statute

are the reasons for having values the same why man creates law? to prohibit or enforce so as to protect an individual's perimeter. that's why we have values: essentially so we don't step on another's foot.

because what has got me questioning is the fact that some values i come into contact with are hugely warped, at least, in my own opinion; i'm sure two children who both draw 'a house', one having only seen igloos before and the other only castles, aren't wrong. what kind of values are we then to have? if each defines his/her own life, and values, then our concepts of right and wrong, good and evil, are merely arbitrary. there is no true, real, correct value: it all lies in an individual.

this is where faith and religion come in.

"the law is written in men's hearts": our conscience, not society, tells us what is good and evil, if we listen closely
"Love God with all your heart, and love your neighbour as yourself": Kingdom Values
If one has faith and believe, he trusts that God's way is the way, one that brings greatest fulfilment and meaning in life. If one doesn't have faith nor believe, then he begins living by his own values, not Kingdom ones; which, in my opinion, is dangerous.

It all boils down to Free Will. so choose.

bits and pieces

Air and Angels:
soul, whose child love is/ takes limbs of flesh
More subtle than the parent is/ Love must not be
assume thy body I allow/And fix itself in thy lips, eye, and brow
is much too much
For nor in nothing nor in things/Extreme...can love inhere

The Canonization:
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love
What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned?
Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?
Soldiers find wars, and lawer find out still/ Litigious men
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;/ As well a well-wrought urn becomes/ The greatest ashes as half-acre tombs
the whole world's soul contract, and drove/ Into the galsses of your eyes

The Flea:
How little that which thou deny'st me is
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be
cannot be said/ A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead
more than married are
Our marriage bed and marriage temple is
self-murder
learn how false fears be/ Just so much honour...will waste as this flea's death took life from thee

Only just a thought?

Originality. Revolutionary. Against the grain. Away from the pack. Stand out of the crowd. Out of the crowd. Deviant nature. Rebel. Exile. Isolated. Wanderer.

Two extremes of a cord that is bound in tangles you can't figure which end is which.

"why pink?!"

haha guess u noe it's not me. but it's like I said, I was just experimenting! Thanks for the surprise at 2!

Couldn't put down The Eyes of the Dragon. In fact, I've finished it, and I started yesterday. (Bad business for my studies, it means) Think I'm falling in love with fantasy books...the only problem is, they come in series! so I have to keep on buying, and buying...bad idea. Of course, it makes good economical sense for writers.smart.

Listening to 'Everything' by Lifehouse. First person I think of :one (out of three) who made the YLM clip on its 5th birthday. (",) who pia-ed so hard to get the present for the confirmants 2003 done in time for us all. *smiles* one who's on MC now.

Michaelangelo's Pieta

New Year's thot:

Faces of the past appear, while the future rides on...

The storyteller leaves that up to you to decide if it is for better or worse

Projector
Pictures *click*
The old fashion kind *click*
Ones up on your wall *click*
Just like these

Entangled starch strips, with yellow-white. no, white-yellow.dinner. *click*

Enzo? makes me think of my favourite cartoon that my bro and I used to share. 5.30pm on SBC, weekdays. we'd hate weekends. *click*

Pink-blue and all the inbetween in a sunset. sunrise will do too.one tat comes too fast. well it only happens once *click*

Eyes of a Dragon! A previous memory, hidden in a box, thrown down the well. Well, all wells have bottoms. *click*

White

To my wonderful ones

There are so many things to write about! That I almost didn't want to start wrinting this post..u noe the feeling? Like a half-bitten roasted marshmellow partially dipped in hot melted chocolate! Just gotta finish it when u've started!

I think this first note has gotta go out to those who gave me a shout out (some literally, while sitting on poor Matt haha) and others who gave me the wonderful present of their time on christmas day. Man, just hearing their voices makes me miss CTK's midnight mass, the dressing up (should one choose to, I remember we girls USED to), the stay-over either at poon's or chris', the next day's breakfast and trip back home to CRASH again. And then I log on to their blogs (and the wonderfully done up YLM site) and see pictures! hundreds of 'em! and the longing goes on...

BUT! I've got nothing to complain about! On top of great conversations during this christmas/new year period (no matter how they ended hee... indicating of course the manner in which calling card runs out of cash) with lovely people, I've received from my family and close frens presents and cards that remind me how much they continue to keep me in their thoughts and prayers. Boy how can I not be touched! Have not done anything to deserve so much love, and so a grateful thanks *and hug* goes out to them. Can see who they're taking a cue from, Praise God!

To the raunchy sistas! haha Angel, Cheryl, Stel, Van, Mabel, Ju (wait a minute, hav i put too many people in the club? anyhows, to the gals appearing in almost all the pics hee i wonder y...): an amazing truckload of pictures that can't all fit into my laptop. darn. 'cos to see your big *toothy* grins in all of them, with or without make-up, dressed or not, oh, i mean not dressed-up...makes me grin silly. can see Angel's been doing the rounds of taking photos with everyone at the D&D! apparently, Van, your singing hamster seems to be the talk of the town.=) maybe cos it has a stunning resemblance... ZLM! 8th of Jan at Julia's house.....I want.....still, I'm glad I manage to go over, albeit just once: it was the nite before I flew here, and we stayed til LATE! din play mahjong like we wanted, but there's still time in the future! Cheryl thanks for the present! Now all i need is a lighter...hmmm. *and everyone wonders wat she got me* Stel I hope u were in time for dinner on new year's eve, and your grandma isn't too angry wif me!

wonderful pictures of sleeping pigs too....oh were they not pigs? muahahaha
It's just sour grapes: I'm wishing I could be one of those lazy pigs.....=)
Caught the NSF and NSmen in action in the after christmas party- personally I like tat pic, makes me smile and shake my head (Ok, my real reaction: "waaaaat???!" and a bigger "WAAAAT????!" seeing Stefan all ready for action.) Kevin's still as cute as he used to be. *laughs* no no no, of course, so are chris, ranneth, poon, meh meh, ed, matt. Is ant the only one not there yet?

Then came New Year's Eve/Day at SAFRA Yishun (Boy I talk just like I was there)
Man, I missed the second Encorr performance. Pooooonnnnnn *whines* see la. Bet u and Matt gave Maroon 5, The Calling, and Mariah Carey a run for their money. Oo0ps i meant Enrique, matt. Go Cheryl! Go Ant! Go Ju! Go Stefan! cheering from the sidelines here =)

And so this 'first one in a long time since I left for Italy, got back, got holed up studying, spent Christmas and New Year here, and its a week to exams!' is dedicated to those I love.