three: life of pi

just finished reading life of pi. what an interesting account. some parts were quite freaky, honestly, very morbid. picturing sequences in my head sent down chills. i'm still wondering if the account with the animals is the actual one or the one with all the people killing each other. if it's the latter then please explain the whole incident about the acidic algae. but it's interesting how i'd have chosen the story with the animals over the other one with people, just like the japanese gentleman in the novel. natural human inclination? there's this whole irony thing there. and maybe i don't want to see the animal in the human. lord of the flies-esque.

two: so i'm back from penang

just came back from quite a lovely trip to penang. it's that whole going at it alone idea that makes it so special and unique. playing monopoly till the wee hours of the day, or scrabble on a small dingy little cabin, arguing about not going to penang to eat secret recipe, it's the little things that count.

in the end, it's these little moments which tide us through the hard times. it's these short clips of life, these pockets of memories which we all need to hold on to when things aren't going right for us. it's that temporal joy which we need to use to defend against adversity. it's like shouting at adversity in the face, saying, hey, you can't do nothing to me, i've had good times before, you can't put me down permanently! it's that badge of honour which we pin on proudly proclaiming that there's an experience i have that only i know about. we feel comfortingly superior in the knowledge that i own something you don't and will never have.

one: so i'm back

i figured that i'd blog since i won't have the time to blog too much anyway, what with being in camp and stuff. and this blog will have a certain direction, not like the previous one which went all over the place without getting anywhere. kind of like

distance = infinity
displacement = 0

i like this design really. chose the big green one thinking that the green looked calming but turns out it's kind of like a sickly green, like vomit green. definitely not good for a blog or anything else for that matter. this one is much improved. maybe a bit ostentatious but pleasing to the eye.

Liangyuan and I at Pastamania after the collection of the A Level results