity.
___

Now I have to call Fadi soon and ask her how she is because as the days go by, I'm growing increasingly worried about her...

___

I've always secretly believed in the Law of Attraction... what I really need will come to me from the crowds. Thank you.





11:50 PM Saturday, August 14, 2010


Sec school subjects:

Phy/Chem, Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, SS/Geog, History

JC Subjects:

Maths, Lit, Geog, Econs

Uni modules so far:

Time Space Matter (Physics & Math)
Nature of Language (English Linguistics)
Arabic
Intercultural Communication
Communication, New Media and Society.



Damn stressed. Ok so I've been taking Math till now. Should I continue doing Lit cos I've been quite good in it...but it's so subjective and not really tangible.


What I really want is:
Film/Culture Studies.


and there's only a Cultural Studies minor in NUS. hehehe. I think I'll just take as many film modules as possible.




11:13 PM


And once again.... I feel lost... if I am on the right educational/intellectual path...

What major should I take?

Am I headed towards the right majors?

Have I made the right decision thus far?




1:53 AM Friday, August 13, 2010


too busy. and too many superficial things. how do we know what we shall fight for? how do we know who to fight for?

in the end, you have to live for yourself. you have to see to it that you will be safe in the long run. only i myself determine where I end up..

don't you realise that baybe?

now quit blaming others.
or wallow up in your sadness.
your attitude is half of where you're going to go.

~blessed




Many little thoughts in one brain
1:19 AM


1. Nice guys are the good to have around. But Sincere guys are the best. Every action, every word that comes out of their mouth. Sincerity is the best policy. Even if just for that flick of moment, I forgot your name.

2. Till this day, I don't understand your actions. Now you've gone and created a new email.. and deleted the old one and I wanted to forward you something which I thought you'd be really interested in. But ah well.. your loss. Seriously.

3. I know I'm in the right place.

4. I will not be scared to journey alone.

5. Strangers are really friends you have not made. :D But too many friends makes things difficult.

6. Taking a level 2000 module with seniors really helps. Thank you Anne. Today's Intercultural Communication module really rocks! I hope this semester will be ok! Just aim high!

7. Thank you Pamela, for being in Tyred.

8. Thank you Ai Lin. :)

9. Thank you CS for being so helpful even though he didn't know where CFA is.

10. Thank you Ahmad Basyir for being a nice senior who really responded to my distressed sms with a call.


Love love today!





HOMME: I was able to eat well
2:49 AM Sunday, August 8, 2010


Even if love leaves me, even if my heart is bruised
It's all just for one moment anyway, I was able to eat well
It's not as if I was going to die
Let's bury the tears and do our work for now

Let's just be thankful for the fact that she knew how much you loved her to death
Stop talking about the past since you can't turn the time anyway
You can't do anything except looking at the painful heart
They say that a man's only allowed to cry three times since birth
Let's not waste those tears on useless things

Even if love leaves me, even if my heart is bruised
It's all just for one moment anyway, I was able to eat well
It's not as if I was going to die
Bury your tears away, let's just work for now

When I think of you every so often and start to feel sad
I get with a group of friends and try to get drunk in order to forget you
Hating you won't change a thing so I'll just love you
It's just that I can't see you is all, I'll think of you as much as I can bear

Even if love leaves me, even if my heart is bruised
It's all just for one moment anyway, I was able to eat well
It's not as if I was going to die
Bury your tears away, let's just work for now

The wind is blowing past, it's making me shiver and cry.
I try to hold it back but my throat is choking up
I try to call your name
I can't forget you even if I treid, I can't erase you
I have to smile like a man and let you go but I keep on crying.




Oddities
1:35 AM Saturday, August 7, 2010




How many bulbs in the tent? Blanket looks so fuzfortable... :)


Amazing folding! How did he/she do it?



oh How I love fireworks... paintings in the sky...



Send her your thumbprint and she will make a cut out of it. So precise and unique!



Made out of colour sample cards. Seriously an out-of-the-box idea.

Loveyourheart
popgelato from popbar

Art-deco pop bars :P







And I tell myself:
1:24 AM


“ There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. ” From 'I Dare You To Click This'.









they say









1:20 AM


When I feel the urge to shop, I will just clean up my wardrobe.

That having said, I feel that I need to pay a visit to the following:

1. Dorothy Perkins
2. Cache Cache
3. Giordano
4. Forever 21
5. My Flip Flop Shop
6. Level 2 of East Point Mall again.
7. Times the Bookstore
8. Popular
9. Bata




When is my 1K bursary from the police coming in? :( :( :(




1:05 AM Sunday, August 1, 2010


Dear You,

I hope your decision in the past was in no way affected by the past path which I wanted to take because even though it was current at that time, it was not confirmed. I hope you did not choose something based on another path that was not cut out so clearly. I hope you chose it because you sincerely and passionately wanted to take that path. I do detest making an important life changing choice just because of someone else other than yourself and I know you did it once. It turned out badly and I hope you learnt your mistake. I wish for you not to make the same mistake again. Still you can change it. I hope you were sure and I want to believe that you like that path. That path in which you will be walking on.

I'm telling you today I will not be treading on the same path I thought I would be. Because I will be living the yearning of my heart. The subconscious desire of my mind and my soul.

I will be at peace knowing that I have chosen wisely and that you have chosen wisely too.

Again, I hope that you followed the better organ.

Love,
Me.





NURsa
30031991



<3 chocolates
<3 family
<3 friends
<3 balloons
<3 presents
<3 sleeping
<3 surprises!
<3 good design
<3 poetry
<3 great stories
<3 looking at the stars
<3 patterns: houndstooth floral, plaids/checkered
<3 colours:purple,pink,brown,grey,black
<3 pearls
<3 pure lace
<3 bracelets
<3 Korean everything (almost) !




MOVIE WISHLIST
1. Sepet
2. Gubra
3. Mukhsin
4. Muallaf
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. Nick and Norah's Playlist
7. The Day The Earth Stood Still
8. Wildchild
9. Lars and the Real Girl
10. Sandcastle

BOOKS TO READ
1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton
2. Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
3. The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss






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