The Unresting World

Lately, news of earthquakes has been hitting the globe. First in Phillipines, then in Samoa, and now in Indonesia. 3 earthquakes in the same month. How scary can that be. Even some of my friends in Malaysia felt the tremors from the latest earthquake in Indonesia.

Come to think of it, is it really gonna be the end of the world according to the Mayan culture? The date that this world will end is prophesized on December 21, 2012. That means it will be around 3 years 3 months from now. Well, believers of such an incident must have their minds strengthened after these earthquakes happening.

In my opinion, Mother Nature is sometimes benevolent and sometimes cruel. It all depends on humanity. If we don't take care of our world now, it will be too late. So let us all try our best in helping the world, no matter how tiny our actions is, it will be seen and felt. Before the world ends (or maybe not), let's not have any regrets...

A Day in my Cousin's Apartment

A day off means staying at home or go hang out with my friends. For today, I chose the latter. We have been planning to hang out for some time and today's the day. I set off around 12.30pm, taking the subway to Manhattan to meet up with them. I reached there a bit late (25 minutes) because of bad time management and subway stalls. Upon arrival, I saw two more new members, PJ and Yin Thing (supposedly just meeting up with Sofie and Ing Chian [my cousin]). Well, the more, the merrier and now there are five of us.

Lunch time is taken care of at a dim sum restaurant, which I found to be just so-so. I think the one in Flushing is much better. The restaurant is pretty big but I think it is understaffed so the service is not really good. Later on, we took a car service to my cousin's apartment. The apartment is located in the heart of Wall Street. A good location but the rent is madness to me. $1800 a month, that is like 3.5 times my current rent. The place was not bad, there is also a gym and a lounge where people can hang out. We played cards and drank some red wine, hit some pool and played some foosball. And the main event for that night is a Monopoly game, a simple game but it brings a lot of fun and laughter. We chose a Transformers version of the Monopoly because there are things missing from the original one (yea, board games are also provided in the lounge, and there are a shitload of them).

Anyway, I took some pictures and here you go:

Overall, a pretty interesting day!

Something not to be frowned upon

Sometimes, I feel that how nice it would be if our brain is like a computer. Something that we can control, something that we can modify, or something that we can delete. Painful memories are not supposed to be kept inside the brain. Imagine if we could keep all the happy memories and delete or the sad ones, it will be great.

Saying this, it's not that I am not happy, just a little sad over something which I shouldn't feel sad upon. Emotions and feelings are a big bad wolf at this point, taking over my better judgment. If one and one doesn't make two, there's no point in trying to think of a way to make it true. One and one can only be two, it can never be three or four.

The best that I could do is to turn this into a motivation. It's like turning stone to gold, turning water to ale. There are many things that I need to do at this point and I can't let this be an obstacle. Hopefully, I will be able to overcome this ordeal, or succumb to my inner feelings and die trying...

America's Got Talent Finale

OMG! Finally....finally the winner is revealed and it is none other than Kevin Skinner!!!

Cheers and congratulations to him!! (Wanted him to win more than Barbara Padilla) Wishing all the best to this 'ex-chicken catcher.' Now he's gonna be famous...

September Wind

I walked under the moon's bright light,
As I was taking a stroll one night;
The September wind was harsh and cold,
But I continued walking as if I were bold...

A lot of things were on my mind,
Most of my problems are one of a kind;
Be it the past, the present or the future,
I realized that I am still not mature...

I walked past a sleeping old man,
In front of him was a rusty tin can;
Filled with some coins and one dollar bills,
"A sad sight," that's how I feel...

Even when things go awfully wrong,
I always try to sing a happy song;
Sometimes I will be out of breath,
Sometimes I don't even have time to rest...

As I reached home after the walk,
The September wind is still blowing leaves and stalks;
Before I go to bed and sleep,
I will try my best, not to weep...