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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Ipod skin

Hello Kenneth,
your blog is lacking pictures so I decided to add some! haha!

anyway, this is the ipod skin I was telling you about!
Ain't it brilliant?!

Monday, August 21, 2006

Thoughts

Well, Daphne is now linked at the sidebar, though I think the sidebar does obscure that a little bit. Tunabelly's my favourite sashimi! I just never got to eat it much cos it's so expensive.

The archives are a little long though and it's hiding the new link! Haha it's a sign of the blog's age! Everything is starting to fall apart especially layout wise, and it's just such an old familiar place that there is no motivation to fix it. It's kinda like my house. After living in a place that has moulded itself around the interests of my family and our lives, it takes a tremendous amount of effort to just clean it up and sever all these links we've built over the years to the past.

Heh, but I love Daphne's latest post. I think it says alot in a very gentle way that I could never manage. I totally agree with her on the state of art in Singapore, but perhaps it's just easier for us to comment on it because we're doing it to release something within us, that things just bubble up and come, and when it does all we've got to do is to catch it and do something with it. But it might be different if you had to be artistic or make a statement all the time. Which to someone might be their entire persona. The repressed, depressed soul living in Singapore with all these restrictions. The nobody understands me artist.

But really, on the question of the self-centered artist, I always thought the job of the artist is to expose his inner feelings as a representative of the human being and make the rest of us understand that our feelings are shared with at least one other person.

A work of art spawns a community of people who think and feel alike. I think that's the strength of art. Perhaps sometimes we're not part of that community.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

One Piece!

So I retained in the end. Surprising outcome, but something that made me a little more than pleased these days. It's just that I forgot to consider the effects on the people around me, and my mum especially is getting super paranoid about studies.

Congrats Daph! On making it into UCL medicine! I'm sure you'll be a great doctor too :D I'll have lots to learn from you so lets start working hard now! Like what I tell everyone in M1 now.

I was listening to this song that I really liked,and have been humming the theme song in Japanese over and over, and it turned out to be this terribly apt song for me right before school.

The lyrics go like this

“We Are”
One Piece OP#1
Translation: Maureen S. O’Brien, 6/26/05

CH:
We are putting all our dreams in one basket now.
To go discover all the things we’ve looked for so long.

ONE PIECE!

Boring stuff like compasses just go to slow us down.
Throw it on the fire and take the helm. It’s up to you.
Deep layers of dust may lie upon this treasure map, but still
If we go and test the tale, you know it may turn out to be true.

When your own gale-force storm hits, all you just really must do’s
Ride on somebody else’s better day!
Just think about it; it’s okay!

CH:
We are putting all our dreams in one basket now,
To go discover all the things we’ve looked for so long.

Gotta pocketful of coin,
So then it’s — you wanna be my friend?
We are, we are on the cruise!
We are!
One Piece - "We Are" Live

Just listening to this song makes me happy. I think the world we live in is a little bit lost at the moment. I still can't escape this feeling of being moulded by a system that's beyond my control. We can't afford the fine handmade things, and the handmakers are retiring because they're not selling as many handmade things. But handmade things are the only things that will last for a long time and have been carefully made.

I don't know.. This is a thought that's hard to communicate. But sometimes I agree with the song. The compass given to us may actually slow us down. Not because the compass is wrong or anything. But sometimes knowing where to go and what to do leads us further from who we want to be and what we want to achieve and it's very easy to forget that.

We really have lots of compasses in our lives. People who feel that they know the right way, knowledge from books, from doctrine, from people in authority. But all these are compasses that point to things that are already known. We have a dusty map. We have legends. We have dreams.

Aren't those things we have already good enough to lead us to discover a legend? Aren't those things we have already good enough for us to set sail? Like POTC 2, the compass may simply be what the heart desires most.