Monday, February 12, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
the people in the in between
well well, like i said. its been almost three years already. that quick. it's crazy how time passes faster as your get older. time passes so fast that we tend to forget faster and so this is dedicated to the people in between. the people who have made my poly life oh so bearable and let's say that much enjoyable. what continues is pretty much my story for the past three years.
GRACE. haha you the snow white then, i'll always remember you for the "reka, please show him the finger for me". that was a classic. hahah all the graph comm bullshit and the locvid stuff. haha sitting at starbucks trying to write our speech outline. and sitting in the editting booths you watching megan and i fight over the controls. hahah! and your eye rolls. thank you for being snow white and constantly going "abigail, you're so mean! you're a pastor's daughter!". that's a reminder enough.
PEARL. yes cold, tired and hungry. hahah that phrase is exclusively yours. you got me hooked to online shopping (which my pocket has not recovered from since). hahah those crazy drawings and colourings to be as perfect as possible paid off. hahah that fifty bucks that we each won. kudos my friend. hahah the motion tweening which sent us into spasms and the shift sleep. you were always so difficult to wake up, you sleep like a rock. seriously.
NICOLE. yes i know, who said you're my friend. you're by far the only one who has stuck with me through 3 years. gosh how did i survive with you?! hahah. right. well, yes yes, KARMA. one day it will come searching for me. news writing, feature writing, advert, adv advert, PR, webd, radio, tvprod, mrm. gosh that's one hell of a list you know that. i know i've pushed your limits once too many but thanks for still being my friend. hahah! oh yes not forgetting PSS2. seriuosly, i have not idea how you persuaded me to ever go with you to that cheena show in the first place but i guess it wasn't that bad after all. in fact something good actually came out of it. haha! those 20 dollar cab rides home and you pickign and sieving through all those crap photos of mine. i know some of those were fabulous too. and yes our one very classic prank.
REKA. you're my blackest friend. and don't say i'm racist. i'm not i'm just a colorist. ahhaha! nah i do not discriminate. lols. you're my craziest friend. my partner in noise. till silence do us part. lol! i remember the arguements we had over the smallest things in locvid. ahhaha and my sudden night inspiration. remember the splicing during radio which got darren and holmberg all irritated. ahhaha! and those sleepless nights doing advert. our random CHNG KEE's whatever. SPSS and pie charts were our food and fuel for one day. we barely ate as i recall. i love you to bits. but not as much as i love....
MEGAN. the friend that i did not notice wore braces until after 6 months. hahahah those gloria cartoon we drew. haha. and fighting with you over the editting booth? remember. i'll always renmeber you for that story you told us during speech comm. the one where you started a fire in your own waste paper basket.hahah you were the quietest of us all. we all thought you were weird or something haha. WAIT, you ARE weird. hahah!
DARREN ONG KWAN TONG. your name's weird so i just had to spell it out in full. you are the market spoiler. 4.0 for your GPA?! dude. smart ass. too smart sometimes. you and nic always in cahoots all ready to fire a shot at me. thanks for the B for locvid though. hahah we all know you are the reason that we got that grade. ahahha! remember that thing at megabites? the one that grace felt so guilty about for weeks. hahah it was when we got back our writcomm assignment. haha i remember you got an A on that one and we thought that that was the reason for the sudden generousity. now we know better.
YAWEN. i can't believe how much we have in common. the late nights rushing out the newspaper and magazine. you, liz and nic going on and on about how karma will find me. okay ikea wednesdays and hotdog days. "studying" for exams and couldn't care less about that damn da chang jing whole kpop thing. hahahah. oh yes, that credit card job that we took. with that whatever it's called company. and then there was the whole grey's anatomy and desperate housewives thing. hahahwe got eliz sucked into the GA. yes, now you got no time. how positively saddening!
AGGIE. my gossip alter ego. yes, the so very unglam mass commers we are. ahahah the spontaneous posdcasts with liz. man that sent my t*ts laughing! ahahah! the whole uncle toby's thing and the random weekly? oh yes and our sibu island escape. hahahh i will miss your oh so damn contagious laughter. hahahah thinking of you laughing can make me laugh already.
