spending christmas in london isn't really exciting... on the contrary, it seems that asian societies are more into christmas than western societies... it's christmas now!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
spent chirstmas eve at home after a treacherous 20hr bus ride, having dinner with a few people. nothing cool like back in singapore where there'll be xmas performance in church or plodding down orchard road... oxford road and trafalgar square just doesn't seem hip or happening... but i guess i enjoy the cozy warmth of christmas eve, though it's not cozy enough i guess... dinner tomorrow will be with shining, shujun, bryan and joseph... i guess it's really gonna be like a 'family' affair... was thinking of inviting more ppl, but i guess christmas should be kept simple, spending time with loved ones is more important than partying with groups of unknown people...
home is where the heart lives...
just finished watching love actually... 1st watched it after prom in 03, but the show is more moving this time round, especially when you miss someone, neglect someone... love transcends all boundaries and it can manifest in many different forms... i guess love is all we need to keep us alive, it gives us the single hope that is of value o our life... the show started by stating the fact that the messages/calls made during 9/11 were filled with love and not hatred... it's true that we all need love...
it's painful when you feel that you have too many things/people to love, you'll just get torn apart... but i guess it's more important to love the people that truly matter to you... i've been neglecting so many people, and especially my dearest... it's a very big sacrifice to be with me, where A takes up most of my life but yet i don't wanna end up like adam sandler in click... there's a price to pay for everything in life...
23 dec marks the start of a new birth, a new journey for you and i want to thread this journey together... not that things are going to be rosy but it will be a blessed journey, a journey that will be filled with love that is deeper that the our love combined, a journey that is towards the similar ultimate goal in life...
i love you eve...
merry christmas...
Monday, December 25, 2006
tabula rasa - blank state
just got back from skiing, which was packed with food, skiing, nkf spoofs, spasticated jokes and most importantly, cute french and israeli guys... (!!! not that i'm interested in guys, but gals out there you may wanna check them out when you go on tour the next time round...) okie the grading of the slopes are as such: green, blue, red, black... and we skiied down the red slope on the 1st day of lessons... i think we were abit garang after our first official skiing lesson in the day... we took the gondola up to the peak in the afternoon and wanted to ski down the blue slope, but some stupid guy told us that the blue slope had a steep part and asked us to ski down the red one instead, and we actually believed him... so here we went, skiing down the red slope, based on faith... thank god for his journey mercies and the fog... fortunately, we didn't ski off the edge of the mountain, and the fog made visibility low, so that we wouldn't fear the steepness of the slope... thank god too for nice people to save us (the stragglers), they guided us down the red slope by encouraging us to slowly ski down... thankfully, we made it back to ground level safely... cleared 600m altitude in 1.5hrs which was kind of long, but at least we made down safely... as much as i enjoyed the company of the other skiiers, especially the indian london doctors and the israelis, i guess the mountain has taught me several important lessons... first of all was to conquer my fear of heights, although i'm still very fearful of heights, but i'm not that afraid not... and the tenacity of the human spirit is also tested during the most critical points in time... my mind was in a state of tabula rasa... it was totally blank, we just concentrated in getting down safely, rather than fearing the steepness of the slope...
anyway, the kids are so cute on their skis and they are really pro in skiing man... i guess i'll prolly send my kid for skiing lessons next time...
anyway, the kids are so cute on their skis and they are really pro in skiing man... i guess i'll prolly send my kid for skiing lessons next time...
Friday, December 15, 2006
5 years?
thinking about the fact that i'll be here for about 5 years is kind of freaky... imagine my own batch of singaporean friends who will only be in london for 3 years... and i'll probably be mixing around with nearly two cycles of different people... at least for the first three years, i still have familiar people to mix around with, but from the fourth year onwards? it's just weird... a scary thought...
btw, i have been advertising chilumlump, they found him very interesting and dumb, just like me... elmo and him are having a good time sleeping/baking on the radiator... chilumlump is clamouring to see lumpy and minilump and miffy though he has nothing much to say to them too, he has grown dumb (cannot talk). he can't wait till feb...
btw, i have been advertising chilumlump, they found him very interesting and dumb, just like me... elmo and him are having a good time sleeping/baking on the radiator... chilumlump is clamouring to see lumpy and minilump and miffy though he has nothing much to say to them too, he has grown dumb (cannot talk). he can't wait till feb...
Saturday, December 09, 2006
3 aspects of life in autumn 2006
It has been an enjoyable and eventful autumn term, it seems that it was just yesterday that i left the airport. time just whizz past and it's the end of term now... before i left, the three things that i set out to concentrate on in london were god, studies and running and thankfully, managed to have integrated these three aspects into my life and they have been quite fruitful.
God
Before i came here, i was quite apprehensive that with heavy workload and lack of christian friends, i would just neglect my spiritual relationship with god. thankfully, god has drawn me closer to him through my friends. it all started with a simple phone call to shining, asking her if i could put up at her place with bryan and joseph while searching for apt during my first wk in london. a chain of events led us stay together, and i guess because of them too, i went to all souls church and ocf (overseas christian fellowship) i really thank god that i like the church alot, the messages are so contemporary but the service is tradiational and serious. thank god too for ocf and my small group!! they have been important in keeping my faith alive and making my stay in london to be filled with the love of brothers and sisters in christ. i guess this is the power of having a fellowship... haha, it seems that its really enjoyable to go for bible studies on fri nights and supper following that... i really do enjoy the time with them... it kindda reminded me of my own cabbages small group back in singapore...
