You make all things new

priscilla — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:30:57 +0000

aggravation has a funny tendency to snowball. ugh.

priscilla — Sat, 29 May 2010 04:56:33 +0000

haha oh goodness it’s been nearly 10 months since I’ve blogged here. what can I say, I’m consistent. A consistently terrible blogger that is haha. But one thing is quite comforting – the relative annonymity that comes from dropping off the face of the blogging stratosphere thus wrecking my readability (is that a word?). this sense of annonymity I realise really is quite important. a sense of being able to just rant, without the anxieties of impressing or disappointing anyone. I like (:

We just got back from the KL recee last night, and what a trip it was. Step 1.2 in my grand plan has now been accomplished. Now to just get to step 2.0 (PHUKET IN JAN) and all will be well (:

It was so surreal sitting in the transfer coach from the (godforsaken) airport KLIA to KL Sentral. Just mere hours ago I had been at home preparing to leave, sitting in bed chilling out. Fast forward to 11.30pm and I’m on this coach travelling through the vast expanse of land that is Putrajaya (I think), dotted by the glow of orange streetlamps and long winding deserted road, which made it look somewhat like an alien-planet-wasteland. I’m sitting next to a young-ish looking man with his earphones and music plugged in, who spends the whole trip similar to me – staring out captivated by the night. I remember at one point of the journey being struck by how truly bizarre it was to be sitting next to him at that point. Not because he was weird or smelly or looked like someone I knew. But because our realities were simply so vastly different. I ASSUME he was Malaysian and that this was his hometown. My imagination ran wild, trying to form a picture of what his existence was like, and how it was probably so far removed from what my existence was like, and not in a bad way. What kind of things he ate, the types of friends he had, the places he frequented… After a journey of just a couple of hours (it had actually taken me longer to get from home to Changi Airport than to get to KLIA from Changi Airport), here I was sitting next to this other human being who for the sake of my imagination at least came from a different world. haha I think this memory is the most distinct one I have from the trip :p

anyway the rest of the trip was great! we travelled around ALOT on SO MANY different types of transport in one single day, from the hotel taxis, to public taxis, to the LRT, to the shuttle train to the airport, to the shuttle bus to the low-cost terminal then on to a plane, then shuttle bus from Budget Termianal to T2, then Skytrain to T1, then cab to Clarissa’s house for skype with Mish. fun stuff! we visited the Blue Mosque, which is apparently the largest mosque in KL. it was breathtakingly beautiful and crazily HUGE. the dome that covered it just left me speechless. the whole place had such an aura of reverence and quietness around it, this huge 10 acre compound in the middle of bustling Shah Alam. Roaming the hallways and walking on the cool marble floors, I felt the insides of me just settle down a little and slowly just take in this place of worship. More pictures and reflections to come after camp!

haha so I wonder when my next post will be. I hope that this will be the start of the summer holiday resolution that I am making right now as I type – I RESOLVE TO BE LESS OF A TV-GLUED MINDLESS ZOMBIE AND EXPAND MY READING RECORD AND IMPROVE MY CREATIVE WRITING. Yes I do. Yes I will.

and just cos I feel like whooping for joy at the prospect,
IT’S SUMMERRRRRRRRRRRRR!

time to bust out the deck chairs on my imaginary grassy lawn and curl up with a good book

wake up

priscilla — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:09:11 +0000

i feel like i’m floating through life, with the days passing even before i can process that they’re over. Never thought that Uni would have me in such a superficial mode of thinking and living life. Aren’t I supposed to be growing more and more insightful as the days pass, smelling the requisite Roses and Coffee and appreciating all that’s happening around me? Aren’t I supposed to be plodding around like I have the weight of the intellectual world on my shoulders, intent on fulfilling some kind of goal or purpose?

it doesn’t feel like school has started. I’m waaaay to disconnected, my brain waaaay too under-utilized. and at the moment there are no Roses or Coffee in my forseeable future to snap me out of it.

priscilla — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:52:34 +0000

sudden urge to pack my bags, trek across a brown grass field and hop on a plane to nowhere/

priscilla — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:13:02 +0000

Seems to be something i’m engaging in more than I’m supposed to these days..

*Lecture starts, and I slap myself to attention*

remember

priscilla — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:18:11 +0000

^“10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. ¹¹ Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. ¹² Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, ¹³ and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. ¹⁵ He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. ¹⁶ He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you. ¹⁷ You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” ¹⁸ But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.” - Deuteronomy 8:11-18

Tonight was intense. Tonight was personal, more so than in a long long time. Tonight LORD, I choose to remember what You’ve done.

Blessed be your name, when the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s all as it should be, Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name, when I’m found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness, Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out I’ll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in Lord, still I will say…

freedom

priscilla — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:43:39 +0000

i realised about halfway through the day that i bidded for my modules wrongly, and thus have to drop certain ones before i even started on them. yay me.

Bidding is an experience i’d never want to wish on any other unsuspecting Freshie-who-hates-Orientation-activities-enough-to-skip-it-after-she-overslept-today-even-though-she-would-have-gotten-help-with-bidding. (yes that’s me). Watching the system dictate your future for the next, well, semester or so was NOT fun. You see, I’m an unsuspecting Freshie who’s not ready for the real world of hedging your bets and taking risks. What happened to stability, and excessive Authoritarian Intervention? So not used to having so much freedom of choice.

Orientation’s been interesting. I really enjoyed the Orientation Talks, which actually made me excited about studying what I could potentially be. The faculty members seem really passionate and dedicated, which is something that always inspires (ah there’s the MOE brainwashed conditioned brain operating)…

However, the aforementioned freedom of choice really came into play again when it came to O-Week. Hehe. I SKIPPED MY KINDA FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, because i overslept. For once, i felt the freedom that came with staying at home to enjoy my breakfast and newspapers and laze around some…all with that nagging feeling of guilt at the back of my mind. Which therefore made it less liberating than it was supposed to be haha.

Not that O-Week was boring… People seemed generally nice and cordial, and it would have been great to make friends, but i just absolutely abhor Orientation Activites. With many many fibers of my being ): OHWELL. We’ll see what happens next week… heh.

Okay now off to try really hard to access the CORS Website which is down (prolly cos of people like myself trying to force ourselves in…). Yay for the Refresh button!

smells like summer (again!)

priscilla — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:49:45 +0000

i seem to recall a previous blogpost where i echoed similar sentiments… This is reaaaallly what I’m gonna miss when the Drone of Higher Education begins again.

Cluny Park on a sunny morning (:

fellow sun-bathers

"In open fields with wild flowers..."

love the leaves

I swear this bird was posing for me. I have it's left and right side-profiles too! duckies!

Dad: "If this fella starts chasing us, just run for the hills and DON'T SCREAM"

if only we could do this everyday

late bloomers

al-ameen maggi goreng!

and who could forget, joy in a cup (:

(alright posting those pictures here was sufficiently painful that i probably wouldn’t attempt it again. wordpress indeed)

wonder how long this will last…

priscilla — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:13 +0000

heh i didn’t intend that title to sound that pessimistic. but given my track record with blogging, i would say it was warranted… (:

ohwell. here’s to new beginnings!

Hello world!

priscilla — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:37:26 +0000

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