Haha, only 3 people read my blog.
Though why do I even notice? Its supposed to be for my own pleasure. And I hate those people who blog just to be read about.
Passion
Wimbledon
11 hours 5 minutes, Isner & Mahut
Henin
Letters to Juliet
Vanessa Redgrave
Claire & Lorenzo; Vanessa & Franco; so sweet! must have been so fun and natural!
Want to harvest wine in Italy next summer or the following one
I was on the night rider on the way home. It was really crowded. so I plastered myself to the side, and right in front of my were a couple of poly students. All the way from orchard to geylang, the girl was trying to explain to the guy why she wanted to travel.
They were year 3 design students from poly, and recently, the school had been getting people to talk to them, and the one thing she took away from those talks was that one should be passionate about what one does. So she wanted to travel to find her inspiration. She didn't want to settle.
She wanted to do something she was 100% passionate about, not something she maybe liked 80%. Fair enough.
If there were 100 things to do in the world, she didn't want to stop at maybe number 5. She wanted to travel the world, and maybe somewhere, she'll experience number 67 and fall in love with it, and voila, her life calling.
(I don't know if they guy with her was her boyfriend, but I was thinking, so there are billions of guys in the world...are you going to globetrot till you find the one you fall in love with at first sight?)
Bottomline argument, she doesn't know what she wants to do, she hasn't found her life's passion, therefore she has to travel.
The guy tried to convince her that she could find something she liked if she stayed put too. Apparently, her dad said 'Yes, people travel and get inspired. I stay in Singapore, and get inspired too.' He tried to leverage on that, but she was insistent, giving the example of a photographer who found his love for his art at the age of 35.
So then, her question was, if I am destined to find the one thing I'm passionate about at the age of 35, what am I to do from now till then?
The guy was apparently lucky, because he loved music and was good at it, so could live off it. But it apparently was a different matter for her.
I was almost reaching home, so I thought I absolutely had to throw in my two cents worth or burst. I absolutely agree with and applaud her desire to do something she's passionate about in life. However, you can't go actively hunting for it! That is no excuse to spend your life travelling and do nothing else until you find your life's passion! One, there's no guarantee that you'll find it. Say you are destined to find it at age 40, what then? Two, you can travel aimlessly. Three, there must be something you can do with life!
Make the best out of your situation for goodness sake. If you're financially capable, travel all you like and do whatever you want. But if you're like most people and need to make a living, do the best with what you have, hopefully find a job that you like, and do what you're 80% passionate about. If its really your destiny to find your 100% passion, you'll find it out of work!
"Not sure if i've told you before but bet you didn't know that you rubbed me the wrong way initially perhaps during cca? But as time pass i realise how much liesel chong is, more than what she potrays at times.
She dares to fight for what she thinks it hers, no matter what. Guess that being something i lack in certain ways(as i consider too many things which may paralyse me at times), i initially was a little put off? More like it was the first time i really see someone who dare to do so much, heedless of what others may think of her.
As time pass and i get to know you better, you became one of my pillars of support(as along with my other good frens and the rarer good girl frens). Beyond what was superficial, it struck me how similar our ideals and beliefs are at times. Yes we clash, we argued but hey guess that's how i get to know people better.
You were the few who never bow down to pressure of any kind.
Up till now i can so proudly say that i know an ex-air stewardess and she isn't any much older than me.
Liesel, people who don't know you enough may think you do everything purely by feelings and everything is just spontaneous. But in actual fact everything is calculated(not in a bad way, more like planned out?). You know what you want, what are the goals you wish to achieve and achieve them you will.
You may wonder why others are so apprehensive at times but i guess there is an emotion you seldom face with.
Well i guess relationships with you are like wine, they take time to age. Perhaps you just need to not be erm bimbotic too much most of the time?(then again you will say what do i know about bimbos right?"
- Wong Han Teng
I came across some quotes today, and decided to look for more.
"People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn't have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it." -Andy Warhol
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." -C.S. Lewis
"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up." -Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." -Oscar Wilde
"We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter." -Mignon McLaughlin (hmm, is this the McLaughlin that irritates law students?)
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness." -Robert Frost
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." -Robert Brault
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." -Laurens van der Post
"Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles." -Herbert Agar
"Freedom means choosing your burden." -Hephzibah Menuhin
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." -Judy Garland
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming." -William Hazlitt
Long Awaited Day! (:
Bills paid, GST credits registered!
Last week's sucky week is made up for by this week's full schedule :)
Had a wonderful competition trip to KL and came home very satisfied with everything :)
Cycling past the Changi Airport's runway today reminded me of my last work flight vividly. Landing into Singapore early in the morning, looking out through the window to the sight of Singapore Airline's gleaming planes lined up shrouded in a rare morning fog. A majestic welcoming sight, heralding a new chapter of my life...
On the flight back from London, the LS said to me 'I can see that you really miss your job'.
ahh, I appear to have been missed by 2 readers :D
my trip was lots of fun, especially the weather! one cannot believe how absolutely sucky sg weather is all the time. bring me to europe anytime!
internship was very enriching, became a ucits expert, haha.
UCITS is a european fund, that is heavily regulated, and becoming increasingly popular because of that(esp post madoff).
i met someone who's convinced that a person only needs 5 friends at any one time, and in fact can only have 5 friends, any more of which is unnecessary and impossible. and as long as one of the 5 is always your spouse, you'll be fine.
this i absolutely disagree with. i definitely have more than 5 friends i want to talk to at once, all of whom play parts of varying importance in my life. no doubt, in this age when so many are studying overseas, and more might work overseas, it is getting increasingly difficult. but life goes on, so we make full use of technology and human effort. how depressing that life goes on, it'd have been perfect if life could have remained post-JC, pre-uni (but then, i'd never have met my uni friends). i love my friends :)
its always nice to spend time with my best friend, even just sitting and doing nothing :)
i've got friends who are still very good friends even though we can never remember to talk very often.
friends who always try to talk to me, no matter how busy i am :)
the one important thing i've learnt about friends from a long time ago is to beware of, what i call, friends in the moment. these are people with whom you can have a great time, but to whom you don't really matter. and hence, not to expect anything more than the occasional good time.
i shall slack this week away, and then see what i can find from next week :)
lovely idle bliss :D