Every once in a while, a sudden thought hits me. *snaps* just like that!

I used to think that I'll write it down somewhere.. or jot it down.. or heck, remember it. But it never fails to .. fail me. lols. okay lame joke .. but still.

So since a majority of my time will be spent in front of books and laptops (that's when my brain wanders into forks like these anyway..) I've decided this year that I will blog it automatically, if permissible.
*Sigh there goes all those years of precious random thoughts...*

#1 People
Since leaving home and since being tagged an adult, there have been SO MANY types of other adults I've met since hitting 21. (yeah my kinda joke) Mendelian in magnitude, I realized too, that unconsciously I've started to look at them by the simplest of ways-

- Those who expect you to respect them. They are not your peers, they are not your age, they might be fit into someone like your mentor/ teacher/ but they will never be your friend. So when you email them you don't go 'Hey There'. Think of 'Dear Mr X' and goodbyes like 'Yours sincerely' instead. And you must never crack jokes about their peers to them. Because those peers are on the same level as person discussed and therefore, will never be your friend either. Ever. Short of raising your arms in a salute, you should never look at them in the eye. (I'm not there yet...)

-  On the other end of the spectrum, there lies the ones who are overtly friendly. Chatty. Hippy. You get the idea. It's not exactly the ideal personality either, because I suppose it takes time to adjust to their relative ages. However I won't deny that it's a huge plus when you feel like connecting. It feels odd at first, because being Asian you've always been raised to pay the elders their due respect. It's like a silent obligation. I still have problems calling my older cousins without the jie's and the kor's even now when they're like 35 and I'm 21, so calling a tutor for example, by their first names without their titles makes me feel like I'm going to be struck by lightning anytime soon.

- Then there are the ones who are in the middle. Serious at times, humourous otherwise and still connectable. They're the easiest and perhaps the majority of those I've met.

- The last group would be those who are so quiet I don't actually know where  they stand.

Admittedly, I have a problem with people in group 1. Because I can never tell if they're 1 or 4 and unfortunately make alot of irrevocable mistakes before I actually realize sh1t, I need to kowtow and say my sorries NOW!

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.  

~ Martin Luther King, Jr

kthxbai.

Liverpool:
FOOD! Dim sum with stick and the guys. Poker. Home cooked. Failed. Haha. End of the world. Basilicas.Cool graveyards. Manchester. Clarks. Cocktails. Kopparberg. Where are we going. Migraine. Antacid. Plasters. Plaster your head lah plaster! Keris incinerator. Ugly libraries. Anfield. Huge ass dog that tried to eat us. A park called Ding. Latino. Italiano. Chinois. Pastries! Albert dock. Tong Fiona Tim and friends. Penguins! Retard. Tong Fiona Tim and friends again! Sherlock Holmes. Dim sum again. 2 bananas, a chinese-english menu and 20 minutes spent matching the chinese words. Poker on the train. More penguins! Take aways. I seem to be trying to bankrupt him. ATMs. Taylor Swift. MnMs. West wing. So much for trying to stay awake. Fat cheeks Good bone structures. super Nerd!! Goodbyes =(

London:
5 hour bus ride. ugh. jon, arif, jon's apek hairstyle. ce dong. vin shoon. chinatown. half a duck. only half a duck?! xin lyn and shen. london eye. packed. cold. austrians dancing. arif can rembr their dance now. countdown. 2 brits who knew all the songs. awesome fireworks. time pasts so fast. cried. tears of joy? called somebody. called somebody whilst crying. still cold. jon, policewomen and random dude who blocked jon's face in the picture. free tube but no bus. walked. did i mention cold? arif's first stoning moment. arifs cousin's place. spicy breakfast. arif's cousin's in law owned a nasi kandar so what we ate was the real thing. the way i like it. missed lyn by mins at victoria.

Sheffield:
Jons apartment. Interesting posters. Snowed heavier. Jon cooked steak! must remember recipe. snowed even heavier cus arif looked like a snowman when he came back from outside. hogged the laptop. felt bad. antisocial. but couldnt resist. ha ha. was late in picking lyn up. walked back. dropped by uni. Dyslexia support building. Perak building?! snowfights. 2 person snowfights. Jon cooked again. uncooked pasta, my bad. yogurts.football games. snowfights v2.0. lyn and snow angel. arif and snow writings. playstation. did i mention i suck in halo? jon and convertion rate depression. horrible bus ride to Manchester. too hot. peak district was pretty tho. Enn swan from Manchester. Vegetarian dim sum. 50% at Pacific. ireland here we come!

