I was reading The Name of the Wind on the bus when this hit me:

An excerpt from The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

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"Master Elodin?"

 

"Yes?" His eyes followed a squirrel across the road and up a tree.

 

"I still don't understand about names."

 

"I will teach you to understand," he said easily. "The nature of names cannot be described, only experienced and understood."

 

"Why can't it be described?" I asked. "If you understand a thing, you can describe it."

 

"Can you describe all things you understand?" he looked sideways at me.

 

"Of course."

 

Elodin pointed down the street. "What color is that boy's shirt?"

 

"Blue."

 

"What do you mean by blue? Describe it."

 

I struggled for a moment, failed. "So blue is a name?"

 

"It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the the fire itself."

 

My head was swimming at this point. "I still don't understand."

 

He laid a hand on my shoulder. "Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating." He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. "But there are other ways to understanding!" he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still laughing. "Look!" he shouted tilting his head back. "Blue! Blue! Blue!"

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This was the moment when young Kvothe came into awareness of his own powers and abilities. A truly amazing moment. Makes me remember and connect back to a time so long ago. It's important to remember certain things...they hold within them endless perspectives and avenues to tap into them time and time again.

Let's see...

What did I do yesterday...

9am - 12noon = Tutor-ed the brother & sister in Sembawang

1pm - 4pm = Trained/Coached two people for event preparation

5pm - 6pm = Slack at Raffles City Starbucks

615pm - 815pm = Sat at the Comics Mart on Level 3 and did the following:

1. Dug through the Magic common box. Shiok!
2. Chatted with the guys there about Magic.
3. Made a new friend.
4. Spent $17.50 on 3 packs + 50 protectors to play two-man draft.
5. Won the draft and first-picked a FOIL Empyrial Archangel! Shiokness!
(Here's the picture)



I think it's worth quite a lot...should be enough to cover my costs. But then again...it's so damn pretty! Argh! Pretty pretty pretty!

9pm - 10pm = Dinner with A

Then I head home and that was that....nice nice. =)

Great Day!

I need to get more office supplies for my little space.

Tissue.
3-in-1 mixes (I suddenly have this craving for cereal. Hurhur)
Stationary holder of sorts.
MAYBE some aromatherapy shit.
Yeah....

I dunno...what do you all put in your office spaces?

It's been a while since a novel (or any book in fact) had the ability to keep me giggling/laughing for a good whole minute, ALOUD.

=)

On a totally unrelated note, I just want to say that I love the ambiguity of anaphoric referencing. LOL.

Damned it be to meddling strangers! Hah hah!

Dragonboater A: "I thought 'pre' is 'after'?"

Dragonboater B: "No. 'pre' is 'before'."

Dragonboater A: "Not 'after' meh? I thought it's 'after'."

Dragonboater B: "No, it's 'before'. 'Post' is 'after'."

Dragonboater A (muttering to himself): "Hmmm....'pre'..'pre'...'Prepare'...yeah, should be 'before'."

Dragonboater B (to Dragonboater C): "Actually, is it 'before' or 'after' ah?

Dragonboater A: "Wah lau! I thought you say you know?!"

At this point, I decided to stop listening to spare myself the laughter that would have inevitably killed me. Fortunately, I arrived at my stop already...so all was well. Does too much physical activity really do this to a person's brain? I remember once, I heard that some other dragonboater didn't know that raisins came from grapes...

I'm glad the dragonboaters I know aren't like that. =)

3rd day of work...

It's been pretty relaxed thus far.

People have been nice, work has been nice, place has been nice (enough).

Still got quite a few food places to explore, and I am thankful for friends who are just as new as me.

I get to use an eMac (yes yes, it's not an iMac, but it's good enough), so I foresee myself getting converted pretty soon.

Just that there are so few games on Mac! Argh.

Having an internet connection that allows me to use Gmail is great as well. Can Gmail chat...

That's the way to go in my company. Hehs.

