Sore Ga, Ai Deshou (I Guess That's Love)

Just want to share the lyrics of this song which caught my attention tonight. Hope it touches you in it's unique way! Fumo, Fumo, Fumoffu tubs!!!


Tatoeba ne namida ga koboreru hi ni ha
Even if there are days when the tears roll down my cheeks,
Sono senaka wo hitorijime shitai kedo
I want to have you back all for myself, but

Yasashisa wa tokidoki zankoku dakara
Because kindness can be cruel sometimes,
Motomeru hodo kotae wo miushinau
I lose sight of the answer the more I search for it.

Ameagari no machi niji ga mieru nara
If you can see the rainbow in the town after the rain,
Ima arukidasou nani ka ga hajimaru
Let's start walking now; something is about to begin.


Kimi ga iru kara, asu ga aru kara
Because I have you, because I have tomorrow,
Hitorikiri ja ikite yukenai kara
Because I cannot live on all alone,
Konna ni chikaku ni kanjiru sore ga, ai deshou
I feel you so close by me, I guess that's love.
Namida no kazu no itami wo kimi wa shitteru kara
Because you know how much pain tears can bring,
Sukitooru sono me no naka ni tashika na imi wo sagashite
I want to find a smile in your transparent eyes,
Egao mitsuketai
As I search for a definite meaning in them.


Nani mo iwanai de mo konna kimochi ga, kimi no mune ni tsutawareba ii no ni
Although it'd be good if these feelings found their way into your heart without me needing to speak a word
Sukoshizutsu machi ha iro wo kaeru kedo
The colour of the town changes little by little but
Hora omoide ga mata hitotsu fueta
See, our memories have again increased one by one.


Kimi no kotoba no hitotsu hitotsu woi
Because now I can embrace every word that you said
Ima ha dakishimerareru kara kitto
I'm sure that we'll come closer to each other
Futari de kasaneatte iku sore ga, ai deshou
I guess that's love
Dare mo shiranai ashita ga matte iru to shite mo
Even if a tomorrow that nobody knows is waiting for us
Daijoubu mou nakanai de
It's all right, don't cry anymore.
Kimi to te to te wo tsunaide
We'll join hands,
Aruiteku zutto
And keep walking on forever.

Futo shita shunkan tsunoru kimochi ja naku
It isn't something that builds up in an instant,
Sukoshizutsu sodatete iku mono da ne
But a feeling that grows a little at a time,
Aisuru kimochi ha
The feeling called love.


Kimi ga iru kara, asu ga aru kara
Because I have you, because I have tomorrow,
Hitorikiri ja ikite yukenai kara
Because I cannot live on all alone,
Konna ni chikaku ni kanjiru sore ga, ai deshou
I feel you so close by me, I guess that's love.
Namida no kazu no itami wo kimi wa shitteru kara
Because you know how much pain tears can bring,
Sukitooru sono me no naka ni tashika na imi wo sagashite
I want to find a smile in your transparent eyes,
Egao mitsuketai
As I search for a definite meaning in them.

Wayward Humour from Yours Truly

Presenting: The Power of Silence!

About a century or two ago, the Pope decided that all the Indians had to leave Italy. Naturally there was a big uproar from the Indian community.

So the Pope made a deal. He would have a debate with a member of the Indian community.

If the Indian won, the Indians could stay.
If the Pope won, the Indians would leave.

The Indians realized that they had no choice. So they picked a middle aged man named Santu to represent them.

Santu asked for one addition to the debate. To make it more interesting, neither side would be allowed to talk. The Pope agreed.

The day of the great debate came.

Santu and the Pope sat opposite each other for a full minute before the Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers.
Santu looked back at him and raised one finger.

The Pope waved his fingers in a circle around his head.
Santu pointed to the ground where he sat.

The Pope pulled out a wafer and a glass of wine.
Santu pulled out an apple.

The Pope stood up and said, "I give up. This man is too good. The Indians can stay." An hour later, the cardinals were all around the Pope asking him what had happened.

The Pope said, "First I held up three fingers to represent the trinity. He responded by holding up one finger to remind me that there was still one God common to all religions. Then I waved my finger around me to show him that God was all around us. He responded by pointing to the ground and showing that God was also right here with us. I pulled out the wine and wafer to show that God absolves us from our sins. He pulled out an apple to remind me of original sin. He had an answer for everything. What could I do?"

Meanwhile, the Indian community had crowded around Santu.

"What happened?" they asked.

"Well" said Santu, "First he said to me that the Indians had three days to get out of here. I told him that none of us was leaving. Then he told me that this whole city would be cleared of Indians. I let him know that we were staying right here."

