next on the menu, jason mraz

nothing like being in the presence of a guitar legend to make me realize how mediocre i am! but really, 2 hours of tommy emmanuel (live at DBS auditorium!) left me completely mesmerized and in total awe of this musical genius. and what better way to enjoy such captivating music than in the company of the girl i adore, whom i had somehow convinced to watch this concert with me way before i even dared to think that one day, i could hold her hand in mine.

was close to tears when he played "amazing grace". i'm sure everyone in the room must have felt an intense urge to stand up and sing -- i had to remind myself that this was a guitar concert, not a worship service! but i realized halfway through the hymn that there was really no need for any words -- it was almost as if the music in the air carried with it the whole essence of the song, and was singing straight into our hearts.

what a wonderful night. faye and jeremy, i hope for your sakes that Hong Kong was worth it, cos you totally missed out!



i really want guitar lessons. somebody teach me pls....

addy

i just realized that i don't know your address...what i do know is that it would make me very very happy if we could share one someday.

ikea!

2B2G

Straits Times recently published an article about their social experiment on whether the public would come to the aid of a woman whose partner is publicly abusing her. results -- only a few people interfered, and almost all of them were foreigners. while it is no surprise that singaporeans do not have an inclination to step in when strangers are in trouble, what if they were your friends? would you interfere in your friends' private lives if you felt they needed some objective, outside help? would you make their business your business? or should you just be a good listening ear and refrain from taking a personal interest in your friends' personal issues?

i faced this dilemma recently, and after quite a long period of internal struggle, decided to do what i thought was right. thank God it appears to have worked out alright... but then again, something tells me that even if things didn't turn out fine, i wouldn't have regretted it.

and thank God for the wonderful girl who was the voice of reason behind the voice of reason.

2B2G! :)

hungry!

for many years i had thought that i was over the age-limit for carrying lanterns and playing with sparklers. but sometimes, when you hang out with the right/wrong group of people, you realize that age is really very subjective thing! today, we bought 10 paper lanterns, 4 noisy inflatable lanterns, two huge boxes of sparklers and many batteries, in preparation for our temporary return to childhood later in the night. after all, children's day was just yesterday!

tried the lanterns out in office. damn bloody noisy.

good people

we all want to be good people. i like to believe that we are all programmed to do what we feel is right, and the only difference is in our confused definitions of right and wrong. i believe that even obnoxious people, or criminals, or homicidal sociopaths think that they are doing something worthwhile, or at least justified. they are just really, really misguided that's all.

i want to be a good person. i think it's a wonderful thing to be able to make someone smile, or at least to know that i made a little positive difference to someone's life. sometimes i get it right, sometimes i get it very wrong, but that's life isn't it? all of us fumbling around blindly for the light switch, the door, our glasses....and maybe it's not our fault if we grab a hot iron by mistake, but still, damage done. and all we can do is wait for the wounds to heal and then start fumbling again :)

today the building shook. for about a minute. we joked about it, but deep inside, we all knew that somewhere else in the world, someone's world had just been turned upside down.

thank God i live in Singapore...