giving everyday my best shot
Monday, November 9, 7:31:00 am
love this

Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?
Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts.
So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess,
And to stop the muscle that makes us confess.

And we are so fragile,
And our cracking bones make noise,
And we are just,
Breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys.

-Breakable by Ingrid Michaelson

So insightful..Recommend you listen to her songs, she's amazing..All her songs are awesome, with really meaningful lyrics, nice clean voice. I like, The Chain, which is very floaty. Lady In Spain has quirky lyrics. So do Men of Snow, which is not just about of snowmen. Incredible Love is quite classic, like a song you'll hear in a cafe. The Way I Am is so sweet. And of course Breakable is just so true..I Wikipedia-ed her, and apparently there are 8 of her songs featured on Grey's Anatomy. Her voice reminds me of Lenka, but her melodies are less quirky, arrangement is more classic. Sometimes her more acoustic pieces are like Colbie Caillat's, but a little more upbeat. Her lyrics are soooo good. She uses a lot of metaphors, and she rhymes most of them! Wonder why I haven't heard her earlier..She's been around for awhile, 3 albums already. I don't think I'll tire of her music anytime soon. She's just good la..XP

~I am a lady from Mars

Thursday, November 5, 5:11:00 am
dream on..

I DO NOT LIKE CRUSHES.

THEY ARE VERY IRRITATING.

I'm talking about minor ones here. The ones I tend to have when there is no better guy to like. The ones for me to while away time on the bus, or on the toilet seat. I give up. Will not entertain them anymore.

On another note, I'm glad Keane intro-ed me to the Chinese Christian Fellowship. I feel way more comfortable there. I just realized I'm really not prepared/don't want to leave my comfort zone. Can't people just accept me for who I am? Or wait, am I the one who THINKS that they won't?

~so tired of feeling blue
Lenka in "Skipalong"






Wednesday, November 4, 5:11:00 am
no place like LONDON!!

Take a guess where I been last weekend? It was a really short day trip. Came back tired like cow but it was well worth it. Only regret not charging my camera properly. And not learning better photo taking skills.

Had to wake up at 4am, having slept only 3 hours. Took Greyhound and arrived early in drizzly, grey London. Vincent, Elena and I didn't know where we were going, until we actually arrived at Victoria station. So really spontaneous sight-seeing. Got a Tube map & I was so excited cos all the Monopoly places are on it!! Lol.

First stop, Westminster.
Big Ben


Westminster across the Thames

People on strike outside Westminster
I was really amused cos you don't get to see this in Malaysia at all.
Lol, and Vincent was saying how people can have sex in public if they do it in those tents.

This was on the pavement, set in concrete.
Can you see? Its a poem by T. S. Eliot.
They like literature a lot, the English.
Even in the Tube there are poems on the wall of the train.
Guess it keeps people occupied.

After Westminster, went to meet Sze at the shopping district of Oxford Street & Regent Street. (Monopoly places again!)
Then headed to Bayswater and had the famous duck rice for lunch
(which was no big deal actually)
Crushed glass bottles!
Found this and the books (pic below) in Covent Garden Craft Market.
I was trying to explain to Charmaine & Pui Li (who are another 2 M'sians) about this.
Quote Charmaine:"But its glass! Won't it break when you crush it??"

Leather bound books
Why can't Malaysian craftsmen be as creative as this??

The people who made it possible
Love them!

K, gotta go. 7 cases down, 3 more to go.

~dropped my bacon