"Yes, yes, and then???" asked the crowd.
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"I don't know", said Santu, "He took out his lunch, and I took out mine!"

Two Times Two

I remembered this old joke from Sec. school, ironically it was a very hip teacher who told it to us. Social Studies was a blast... But readers beware, you're in for a scare. AC (I) USED to be an all boys' school (damn IB program killed what it meant to be an AC guy...), so go figure. Girls, read at your own risk, and don't complain to me your eyes kena mak chiam. For the guys, hope you enjoy this!

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A guy and a girl are having sex when they both say, "I'm really hungry and thirsty too. It was freakin' freezing in the house so they both have an argument over who should go get the food and drink.

After a while they decide to have a contest. Whoever can come up with the best poem would be the one to stay in bed.

They both think for a while when the guy says, "Okay, I got one. Two times two is four plus five is nine, I can pee in yours but you can't pee in mine".

So she thinks for a minute and says, "Okay two times two is four plus five is nine, I know the length of yours but you'll never know the depth of mine."

Singapore wants more doctors, patients from China

Oh dear... I started getting worried when I read this article. More doctors/ patients from China?!? This means first and foremost that I have to polish my mandrin immensely, learn dialects, and also study harder! There's going to be more competition from places like China and India when I next graduate. The MOH's schedule is now ready to include the top 2 unversites of both India and China. The list of universities they accept is growing, meaning more foriegn top class doctors will be competing with the rest to survive in the medical world. Looks like, the medical world in Singapore is set to change drastically over the next few years with the increased amounts of doctors coming in per year.

I welcome competition as well as expertise that will help singapore grow, however, this means the competition gradient will rise very steeply. Future doctors from India and China are not only smart, they're also hardworking and very willing to do what it takes to do their job well. In that aspect, people like me must always be vigilant and hungry to improve or we'll be left behind. Arghh!! Everything is changing so rapidly and things are becoming very different from what they used to be. I'm not saying that I'm adverse to change, just that I'm struggling to keep up. Looks like we'll all got to try even harder. Not just students who are in world recognised universities overseas who expect to have a job when they return but also, local students in Singapore.

Success is not an easy road,It's riddled with resistance;While failure on the other hand--The path of least persistence.

This is the web site that I read the CNN article.. take a look if u're interested.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/229291/1/.html

Journey to the Past

My trip to the library was so exciting! Went to look up some documents that might be able to help some with my assignment, but, that took me on a mini tour around the various libraries in Uni! =p haha! Went to the Hargrave Andrew one, and then to the St Lois Matherson one! Those book trails sent me on journeys to the storage room and even to the rare books section!

I had to literally move shelves (via this steering wheel mechanism) and sit on dusty floor and skim through the moth eaten books in a dark dusty basment all my myself to see if any of them woud be useful enough! Pity was that although some of them were interesting, they were all dated more than 10 years back so I dont think they'll cut it as reliable references. I even found a book so old, that the cause of keratoconus was not known at the time! wow! Thank goodness there was an extremely sweet and helpful korean lady to show point me in the right direction and help me find the storage section...

In the rare books section, I my bag and the book I wanted couldnt be in the same room. Apparently that's where they store all the precious books so I was really looking forward to seeing what the book I was looking for was like! haha! Well, it was pretty exciting..I felt that I was in one of those archeology buildings with mysterious items from the past all around. The atmosphere made it seem very special. The man who was obtaining the book for me instructed me to wait in this large room surrounded by old yellowed books with maps hanging off the walls and framed up posters and newspaper articles leaning in the corners together with piles of stacked up books. It was raelly exciting! I didnt know that that part of my uni existed!! Sweet.. He finally brought me the book I was looking for. It was a thin red half and A4 sized book. So thin that I could photocopy all 20 pages of the book! When I held the book in my hands I felt like I was holding a very fragile and valuable piece of medical history also because it had taken a lot of effort to find.. wow..that feeling cannot be described..Plus the fact that there was a copier there that didnt require me to put in my uni card made it even better!! Which was good in a sense because I had just bankrupted my uni card by photocopying the other 2 books I got from the storage.

