Here goes
so here goes, we're right in the midst of the A levels. life has been good w spontaneous eat-outs lol and study adventures and good food, outweighing the monotony of mugfest month. last week I finally took some time out to head over to my dearly missed second home to bodyslam bestf awake for my lunch treat yay time well spent. will always be my comfort place of carefree. glad that everything is resolved :)
had some epiphanies in the past month but most importantly how grateful I am for my friends..I guess I've some regrets about some of the nonchalance in the friendship realm and the many could have beens, but then again, can't polarize "what if"s in different circumstances in time right. give and take. it always winds up like this anyway- wishing that we had more time to make time and effort. so here's a shout out to Kelly if you see this, thanks for being a listening (non-judgemental? haha) ear to me. and yt! for being a punching bag HAHA.. just kidding, thanks for marking my scripts and advice. the good deed shall be rewarded w a treat lol
another would be the many encounters overtime that serve as a reminder to me of how all kinds of people exist in this world.. who will test our limits and brew inner rage in us at things out of our control. but yet, this ties in with how we don't have a right to judge the superficiality of other people based on our own perspective and experience alone.. I'm still learning. haha. oh and, what can I make out from this - comfort without depth, familiarity injected with distance somehow, while I keep one foot on the ground. quite misaligned from my take on friendship: one with depth and knowing of one's place. but it's cool
anyway, never thought we'll come to this time of the year so quickly. so far it seems that 2 years of work being judged in a few hours of papers does not do justice to the amount of "learning" we've done.. not that I have a better suggestion for a better grading system/not that i do not appreciate that I have an education, but there in this process it seems that there's more acceptance than understanding, more understanding than appreciating, much less relevance at all to daily / future life than the treating of knowledge merely as an arms in a battle (lol) of the fiercely tiring and youth-degrading month of A's. guess some of this is due to how individual interests and talents most times do not lie tangential to the societal demands of "ability". I know so many talented friends of mine who would do + reveal their awesomeness so much more yet they are entrapped in this conformist society too afraid to go against the flow...
it's going to be interesting how things play out, after A's I really want to get started on my mini DIY business. oh and class trip. squeeee. I also envision midnight mahjong sessions, before the boys enlist though... and I kind of wanted to go Bangkok for a shopping spree but I guess that's no more cause of the flood
(this is almost as long as my gp essay lah.. kudos to me for picking one of the most demanding questions) and before I go, in celebration of biology and proteins and the end (ok, almost) of the core syllabus hehe an interesting thing I've learnt about LAMININ
Laminin is a protein that is part of the extracellular matrix in humans and animals, which “glue” the cells (such as those lining the stomach and intestines) in place and allows them to function properly. in simpler words, laminin is the stuff that keeps us together as a human body. and guess what science tells us it looks like:
"...by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."
Colossians 1:16
guess the only reason why I'm feeling as alive as ever is because of His peace upon me that supercedes man's understanding
had some epiphanies in the past month but most importantly how grateful I am for my friends..I guess I've some regrets about some of the nonchalance in the friendship realm and the many could have beens, but then again, can't polarize "what if"s in different circumstances in time right. give and take. it always winds up like this anyway- wishing that we had more time to make time and effort. so here's a shout out to Kelly if you see this, thanks for being a listening (non-judgemental? haha) ear to me. and yt! for being a punching bag HAHA.. just kidding, thanks for marking my scripts and advice. the good deed shall be rewarded w a treat lol
another would be the many encounters overtime that serve as a reminder to me of how all kinds of people exist in this world.. who will test our limits and brew inner rage in us at things out of our control. but yet, this ties in with how we don't have a right to judge the superficiality of other people based on our own perspective and experience alone.. I'm still learning. haha. oh and, what can I make out from this - comfort without depth, familiarity injected with distance somehow, while I keep one foot on the ground. quite misaligned from my take on friendship: one with depth and knowing of one's place. but it's cool
anyway, never thought we'll come to this time of the year so quickly. so far it seems that 2 years of work being judged in a few hours of papers does not do justice to the amount of "learning" we've done.. not that I have a better suggestion for a better grading system/not that i do not appreciate that I have an education, but there in this process it seems that there's more acceptance than understanding, more understanding than appreciating, much less relevance at all to daily / future life than the treating of knowledge merely as an arms in a battle (lol) of the fiercely tiring and youth-degrading month of A's. guess some of this is due to how individual interests and talents most times do not lie tangential to the societal demands of "ability". I know so many talented friends of mine who would do + reveal their awesomeness so much more yet they are entrapped in this conformist society too afraid to go against the flow...
it's going to be interesting how things play out, after A's I really want to get started on my mini DIY business. oh and class trip. squeeee. I also envision midnight mahjong sessions, before the boys enlist though... and I kind of wanted to go Bangkok for a shopping spree but I guess that's no more cause of the flood
(this is almost as long as my gp essay lah.. kudos to me for picking one of the most demanding questions) and before I go, in celebration of biology and proteins and the end (ok, almost) of the core syllabus hehe an interesting thing I've learnt about LAMININ
Laminin is a protein that is part of the extracellular matrix in humans and animals, which “glue” the cells (such as those lining the stomach and intestines) in place and allows them to function properly. in simpler words, laminin is the stuff that keeps us together as a human body. and guess what science tells us it looks like:
"...by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."
Colossians 1:16
guess the only reason why I'm feeling as alive as ever is because of His peace upon me that supercedes man's understanding