These Things In Point-Form

January 28th, 2008

at the Youth 08 q&a the other day, us 4 bloggers were asked among other questions how we find so much stuff to blog about. my answer was that there is so much going on in our world and within yourself that it’s impossible not to find inspiration everywhere you go. if i had all the time in the world, i’d probably be blogging every few hours (which i used to do, if anyone remembers my pinkskyes blog from the 2001-2005 days!). but alas there are time constraints :) yet there truly is so much to blog about and share.

some things in point form:

- i find that in all 19 years and 3 months of my life, i tend to do ridiculously stupid things when i am in sleepy stupor. this month seems to be exceptionally pregnant with such stupid things. a lot of the time and when already knee-deep in aforementioned things, i get this naggy feeling at the back of my mind going, ’stop it! stop it! sleep on this before you do anything!!’, but in the fire and zeal of sleepiness, anger and any other peripheral emotion i am feeling, i always forge ahead and do it, bravely telling myself that the courageous and principled don’t sleep on their next step of action. apparently neither do the foolish. siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. lesson learned. next time i’m going to allow myself 12 hours of defusing time or sleep before i do anything this reckless.

- there was a bus crash last Friday. it was KL-bound from Penang, and driven by YET ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE MONSTERS who have scores of summons against them but still want to drive buses and put the lives of so many people in danger. apparently this particular bus driver was speeding and SMSing in the heavy rain. SMSing!!! this crash is hitting a little bit closer to home because Jolene’s friend was one of the 3 who passed away, and Waffle’s cousin was very badly injured. this is so unbelievable. why don’t these people learn? did last year’s slew of bus crashes not teach anyone anything? resign if you’re not doing your job right. your carelessness has cost lives. i saw the facebook group dedicated to Jolene’s friend Nian Ning - she sounds like an absolutely amazing girl. straight a’s for UPSR, PMR, SPM, was in medical school, a debater and public speaker, gorgeous. and so very young. everything seems so small when you think about how a young life has just been taken away and the kind of grief her friends, family and boyfriend must be going through. Jolene’s call of action against the bus company Konsortium and the bus driver can be found here.

- i went back to my high school today for yet another round of the filling-out of college application forms. my counselor wasn’t in her office, so i let myself in. there were two little girls in there, and i asked one of them if she was my counselor’s daughter. she said yes. so i asked the other girl if they were sisters, and she piped up with, ‘No, we are best friends!’. so simple and so innocently straightforward. i used to say things like that when i was a kid. it was so nice being a kid.. ignorance really is bliss sometimes. nowadays i say things and wonder a few hours later if what i said was the right thing. and then i obsess about it. and then i get stressed and emo to wong wenqi wtf.

- Sweeney Todd is an amazing movie. bring a paper bag with you when watching Cloverfield. i cant wait for The Lovely Bones and The Time Traveler’s Wife to be out!!!

- i got google searches for romantic Vday restaurants as early as December :P so if you have yet to pick a restaurant for your Valentine’s Day dinner, i’ve got a review list of 10 restaurants that i wrote last year, that you can choose from. Part 1, Part 2. i’ve got another 5 cozy and romantic restaurants that i may write about sometime soon if i feel like it :)

- aira was telling me the other day how a young biology teacher that we had in high school used to talk to her about me. she told aira that i reminded her of herself during her younger troublemaker days, but the difference was that i had friends and she didnt. sigh i really am very lucky to have my friends, because they are the coolest and best friends you will ever find. high school was what it was because of them. even to this day, they empathize with everything that i feel and never once tell me that the problems i face are small and petty. and they help me through these things so diligently and kindly. sigh. sometimes i dont know how i deserve the friends that i have. /emo. jovann stop watching tv and come and hang out with us sometimes!!!

- i will find it in myself to not be so angry. i will find it in myself to not be so sulky. i will find it in myself to not worry so much. i will find it in myself to be hopeful, optimistic, forgiving and happy. and i will find it in myself to sleep on things before i take drastic actions. and most of all, i will find it in myself to not regret the things i do, and to learn from them.

- God is good.

- AND!!! the notorious Part 3 of the Lingam Video is out!!! mosey over here for the video and the transcript of the conversation :P

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