LIZ. hahah yes no one knew you as lai UNTIL i came along. the nights we spent up trying to conceptualize CHNG KEE's. the ideas we came up with. you were so random. hahah staying up night after night just to get the whole thing done. funny how we were in the same school for 4 years and only knew each other after we came to poly. and remember all the times in the freaky darkroom freaky.
YISZE. well well. you had my biggest secret. thanks for not dishing. hahah. remember that ceazy all nighter we pulled to do that MRM lit review and we still went for a movie after that. hahah! CLASSIC. so us. and the news writing. all the subbing and what not staring at word till our brains were too tired to think. and we could still watch initial D after that. hahah. see the pattern? hahah.
well well of course there are so many more people like princess juju, cassan, fi, zat who's never early, awon who got me through the 5 months are netremedia... oh yes i almost forgot. the takhmau people. damn you guys were fun. like i said time passes too fast and we forget even faster. and we all move on to chase...... jinny joes.
GRACE. haha you the snow white then, i'll always remember you for the "reka, please show him the finger for me". that was a classic. hahah all the graph comm bullshit and the locvid stuff. haha sitting at starbucks trying to write our speech outline. and sitting in the editting booths you watching megan and i fight over the controls. hahah! and your eye rolls. thank you for being snow white and constantly going "abigail, you're so mean! you're a pastor's daughter!". that's a reminder enough.
PEARL. yes cold, tired and hungry. hahah that phrase is exclusively yours. you got me hooked to online shopping (which my pocket has not recovered from since). hahah those crazy drawings and colourings to be as perfect as possible paid off. hahah that fifty bucks that we each won. kudos my friend. hahah the motion tweening which sent us into spasms and the shift sleep. you were always so difficult to wake up, you sleep like a rock. seriously.
NICOLE. yes i know, who said you're my friend. you're by far the only one who has stuck with me through 3 years. gosh how did i survive with you?! hahah. right. well, yes yes, KARMA. one day it will come searching for me. news writing, feature writing, advert, adv advert, PR, webd, radio, tvprod, mrm. gosh that's one hell of a list you know that. i know i've pushed your limits once too many but thanks for still being my friend. hahah! oh yes not forgetting PSS2. seriuosly, i have not idea how you persuaded me to ever go with you to that cheena show in the first place but i guess it wasn't that bad after all. in fact something good actually came out of it. haha! those 20 dollar cab rides home and you pickign and sieving through all those crap photos of mine. i know some of those were fabulous too. and yes our one very classic prank.
REKA. you're my blackest friend. and don't say i'm racist. i'm not i'm just a colorist. ahhaha! nah i do not discriminate. lols. you're my craziest friend. my partner in noise. till silence do us part. lol! i remember the arguements we had over the smallest things in locvid. ahhaha and my sudden night inspiration. remember the splicing during radio which got darren and holmberg all irritated. ahhaha! and those sleepless nights doing advert. our random CHNG KEE's whatever. SPSS and pie charts were our food and fuel for one day. we barely ate as i recall. i love you to bits. but not as much as i love....
MEGAN. the friend that i did not notice wore braces until after 6 months. hahahah those gloria cartoon we drew. haha. and fighting with you over the editting booth? remember. i'll always renmeber you for that story you told us during speech comm. the one where you started a fire in your own waste paper basket.hahah you were the quietest of us all. we all thought you were weird or something haha. WAIT, you ARE weird. hahah!
DARREN ONG KWAN TONG. your name's weird so i just had to spell it out in full. you are the market spoiler. 4.0 for your GPA?! dude. smart ass. too smart sometimes. you and nic always in cahoots all ready to fire a shot at me. thanks for the B for locvid though. hahah we all know you are the reason that we got that grade. ahahha! remember that thing at megabites? the one that grace felt so guilty about for weeks. hahah it was when we got back our writcomm assignment. haha i remember you got an A on that one and we thought that that was the reason for the sudden generousity. now we know better.
