Sunday, August 26, 2007 @ 9:12 PM

summer fest 2007

It was great meeting up with the anime gang again~ It's been such a long time since we last met up.

Lining up for the tickets

Met up with April at Expo carpark and took the shuttle bus from there. Reached the school at about 5.45pm. Tickets were sold out but luckily Emily and Katt helped to queue for the tickets in the school for us!

Traditional Dance by Japan school boys

Crowd watching the performances

Peg, our photographer

The layout of the festival has changed, it used to have the food and games stalls in the grass field surrounding the stage. This year they had the stalls on the school compound! I feel that having it on the field itself is better cause you can soak up the atmosphere. But this year everything was seperated and the smoke from the food stalls was terrible as there is no open space to ventilate.

Children in yutaka doing the traditional group dance

Kawaii kodomo-tachi~

So adorable~!!!

Too bad I couldn't get the yoyo, by the time we went to the games station it was all sold out :(

Fallie: "Look at the ribbon on my hair!"

Gigantic man-eating sinflower!

Kawaii??? XD

Had lots of fun eating and drinking ramune~

James getting excited about the ball in his ramune

_|_ ramune tower

Left at about 8+pm and met up with Johnny in Expo. We went to East Coast park Mac for supper and taught Johnny to use photoshop for his school project.

Following that we went to catch Evan Almighty at Tampines mall. The show starts at 12.15am but in GV there is always a 20mins boring advertisement marathon. Reached TM at ard 12.20am and was so pissed at the ticketing counter: Stood at the visa priority queue but no one served us! No choice but to queue at the normal ticket line and when its our turn I asked the counter girl "Here no priority queue?" What's the use of having the banner there den? Luckily we did not missed out too much of the movie. Am thinking of writing in to complain.

Movie was ok, quite funny but not memorable. But I really liked the part where God said: "When people pray for patience, do God give them patience? Or give them the opportunity to be patient?"

~ emi ~

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 @ 9:03 PM

patriotism

I was watching "爱上小红点 Little Red Dot" just now on Channel U, and I'm glad it's over. For the past few episodes the hosts kept asking those storeowners to reveal the location of the red ball by telling them that they do not want to mess up their store, or letting them take up too much of their time to do business etc.

I felt ashamed by this show - it just totally reveals Singaporeans' kiasu-ism. It demostrated perfectly how we only think of winning in our mind. Why can't the host just enjoy the process of searching, and the fun of discovering something new? We do not know how to sit back and enjoy the process, we seek only to win. Where is the joy of winning, when only winning is the answer? You do not learn nor gain anything in the process. The greatest joy of winning is only after you have travelled the journey to it, only than you will experience the exhilaration of the pursue.

Another thought came to my mind just than. How did this happen? Who made this happen? Why are we so self-absorbed we totally neglect to appreciate our surroundings? Is it our government? Is it our way of life? What is wrong with my country? What went wrong?

The only picture I could get of Singapore, is a dark street, filled only with zombies that have been brain-washed, where every single thing have been decided by someone. We do not question authority because we were trained to think only for ourselves. And over a single free bread, we will fight amongst ourselves, irregardless whether we really need it, never stopping to think that that single bread, can pull someone else away from death's door or make a difference between life and death.

I asked Khim, have you ever met someone who is proud of being a Singaporean?

I pondered.

The reason why we are not proud of our own country is because we do not make the decisions that effect our own economy. We cannot decide for ourselves what makes this country bloom. We do not impact our country! How should we be proud of it? Everything is decided by someone else and put to motion by someone else, we are not a part of it. How can we be proud of something we are not responsible for? How can we stand for Singapore when we do not stand for ourselves?

How can we be proud of Singapore, when Singapore is not proud of us?

~ emi ~

Thursday, August 02, 2007 @ 11:27 AM

The Prophet

I am reading The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. It touched my heart and my soul more then any other books I have ever read, even more then Paulo Coelho.

Of Love
"But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter,
and weep, but not all of your tears."

Of Children
"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backwards nor tarries with yesterday."

These are just some of the prose that really touches & inspires me..

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), thank you.

Amazon.com - The Prophet

~ emi ~

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 @ 5:06 PM

Boring day @ work~

It's another boring day here at work.. Skype is not working, and I forgot to bring out my hp charger so cannot listen to music. Grrr.. Been surfing Coach's website whole day, I wanna buy but they don't accept Vpost address leh~ Damn sian. Only way is to use Comgateway, but very expensive! Shipping will cost around $15-$20 per bag. Sigh.. Another, here are some photos when we were out with my tw colleagues..