aaaah!
some of my friends have graduated from the cloistered world of school and embarked on their fledgling careers.
some of my friends are tying the knot and lamenting about the high property prices. omg.
I just received a 红炸弹. (yl’s ROM).
I just received a friend’s namecard! (STB’s namecard is really cute! They have 4 designs in a set, I’m so tempted to join STB now 
)
while I’m still a student….
Can I not grow up?
今天拾起了朋友介绍的一本散文集，是新传媒华文记者郑景祥的《忘了下山》。先是在图书馆查其序号，从各图书馆的记录来看，尽管馆里藏有20多本，绝大多数都已经借出去了。而我很幸运的，找到了当时Seng Kang Library剩下的一本。
翻过封面，首先看到的是序。当我看到序之著者——新加坡作家协会会长希尼尔——的名字时，先是一愣，然后仿佛想起了曾经在某个遥远的LEP场合上看过他，但是除了一个模糊的中年男人的轮廓，我什么也记不起来了。
LEP教我热爱文学、母语、本地创作，继承文化之火，当先驱，当martyr都行。而我的心灵曾经因你而燃烧过。
可是，爱。无论什么形式，应该让人有所升华。但为什么选择爱你，在此时此地，人们只会变得更痛苦？
所以我抽离了热血澎湃去读《忘了下山》，而环境很应景，风是如此的严峻寒冷，就像我的心。
喝了一口桌上Darjeeling的余温，我不再沉重。当年致命的太天真就这样吞进肚子里了。
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my mixed feelings aside, I don’t like the 排版 of local publications. =/
ok, i have Baey Yam Keng on my facebook. I have -some- tiny and distant affiliations with him. and I like him because of some of our similarities.
BUT
recently, he posted a fb status which made my eyeballs roll until they wanna drop out.
On 22 August he wrote:
“Baey Yam Keng is glad DPM Teo came yesterday to support the Singapore girls volleyball team at their first match in YOG.”
wahlau seriously. Ya he is your Big Brother, he is OUR DPM, but do you need to be so “glad“ to profess your admiration publicly, simply because he was present to support the girls? To me, at least, it’s more like he was fawning over Teo. What kind of crap is that.
OK I AM ONLY SAYING THIS HERE.
why am I actually entertaining the option of breaking bond now?
update @ 23 Aug 2am:
I was mentally drafting a public letter – to be posted on facebook – titled “So, I broke my bond” this afternoon. Well, that is, IF i really dare to break bond HAHA. but in case I do, now I know how to tell the world =X
I am back in singapore, for those who are uninformed. This is supposed to be a secret…. maybe until now…. but OK fine, actually many knew about it, because I was ranting about how much I missed home during my last few days in Beijing, and telling everyone how happy I was to be going home soon.
Sadly, while I am back on the sunny (maybe rainy is more apt) island, I can’t really hang out with people because I have to MUG!!!! yes MUG omg… for this really troublesome but essential exam called GRE. For the sake of my future (since Beida cannot give me enough assurance of that), I’d better study, and study hard.
Internship at NYT Beijing was fun, the last few days were spent rushing on wrapping up work I was assigned, and packing luggage. Am so happy that this article on downsized bank workers was published on the front page a few days ago – it surprised both me and my reporter! It didn’t look like something that could appear on the front, but it did! But the bigger reason why I am proud of it is because it is my first and only solo effort. So pardon my showing-off hehe, I’m low-profile on most days.
But internship with a Western media inevitably influenced the way I saw China, and unsurprisingly, I got really cynical. So thank you to Zhaopeng (ZB’s Beijing correspondent) for pulling me back. Maybe some things should just be left to the angmohs.
aiyah I think I have internship overdose already.
I wanna go out with my friends, mahjong, gossip, Mambo Night (baojia you promised me that!), makan etc, without thinking about those burdens and obligations. I wanna do what I really love, like draw and design, be an adobe geek and stuff like that. Maybe I’ll join PIE (beida’s design club) next semester, and pick up these skills again…. And I wanna go travelling on a single-trip ticket, take things slowly and really live there, not just mere travel. Maybe Lhasa will be a great destination – I am still planning this with my friend from Guangzhou… hopefully it will materialise.
Enough of the ramblings…. I should be studying. I need good GRE grades, then write my personal statement, then get my mentor and bureau chief to write my recommendation letters (who should I get for the third LOR? omg…), and then get the terrible transcripts (my 污点 in my application! >.<) and what else? oh, money in the piggy bank.
sheeesh.
but hello friends, so this is my life so far.
what about you?
最近中国有个”中学孔老师诱奸900学生“的新闻
用的是一张非常漂亮的女生的照片
但那其实是新加坡模特儿kanny theng!
被中国媒体张冠李戴去了
前天把事情告诉了老板~
今天竟然成了头条！而且可能是独家！开心~~~
明显把新明的比下去了哈哈~
oh yeah!
Yun Li and Ronghui
Yi Quan (left), with my Thai classmate Dee.
Was looking through old photos just now… the three of them have evolved so much in the three years we spent together. Now that they are going to graduate in less than two months’ time, I suddenly realised that I will miss them very very badly. Not only because they were the first seniors we met when we first came to Beijing, and not because they are the seniors we spent the most number of years with, but more importantly it’s because they are the ones whom I’ve grown very fond of and attached to.
Been spending a lot of time with Ronghui recently, playing badminton, having meals and talking about Sailor Moon… This luxury of meeting every other day is coming to an end. Very soon they will be gone, pursuing graduate studies or embarking on their fledgling careers.
And before you know it… it will be my turn to leave this place and my juniors…
reading: http://blog.omy.sg/dannyyeo/
为什么对于岛国越来越疾世愤俗？
有些人的话、政策、决定
真的让我很难再冷静无视
尤其是最近
颠倒是非
自欺欺人
强词夺理
睁眼说瞎话
靠，这样也能当官喔~
是政府糊涂了？
还是百姓糊涂了？