YAWEN. i can't believe how much we have in common. the late nights rushing out the newspaper and magazine. you, liz and nic going on and on about how karma will find me. okay ikea wednesdays and hotdog days. "studying" for exams and couldn't care less about that damn da chang jing whole kpop thing. hahahah. oh yes, that credit card job that we took. with that whatever it's called company. and then there was the whole grey's anatomy and desperate housewives thing. hahahwe got eliz sucked into the GA. yes, now you got no time. how positively saddening!
AGGIE. my gossip alter ego. yes, the so very unglam mass commers we are. ahahah the spontaneous posdcasts with liz. man that sent my t*ts laughing! ahahah! the whole uncle toby's thing and the random weekly? oh yes and our sibu island escape. hahahh i will miss your oh so damn contagious laughter. hahahah thinking of you laughing can make me laugh already.
LIZ. hahah yes no one knew you as lai UNTIL i came along. the nights we spent up trying to conceptualize CHNG KEE's. the ideas we came up with. you were so random. hahah staying up night after night just to get the whole thing done. funny how we were in the same school for 4 years and only knew each other after we came to poly. and remember all the times in the freaky darkroom freaky.
YISZE. well well. you had my biggest secret. thanks for not dishing. hahah. remember that ceazy all nighter we pulled to do that MRM lit review and we still went for a movie after that. hahah! CLASSIC. so us. and the news writing. all the subbing and what not staring at word till our brains were too tired to think. and we could still watch initial D after that. hahah. see the pattern? hahah.
well well of course there are so many more people like princess juju, cassan, fi, zat who's never early, awon who got me through the 5 months are netremedia... oh yes i almost forgot. the takhmau people. damn you guys were fun. like i said time passes too fast and we forget even faster. and we all move on to chase...... jinny joes.
Monday, February 5, 2007
omega
Yes, i've finally come to the end of a 3 year long quest to get my diploma. today i have submitted my very last assignment ever as a student of mass communications at ngee ann polytechnic. and as usual the anticipation/excitement is way more than the actual thing in itself. i'm gonna miss the lame jokes of agnes koh. and man as fast as the 5 months did pass, so did the past 3 years. i've already missed the company of friends like grace, lynn, megan, pearl, reka, nicole, agnes, darren, yawen, liz, yisze. notice darren if you see this ever that you're the only guy in that list. honoured? hahah okay whatever. i know what you're thinking. dun even say it. nicole you too.
oh wells. and so everyone is like asking me.... "so abi/gail/abigail what are you gonna do?" i tell them i'm not sure, i don't have plan and what not. made me really think. maybe i'm an escapist. cos i seem to wanna run from everything. or maybe deep down i'm just so afraid of starting something and failing. going to uni is not an option for me. financially and realistically. why the hell would i wanna get a degree in design or photography. UNLESS its neurology that i'm gonna study. but what's the point in chasing degrees? all it is is a cert and at the end of the day its not even that that counts. i mean its not like a degree will ensure you one foot in the door of heaven. i mean if its does by all means. it's all about means to an end isn't it. and a degree is not the means to the end i wanna be at. if at all getting a degree might get me further from my end. so what's in a degree or that piece of paper? money?
so i'm going to Israel for sure. dunno the exact dates yet but yups i am going to sojourn the holy land. hahah that's exciting. i can't wait to go honestly. it'lll be one hell of an experience. and the photos... oh yeah. hahah!
anyways, i'm onto a new show called HEROES. hahha. so damn bloody cool. hahahs. in fact i'm gonna watch it when i finish this post. i also finished another jodi picoult book called keeping faith. i did not really like that ending but the book is a good book as jodi picoult's other books. this explores religion and faith. it's a very daring book i would say. and then i finished "if you could see me now" by cecelia ahern. that book was very fun and bittersweet. imaginary friends. that was what it was about. actually both books dealt with imaginary friends. well i'm a BOOKWORM!!!!! hahah. proud of that.
I like this extract in Keeping Faith.... its the conversation Faith's mother had with God when Faith had her second major hospitalization.
'You,' I say, anger clawing its way up my chest.