I just hope they hurry up and complete the construction ASAP. I really REALLY hate walking amongst half-finished concrete. It certainly sucks big time. :(

I am writing this post because of the dire lack of updates (and sufficient bitching from my lovely EL friends).

As such, here are the updates surrounding my life & random thoughts:

1. I have found a job at a publishing house in the East (God Bless my long and boring travel time) and I start work on Wed!

2. I am contemplating what to spend money on when I get my first paycheck (I wanna buy something techie! Like a PSP/PS3!)

3. I miss my friends, and am wondering how in the world am I going to start making time for them again.

4. I don't get why blogging and Twittering and 'social-media-ing' are such big deals.

5. I am thinking of remodeling/redecorating my house...it's getting BORING.

6. I wanna get a bigger bed! I feel like a big kid stuck inside a baby cot.

7. I am beginning to appreciate the differences I have with certain people, and I am glad that we share the common goal to WORK THINGS OUT, such that everything can keep moving forward. Love y'll.

8. I am currently at tuition and am leeching off their internet connection (I am such a cheapo).

9. I am sick of trying to think of something to write, so yeah...suck it!

My stand for them will never change.

It must not, and cannot, and I will always remember that... for...

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu

So when you love YOURSELF...


GO FIGURE...

and I won't miss the parade square. I won't miss the flags

22nd - 27th June 2009.

Good bye world (and camera mobile phones)

...for the girl who takes care of her boys.


















(if you don't get it...it's okay. Those who know, know.)

Don't worry...i'm not talking about some philosophical concept or framework around life. I'm just a little annoyed at the slowness of things sometimes. I just finished reading Life Like A Flowing River by Paulo Coelho. :) Mighty fine stuff. I'll be posting some excerpts from the book soon. Very meaningful insights on the simplest things in life. (On a side note, i'm posting from my mobile phone. I love WiFi! Hee.)

I just finished watching the show on my computer...gosh...I teared lah...

I am such a sap.

I guess it just goes to show that when people put in time and energy into anything, anything at all, a relationship can develop.

I'm such a sucker for these heart-warming (read: heart wrenching) type shows. It just builds you up, then poignantly rips you apart, into little itty bitty shreds of emo-ness. I guess it did make me more appreciative of the loved ones around me. =)

This is so freaking stupid. The woman is so full of crap, that I cannot believe she hosts a gaming show on TV!

She is a sham...her personality profile of gamers is so rubbish man...

PS: She dissed Final Fantasy 7...'nuff said. (LOL)

Here's something I have not figured out since the day I set up my LiveJournal account.

I get random people adding me, and if I don't know them, I tend to send them a private message asking who they are, and if we have met somewhere before. The thing is, I usually don't get a reply. And these are people who want to add me as their friend. I just don't get it.

Maybe they just wanna increase their total number of friends, maybe they want to feel like they know a lot of people.

No purpose, no intention, no communications...I just don't get it.

Maybe I'm just not with the program?

*shrug*

PS: Honestly, I find it annoying, because I don't mind trying to get to the know the person, but it just doesn't seem like they are interested to TRULY make friends. Weirdos...
 

The diamond cutter sat on his stool, just in front of his work bench. He looked at the rough piece of rock in his hands, and wondered why it seemed so familiar to him, and yet, distinctly foreign, as though it were a piece of mineral of the Earth he had never come across before. As he studied the contours of the rock, his expert mind already began to conceptualize how it would turn out; where to cut, and where to polish, where to execute his flawless technique.

These thoughts were flooding. Flowing. Ebbing here and everywhere. In the immersion, he was clear. Suddenly, he remembered something. The floor; the floor around his work bench - it's an abyss, nothing more. If he drops the rock he holds, it falls into oblivion, never to be found again. There can be no chance to recover this rock, not from his knowledge anyways.

Staring back at the rock in his hands, he let himself delve into its murky, unpolished depths. Wondering what exactly he would create with his skills...

Nichole: I always get the fail, but I never get the flying colour. *pouts*


Hilarious, I love teaching English. =)

Some people don't understand the importance of introductions...or the power of alacrity.

Wasted opportunities.