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Finding Life Somewhere Else

Time for a change. This was good while it lasted, but it's time to move on.

posted by kallynn @ 4:36 PM 0 Comments

there's absolutely everything and absolutely nothing going through my head at this point in time.
let's go away and having absolutely nothing on our minds, shall we?

edit! - 10.11pm.
i've just bought three books!
1. seven types of ambiguity by elliot perlman - i know, slow. but i've been hearing good things about the book, so it can't hurt to give it a read.
2. then we came to the end by joshua ferris - a random pick, seems like a light read, which is kind of what i was going for initially: something modern, close to life and possibly tongue-in-cheek.
3. atonement by ian mcewan - i never caught the movie, so i decided to buy the book. the novels are always better than the films ANYWAY. i'll watch the movie after, and see if my impression matches close to the movie.

the battle against a rusting, dying, dimming mind begins henceforth. (albeit armed with only leisure reads that aren't exactly mind-sharpening materials, as compared to other reads relating to the pertinent, pressing issues of today's world. oh well, we have to learn to walk before we learn to run, don't we?)

posted by kallynn @ 10:24 AM 0 Comments

Is this simply the unique perversity of the human heart that wants (and wants and wants) what it doesn't have -- Italian food in Paris, American jazz in Saint-Germain -- and, only when it is about to lose it, returns to the things that drew it to the desire in the first place? Or was there a kind of peace in it too? Loss, like distance, gives permission for romance. In a better-ordered Verona, Romeo and Juliet would have grown up to be just another couple at dinner.
Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon.

this perversity, i say, results to taking what you already have, for granted.
we all ought to be shot in the head, really.
our sad, wandering minds are always searching for something (we think is) better, something of which existence we can barely grasp, based solely on a silly whim or notion that it may actually even be there, when we get there.

how silly we are!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
i had a good day.
albeit a slightly chaotic and impromptu one.
good day. cute baby cousins. chaotic restaurants. friendly chats with relatives and cousins.
good day, yes, good day.

yea, i'm bored.
very bored.
maybe i should work somewhere soon. i wanna work somewhere full of people, somewhere where everyone's at their worst and ugliest. from what i hear, it's not hard to find places like these. i think i need to snap out of my naivety, and from the stories i hear, working really helps.
yea, wake up, time for me to wake up.

posted by kallynn @ 12:05 AM 0 Comments

hello love, i think i've just exhaled.
i'm no longer waiting, i've decided there isn't any waiting to be done in this. it was in my mind, some preconceived notion that i had to wait for something to happen, before i could breathe.
nothing will happen, nothing shall. but at the same time, everything will, in due's course. they won't be momentous events, there won't be signs that'd say "please exhale, life begins now". they're just gonna happen. no flashing billboards, no celebrations (or mourning, for that matter).
life's too short to be spent waiting for milestones and landmarks, so there.
but then again, it may just be that the only reason why i felt that way was because i cared. well so now, i don't anymore.
i'm not (consciously) waiting for replies from universities, i'm not worrying what'll happen, not anymore.
when it comes, there's no stopping it. it comes in your face, like a yellow school bus with its brakes removed. take whatever comes, and suck it up.

posted by kallynn @ 12:16 AM 0 Comments

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.
i know this isn't new, i've seen it a couple of times myself. its just that every SINGLE time i see this, it's like i'm seeing it for the first time. i can't help but laugh.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.
omg little boy i love your look of absolute, unadulterated determination.
oh and i love colouring too. remember to colour within the lines okay, i used to have problems doing that.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAA.
i wonder how old he is now. with an attitude like that, i'm sure he's someone big. or at least will be, fo'sure.
and not that i'm suggesting anything, nope, really not suggesting anything at all, but, BUT, doesn't he look a little, JUST A LITTLE, like ocoughbama?
(:
don't judge, it's just self-entertainment.

two nights ago i was just laying in bed with my glasses on, mp3 blasting and book laying flat beside me.
i was so confident i wasn't going to fall asleep. i was SO SURE i'd clean my thoughts for the day up and get up to switch the lights off before going to sleep.
but i thought wrong.
i fell asleep with my head suspended in mid-air cus i propped my bolster on my pillow, my mp3 blasting, and still wearing my glasses.
WOW, good job, good job.
i slept like that the entire night. (except that my mp3 stopped blasting, cus it ran out of songs to blast) and the product was a (very) sore neck, strange dreams and a very SCREWED UP pair of glasses.
they're so screwed up and twisted that now when i wear them, i get dizzy.
there's something wrong with the shape of it, i think.
it slides off my face, just like that.

therefore, i'm dizzy now.
goodbye

posted by kallynn @ 1:08 PM 0 Comments

Banksy Exhibit

please click to view a larger image!
all these can be found in an abandoned tunnel in the UK.
if i had the means, i'd like to fly there right now. i'd like to spend a week in london, doing nothing but soaking up london. yes i miss the uk so very much. it's a permanent withdrawal kind of thing, which started the day we got onto that return flight from heathrow back in june 2006.
really, the UK's one of my personal favourite travel destinations of all time. i mean, how can you not love visiting a place like this? the culture, the life, the spunk. it's such an old, old country, but its energy outlives far younger nations like ours.
i remember posting pictures of a similar exhibit quite some time back (maybe during the prelims-alevels period), except those pieces took up pavements.
pavement or tunnel, i love the exhibition.
and i heard that the singapore biennale will be no more after this year. bummer. ):

posted by kallynn @ 1:21 PM 0 Comments

FOR ZHAOEY.

:D
you know i still love you.

posted by kallynn @ 3:21 PM 0 Comments