the similarity between distance and being distant

one can try to reach out
to close the distance
but one can never come close
unless given the chance

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(If there's ever a need to know, one will know)

Sometimes we don’t need to matter what or why
But how, when the right time comes, if it does
We try our best to be a person who matters

equation of personal value

hardshell: this conversation makes me feel better cos you reminded me that I could rise above displacement... thx
N.K: hey, it's just talking to me. I'm happy to make you feel better. That's the point of being a friend, no?
hardshell: yea... strange how conversations can be remedies… an unsuspecting remedy
N.K: bouncing thoughts off others always helps you catch them better.
hardshell: my heart still feels heavy lah... but at least better
hardshell: things happen for a reason. If I can learn something from it, what was it?
N.K: you have to realise that you are bigger than the sum of where you worked at, what you did, what you do and what you buy, who you dated, who you read and blah blah blah...
hardshell: its a tough equation to remember sometimes
hardshell: how's this for your equation?

me + myself + i > what i was + where i was + what i did

N.K: hahaha! cooool... got to copy that. Then try to figure it out.
hardshell: lol
hardshell: can you get a student to design a tee with that equation? I'll buy it
N.K: I'd have to put you down as the inspiration.
hardshell: but I was inspired by what you wrote :O)

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(people x thoughts = inspirations + ideas)

no more tiptoeing

no more barbed wires
at least no longer near me
safe from fresh blisters
I’m now walking on a pole
and though balancing isn’t easy
I am inching slowly
and it helps to believe
I’m making my way across
to where the grass is greener

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(16 September 2008)

The temporary reunion
Made me appreciate
A sense of calmness
Deep in the heart of
My restless solitary

dressy dilemma

It was love at first sight... I tried it once and then I tried it a second time. And just when I summoned enough nerve to decide on buying it, I was told it was only 'okay' for it's 'wow' price. So I was back to square one... certainly a first where mms and 3G consulation failed to rescue me from a dilemma (the score was tied).

I had set out, promising to give myself a treat, but I've never splurged so much on a dress before...

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with 100% pure silk caressing your skin, it sure makes one feel like dancing...
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should I get it?
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Listen to
I'm Feeling Good by Muse

post august peeks

Just thought of posting random shots from my phone. Hmm... think I should try to do this monthly. Hee... let august be the inaugural month! But heh... a very skimpy collection for a debut, I'd have to admit. Not to mention a very belated one :OP

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abandoned my 'current read' to be transported back to my childhood

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3 for 10 bucks... nostalgic trip at a steal!

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girly souvenir from M.C and S.H. flaunts witty copy that turns me on ;OP

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can't remember it's name but I definitely remember how delicious it was!

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a date with the little prince

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keeping count

another bad one yesterday...
that makes three...
I would always be in them, one way or another
and I would sometimes know the other people, one way or another

can't help but recall what H.L. said about weirdness
I'm really hoping previous coincidences were simply flukes

I must think positive...

me and you and everyone we know

Michael: I just wish I had met her 50 years sooner. But then maybe I needed 70 years of my life to be ready for a woman like Ellen.

The movie “Me and You and Everyone We Know”

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It struck me the moment I heard it.

I remember how my heart skipped a beat. There I was in front of the screen, grabbing a piece of paper just so I could scribble it down - it was something I didn't want to forget.

In a side-storyline within the movie, Michael, a man in his golden years realised that he had finally found his soul mate in an elderly lady called Ellen. But she later turned him down cos she knew that she was dying and the reality of her soon leaving him alone in the world led to the above dialogue.

While the dialogue was used in the said context, I felt a meaning that was worth far beyond that… it was, to me, a universal concept on life.

Imagine someone who has been devoting his life to his career only to learn that a successful career means nothing without the presence of his loved ones. Or someone who has long been pursuing an interest only to discover his talent in something quite different.

These are just random examples. But how many times have we reached a significant point of realisation in our lives, only to wonder why it had never occurred to us earlier? Even with a sense of happiness that comes with enlightenment, it is natural to wish that we hadn’t wasted time in everything else prior to ‘it’.

But had we realise ‘it’ much earlier, would we have cherished ‘it’ with the same level of appreciation?

I guess sometimes we need to be blind for a while… We need to waste some time, maybe even some years, just so that when the right time comes, when ‘it’ unravels in front of us, we wouldn’t miss it for the world.

And when that happens, hopefully, we would pursue it like there’s no tomorrow.

just when you thought you remember everything

a distant old friend
someone unforgotten, suddenly says hello
tells you something then
what you had done for her many years ago

something you have quite forgotten

but something she had never forgotten

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(2.30am and I'm feeling rather special)

What's insignificant to us may actually be significant to others.
We often don't realise it.
And we won't.

Until they share with you so.

And when they do...
It's amazing how it can make your day
to learn that you had once made someone's day

Even if it was some seven years ago.

:O)