Feel Good Inc.

I'M A GRADUATE!! hahahahahaha..ok i think i'm going crazy! i know this may not sound like a big deal to most of you but this IS my big deal..

when i got my PSLE results and found out that i was going to st. patrick's school, nobody thought i was good enough..

when i got my o' level results and couldn't get into jc or even business at polytechnic, nobody thought i was good enough..

and frankly, neither did i..i was depressed..my father was always sceptical..my uncle thought i just got lucky..all except my mum who throughout the years always thought that her elder son could do something right and LOOK MUM, I'M A GRADUATE!!!

of course there are other heros and heroines (mostly!) around me who have helped me through..like my sec 4 remedial teacher mdm tan (who helped me pass my chinese!!), mrs liew who sacrificed her maternity leave to coach me in physics (and i got an A) and of course mdm sing of temasek poly who never gave up on me even when i was determined to! then there were my lovely bunch of poly classmates who signed for my lecture attendace, updated my notes and even had to bear with my mood swings. last but not least to my good buddy chunchyi who always attended class and kept me updated on tutorials! not forgetting God who always blessed me with luck i didn't always deserve..thank you thank you thank you all! maybe i should pursue a Masters next hmm..did someone say "please, no!"?

i'm so looking forward to Baybeats this weekend and if someone should choose to destroy my weekend i'll run him over!! well..try to anyway! :P

take care y'all!
God bless!
addy

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... ...addy is currently obsessed with Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc."
"love forever..love is free..turn forever you and me.."

Brighter Than Sunshine

Another week just passes like that..less than two weeks to my exam results! Anyway, just watched "a lot like love" with karen yesterday..just my type of movie..i know the ending was predictable but who cares! i'm just a sucker for such stuff! :P



Baybeats is coming!! For people interested in music, please please please do go down to the esplanade on the 15th, 16th and 17th of july and lend your support to the bands performing (including acts like electrico, serenaide, concave scream and a whole lot more!!)..i promise you won't regret it..i have my good bud as a witness! heh..

Last but not least the following poem was written some time back..when i was feeling really down..i think it was when i was just posted to my new workplace..hmm..can't really remember already..

"the self-discipline prayer"

Lord grant me self-discipline in all that i do
When i get bored and restless, what would you do if you were in my shoes?
Do as you always have and stick to your ways
But you're the potter and we're just clay
And pottery like us gets molded too easily
Temptation seeks us out and we surrender meekly
Through our wayward actions, we lose both others and ourselves
And we realise afterwards that we'd have strayed from you as well
Help us be disciplined as you would have been
Give us strength and keep us from sin
If i should get bored next time and my mind wanders from me
I will still be strong because the Lord is with me

- ad (3rd july 2005)


For those interested, there is another part to this poem called "the patience prayer" put up on my friendster blog..

take care y'all!
God bless!
addy

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... ...addy is currently obsessed with Aqualung's "Brighter Than Sunshine"
"love burns brighter than sunshine.."

What If

My exams are over..finally! actually, they have been over since last monday..but since then i've been rather depressed..mainly suffering from exam stress hangover and a lack of sleep..my usually trusty retail therapy is failing me..somehow practicality has taken over my senses these days..bladdy idiot! and karen isn't helping much either with her mood swings..we end up swinging moods at each other instead! so..i end up even more depressed than before..ableit with an improvement in the sleep situation..now i don't know what the hell to do with myself..hai..


On the brighter side of things..i've just finished mike gayle's novel "His 'N' Hers"..yes another one of those sappy love stories where you'd just know the ending..but i loved it anyway just as i loved his previous books! now for tony parsons' "The Family Way"! maybe i'll start tomorrow..hmm..

Anyway, just checking in..just in case you guys were wondering if i had been wiped off the face of this earth, rest assure the force is strong in me..over and out!

God bless!
Cheers!
addy

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... ...addy is currently obsessed with Coldplay's "What If"
"let's take a brave jump over the side.."

Refugees

I'm feeling very worn out..mnday's is the last paper and i've yet to get started..still very hungover from wednesday paper..wednesday paper was pretty good though so hopefully that will give me a timely boost..hmm..though i must say the "boost" is kind of slow in taking over!!

went for my retail therapy yesterday..as most of my friends know, my retail therapy is basically to stock up on my cd collection! but then i've been quite in control lately..for example, i went to this warehouse sale, picked up 4 cds in half an hour..then spent the next 10 minutes putting all 4 cds back, walking out of the place without a purchase and feeling crap after that! but yesterday was different, i was on a mission! first i went to get the ipod shuffle (not sure how much i will use it though! -gasp-) then off to hmv to get The Tears single (which coincidentally provides for my heading this time! :P), the new Foo Fighters album and a single by a new band Nine Black Alps (if you like The Vines, you'll like this)..now that my therapy has been a success, i feel like crap again..but for a different reason! argh!

ok..it's 11am the time i stipulated for myself to start studying and I WILL! well..hopefully..i think..hmm..

Cheers!
God Bless!

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... ...addy is currently obsessed with The Tears' "Refugees"
"let's take to the streets..you and i we're life's refugees.."

Speed of Sound

I am feeling stressed and broke..Stressed firstly because my final two papers are next week..The first went quite lousily - not the worst but certainly far from the best..Not sure if it is mental block but it seems like this Recruitment and Selection module has nothing much for me to study either! Or could it be because i took a similar module last sem? Argh! Hopefully when wednesday comes and goes, i would have gained more confidence to proceeed to my final and last paper - Organisational Change and Development! After which, i can finally start making appointments with all my friends whom i have been neglecting for the past few months! Graduation is in september..hopefully the results in july earns me a meal at the Ritz!

Secondly, i'm broke! And i haven't even started on my retail therapy! Why did Oasis, Coldplay and The Tears all release albums around the same time! Now to stop myself from getting any other cds, i've decided to listen to the three albums slowly one at a time..so far, i'm still only at the oasis one so that's good..on the contrary though, the album is just so-so, this coming from an oasis fan!

Ok, i've rambled on enough, now i've got to get back to studying..wish me luck you guys and i hope to see some of you REAL soon! promise!

Cheers!
God Bless!

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... ...addy is currently obsessed with Oasis' "Let There Be Love"