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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

no lo se. life is as it is. a conundrum. an enigma. air to breathe. faith to live. family to love. soul to console. tears to relief. time to age. no lo se.

my aunt is leaving tomorrow. her flight is scheduled for 1240pm. she has to be at the airport by 1115am. 9 days has gone by much too fast. these years, months..gone just like that. thank God for His blessings. love my parents. shall miss my aunt. enjoyed her company. she drinks tea from marks, without sugar or condensed milk; just fresh milk. she has oats for breakfast with milk of course. she does yoga and has been a stewardess and a japanese translator. currently, she lives there alone in a maisonette. wishes for a cat but her constant travelling and working in the day doesnt allow her to. a common predicament for many. she takes short showers unlike one of me dear cousin who takes near an hour. she uses dove shower gel and pantene shampoo. dont know why im sharing this. to relive the memories of her maybe?

shes out with me dad now visiting granny. shall be back in a while. clocks is playing in the background. ahh...simple pleasures of life..

wise words from dear aunt.

learn to let go. something i mentioned earlier in the previous entry. learn to let go. yep.

anyways, i had a long walk yesterday. couldnt believe it meself. from home to ubi/hougang. from there to kaki bukit/bedok reservoir. was near a 3 hour walk by me wee self. in the rain. it cleared my head. you should try it sometime.

earlier that day as in yesterday, went to parkway with her for some shopping. she bought gingko biloba for her raynaud's phenomena and soluble aspirin for the flight and cough. em..yes, preserved mangoes and ginger for her friends. cards for the chinese folk back there. ooh..and dark chocolate. ha. love dark chocolate and my parents and like coldplay.

sigh sigh. the chocolate is getting to me brain. i forgot to say halo.

hello all. how you doing today? whats up? used to say the ceiling or the sky depending on the venue. pose the question to me now. whats up? id say..uncertainty. most definitely? or maybe?

my aunt loves fish. sardines or mackarel. prefers her spaghetti cooked either in pesto or tomato sauce, all of which are done up from scratch. she adds pine nuts to it sometimes for that extra crunch we lack in life. pine nuts. coffee. chocolate. gardening. david blaine. extra crunch. ha..and the world makes sense again..yippee..

will be quiet without her around. she uses iris, a fragrant from marks as well. shes a loyal consumer of marks. its suprisingly much cheaper there than it is here. strange aye.

bedingfield sounds optimistic of life and its issues. interesting. a new zealander but resides and works in london. ironic. ha. private joke. but he does seem passionate bout life as evident from his lyrics. hence , optimism exudes. too much for me to handle. i like coldplay. oh and travis as well. flowers in the windows and indefinitely. take a listen and judge for yourself. tori amos is not bad either. she appeared in mona lisa smile singing some song. didnt check what but she was singing. enjoy her landslide.

took my love, took it down. found a mountain and i turned around. and i saw my reflection in a snow-covered hills where the landslide brought me down. o mirror in the sky what is love? can a child within my heart rise above? can i sail through the changes? can i undo the seasons of my life?

can i undo the wrong ive done? no. can you?

perhaps, you can seek for forgiveness and start afresh, yes. but the memories of the past will still remain as they always have. like those snow-covered hills. learn to forgive or else, the landslide will bring you down. changes are inevitable. grow up and let go.

can i undo the wrong ive done? no. grow up and learn to let go.

ladies and gentlemen, round of applause for tori amos... :)

oh look at the time..theyll be here in an hour. have to get the hot water and soak the tea bags to make chay or as commonly known, teh susu. so cheerios mates. take care then.

its 1237am now. writing a farewell letter to my aunt. despise goodbyes. if i could, i would just walk away as i have many times. just disappear. make myself scarce. its depressing and life is as it is depressing enough. saying goodbye to a dear one just makes matters worse. however, i will be going thru it no matter. through. it is going to be quite a sight what with the tears and runny noses. we shall forbear..sigh. dont like goodbyes. do you?

i thanked her for the memories. would like to thank her for being her, for being here. has left me pondering about how ive led my life and how i can better it. learn to let go. we are human and to be human is to err. we are not perfect; inclined to make mistakes. learn to let go through forgiveness and reflection.

taking this space to thank you for the memories and having been around before in my life. as hackneyed as it may sound, life wouldnt be as it is without each of you. thank you all and God bless..piacere..