YSaturday, August 05, 2006
Just feeling a bit blue today...
Having one of those times where there's nothing to say, no witty remark to make or weird encounters to blog about. Today's my birthday and the "best" presents i've gotten are a blocked nose and sore throat. My immune system crashed since friday night actually (stayed up that till 5 on friday morning to start on an assignment that was due on friday itself). Thought I'd recover and prayed that I'd recover but well, my wish wasnt granted. Sometimes i cant help but wonder if the big guy up there has a wicked sense of humour. I'm saying this in jest of course.
Anyway I'm glad I've had my fair share of fun though - cos I've been treated like royalty on Thursday and Friday, supposedly Saturday but I felt half alive then so party at leong's got cancelled. (sunday, which is today, is left for my family)! Haha. But of course, I'd like to thank all, for giving me birthday blessings, whether in the form of smses, calls, cards, treats and/or gifts. Really appreciated them. Quirky stuffs: red strawberry beaded purse, striped red-white bag, TY beanie babies, What Dreams May Come VCD, jewellery, a top, an artfully designed wooden box (feeds my obsession for Pandora's Box) with a deck of The Cat cards, lastly - a voodoo doll (my mum thought it's a mummy).
My artsy fartsy elder sis did up an A3 size card on her own and in it, she put in the lyrics of Wear Sunscreen by *gasp* my favourite director - Baz Luhrmann (he sings too but i admire him for his directing in Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet). Anyway the message in the lyrics are perhaps, echo the advice she wants to give me. The lyrics are pretty cool (or maybe i'm just prejudiced cos it's Luhrmann). Here's just an extract of the lyrics:
"Don't waste your time on jealousy
sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind
the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself
(etc etc etc)
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life
the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you'll marry,
maybe you won't,
maybe you'll have children,
maybe you won't,
maybe you'll divorce at 40,
maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary
what ever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either - your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.
(etc etc)
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings;
they are the best link to your past
and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,
but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young."
Um, what's it i wanna say? Oh, Children's day is coming soon. Haha. Ok that's random. Right, I know it's actually more than a month away if I think about it. but but but, I'm thinking of bringing joy to the cancer foundation kids! Yup. So excited already. Not just thinking of helping Miss Magician and being part of her performance BUT also, if i'm good enough, perform for the kids myself. But that would mean i'd need to polish my performing skills. Sigh. Oh well, will cross the bridge when I get there. (:
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