'She isn't in pain.'
'Do you think it makes it all right?' I shout.
'Believe in what i'm doing'.
I cannot trust myself to answer right away. I think of Ian, of what he has said about God. 'How can i believe in You,' i whisper, 'when you would do this to a little girl?'
'i'm not doing it to her, i'm doing this for her.'
'semantics don't make much of a difference when you're about to die'
For a while God sits on the edge of my bed smoothing (His) hand over the covers and leaving behind a silver patina, like the gilding of great ages gone by. 'Did you ever consider,' she says softly, finally, 'that i know what it feels like to loose a child?'
that's it. FINITO.
quote of the day?
When God said "jump", Abraham asked... "how high?"
--Ian Fletcher in Keeping Faith.
oh wells. and so everyone is like asking me.... "so abi/gail/abigail what are you gonna do?" i tell them i'm not sure, i don't have plan and what not. made me really think. maybe i'm an escapist. cos i seem to wanna run from everything. or maybe deep down i'm just so afraid of starting something and failing. going to uni is not an option for me. financially and realistically. why the hell would i wanna get a degree in design or photography. UNLESS its neurology that i'm gonna study. but what's the point in chasing degrees? all it is is a cert and at the end of the day its not even that that counts. i mean its not like a degree will ensure you one foot in the door of heaven. i mean if its does by all means. it's all about means to an end isn't it. and a degree is not the means to the end i wanna be at. if at all getting a degree might get me further from my end. so what's in a degree or that piece of paper? money?
so i'm going to Israel for sure. dunno the exact dates yet but yups i am going to sojourn the holy land. hahah that's exciting. i can't wait to go honestly. it'lll be one hell of an experience. and the photos... oh yeah. hahah!
anyways, i'm onto a new show called HEROES. hahha. so damn bloody cool. hahahs. in fact i'm gonna watch it when i finish this post. i also finished another jodi picoult book called keeping faith. i did not really like that ending but the book is a good book as jodi picoult's other books. this explores religion and faith. it's a very daring book i would say. and then i finished "if you could see me now" by cecelia ahern. that book was very fun and bittersweet. imaginary friends. that was what it was about. actually both books dealt with imaginary friends. well i'm a BOOKWORM!!!!! hahah. proud of that.
I like this extract in Keeping Faith.... its the conversation Faith's mother had with God when Faith had her second major hospitalization.
'You,' I say, anger clawing its way up my chest.
'She isn't in pain.'
'Do you think it makes it all right?' I shout.
'Believe in what i'm doing'.
I cannot trust myself to answer right away. I think of Ian, of what he has said about God. 'How can i believe in You,' i whisper, 'when you would do this to a little girl?'
'i'm not doing it to her, i'm doing this for her.'
'semantics don't make much of a difference when you're about to die'
For a while God sits on the edge of my bed smoothing (His) hand over the covers and leaving behind a silver patina, like the gilding of great ages gone by. 'Did you ever consider,' she says softly, finally, 'that i know what it feels like to loose a child?'
that's it. FINITO.
quote of the day?
When God said "jump", Abraham asked... "how high?"
--Ian Fletcher in Keeping Faith.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
my sister's keeper
oh my gosh, this book is amazing.
i cried reading this book i promise. it's so moving. you can't decide who's in the wrong cos no one is actually in the wrong. we'll at least form everyone's point of view. the book is full of unexpected turns and full of questions that we ask everyday. what is isolation? why do we feel lonely even with all the people around us? when is it time to let go? when does loving someone too much turn to selfishness? is life ever fair? we all have our secrets. this book is just AMAZING. i love it. Jodi picoult is just so brilliant in crafting this novel. my mind is swarmed with thoughts. the book is overwhelming and it's gonna need soemtime for it to be fully digested.
other than that i've got an offer to buy a macbook pro. its a really good offer and reallly tempting one too. but do i jsut want this or do i really need this? i dunno. damn it. and my iBook will only be back sometime in the coming week. there's only 5 more days left to the end of IAP and about 8 more days before my final report is due. the thing is, what am i even going to write in that report? UGH.
