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Back from the 7 Cube gathering.

It was nice to see everyone again, even if I’m kind of a clique-ish person and pretty much stuck with my regular crowd.

People are getting married, changing jobs, moving forward, backwards, staying on the spot. Give us another 2 years and we will likely throw in a couple of babies as well. The horror :)

I think we forgot to take pictures.

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I realise that people have the tendancy to want to pat me on the head.

Like I’m a small, furry animal. 

And I don’t quite know how to tell them that I’m not.

Picnic

I’m waiting for my uni friends to come whisk me off to some restaurant on Haji Lane. So I thought I’ll just post some more photos.

I totally forgot about the batch of pictures we took at Liting’s surprise picnic party a month ago.

Its a miracle, but I found a photo where the Boyfriend is smiling more or less naturally! It seems there is hope yet :)

[Observation: I look a little pale and very goofy.]

[The Cat With No Mouth and I.]

[Meet my new whiskered shoes.]

Wish

My colleague, KL, takes the kind of photographs I wish I can capture on my own vacations.

KL1

KL2

KL3

I like his point of view :)

We graduated on 7th July 2007.

07/07/07.

Janice calls it “7 Cube”. I didn’t even think about it that way. But it sounds really cute :)

I guess we’re all rather fond of this uncanny coincidence. It is undoubtedly auspicious – lucky 7 multiplied by itself 3 times (holy trinity).

Surely, this gives us luck. As if we’re somehow blessed by the perfectness of these numbers.

This is how people make themselves feel special. By misconstruing random bits and pieces and then calling it fate or some other fancy word.

But its not hurting anyone, so I don’t see why we cannot continue to buy into the constructed significance of 7 Cube :D

Happy Graduation Day! [If you'd graduated on the same day - I know who you are.]

Reading Books

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am costantly overestimating and underestimating the human race – that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words so damning and brilliant.

- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, last page.

For a $5 book I picked out of the bargain pile, this is an incredibly good read. It is narrated by Death (no hood, no scythe), who happens to have a heart.

Another one about WWII. What is it about it that keeps people writing about it, 70 years later?

Essentially, it is about the power of words, for better or worse. It is also about the irreconciliable polarities that exist side by side in us (i.e. cruelty & kindness). And that’s interesting to me. There’s nothing quite like having someone else tell us what we’re like.

I like it. Maybe you’ll want to read it too :)

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I’m taking a little break over at the other blog. I’m experiencing an episode of blogging fatigue and its starting to show.

It’ll be over soon enough. Time moves much faster online anyway.

In the meantime, I try to read as many books as I can. Sometimes I just want to read for a living, but I can’t think of why anyone will pay me for such a pleasure.

Still Glorious

Its that time of the month and I’m feeling unnecessarily emo.

But Friday is still glorious! :D

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Question: How long should you wash your hands to make sure that its really clean?

Answer: The time it takes to finish singing the Birthday Song twice.

So, time to start singing!

Every day you learn something really stupid. Or at least, really stupid-sounding.

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And its girls’ night out! :D

Billie Jean

Remember to always think twice.
- Billie Jean, Michael Jackson

Okay, I promise, just one more MJ video. And this is a really good one – a live 1983 performance of Billie Jean where he did the moonwalk for the first time. Apparently, it is a really big deal at that time.

I think its still a pretty big deal now :)

I have this real urge to name someone, something Billie Jean right now. Thank god I don’t have any children yet to scar for life. Maybe a new pet is in order.

Other names I’m adamant (now) about inflicting on my unborn kids include Apple and Tommy. Both are girls’ names of course.

Ah, is that you, my bio-clock? LOL

MJ

Unless you’d been completely comatose since last Friday, you’ll know that MJ passed away. I was receiving messages about that the entire morning so apparantly its no secret that I like the guy.

I really like him until he got too weird. Even then, I feel sad about how he’d turned out rather than being disgusted with him.

When I was about nine or ten, I had a LD of MTVs from his Dangerous album which I’d squirreled away from my uncle’s place (I think I returned it eventually). I watched it on repeat for months, any chance I’d got. It was great.

I just thought that you should watch this full version of the Smooth Criminal video. Its my absolute favourite – the flipping of coin into the jukebox, the crushing of the cue ball, the incredible side-leaning at an impossibe angle.

All these antics that had me so enthralled will no doubt strike kids of today as being totally lame, but that’s really besides the point.

The Straits Times also published an article today on how MJ is likely to be the last ’superstar’. Its a nice read – if you’re a fan :)

Strawberries Friday

[Photo from here]

A box of strawberries was passed around just now. Everyone said that they were kind of sour, but I’m quite happy to shove mine into my mouth :) I like them especially when they are a little too ripe, a tiny bit away from being too red.

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I would have preferred to go home and finish up my book (almost there!), but there’s a party tonight.

But like they say, its a happy problem! :D

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Not having Internet access at home can be a blessing in disguise. I sleep earlier now, and I’m reading a lot more. And that’s good.

Drawing + Lipstick

I’d always wanted to be able to draw, like all the true blue creative types :P

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Just now I had a lipstick emergency – I ran out of my favorite nude one and forgot to bring a backup.

I felt so naked without any artificial colouring my lips that I had to run down to town to grab myself a new tube.

The Girls are always saying that I eat my lipsticks, judging by the speed at which I use them up. But applying lipstick is the easiest way to brighten up your face :) It makes a lot of difference. And this I got from my mum, and you should always trust your mum when it comes to things like this.

My 2 cents worth will be to always touch up. There’s something very wrong about having post-lunch lips for the entire day.

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In other random trivia, I am trying to finish up the Twilight series. I’m at book 2, which is unnecessarily thick.

Don’t cringe.

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