sentimental sappiness aka something beautiful.
We believe in long candlelit baths,
massage, filling the house with perfume
and in the right to make mistakes,
lose everything and start again.
To lost loves, old friends, old gods, and the season of mists, and may each and every one of you give the devil his due...
My blog posts are most definitely inversely correlated to how busy I am. Thus, another post (yay!) is most reflective indeed of the moody, deep, and pretensious philosophising that is going on right now.
I have deleted all my political posts as am feeling horribly insecure about my political knowledge. I used to think I had a brain, but I take it all back. I am a flake admittedly and reveling in it right now, many thanks to Oxford.
Bah. I also take back my judgement on the romantic nature of love at first sight and finding that pretty girl through ads. Love at first sight? Even after years how can you pledge to love each other no matter what the other turns into? Then what are you loving really... Am a cynist about matters of love right now, many thanks to too many "looking for"posts in a London newspaper and sex in the city.
Life is tiring. I think I'll stay a kid, thanks very much for the offer nonetheless.
A Die-Hard Romantic Confesses All
Man Looking for WomanYou, girl in blue, smiled at me and got off at Lai King on the line to Tsuen Wan at around 10:00 AM.The most romantic words I've heard to date. I used them as "poetry" in an anthology of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but finally got the original copy that I apparently thought was worthwhile to copy into my diary- March. 3.
I wrote an "extended version" that made me feel slightly bent- it's trash i know, but at least i don't cringe at the sight of it as i do with most other writing.
You smiled at me that day, with that playful tug of your corners. Did you notice my furtive, adoring glances and take pity, or did you feel the pounding of my head and look into my soul?The sight you made that day. You, the girl in blue, leaning casually on the railing, without a care in the world, leges crossed, carrying the Times and Starbucks, the epitome of modern refinement. No matter your motives, one look, and my soul fluttered away.Then some more nonsense about stars- think i was reading too much montgomery at the time.
It's sweet- but i'm sure most people would say it reeks of desperation. But what's wrong with a little desperation? The world is full of lonely people just waiting to meet one another? Some quote like that. Wherever the guy is, if he is reading this, I wish him all the luck in the world. Though the possibility of him reading this is probably about the same as the girl replying to his ad. It's a sad world we live in. I'm feeling other wordly and old, that's why I'm pulling off the morbid voice.
To all those who feel morbid at precisely 2:46 sometime in their life, I dedicate this post to you.
A Tribute to Noelle
Oh- dear me. I've been forgetting my tributes!Noelle! I've known you for ages- and we've gone from being not-very-good friends to best friends to good friends- and somehow throughout it all- it's always been amazingly easy to talk to you- and the essential bit of every girls convos- complain together! you're always fun to be around- and it's easy going on about anything with you. thanks for making stats class remotely bearable... as well as physics- despite the whole "physics bf" thing.. i still remember you cleaning out my locker for me in 7th or 8th grade- you are too sweet! best wishes in uni- where of course you're going to be successful- how could you not? some things i can't say i miss: wally, you getting mad at me! things i will: everything else really! thanks for showing up for those last 1st grade reunions- to LIFE.
Xangafying blogspot- my apologies.
High tea on sunday with cousin- took some really nice pics- amazing what lighting can do for you! my sis' first attempt at "artistic photos".
At church today, raised the question of whether God's tactis in rescuing the israelites from pharoah were decidedly terrorist. Alvin said- we can't know everything, or else we would be God! Well, true enough, but not very satisfying. Interesting- methods define the validity or something? or not?
maik coming on tuesday!
iPod engraving...
I'm getting an iPod video! And they provide free engraving.
So here goes: vote if you care either way or give me some suggestions!
1. I listen to music to drown out the sound of your voice.
2. My iPod's a Liberal.
3. iCame, iSaw, iPod
4. I think, therefore iPod
5. 10,000 stolen tunes inside
6. Overpriced Walkman
A toast to Juu- it's her bday today, and she's stranded in the middle of nowhere : P. better luck next yr!
Juu's B'day
Happy birthday! A compilation in honor of you.
Wit n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.Lady Astor: 'If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee!'
Churchill: 'My dear, if you were my wife I'd drink it.'
George Bernard Shaw once sent two tickets to the opening night of one of his plays to Winston Churchill with the following note: 'Bring a friend, if you have one.'
Churchill wrote back, returning the two tickets and excused himself as he had a previous engagement. He also attached the following: 'Please send me two tickets for the next night, if there is one.'
House of Commons late one night:
Bessie Braddock: 'Winston you are drunk!'
Winston Churchill: 'Bessie, you're ugly. And tomorrow morning I will be sober.'
Churchill is dozing in a train carriage. A woman enters and sits across from him. She notices his flies are undone. 'Sir!' she exclaims, 'Your penis is sticking out!'
Churchill starts awake, gives the woman a cold stare, looks down for a moment then meets her gaze again. 'Madam, you flatter yourself. It is merely hanging out.'
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli: 'I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease'.
Disraeli replied, 'That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.'
Lady Nancy Astor
'I married beneath me. All women do.'
Jean Harlow: 'Why you're Margot Asquith, aren't you?' (mistakenly pronouncing the 't')
Margot Asquith: 'No my dear, the 't' in Margot is silent, as in Harlow.'
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?'
Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
Dorothy Parker
From a book review: 'This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force.'
Mahatma Gandhi
On western civilization: 'It would be a good idea.'
Ernie Kovacs
Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Adlai E Stevenson
During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E Stevenson 'Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!' Stevenson called back 'That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"Donna Gephart
If brevity is the soul of wit, your penis must be a riot. Excremens tauri intellecti vincit.
Latin for "Bullshit conquers all."
