Having an off day tomorrow.. Let’s see what can I do. Maybe catch some cinema after cleaning up the messy house. I’m feeling slightly homesick today. Ah, I’m just tired and blurred.
Created a sad/soothing playlist of love songs below. Can’t seem to load the video here.. so just click away.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL982667DFF2952C21
-Things will be hard at times, but I will try to learn patiently.
No, the video has no relation to the previous post even though they has similar title. Was drifting around youtube when i found this piece. Mmmm quality R&B back those days.. Swear words were barely audible, Kanye rapped smoothly, and Estelle didn’t even dress slutty (or dress nothing) to state “I’m sexy and I know it” .
It’s getting reaaaaaally major critical hot in town. It’s night time and the outside heat is like so sticky humid 30 degree hot. Eergh cannot say I really like Singapore in this condition. I got severe migrain after I came back from work, partly because of the heat, partly was just normal tired I guess.. I hope the weather calms down a little. At least go back to the normal 25 degree. :(
So sleepy and tired these days that snoozing for 8 straight hours still doesn’t do me much good. I think I need cakes.
Poster for thought.
Anyway, discovered the show with Ze Frank on youtube, thanks to Jason’s journal. The dude is inspiring in every single possible-duh way. You’ll find out.
Hope you have a nice week. Mine will be dull in comparison.
-Everybody lies. Act accordingly. ( Twitter Life Advice )
I cannot help but teared when I heard this. The kind of song that brings out every sorrow you have to surface, but at the same time soothes your wounded soul..
…have I found you?
Been staring at this blank page for idk how many long. In office from 9 to 6 this morning, and it has been a quiet one. Very quiet that I suddenly find myself lurking to write something. No materials popped up to this small brain, nothing worth rambling or excited about. Then after a good lurking around, I thought “why do I struggle to find things to write? i write what i think.” Then the mind begins to contemplate of time. Past time, current time, future time.
To and fro, it’s mid of May and we are crawling towards the second quarter of 2012. Strangely, however fast the time pass doesn’t surprise me that much now. Back from Medan for short breaks, and I am drawn back to the working days. Intrigued, I think of the realization that I have less than half a year to stay in the company , 4 months exactly. Not that long of a time. I begin to think of where I will stand next year on this very same time. The idea of continuing study is still in the first rank surely, but where.. and what? You might think I figured all my goals in life when I decided to choose my current major and all, but frankly though I think a lot of my fellow international student pals feels the same way as I do right now. Hollow, doubtful, and wanting more. Maybe it is about the fickle personality that dawns back after being used to the surroundings.. Maybe it is the need to want different days, or different ideas. Mum always says “Whatever you do, do with all your heart. You will be pleased of your work, and yourself.” I wish I can still take the words in my every action everyday.
Ellen enlighten me today. She always do.
“Life is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.”
My journey has been an exceptional one lately. Traveling 6000 over miles to the other continent, which I’ve never once thought to be able to do anytime near. But i did, and it was a marvel experience. To be loved and to be able to love so many heartwarming friends and families back in hometown (and here). Perhaps it has been too amazing, all the joyous air I breathe in, that once I settle back to the reality I feel awkward. Awkward in a good way, where I actually opened my eyes to the endless possibilities I can do in near future. I’m excited because I have plans in minds, one that shouldn’t be very hard to execute if I am determined and set for it. I should thank Dad, once again, for the lots of traveling he allowed me to do lately. To thank God, for letting all the problems and mischief comes into my days; because I learned a lot and picked fruitful lessons from it. I learned to be brave, to be open and honest to myself. If anything, I would have do a lot more travel in future days. Travel is food for the soul, indeed..
I love my life. I love it to the tiniest unhappy bits.
-Breathe in all the possibilities.
Few things you will need to know about this post;
1. I am not having any sort of diarrhea.
2. I am having my monthly period.
3,. I am being overly sensitive and cranky.
4. Will go back to Medan for 8 days next week.
5. London Heathrow Lost & Found emailed me back 10 days after I last replied them.
6. They found my lost blackberry.
7. I just bought a new blackberry 2 days ago.
I refuse to think of this matter any longer. Hitting the sack.
-Crushed.
Resuming back to routine again, or should I say.. adjusting back to routine. We all have the holiday blue, don’t we? I suppose it’s just a matter of time until I finally stop thinking of the other part of the world.