Paris:
Long bus ride from airport into town. Very useful metro.No rain. Yays. Crazy winds. Nays. No snow. Yays. Fear of Airport closure/ strikes. Nays. French pastries. French cuisine. French. Bonjour. Louvre. Notre Dame. Notre Dame to Louvre. to Eiffel. On foot. Did I mention crazy winds? Climbed 2 stories. Upper part closed. Shame Notre Dame's bell tower was closed too. Chinese food. If it's too good to be true, it usually isn't. Champ d'Elysee. Shanghainese couple. 1k Euro cash. Each/2 person. Louis Vuitton. So out of place. Tax refund lol. Snoring. Jon. Talking. Me. Sleepless. Lyn. Official snore stopper. Arif. Montmartre. Carrefour, still the same. Apples still has crunchy. Pigalle still as raunchy. Moulin Rouge. Chat Noir. Kebabs. Free entrance and Louvre. Mona Lisa. Madonna and rocks. Raphael. should have taken a picture of Raphael dang. Lyn; I'm not to blame, it was that gypsy girl!
A bit too early at the airport, felt kinda bad. oh wells.

Venice:
Upgraded to another place due to renovations. Awesome Another Place man! like a 5 star hotel. Ultimate stoning sessions. Huge ass pizzas. Canals. Bridges. Lanes. Crooked lanes. CS! Warm. Jon setting new fashion trends. Lyn and her Casanova obsessions. Italian Job and Victoria the famous courtesan. Hooked on the iTouch. Wifis are THE bomb when on tours. San Samuele! Lyn and Nathan. Skype. Arif go away! More huge as pizzas. Tavern San Traverso. Masks. Handpainted, not made in China! 500 euro notes. Rialto. Zattere. Old folks home island. No gondolas. Traghettos! Maybe it wasn't a traghetto. Shrug. Limping and bandages. :( Good weather. Nice atmosphere. More stoning moments. More snores. Train to Firenze was so expensive!

Firenze:
Only 4 hours there. Enough to show similarities with Rome. Beautiful Basilica tho. Naked men. Naked David. "Picture? it zis Zimpossible!". Waffles. Pizza and pasta. Definitely would return to that rest if permitted. Boboli gardens were closed. Rude receptionists. pissed. Bought a bag.

Pisa:
B&B was so pretty and quaint. Something Arif's hse would look like if his mum had enough money and time on her hands. Sky tv! Grey's anatomy. Nip & Tuck. Chips. Random pictures. Miracle Square. Pisa. Cathedral. Apparently all buildings seem to be leaning only the Pisa tower leaned more. 15 bucks to go up. >.<. but went up anyways. Pretty picture from above. Could see mountains. Some funny name I cant remember but it wasn't the Alps. Left phone at B&B. Had to go collect it. Flew back to London.

London:
South African cuisine with Yvonne, Ce dong, and later Shen. Candles and knee high tables. Realized that 'talk talks' should definitely have Yvonne in them. We talked talks. ;) Everyone seems to be doing well. Somewhat. Food was very different. Whole new experience, altho reminded me of Turks.
Got lost finding hostel. No proper address. Alone. Phone was dead. I was scared man. Hailed a cab, nice man went around trying to look for it. Even waited till i was inside the hostel before driving off. :) Felt really good meeting up with the housies. Port wine anybody? Port egg tarts too! Confirmed the tickets. Topped up phone. Camden market on the morrow. Very funny HK couple. This Penang uncle. GG's hokkien is really quite good ah. Pickpocketed. Only used the pouch like 4 times too. :( Sucky dinner at Chinatown. Clarks at Oxford no stock. Highlight of the night was definitely the play. Watched Les Miserable. Teared where Fantine sang SuBo's song. Éponine so korlian wei. but it was splendid by all means! Can't believe people can actually sleep off during the show. ~.~ 4 days without internet, unbelievable.

"V-Day was invented by women to get the men in their lives to ignore the TV for a week — six days to organize it and pull out our hair, one day to pretend we had it planned from the year before."
~Mario Daniels, 25, Brooklyn

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HAPPY BIRTHDAYYS!!!


EDIT: Just finished 3 of my exams and PHEW. can't believe i got a whole diagnosis wrong today. the worst part is - my original answer was actually correct, and i changed it :( 
Plus, somehow or other i actually managed to reason all my wrong answers into thinking it's right. haha... CNS Diseases tmrw. I'm not sleeping tonight! 

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. 

~Jacob A. Riis

Altho i messed up the chinese words in your card, i still hope that you get my sincerity (cus apparently i wrote that i hoped her birthday would past faster rather than just a simple Happy Birthday) haha..


It's so hard to imagine that it's already been a year since then...