Lost In Translation

Notice that the sun, the moon, and the stars would rotate and envelope our earth.
The magnificent in the skies would streak pass us and twirl as we wait in our silent spots.

But remember that it is not them that are revolving around us.
We are the ones twirling in our orbit.

So while it may feel special,
and it is beautiful,
Remember your place.

God, humble me.

~

[edit: Just realised my blog turned 4 this day. That's four years of yapping on this space now. How time flies...]

You are a champ.

I am seriously so grateful. You just made my week. And I mean my week! You know the weight of it.
What more can I say but 'thank you'? You have just rendered me speechless...

~

For those of you who don't know, John Bevere happens to be in town this weekend. The much anticipated Leaders' Summit was on both last night and today, but I missed them. I've been home wrestling my books and really feeling the weight of it all. This week has been tough, and it's not just because of my exams, may I add. A lot of things have happened in the span of this one week and it has certainly been trying. I'm not saying that the week has been bad. I'm just saying it's been tough.
In fact, it has actually been very good. Just tough. If you catch my drift.

And then comes this.
Ant, who's been at the summit this weekend decided to pop by my place with the (fake) excuse of borrowing my lens to surprise me with this gift.
So I've now got all three sessions of the summit on DVD.

Oh, the joy. It is good to be among friends.

[edit: bah, my blog is being wonky again, as discovered by sj. the comment box doesn't work, so to drop a message, please hit 'preview' first, then 'post'. thanks. and sorry. :P]

I love this photo. It's taken by a photographer name Jan Von Holleben, from his collection called Dreams of Flying. You can view the rest here.

Such creativity. I think it's simply original.
I want to have such creativity. The ability to create, rather than just reproduce or improve.
Ant and I are thinking of a film project this summer. I think it's gonna be fun. But I'd like to push the envelope. Stop talking about doing something great and do something great. Something new.

My last exam's on Monday. I can't wait.

~

I'll blog about my birthday soon. It was good.
I got a Topman hoody, a wicked t-shirt, chocolates and a coffee-maker.
That's right. A coffee-maker.

Soon.

Ever had a dream where you can't tell if it's real or not?
I just had a bad dream. Yes, it was a dream. But as much as I know it wasn't real, I know of the possibility that it speaks truth. That this may come to pass.
I don't like it. Especially when I went back to sleep only to have the dream continue.

It's a beautiful day today.
After weeks of being scorched in the sun and plagued by flies the size of pinkies, it's raining today. It's currently 12 degrees outside. A nice breeze is tunneling its way around the city blocks, it hasn't stopped drizzling since dawn, and the pavements are wrapped with scurrying umbrellas.
It's beautiful. I absolutely love it. Jazz and coffee.
Feels like England, minus the jazz and replace the coffee with tea. In the movies. (And real life too, I guess).

The days have surprisingly been much longer, though (and I'm not talking about daylight savings). Since the end of my exams, the days seem to drag much longer. I guess it's just me back to having a full schedule again, just that it drags a bit more now. Before, the days would always pass me by so quickly. I wouldn't be able to tell last week from yesterday. But now, it's as if I'm feeling every minute tick by.

The month is coming to an end very soon. It's been one heck of a month so far. A lot has happened. So much I wish I could share it all here, but it wouldn't do it justice. All I can say that it's been amazing. Life-changing, dare I say. I've been learning a lot about laying my ultimate reliance in God's hands. I've also been discovering much about myself; what I want to do, where I want to be, what I'm going to do, and where I'm going to be, etc. But underneath all that, I've been learning a lot about love. Heh, cheesy, you may say. And I'd usually agree and laugh with you. But I've been living these past weeks with a heavy heart. Almost as if it's constantly being squeezed. It's not sadness but more of a burden.
For what or who, you ask? Well... I'm not able to answer that yet.
The month is coming to an end very soon.
Check with me after.

The year, however, I can definitely say has sped by unbelievably quickly. So much has happened, and I'm sure those of you who had been with me since day one of this year, you can vouch for me too on that. I've been back in Malaysia twice; thrice if you counted since last summer this year. I've been a heck lot more involved with church and my walk with God. I've made several very regrettable mistakes. And I've come to know yet another year's worth of new faces whom I've come to love so much as well.

I'm 22.
For my birthday, my urbs had a combined farewell party (farty) and birthday dinner for me and one of the members who's going back to Singapore to serve in the National Services. It was really sweet of them to try surprising me with a birthday sticky date pudding. And on the next day, they threw me another surprise as well. That's two surprises by the same bunch of people back to back for two days in a row. Not bad. And as I mentioned earlier, they got me a coffee machine. It's rad! A flippin' coffee machine with an instructional DVD with it. I'm still not over it. It's sitting on my dining table right now and I still have no idea how to work it. I'll have to watch the DVD soon. The Cempakans got me a Corky St Claire tee, and so did Iris (who's also a Cempakan, but she got it separately from them and didn't know they got one for me too) and I'm absolutely loving both tee's. A bunch of Singaporeans got me a Topman hoody (they know me so well), and another dearie also gave me an angpow.
Then of course, there were the phone calls, emails, and text messages showered all day.
I'm so loving this birthday.
Thank you all so much. Love you guys to bits.

As I said, it's been quite an eventful month, and there's still 9 days left into it.
I'm expecting much from these remaining days.
It sometimes feel as if the entire year's events have been preparing me and leading up to this point in time for me - this month. Not to close off another chapter. But as a prologue to a whole new book altogether. Wah, so drama, you say. Shut up. But I'm not exaggerating.

It's been a great year. It's not ending just yet, I know, but I felt I should say it anyway.
I'm thankful to my family and friends who have been there with me all the way, and I'm looking forward to yet another year of amazing with all of you.

I love you guys.

Yours sincerely,
David

It has been about eight days since my last exam.
While the days may have been stretched and difficult, it has definitely been good.

I hate the fact that many are gone/going. Summer's here and a lot have flown back to Singapore or Malaysia for the three month break. It's even longer this time round because in 2008, uni is starting slightly later in the year than in previous semesters. A friend pointed out that in summer, we start making 'fake' friends. People we don't usually hang out with but due to the fact that almost everyone's gone, we start hanging out together. And when the holiday ends, we go back to our usual cliques. Cruel. But I see some sense in it.
I still hate it though.

I've been working almost every weekday now at the deli. The manager wants me in as often as possible but I can take days off if I wanted to, given a valid reason of course. So in the afternoons, I'd be making sandwiches till about 4pm. Then after, I'd usually rest a while before heading out.

I've been getting closer to my core team at urban life. Since the end of my exams, I've been having meals and coffees with them more often, and it's been great. It has only been about 2 months since the pioneering teams kicked off, I think, and that's about how long I've got to known this team for as well. And yet, I feel a certain sense of belonging already when around them. The 3 are slowly becoming like family to me now. I like this.

Brodie, Iris, and Beth are good company. So are Tasmanians. I've been spending most of my weekend with them, where activities included driving aimlessly around the city at night, kidnapping Winnie, riding the ferris wheel off Flinders St., dining at Argy Bargy (the most amazing place in the world because they screen retro Transformers episodes, have a teddy on a turntable, and have retro Duck Hunt on Nintendo; all the way with the guns), Fruity-Bix tournaments, and dancing at 11pm in a park.

There's 3 more days left to the month.
It's exciting.
And my parents are arriving on the 1st too.