oh wells, i guess i really got nothing much to say except that something really awkward happened today. but i shall not recount it. and for the record, it involves someone's reallly huge ego.
quote of the day?
dark matter has a gravitational effect on other objects. you cant's see it, you can't feel it, but you can watching something being pulled in its direction. --brian to julia in my sister's keeper.
i cried reading this book i promise. it's so moving. you can't decide who's in the wrong cos no one is actually in the wrong. we'll at least form everyone's point of view. the book is full of unexpected turns and full of questions that we ask everyday. what is isolation? why do we feel lonely even with all the people around us? when is it time to let go? when does loving someone too much turn to selfishness? is life ever fair? we all have our secrets. this book is just AMAZING. i love it. Jodi picoult is just so brilliant in crafting this novel. my mind is swarmed with thoughts. the book is overwhelming and it's gonna need soemtime for it to be fully digested.
other than that i've got an offer to buy a macbook pro. its a really good offer and reallly tempting one too. but do i jsut want this or do i really need this? i dunno. damn it. and my iBook will only be back sometime in the coming week. there's only 5 more days left to the end of IAP and about 8 more days before my final report is due. the thing is, what am i even going to write in that report? UGH.
oh wells, i guess i really got nothing much to say except that something really awkward happened today. but i shall not recount it. and for the record, it involves someone's reallly huge ego.
quote of the day?
dark matter has a gravitational effect on other objects. you cant's see it, you can't feel it, but you can watching something being pulled in its direction. --brian to julia in my sister's keeper.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
untitled
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! i've watched episode 14 of season 2 of PRISON BREAK!!!! YESHHHH!!! FINALLY!!! you have no idea how long i've been waiting for this. and damn jsut when you think this is as good as the show get the producers just proves you wrong. so wrong. kudos.
anyway i've liked this song all along but i suddenly decided to googel the lyrics and look what came up... i love the first two lines of the chorus.
Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came
oh wells. if you have been wondering where i've been, whihc i highly doubt so, my ibook decided to go swimming last week. yes i know. its gonna cost me about a thousand bucks. WTH right? so veron has offered me a very attractive price for her macbook pro. should i? she even said i could pay her by installment. i promise i've known so many nice people through this project superstar 2 stint. hahaha lousy friend, his royal highness hahaha. oh man his face was classic yesterday. hahahah CLASSIC.
oh wells, so its only a week more to the end of internship. rather 6 days after today. i'm contemplating how to tell boss that i dun wanna make up the 4 days to just deduct it from my pay. i mean i'm so tired already and final report is due 5th feb. nightmares. anyway, twins' birthday the coming monday! so fast they're already 3. gosh. its really quick REALLY REALLY quick. i sound like their mom. SHEESH.
BIG YAWNS, i'm so tired. oh yes i bought a jodi picoult book "my sisters keeper".
quote of the day?
Under this mask there is more than flesh and blood; there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof. -- V
anyway i've liked this song all along but i suddenly decided to googel the lyrics and look what came up... i love the first two lines of the chorus.
Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came
oh wells. if you have been wondering where i've been, whihc i highly doubt so, my ibook decided to go swimming last week. yes i know. its gonna cost me about a thousand bucks. WTH right? so veron has offered me a very attractive price for her macbook pro. should i? she even said i could pay her by installment. i promise i've known so many nice people through this project superstar 2 stint. hahaha lousy friend, his royal highness hahaha. oh man his face was classic yesterday. hahahah CLASSIC.
oh wells, so its only a week more to the end of internship. rather 6 days after today. i'm contemplating how to tell boss that i dun wanna make up the 4 days to just deduct it from my pay. i mean i'm so tired already and final report is due 5th feb. nightmares. anyway, twins' birthday the coming monday! so fast they're already 3. gosh. its really quick REALLY REALLY quick. i sound like their mom. SHEESH.
BIG YAWNS, i'm so tired. oh yes i bought a jodi picoult book "my sisters keeper".
quote of the day?
Under this mask there is more than flesh and blood; there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof. -- V
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