What a day! Pity that whole trip from the med library to the arts library and from storage to rare section drained my energy.. felt really tired when I came back but couldnt fall asleep until recently. So what I did was I watched video after video of srubs to make my eyes tired and when I finally couldnt take it no more,I snuggled under my covers and fell asleep, a nice, deep, long sleep..as peaceful as a baby=)

Well, 15 more days to go!! Cant wait to see my darling again! Really looking forward to it and have got many surprises planned for him, hope he likes em and has a smashing time for the 1 wk that he'll be here!! =) Muackers to him! Cant wait!! Waiting is so horrible, so much so that sometimes I feel so .... I dont know.. depressed? All that energy and realising that I have no one who truely cares about me but you..Once, you know what that feels like, any other form of care provided by others just seems so meagre and superficial..With you its unpretentious and pure. I dont quite know how to describe it but is avery real feeling of being protected and loved unconditionally without being judged for your shortcomings. Its a kind of love that only you and my family can provide me with. It makes everything, thats done by everyone else pale in comparison.

A Letter to an AC Wannabe

Some much needed humour:

I don't know about you all, but sometimes when I'm down in the dumps, sometimes some well-versed self-humour is in order! Seeing I can (proudly) claim 10 years of being an ACSian, I am very comfortable bringing up good 'ole memories of the stereotyped AC boy (for those lau jiao out there, go reminisce about your Sec. school days). Enjoy, presenting 'A Letter to an AC Wannabe'...

Dear [name of a boy],

It has come to my attention that you have been selected as a potential student of ACS(I). We are indeed pleased to welcome you to our big family. However, there are a few improvements that have to be made for you to qualify to be one of us.

Firstly, your physical appearance needs alteration. According to our school's tradition, our attire includes:

1. Spiked hair
2. Pants worn on the hips
3. Almost completely hidden socks
4. Shirts not tucked in properly etc.

Furthermore, you must have bushy eyebrows and tan skin to be eligible. Thus, we would appeal that you make these changes ASAP. Secondly, other than outward appearance, what goes on inside is crucial as well. We adhere struictly to our 3 acts: Act Cool, Act Attitude and Act Poser, stressing on poser-ism as the basis of our image.

Act cool: All ACSI students are required to be adept in pretending to be cool in the way bimbos will fall for the trick, even though it is obviously not the proper definition of "cool". We do not want our students to be cool but to ACT cool. This will include mannerisms like acting nonchalant and pompous that will create the false impression that ACSI guys are indeed very desirable and good looking.

Act attitude: Due to the fact that bimbos absolutely love attitudal guys, we emphasise strongly on pretending to have attitude in our boys. You will hence have to act like a very bad person when you are in fact an insecure and deprived person.

Act poser: AS this is the trademark of our school, it will require no further explanation.

To adhere to our school's motto "The best is yet to be", we require you to stop getting good results in school especially in the area of literature, as this opposes our motto. You will hence need to go out more with bimbos, have fun, screw around and be less concerned with your studies.

Your Chinese grades need to be extremely poor and you will have to hate it a lot. In other words, you must forget all your roots and be a perfect banana. You are also required to be rich to avoid being ostracised and looked down upon in our school. More emphasis will also be put on sports to create the false impression that ACSI guys are all rounders.

We look forward to your joining our huge ACS family and we certainly do believe you have the potential, judging by your bimbo attracting qualities prevalent in all our students. We believe that with more posing, despising Chinese and acting, you can definitely be an outstanding representation of ACSI.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Ong Teck Chin
Principal
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

Comfort from Abroad

I must be an angsty youth; the emotional rollercoaster that dictates my sentiments and reactions can be brought down to simple mathematics: Have too much of an emotional 'high', and the sin-like curve brings you right down into dissatisfied distress. Interestingly enough, this sin curve only got superimposed onto my life when steelsmilez flew Down Under.

Last Saturday us M2s attended what (for most of us at least) would be our last DnD, and keeping to tradition, the seniors dressed to kill heh... Yours Truly went high living it up as Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery. Well, it doesn't need to be stated that we all had a ball of a time.


And yet, adhering to the sine rule, Sunday was filled with restless discontent. I was simply frustrated at the lack of that 'Factor X' in the previous night's events. An emotional paradox presented itself in that, although I'll honestly say I had fun striking poses with everyone for the camera, I also felt empty. Sounds sentimental (and for testosterone-fed machismo, maybe sappy), but it seemed to me that these things lacked flavour without a certain crazy girl to experience them with.

As it was, Steelsmilez had her hands full trying to cajole a smile out of me. Kudos to her, her perseverance outlasted my stubbornness. Along with the wan smile she elicited, came a dampening reminder that things aren't always chummy in a LDR.

People ask how the heck we manage. We're in no position to speak words of success just yet, but I trust this forms the basis of all gurus' advice for a happy, lasting relationship: Faith in not only your companion, but yourself; and patience in all matters.