A Fresh New Look
It’s been a while I haven’t posted here :D! With my recent announcement over my LiveJournal that this will be my new permanent spot for my personal journal. And sort of adding that personal touch, I finally got around and creating a fresh look for it.
And lo and behold, the new look is already up and running - though at the time of writing (27 June 2009) Internet Explorer users may end up seeing a less optimal site, since I haven’t got around fixing the theme yet (looking forward to making it work this weekend though).
Developing this theme has been quite a feat to me, which I style it with pure CSS with minimal cruft and I also experimented with CSS3 text-shadows (to view the full effect, do use Firefox 3 …
Continue Reading (491 words, 2 minute read)A Goodbye: From In Hues of Blue to A Day in Life
First of all, just wanted to say that thanks a lot for those who have been following my updates through this blog.
As you noticed the long hiatus, lots happened for the past three months (actually it’s just me transitioning back to my old job, literally) and it’s has been an excruciating time for me as I find myself doing a very deep soul search all over again.
As previously said, the seventh chapter is forthcoming and hence I felt that today’s the day. No poems, but a simple goodbye. Goodbye in the sense that I’ve decided that I’ll now continue to blog in my personal website - this is mainly due to the fact of my intent to change the intent of my posts and to graduate from the small …
Continue Reading (307 words, 2 minute read)Poem in Prose: Asylum
~ #3 ~
Running away
On a lost path
Without an end
in sight
A unknown shadow
Creeping;
An instinct
“to escape from…?”
~ #2 ~
Remembering
A distant past
with a vision
so bright
A weary soul
Limping;
Forgotten
“that I’m trying”
~ #1 ~
Approaching
The ominous shadow
with a terror
unable to subside
A frozen pair of eyes
staring;
timidly asking
“What is it”
~ #0 ~
Engulfing,
or so it seemed
Yet left nothing
in sight
A clueless soul
Trembling;
Forgetting
“….”
Today’s Drifting Thoughts: Commitment
Eight months ago, I agonized myself with the thought of car ownership. It wasn’t a particularly pleasant experience as there’s two “blocker” thoughts that runs uncomfortably through my veins: the negative connotation of carrying debt (I was effectively debt-free at that point of time) and the fear of driving. Both of these things literally shrink my balls (ahem, being a guy, guess that’s the best illustration of how I felt :p), but in the end, I managed to get away with it.
Fast forward eight months later, as in now, I find myself revisiting the topic of credit, and of a bigger scale, no less.
You see, with my recent decision to move back to Kuala Lumpur, I was presented with an overwhelming amount of options: each with its own set of …
Continue Reading (278 words, 2 minute read)Other Avenues of Expression
It been months I had it now, but I now had my own paper journal that I’m proud of owning.
It’s actually one of those “way too expensive” things that I found at Kinokuniya which I have adored for quite some time and only recently had the resolve to cough up a premium to get it (and for those who didn’t know, I’m quite a stationery nerd ;)): It’s a fabric bound, bright yellow, B5-sized ring binder file from Kokuyo, which really had sex appeal that immediately catches people’s eye without going blind (yellow is one of those bright colours that I’m quite allergic to, to be honest). Somehow the colour really gave me an feeling of joy, creativity and playfulness and it’s a joy to feel the …
Continue Reading (609 words, 3 minute read)Subtle Clues to Coming Out
Basically that’s what I noticed when I was at the gym today and I personally find it slightly amusing 😛 (though, in a certain sense, it was a self-deprecating joke).
Attack of the Filing Cabinets
What happens when you need to find your own filing cabinet among a sea of hundreds of them?
Worse, they are all arranged closely together: meaning you have to pull them out one by one if you are unlucky to have yours in the deep end of the sea of cabinets.
Even worse, you notice that all labels are stuck in the front and the only way you are going to find yours is to move them out one at a time.
Worst of them all… these things are heavy.
That’s the most amusing experience I got when I moved into the new office (or rather my second coming :p) today.
Creativity
Partly influenced by a scene in Honey and Clover (I think even the description below was probably my retelling and interpretation of the narration of that particular scene), I sort of sketched out the thing about the creative process in which creative ideas can be seen like a black box of sorts containing materials that could potentially be manifested into a particular form.
Through a human nature of curiosity and a fulfilling need to express oneself, vision or just plain playfulness, we tend to find ourselves immersed in piecing the pieces together and make something out of it using our own hands.
However, being a world as it is: ours is a world filled with infinite possibilities, there’s times that when our eyes were set on a farther horizon, all we could see is …
Continue Reading (211 words, 1 minute read)Addicted to Math
Am addicted to Project Euler: math can indeed be addictive when you know there’s an absolute answer that you need to solve ;).
Now 9 more to go to achieve Level 1.
Sick and Feeding on Cookies
Not feeling well for the past few days, mainly due to recently life disruptions (and probably lack of discipline :p). The picture above pretty much reflects my recent conditions.
In an environment without any TLC (tender loving care) and a lousy appetite, cookies are always your best friend.
That’s what I thought :p.
