Time, it flies.

Hello Hwa Chong, hello J2.

It's been a blink of an eye; before you know it, there goes a week. Open house, rehearsals, trainings, classes, more training. Time flies.

It is definitely good again to be embraced into the school atmosphere, definitely a good thing to get to chat with your friends after that mundane confinement period of 2 months during the holidays, definitely a good time to catch up, as well as progress in academics. The late nights and early mornings, the never-ending-ever-piling up mountain of homework, hectic recess time homework sessions, after school activities, haha. All an inaugural part of junior college life. Hectic, demanding, but fun.

A year ago, somewhere around this time of the year, we whom have just barely graduated from the section of life labelled "short-to-long pants", stumbled our way into the college section. Blurry eyed, we sat for IP revision lectures, had that extra one week more of procrastinations, had orientation to follow, acknowledged many new acquantainces. Time flies: we'd involved ourselves in extra curricular activities, bonded with the class, and voila, it's 2010 before you know it.

And the thing is, tomorrow would be the day our juniors a year younger would follow in our footsteps, embarking on their 2 year stint in their junior college education, bask in all the fun and laughter we had. It is a cycle, a progressive one. People come, people go. Time, it really flies.

Sometimes, we do really want to sit back and enjoy the serenity that life has to offer. But we also get to understand that gradually this is progressively impossible, with work and education demanding our undivided attention and time. What are we expected to do then?

& in this year, we'll be another year older,
but why does everything feels the same?


---The attitude we all love.
"I care (for) me, you care (for) you."

Delusions.

Even the dullest of colors become the brightest in another's eye.

"If electricity comes from electrons... does morality come from morons? "

Such is the power of self delusion and self-deception, my friend.

King of the skies, king of the seas, king, of your own world.
We dream of mindless fantasies, dream beyond the reach of our capabilities.
We shut out any thoughts pertaining to what we don't want to hear, or conversely, rabbit for every single piece of information we can get on our subject.
We often get lost in our mindless wanderings, lost waist-deep, before we start for the shore.
We do the craziest things for what we believe in, however fictional and fairytale they are.

I'd seen it, you'd seen it.
Such, is the power of self-delusion.

Better to be realistic, I think, better to be realistic.

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What you don't know, it can't kill you, can it? (:
Have hope, not all is lost, and yeah, stop looking down on yourself.

"Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it."
- Cale Yarborough
Do what you want, as you want it, yeah? And to say what Mrs. Lee mentioned today: we're young, we've the assets. Fret not, we still have billions, if not trillions of opportunities. Hahahaha.

The 5 'C's.

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新的一年,新的开始?

It's a few days into the new year. 2010. A big year indeed.

A year where many things happen. A new year, a new beginning?

'09 went with a bang. '10 entered. '
09 was definitely a big year for myself. To describe it, it had been pleasant at large, though tainted with a little sorrow, and disappointment. Definitely, each year has its own highs and lows, '09 was no different. Definitely, I've gotten to know many great friends, gotten to understand myself better.

A seed germinates, it grows in the heaviest of rains and scorching sun. We mature, definitely from the most heart-wrenching and painful experiences, as well as jubilant, pleasant moments. The roads still long, the journey arduous. But it doesn't stop here, does it?

On a separate note, I've to comment how reading broadens your understanding of events.
It is definitely amazing how writers from the past could envision happenings in current, or future times, and add them into their plot developments.

Below is an excerpt from the novel, beautifully written. Of fate. It is said that everyone has a purpose in his life, pre-destined at birth. Do we choose to believe in it, or forge our own legacies through our efforts?

缘分－笑傲江湖

缘有很多种，能够相识相知，是一种令人珍惜令人难忘的缘。但生命中更多的是人潮中擦肩而过的行人，落雨的屋檐下同时避雨的路人，昏暗的路灯下等候同一路车的夜归人，都是有缘人。甚至于蓝天下两只飞鸟，能够在空中相遇，也是因为有缘。
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不是每个人都拥有缘，也不是每一个寻觅的人都可以抓住缘。或者有缘，然而源头水尾难以相见；或者无缘，行色匆匆远隔天涯。人生有太多的不可知，一个念头， 一次决定，往往便可能拥有或错过一份缘。选择了爱是因为缘，而选择了不爱却也是为了缘，生命如此，生活亦如此。 杭州博客网'F#_9Y:zx!j

缘就是缘。不需许下誓言，也不必要求承诺。可以拥有时，不必山盟与海誓依然可以真诚相拥，而无法拥有时，即使是求，也求不来一份聚首的缘。看那静谧的星空 群星闪烁，而守望了千万年的牛郎织女星，依旧相对无言，守侯着一年一度七夕聚首的缘。“盈盈一水间，脉脉不得语”，这是一个美丽的错误，却造就了一个永恒 的传说。其实天上人间，有一些也许是人们无法逾越的障碍，而另一些却是人们并不想摆脱的束缚，一切只是因为有缘注定。


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Fear, and its tendrils:

We're not scared of the dark, we're scared of whats in it.
We' not afraid of heights, we're afraid of falling.
We are not afraid of people around us, we are just afraid of rejection.
We are not afraid to Love, we are just afraid of not being loved back.

Lastly,
We are not afraid of trying again, we are just afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.

However afraid we are, we'll keep going
We'll keep going, till we reach the end.

Goodbye 2009, hello 2010