Anyway, just an update, I have emailed London Heathrow lost and found department about my lost phone. Crossing my finger if someone could be kind enough to return my lost phone. It has been 3 days since they last replied my email to ask further about the phone, and I’m not even sure if I can really get it back. Just hoping for the best, really.
During the holiday I was using Dad’s phone to capture everything interesting. I’m actually using Instagram to edit and share my pics there. So if you follow my Instagram (@Jennifrlim), you’d probably seen most of the pics below. I’m not posting the camera pics as I personally think it’s too ‘heavy’ to fit in the blog. So if you are keen to see the 300+ raw pics from my camera, please head to my Facebook. (available for friends to view only) :)
Prepare for the longest photo post in the history of this blog!
The leaning Pisa tower, the only picture taken in Italy. seeing people posing here.. truly joy. lol
Innsbruck, Austria. Probably my favorite town of all the places.. Why? The atmosphere there is magical. Looks like a city out a fairytale. I guess you need to be there to know better. :)
Houses at Innsbruck.Colorful much? And look at the mountains spreading out behind the houses!
Road to Luzern, Switzerland. truly land of pampered cow! No wonder they have amazing dairy products, the producers live in such happy place.
Easter in Luzern, Switzerland. The two giant easter chocolate was given to me and my sister by our tour guide. How thougtful!
Breakfast at hotel.What we ate for breakfast everyday. Yum for the first week, and you’ll start missing Nasi Lemak / Fried Bee Hoon latter.
Cuckoo clock shop. Luzerne, Switzerland
View from cable car to Mt. Titlis. Congratulations! I have finally saw, touched, felt and ate snow! IT WAS FREEZING but amazing.
Novelty shop in Liechtenstein. Noticed that German people loves 9GAG, AND boobs. lol they literally sell postcards of success kid, forever alone, and nude pics.
me & sis. she hates to camwhore. don’t ask me why.
Random flowers on gas station. So we basically went to each places by coach, which means we also went to plenty gas stations. Best part of it was to drink a cuppa hot soup bought from vending machine, and strolled around the supermarket to see different products they have on each country. Cold pasta and cup fruits were popular!
Limitless Sky. What makes the sky in Europe so darn beautiful? i can’t even count how many pictures of sky i took on the trip. It just seemed so endless, blue, sometimes gray, happy and sad at the same time. Beautiful.
Garden view from Hotel. this was taken on 7AM. was sleepy and right away energized when i saw this view..
Peach and Brogues
Sunrise. Was thrilled to have the sun in your body over there. Felt so warm and nice, soothed right to the bone.
Road to France.. Endless flower field
One of the things i always found at gas stations
Eiffel from afar.. I was sleeping on the road to Paris, then people in the bus started making noise and cameras start clicking. I woke up to find that we arrive in Paris, and on my right hand side, i can already see the Eiffel Tower towering so mighty beyond any building. You know that feeling when you watch a Disney movie and finally they had their happy ending, it felt warm and fuzzy, and sorta surreal.
Keychains. Who are you kidding me. I bought 10 of these for 1 euros, and foolishly thought this was enough. Now that I’m back, I think I need to go back and snug in 5 more Euros. And I also thoroughly regret for not buying the 15cm Eiffel Tower. Sucks.
Friends from my tour, and yup. This 15 cm Eiffel tower. T.T
Chateau de Versailles. I was following a tour by a Hong Kong travel agency, so you go figure the language they use to conduct the tour. Cantonese. Basically all the tours (yes ALL) was conducted in Cantonese, so i barely understand anything. Dad was too irritated to explain every single word to me so I just stay still and well duh, got busy with my own world. Including in this Palace of Versailles tour.
Galleries La Fayette. The irony is we didn’t went here. We just went to the Tour Montparnasse, and to the shopping mall next to it; Printemps. To be honest, I was kind of disappointed with the Paris itinerary. We didn’t go to Eiffel Tower (which results we went ourselves to during our short free time), we was really really rushed to see things. No more complaints, maybe they are meant to be seen next time around.
Telephone boxes in London, UK. The only shot from London that managed to get in to Instagram. Because the phone was dead.
Today is 17th of April. ALREADY. Time is definitely trolling me. The days when I waited for this holiday to come seems like forever and ever, but the holiday really passed in a flash. I am beyond grateful to have the opportunity to travel. But I can’t help to sustain the feeling of not having enough, not long enough, not seen enough. The greediness is creeping behind my back and weigh my shoulder to return to reality. The reality where sunny Singapore awaits me with tons of works follow up and possibly troubles (?).