Studies
This term has been quite hectic, i wouldn't say extremely though. I started off feeling kind of stress about rationalising and brain storming of ideas and concepts but as time goes by, i guess we all began to understand the gameplay better. though the workload is still heavy but i think i managed to keep the stress level lower. it has been an eye opener too. having coming straight from a levels, we are all to accustomed with our rigid system and final product driven mentality, and i am still learning to get use to AA's culture of continuous experimenting and learning from mistakes. i used ot think that learning from mistakes and improving from mistakes was easy but after a term here, i realised that we were soooo lacking that aspect in our education system. we would always fixate our thoughts and ideas on getting to the final product or outcome... but our tutors would always want us not to have a fixed outcome and just have faith in experimenting. reviewing on my performance, i guess i have not really been every creative and i just don't have the artsy flare, i guess i'm a very information based and rational type of designer... i dun really have the fluff and creative juices that produce works that evoke the senses... but i know my passion at least... haha, thank god for my media studies... there were four courses for media studies to choose from for autumn term: drawing, construction and drawing, information system and videa. i chose drawing and info sys (we have to make 2 choices and the tutors will randomly select us)... the main reason why i chose drawing was because i do not know how to draw for nuts at all!!! but thankfully i ended up in info sys class cuz that was where my real passion lies... making maps and diagrams through tonnes of information... haha, it was really fun... hee, managed to get my first result back, which was very encouraging, a dist! heee... i guess this is the only course where the tutor actually gave a dist, for the drawing classes, the highest grading was only a high pass.. but this is just the first term... shall continue to work hard... i guess i should put in more effort into my studio work and try to learn as much as possible...
Running
Haha, i just joined a track club (Highgate Harriers) a month ago and it is really refreshing to be back on track again... easpecailly training at such a scenic location of the foot of parliament hill and the start of hampstead heath... running at 2 deg was also new experience and challenge... slowly getting my fitness back too... hopefully i'll be fit enough by apr 07 for competitions...
God
Before i came here, i was quite apprehensive that with heavy workload and lack of christian friends, i would just neglect my spiritual relationship with god. thankfully, god has drawn me closer to him through my friends. it all started with a simple phone call to shining, asking her if i could put up at her place with bryan and joseph while searching for apt during my first wk in london. a chain of events led us stay together, and i guess because of them too, i went to all souls church and ocf (overseas christian fellowship) i really thank god that i like the church alot, the messages are so contemporary but the service is tradiational and serious. thank god too for ocf and my small group!! they have been important in keeping my faith alive and making my stay in london to be filled with the love of brothers and sisters in christ. i guess this is the power of having a fellowship... haha, it seems that its really enjoyable to go for bible studies on fri nights and supper following that... i really do enjoy the time with them... it kindda reminded me of my own cabbages small group back in singapore...
Studies
This term has been quite hectic, i wouldn't say extremely though. I started off feeling kind of stress about rationalising and brain storming of ideas and concepts but as time goes by, i guess we all began to understand the gameplay better. though the workload is still heavy but i think i managed to keep the stress level lower. it has been an eye opener too. having coming straight from a levels, we are all to accustomed with our rigid system and final product driven mentality, and i am still learning to get use to AA's culture of continuous experimenting and learning from mistakes. i used ot think that learning from mistakes and improving from mistakes was easy but after a term here, i realised that we were soooo lacking that aspect in our education system. we would always fixate our thoughts and ideas on getting to the final product or outcome... but our tutors would always want us not to have a fixed outcome and just have faith in experimenting. reviewing on my performance, i guess i have not really been every creative and i just don't have the artsy flare, i guess i'm a very information based and rational type of designer... i dun really have the fluff and creative juices that produce works that evoke the senses... but i know my passion at least... haha, thank god for my media studies... there were four courses for media studies to choose from for autumn term: drawing, construction and drawing, information system and videa. i chose drawing and info sys (we have to make 2 choices and the tutors will randomly select us)... the main reason why i chose drawing was because i do not know how to draw for nuts at all!!! but thankfully i ended up in info sys class cuz that was where my real passion lies... making maps and diagrams through tonnes of information... haha, it was really fun... hee, managed to get my first result back, which was very encouraging, a dist! heee... i guess this is the only course where the tutor actually gave a dist, for the drawing classes, the highest grading was only a high pass.. but this is just the first term... shall continue to work hard... i guess i should put in more effort into my studio work and try to learn as much as possible...
Running
Haha, i just joined a track club (Highgate Harriers) a month ago and it is really refreshing to be back on track again... easpecailly training at such a scenic location of the foot of parliament hill and the start of hampstead heath... running at 2 deg was also new experience and challenge... slowly getting my fitness back too... hopefully i'll be fit enough by apr 07 for competitions...
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