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February 2nd, 2006» Hydrophobia and Thoughts

- 10:44 pm

I’m feeling nauseousness of drinking too much water already. My throat’s getting worse despite consuming plentiful of water and now even my nose is running like the tap on my water dispenser. Guess what my mother said when I told her my throat’s feeling sore? Right, she told me to drink more water. Eww.

Anyway, tomorrow’s the college’s road race. Honestly, I do not feel like going and it doesn’t exactly help especially when I’m already not feeling well. And, no, I hate being road marshal and be “planted” along the course to guide the runners towards the apparent direction. Being in the sun with a running nose wouldn’t be enjoyable too. Then again, I don’t exactly like the idea of giving the lessons tomorrow a miss either. Will see how it goes. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to deplete more tissue papers.

Oh, and I find what Mr Quek has for us in the college’s magazine, I know I’m slow, somewhat meaningful:

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It matters little what has passed, or what has failed in life thus far,
Nor challenges sown upon our path in reaching for the highest star.
But learn from all that has transpired, take courage, have faith in future dreams.
And strive to show the world around you, that success is not always what they deem.

- Kenneth Quek

It’s never an easy journey. Failure itself is nothing to be afraid of, but failing to pick up from where one failed is. And, it is indeed very shameful to have never failed somewhere along the path.

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February 1st, 2006» New Year Blues

- 3:27 pm

I almost always fall sick during this time of chinese new year. Too much heaty stuffs’ not exactly healthy for the throat. I’m even running a fever now.

Anyway, I feel that this new year festival is really boring to me. Visiting is minimal and it’s not as exciting as it is to be receiving red packets when I was younger.

During the first day, my sis and I, and some cousins, were self-entertaining ourselves by watching DVD, Legend, while my older relatives were gambling in the kitchen. Well, at least the show wasn’t that bad. However, half the time I did not know what the show was talking about when other languages, other than english and chinese, were used.

Second day was horrible. We were at my fifth aunt’s house. I felt so left out. Again, they were gambling at the kitchen. There weren’t much entertainment for me around. The television programme was not interesting at all. So, I alternated between standing in the kitchen watching them gamble, and pretending to be interested, and sitting in the living room eating the peanuts.

Well, the more interesting part was actually visiting Daniel’s house on that night. We were supposed to have an overnight movie marathon of horror movies thingy. That, however, wasn’t very successful. It ended up that only Daniel, Xinhui and me were left after first half of the first movie, the Maid. Apparently, that’s the only horror movie available that night. It’s actually quite good although I did not think it’s scary at all. After that, we watched Drumline. I’ve watched it many times over and over again but I still find the show great. The best part was when the whole band played “Flight Of Blumble Bee”. I guess many band members’ jaw would have dropped during that part.

Anyway, Daniel was already half sleeping at that point of time. So, we didn’t go on to watch the third movie. We chatted for awhile. Daniel, then, fell asleep, leaving Xinhui and I to carry on with the conversation till morning.

I skipped visiting the next day and gave the excuse that I’m too tired.

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