moved!

Saturday, November 14, 2009
hello! i have moved to wordpress!
read about typhoon and more random things there if you want to :)

Choices--United Way Romania

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Beautiful and inspirational piece of work created with paper cut outs!

CHOICES from :weareom: on Vimeo.

09.09.09--of crazy fyp and yummy supper

Thursday, September 10, 2009


School is sliding into craziness. (But it's not so bad when you've great companions who crack you up over a yummy nasi lemak supper at ulu sembawang. It's a die die must try. Happy Birthday Rah Rah!)

Anyway 1 presentation and 1 assignment to submit EVERY week plus a ton of media law readings and FYP philipines trip planning/contact sourcing is driving me slightly bonkers.

kind of overwhelming, yet kind of thrilling all at once, especially after finally getting some positive feedback from overseas contacts today! :) yay.

it is a relief that things are beginning to take shape slowly but steadily. At least i can see our project heading somewhere now :)
The cloud of gloom will soon go AND things will look better!

have i not mentioned that i hope we don't get lost in phiphi?
3 girls lost in an ulu village doesn't sound like anything to smile or laugh about when we don't speak tagalog. More maps to print and reading up to do!

Watching the world through one lens

Tuesday, September 1, 2009


This is an excerpt from the film, Smoke, directed by Wayne Wang, which i watched in class last week and like very much :)

Sometimes the lens captures things we don't even pay attention to.

Slowing down opens our eyes to see beautiful things.

the case of the broken chair and the growing bindi

Thursday, August 27, 2009

#1: And alas, i fell to the floor with a crash..because my chair leg broke, smack in the middle of canteen B, with a thousand pair of eyes staring at me in disbelief.

A historical moment of my NTU life and a testament of the cui-ness of canteen chairs.

Today's classic embarassment has left me deeply grieved that my companions were completely indifferent to my leaning over...just because they thought i was just being clumsy again.

And when they realise the existence of Mr shaky chair legs, they roll on the floor and laugh along!!!!! Sigh...what friends have i made.


#2: My forehead zit burst today and evolved into a red little dried up dot! (if it's not too small to see below) I call this Natural Bindi. Just too bad it's probably going to drop off when Sarah's North Indian party comes along. Welcome to Bollywood!



开始懂了

Monday, August 24, 2009
我竟然沒有調頭 最殘忍那一刻
靜靜看你走 一點都不像我
原來人會變得溫柔 是透澈的懂了
愛情是流動的 不由人的
何必激動著要理由

相信你只是怕傷害我
不是騙我 很愛過誰會捨得
把我的夢搖醒了 宣布幸福不會來了

用心酸微笑去原諒了
也翻越了 有昨天還是好的
但明天是自己的 開始懂了
快樂是選擇

:P

Run along now

Sunday, August 23, 2009
it's been a long while.
since pictures went to flames.
a teary-eyed familiar face came close.
eyes sunken with remorse and pain.

i stood still and held my breath
heart heavier than before
watching your silhouette drift away
love called to me once more

"run along now, run along free
don't look back at this mad lad you see"


has courage found you on the road home?

Tortoise slow

Saturday, August 22, 2009

My brain is crawling. I think i haven't studied for way too long and my engine hasn't quite started after 8 months. (6 months on attachment and 2 months vacation--december and july) Media law readings look alien, and the way i'm processing information is super duper tortoise SLOW.

Anyway school has started and the only exciting thing about this semester is photojournalism. (YES i got into the class *grins*)

A fantastic excuse to spend time playing with my school borrowed DSLR and exploring all the camera functions. I'm not that sure about assignment grades, but I am a HAPPY student learning to take talking pictures for now.

Life is transient

Tuesday, August 11, 2009
"Life is transient isn't it?" she said.

"It's just been a month and i've attended one wedding and two funerals." I couldn't agree more with her.

I was shopping with a good friend today when we started having a conversation about how terribly fragile life is.

At the same moment a baby is being born to parents with beaming faces, another person breathes his last.

Just a few hours ago i was planning to do this and that today and the next minute i find myself driving my gong gong (grandfather)to A&E at Changi General Hospital. A few hours later, i realise that the doctors suspect he may have a minor stroke and has to be warded.

The days i have left with him are numbered, simply because he's getting on with age.(he's close to 90-years-old already)

Simple health problems are magnified greatly when one is aged. Moreover, my grandmother passed on some three years ago and he really misses life without her.

The Beatles has this very old song called "we can work it out" in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney croon "Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend".

Time is fleeting, life is transient and sometimes we never know when we'll next see someone.

Too often, i forget to resolve issues, simply because i assume i'll still see whoever anyway. (my brother will probably laugh if he sees this)

But no matter how many TOUCHWOODS are said, that doesn't change the fact that life is not really in our control.

Someone i know has just lost her 23-year-old friend to a sudden illness, which was realised way too late, and took everyone around her by shock.

At her funeral, her schoolmates were all saying how they wished they had the time to make up for certain things they should have done and said. And if only they had known, they would have done so. :(

A forgetful human being like me has to learn and relearn how to treasure others before it's too late. Let's begin with my grandfather.

This is home truly

Monday, August 10, 2009


This is my all time favourite national day song!

Home reminds me of my primary five days, ever enthusiastic about waving my flag with my friends and singing my lungs out to everything from Singapura O Singapura sunny island set in the sea to stand up for singapore during national day celebrations. What fond memories.

NDP preview back then was an unforgettable experience that i will love to revisit, albeit the blistering heat endured under the afternoon sun at kallang stadium.

The fireworks, colourful balloons and the cheery atmosphere of singaporeans in RED gathering to celebrate the nation's birthday made up for everything else. The sight of people digging their goodie bags and complaining about what was or wasn't inside also made me laugh at how SINGAPOREAN that was.

Funny how we crack jokes about the most amusing yet malu (embarassing) bits of our own identities all the time--tissue seat chopping, free gift must take and phua chu kang MRT campaigns. Yet these little things just put a smile on my face and makes me feel extra unique to call the little red dot my home.

Happy 44th Birthday Singapore! This is home truly!

Superstars in their own way

Saturday, August 1, 2009
Ok maybe i should really start blogging again.
It's been a very very long time and i was going to close this down when someone inspired me to carry on writing. my sincere apologies for my absence readers! hmmm. anyway... i never knew i had a bunch of superstar friends....

check out their stunning shades!
created by me and rachel
FAVOURITE!


Congrats graduates! :)