I am here

I am here

to hear about your day

for you to say 'hey'

I am here

to see your pretty smile

that always makes me fuzzy inside

don't you know i pray about you sometimes

to wish you a happy day for the long night ahead where i am

I am here

even though it's raining outside

i never let it creep inside me

because with you on my mind

my heart will remain fuzzy like spring

photo from dave's phone

bluetooth action!!!!! (we both had our haircuts :P)

<1 mesi

Wowww it's only a few weeks now until the final presentation and thesis submission...!!!!!!!!!!
shite...

The Great Debaters

Just having a quiet Sunday, with Hind (my new flatmate) gone to Bologna for the weekend, I remembered she transferred me a movie called “The Great Debaters” last week. I thought of her and decided to watch it (aww). From the good ol’ harpo productions (Oprah backwards for those who didn’t know) with Denzel Washington as the director- this film was great!!!! Based on a true story about 3 college students at Wiley Texas, the film shows how they become to defeat Harvard, followed by a further 10 years of remaining an undefeated team. Reminded me of my debating days in intermediate & high school though the subject was not as heart-pounding (i.e. real) as those issues of racism and the true embarrassment of the face of the world created by human society as the movie showed. Anyway, the reason why I wanted to write about this film was so I could write down a memorable quote from the movie:

“We do what we have to do…so we could do what we want to do”

It got me to think…how many years do I have to live in this world? And of those years, what is the most important and investing thing I will have done? And what do I have to pass on to the world?

The last 2 questions go hand-in-hand. If I’m investing on something in this life for a long time, naturally this thing will be what I will pass on to the world? Anyway not to think too complicatedly, I know FOR SURE that in order to get anywhere past this year, I have to finish my thesis J and that’s just what I’ll do…and in the meantime, I hope you too can realise there are many things in life we just have to do…in order to do what we truly want to do.

That’s psychologically good enough for my noggin =)

Point of View

Shuffling:
I shuffle over to the other side of my bed at dawn trying to close the small gap between the heavy curtains,
before the light gets the best of me-
before it prevents me from enjoying the last hour of sleep
I dream not only of seeing the light, but having enough light to warm my body,
to be able to lie under it in my underwear,
it is so cold and dank inside here

Rain:
Walking through the rain, it's so heavy it's started to seep through,
following the metal lining of my umbrella i can feel a drop on my head following my hair
it's annoying
I want to feel the rain,
to walk through it-
unable to get outside, i press my head against the cold cement wall
trying to smell, to feel, to even only imagine
the slightest of rain diffusing through the wall

If i could feel one blade of grass,
if i could wake up disturbed by the sound of a crying baby,
if i could be late to work because of the cranky bus driver,

if i could tell the world what it's like to be kept inside

i would start by saying: "what if you could never..."
then you'd see their somewhat sad faces, gazing down on you
as if to say sorry

but as soon as they turn their backs on you and continue carrying on with their lives
they quickly forget the different point of view
between the rain seeping through their umbrella
and me

trying to feel the rain through these square walls
and the only rain felt is down my cheeks in the middle of the night in my bed

1 month

Well it's been raining in Trento for awhile now, lovely if you are inside, ugly if you have to walk around. It's all about the balance!
I've just taken 2 chocolates and a coffee...approx 1 hour before having lunch! I'm such a pig.
And for the record...it'll be midnight in about 1hour in NZ which means 1 month before 6 years anniversary!

Almost there...

This long distance relationship is so hectic.

I've seen so many married couples in San Bartolomeo where one partner is in her/his home country with their children! heck, one hasn't even seen his recently-born daughter yet! It's so crazy. If i were them i couldn't have a long distance marriage relationship with the kids involved? I guess you never know until you're in it for real though. Maybe it works out just fine...But anyway, enough blabbing =)

Happy 5/11 anniversary to me & dave (x)

"Like morning sun you warm my soul ,some times at night you are the only light,and for the days in between you become my life..." david, jan 24, 2008

25 years old

Happy b'day to my bro who's turned 25!

Birthdays are a funny thing. You never quite know whether you feel young or old enough for being at the stage of where you are at that moment. HMmm...I guess there are not much standards in the world because we learn 'till we die...I know that's one thing we have in common. We all learn! I'm extra happy on his b'day coz it reminds me end of Bush and continuum of Lincoln :P OH AND NO MORE WINSTON PISS-HEAD finally!
Well anyway, only 42 days left until i'm out of Italy...hrm, SO MUCH TO DO!! EEeek!

Things you must do before you turn 20...and why

For those who are still <20...and for my younger self

1) eat whatever you want >10pm
it's SO much easier to grow a wee belly after you hit 20
2) play netball...in a team!
when you get old, it's impossible to find a full team for a game of netball!!
3) dress up on halloween
you may end up in a place where this day is not 'celebrated'
4) drink excessively
but make sure your friends are around
5) use the skills learnt from textiles class and make your own clothes
enough said
6) learn how to ride a bike
yep learning this late definately has it's consequences
7) learn how to knit
because when you're old enough to actually want to knit, you'll go crosseyed trying to learn how
8) colour your hair orange
memories are so much more vivid when you were in that hair...
9) sleep in a car
10) make door signs...for every door in the house
11) buy pastel coloured pens for writing in journals
12) make an ant farm
13) work in a supermarket or similar
14) wear red trackpants
9)-14) its just unecessary/tacky, plus, you will be much more lazier and be a sanitized creature when you're older

hmm..i could go on forever here, i should stop and just go to bed- work tomorrow!



last but not least (had to edit post i almost forgot)- learn how to photoshop or else it would look something like this: (my first attempt) :(

Snowtop Mountain

The formidable mountains,
bigger than the footsteps of men,
seemingly untouchable,
as they say-
the incapabilities of changing a human adult,
could it be that i see
the whiteness covered to remind you that life-
the strongest of all forces, the great land protruding nearer to the sun
allows the most delicatest sprinkles of snowflakes touch and cover it's grandeur like satin,
without a sound, without haste-
can it see it's own beauty? Such a beautiful thing, yet stronger still...
they say you cannot change a man but there are things we all appreciate
like the silloutte of snow on the untouchable, unreachable and the undestructable...

Saw V

was goooooooooooooooooood :)



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