Beside the wonderful days I had, i also had a hiccup on the beginning of my trip. I lost my Blackberry in London Heathrow Airport. Words cannot describe what I felt when i found out I lost it. It was not the first time, not the second time, not the third time. It was the fourth time i lost my phone. The history should record me as ‘the dedicated clumsy girl’. In all four times, it happens in the same way. I either left it unattended somewhere, or simply forget it. Not once (or as far as I’m concerned), was the phone taken of force by somebody else. I literally put the phone somewhere for public usage. So other people can take the free gift they luckily found there. I have tried emailing the airport’s lost and found section. Wish they reply sooner and maybe if I am still siding with goddess of fortune, i can get back my phone. If not, all the hassle of changing my phone number again and again… Ugh.
So mad of myself that I just really can’t configure if there’s any good side left in me. What makes me more frustrated of myself, Dad wasn’t even mad at me. He simply asked me to buy a new one, or just use his other phone. Which brings me to the newest level of greediness. I want to still use Blackberry. Because Mum is waiting everyday for me to chat with her, and also all my familiar friends are using the oh-so-convenient Blackberry Messenger. On the other hand, I am in love using Dad’s Android phone while I was on the trip. The endless possibilities of applications and all the things Blackberry cannot manage to fit into. Plus i can go online on skype with dad at anytime. This is like letting me choose between Dad or Mum..
What makes people so greedy?
I suppose it is the will to have power over a lot of different subjects/objects drives people irrational. It is like those superhero movies we saw when the bad guys tried to conquer or rule the world. Probably that is the highest order of greed, evolving from the simplest wish to have more of this, more of that, and finally all of them. But I truly believe we have the power to quench the greed inside of ourself. It all depends on how you set the bar of life, just not too high, not too low, simply be modest and be what you are.
Writing this post really helps me to think clearly and decide. I am who I am and i should be grateful of what I am intended to be. I make mistakes.. I might still be clumsy and feeble, and who knows if I will lost my phone again in the future. But I do know I had enough of my clumsy self and will genuinely try to change and have myself more conscious of the surroundings. I really hope to.
Okay just pouring out all the #unhappythoughts before I get to the fun (travel pics!) part of the holiday.. But on the next post :p. Just let me go back to the loving bed in Singapore, sort all the decent pictures among thousands (yub 1000+) I have in the memory card, and then I shall put up a ‘professional travel diary’ post! Lol.
-Greed is destructive. Greed is consumtive. But you can always be humble at no price.
Hello! Loving the recent 22C weather here. :)
Been wanting to blog, but got stuck with lots of lazing around. Anyway will be leaving for London then Rome later in the evening, hope everything goes smooth..Dad’s passport got soaked in laundry yesterday, it had the taste of detergent and softener. The UK visa page is hardly seen, so we went to the embassy to ask for advice. But yea right those tards won’t even bother to help you. They just stood there, going all ”Oh God, you can’t possibly use this Visa anymore” , “and I swore I saw the asshole that served us chuckled. Really? We were so frustrated and all you can do is destroy people’s expectation. I know I might be a bit biased, as it’s really an unfortunate accident. But you can at least show some proper compassion OR respect!
Enough with the rumbles, thankfully dad scanned the visa last week (i don’t know why he did it) the numbers, name and passport number are visible so there’s still a possibility that he can go on the trip. Praise the Lord! I really hope they can cut off some slack.. It’s not like we’re forging fake visa/passport. :( Sigh talking about bad luck..
Been frantically searching Wi-Fi everywhere in HK, but none seems to work. Really, only now that i realize that I have been so depending on internet. I don’t know if i will be able to survive there without being connected to one. :/ Okay will be back after holiday! Dad is queuing for computer -_-
watch this space? cause Stich is.
Hello.
Blogging from Marina Bay Sands Hotel room. Should sleep about right now since I have to wake at 4.. but the mind just can’t shut down. Guess I’ll just sleep on plane. Leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow morning , and off for an Europe trip with dad on Monday. Excited much! :) Have been working like one crazy girl, so I guess I deserve a little break.. I just hope I didn’t leave any mess behind on work. Phew. If I can find some wi-fi connections during trip, maybe I’ll try to blog from phone. I’ve prepared a travel diary though! Hehehe I’m too happy to be able to go for the trip. All the hardworks and sweats doing the visas, the anxiousness of waiting the result, etc. It’s paid off :))
-Wait for more travel stories week ahead? Until then, happy holiday for moi! :)
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