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30.7.08
i wonder why/ 2:02 AM i wonder why people cannot be magnanimous towards one another i wonder why people keep remembering the mistakes of one another, refusing to forgive and forget each other i wonder why people can't let go i wonder why people don't give others a 2nd chance i wonder why people are so gei4 gao3 over small things i wonder why misunderstandings can't be resolved over time tsk tsk *shakes head* haizz thanks to kelvin and khim for the chat over msn yesterday night :) like what khim said to me yesterday night: "我觉得出国后，视野是会变得不一样的" |
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24.7.08
/ 7:15 PM Mozi was on his way to persuade warlords on peace a friend of his asked: "only you? how can you one person and your futile efforts change this age of unrest?" not answering his friend directly, he asked his friend: "in the past, there was this plot of land, and there were ten brothers. nine of them said that there's no point in ploughing the land, and waited for one other to start the action. if you're the tenth brother, what will you do?" will you slack with the rest, and let everyone go hungry in the harsh winter? or will you work harder so that everyone will have food to eat in the coming winter? there's this chinese saying which i've always used when i meet obstacles and dilemmas: "君子有所为，有所不为" and you're not alone, in other plots of land, there're many people who are putting in their own efforts to change the world too. so step out and find them this blog post is for all those who're feeling jaded, dis-oriented, demoralised or feeling unappreciated :) |
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23.7.08
/ 2:36 AM tan chuan seng is back from china! finally! hmm, its a mixed feeling to be back home but one thing for sure is that im more certain of my next step in life than any other time in my 3 years of university. this is a feeling that's similar to 2 years ago, somewhere around this time when i set my mind on re-running... and now i look forward to what lies ahead of me! =) China is a place I'll never forget. if arts club is the place that makes me grow, china is the place that changed me hopefully there's a noticeable change in my outlook towards life, character, and "seh" haha 2 qualities that i know for sure that i've mastered rather well after my SEP: tolerance and patience! China mah, everything have to wait, have to tolerate, if not life will be damn difficult there and i miss playing badminton and chinese chess! i miss my room-mate too! :/ ------ for the 2nd part of this post, i shall blog in chinese: 回来以后，很惊讶。 很多人比我还想知道自己内心的感觉 已经快一年了， 到底还有没有感觉，我还不能完全确定，可能只有见到面才能够确定，所以我很期待下一次的碰面。 那应该是另一种微妙的感觉，我希望是。 到现在为止，我心里仍然充斥着对大江、古城、名山的向往。 中国一行回来后， 我的脑子只想着两件事情：一、毕业以后的事业； 二、如何能够身历其境天下美景。 ------ i'm physically tired, but im mentally hyped up! i know life's gonna be exciting for the next one year, hahaha life's never gona be the same when im back! wahahaha!!! =p ----- 走出去才有路 ----- and i really feel like scolding someone, to wake up that person's idea |
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21.7.08
/ 12:26 AM 其实不想走 blogging in guangzhou now, my last stop of my final backpacking tour in china and the end of my 5 months of carefree SEP in China from hangzhou to shanghai from hangzhou to xi'an to yunnan from 3 gorges to the tiger leaping gorge seen a lot, experienced a lot, learnt a lot china is really not as bad as what a lot of you thought it to be 从前，我把离别看的很重，现在看来，只不过是一句再见吧了。只要有心，天涯海角也不是距离；如果无心，千百句珍重也只是敷衍了事 从前，我认为朋友越多越好。现在，我很认真地择友。 来到了中国后，我发现，这个世界不会因为少了谁而停止转动，却可能因为多一个人的努力而转动的更精彩 例如：三峡和虎跳峡：其实虎跳峡的风景比三峡更美、更壮丽。但是三峡却人人皆识，因为三峡的故事比虎跳峡多，因此更引人入胜。 而这些故事，是一代又一代人用自己的生命事迹为大地山河编写出来的。 thoughts after SEP: singaporeans should REALLY step out of singapore to experience life, to know how life is like in another country, another culture, to really know how an unplanned life is like a foreign land, to have things that are norms to you taken away, mingle with people from other countries. then, you'll really appreciate what you have, and find out what's wrong with your current lifestyle. and never come to conclusions about anyone (including yourself) and other countries till you've really seen everything inside out of it. |
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9.7.08
/ 8:42 PM "笑傲江湖 ＋ 华山论剑 ＋ 寻秦记 + 大唐双龙传" in Xi'an's seven sages youth hostel now, quick post here! Finally i realized the Hua Shan dream~!! went up to hua shan on Tuesday and now im damn shagged, it was like back to the army chiong suah days man 2160m above sea level, 4 peaks, i piah thru them! the places Linghu Chong and his Xiao shi-mei trained! the place where he mastered his Dugu swordplay! the place where Guo Jing and yang guo became kung-fu masters, the place where Ren Woxing conquered Hua Shan!!! I saw them all!!!! wheee!!! (will post up pictures when im back hehs) 我也是天下第一！:p really really thank Queena, her friends Jimmy, Ao Le, Kayan and her friend Kelvin for bringing me around! =) then hor then hor, i went to see the Terracotta Warriors! yeps, it was magnificent, but after looking at them, i sort of pity Qin Shi Huang Why? haiz, coz i think he really 看不开, can't let go of what he had i mean, yes, he did so much that no other emperors in chinese history could outdo him. but when its time to let go, just let go la! what for build such a big (over 5000 plus sq km) of tomb, use so much resources to make terracotta warriors, use so much manpower to build his underground palace, just to continue his emperor dream after his death? there's a time for everything, when your time is up, just pass it on lo... hmm, but all great men had magnificent tombs, mebbe all of them had the same mentality of 放不开 as well... ----- next stop(s), Kunming, Lijiang, Dali, Guangzhou!! ----- oh, btw, i just had a chat with a xinjiang-ese! oh my god, he actually cycled all the way from the China-Afghan border to Xi'an, and he's going to continue his journey to beijing! ----- it seems like im always in a situation of "belonging to it but don't really belonging in it"... i don't know how to explain it, but you get that kinda feeling? its like you live in a place, live like one of them, but you can never be one of them... :/ |
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2.7.08
/ 9:16 PM "word of the day: TRUST" 2 more nights before i leave hangzhou for good... haizsomewhere around this time last year, a friend wrote this phrase on a piece of cardboard. she left it on the floor outside LT11, i happened to see it she might have forgotten about it, but it stayed in my mind the moment i saw it, even until now 曾几何时... ... 因为朋友对我的不相信，导致友谊的破裂 因为我无法放心相信，造成了至今仍然后悔的局面 and so, nowadays, whenever i saw disputes arising from the lack of trust, i get rather emo ----- some events took place as expected, many unexpected events happened too! (oh wells...) i wonder how much i've changed after 5 months in china ----- hmm, don't get that "nerve" in my mind activated leh, i got it rested for 5 months already and i don't really want to re-activate it, at least for the next one year... ----- When i was young i (thought) i knew everything Now I'm guilt-stricken, sobbin' with my head on the floor as far as possible, try not to let the above mentioned happen on yourself haiz, another lao emo post... |
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