I wonder if.

you ever get the feeling of just needing to do sth? like you go to bed at night, your head hits the pillow, and for some reason sleep just doesn't come?

there's something bothering you and you just cant figure it out. you know you're feeling a lil hungry, a tad thirsty, a bit lonely, a bit chilly. a general frustration, with well, life basically. even though of course there was nothing at all wrong about it the day before.

the heavy heart, the quelching stomach. bits of these feelings just come and go from you. the feeling of rushing through something and a very sudden awareness of little sounds you never realised resounded in your room.

noises that won't go away.
feelings that won't disappear.
sleep that just won't come.

emo-ness you didn't expect. strange strange. i think studying for prelims, more than prelims itself is getting to me. oh yes, mugger kid is actually tired, not from, but of studying.
bah. i think its got to do with this break in between prelims. its been all too welcome. oh well.

its only studying.

" The One Who Got Away "

In your life, you'll make note of a lot of people. Ones with whom you shared something special, ones who will always mean something. There's the one you first kissed, the one you first loved, the one you lost your virginity to, the one you put on a pedestal, the one you're with...and the one that got away.

Who is the one that got away? I guess it's that person with who everything was great, everything was perfect, but the timing was just wrong. There was no fault in the person, there was no flaw in the chemistry, but the cards just didn't fall the right way, I suppose.

I believe in the fact that ending up with someone, finding a longtime partner that is, does not lie merely in the other person. I can actually argue that an equal part, or maybe even the greater part, has to do with the matter of timing. It has to do with you being ready to settle down and commit to someone in a way that goes beyond the little niceties of giddy romance.

How often have you gone through it without even realizing it? When you're not ready to commit in that mature manner, it doesn't matter who you're with, it just doesn't work. Small problems become big; inconsequentials become dealbreakers simply because you're not ready and it shows. It's not that you and the person you're with are no good; it's just that it's not yet right, and little things become the flashpoint of that fact.

Then one day you're ready. You really are. And when this happens you'll be ready to settle down with someone. He or she may not be the most perfect, they might not be the brightest star of romance to ever have burned in your life, but it'll work because you're ready. It'll work because it's the right time and you'll make it work. And it'll make sense, it really will.

So that day comes when you're finally making sense of things, and you find yourself to be a different person. Things are different, your approach is different, you finally understand who you are and what you want, and you have become ready because the time has truly arrived. And mind you, there's no telling when this day will come. Hopefully you're single but you could be in a long-term relationship, you could be married with three kids, it doesn't matter. All you know is that you've changed, and for some reason, the one that got away, is the first person you think about.

You'll think about them because you'll wonder, "What if they were here today?" You'll wonder, "What if we were together now, with me as I am and not as I was?" That's what the one that got away is. The biggest "What if?" you'll have in your life.

If you're married, you'll just have to accept the fact that the one that got away, got away. Believe me, no matter how fairy tale you think your marriage is, this can happen to the best of us. But hopefully you're mature enough to realize that you're already with the one you're with and this is just another test of your commitment, one which will just strengthen your marriage when you get past it. Sure, you'll think about him/her every so often but it's alright. It's never nice to live with a "might have been,"

but it happens.

Maybe the one that got away is the one who's already married. In which case it's the same thing. You just have to accept and know that your memories of that person will probably bring a nice little smile to your lips in the future when you're old and gray and reminiscing.

But if neither of that is the case, then it's different. What do you do if it's not yet too late? Simple...find him, find her. Because the very existence of a "one that got away" means that you'll always wonder, what if you got that one?

Ask him out to coffee, ask her out to a movie, it doesn't matter if you've dropped in from out of nowhere. You'd be surprised, you just might be "the one that got away" as well for the person who is your "the one that got away."

You might drop in from out of nowhere and it won't make a difference. If the timing is finally right, it'll all just fall into place somehow and you know, I'm thinking, it would be a great feeling, in the end, to be able to say to someone,

"Hey you, you're the one that almost got away."

a sweet, sincere passage i found on raj's blog. i think its a sweet notion for most of us to carry, whatever kind of relationship it may pertain to. goodnight.

the worst

STILL ISN'T OVER. are u resting? thankful for this one week plus of break from the continuous bombardment of prelims? looking forward to a lil R&R? WAKE UP! YOU HAVE AT LEAST HALF WAY MROE TO GO. haha

eh chill lah. why so tension? its only prelims!!

mm day two and 3 have passed. had GP and Physics on tuesday. gp felt rather alright, though thats no real indicator for how i'll do honestly. physics was really conceptual, a rushed paper but it still left me with some hope of doing decently. today had 3 hrs of math. which was pretty frustrating. everyone looked dogged tired after the paper.

buns had a heck of a day, both lit and math today, 3 hrs each. ouch. goodluck to the history pple tomorrow. seems to be their only bane, oh well all the best!

- library stairs -

jacked.

its only prelims. right?

it seems to have become my way of getting over things that seem bigger than me. its only SA eh moses? haha call it blissful ignorance or a good focus, i think its working good for me so far. after all its just an examination right? like who actually remembers how their O level prelims were? its the finals that count. THE A's MAN. so if today at the start of your prelims you realise that it didnt go the way u wanted it to, chill. you've still got time to make the most of the mess you've gotten yourself into, and maybe if u work that much harder, you'll actually be satisfied with whatever result you may get eh?

econs paper 1 was still alright, for everyone. mostly happy relieved faces. good good. didnt bring a calculator though, which i'll need no reminding for the subsequent papers for, seeing that my friends went through utmost effort to make the most of this unfortunate incident. chemistry was defintiiy easier than mids. but still, couldn't get quite a bit of stuff. not feeling particularly confident.

As requested by mandi and moses, my status for today is

JACKED.

Hair Today

gone tomorrow. i went to one of those $10 haircuts in ten minutes shops at toapayoh after having jeck suan threatening to cut my hair himself. horrors, its the only thing that made me do it, can you imagine? " jonathan, i'm going to cut your hair until you have no more left. like me"
mm so the hair has been cut and it has so far been just short of disastrous. numerous comments from everyone. stupid short hair. oh wells. it'll grow back. in the meantime, i'll have to accept my looking like a fool. prelims just round the corner at 7 days and im increasingly sure that i wont finish all my studying. started too late i guess. shit, but i'd hate to have a lousy prelim score. but if its what it takes to wake me up for A's then ah well so be it.


13) When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant."

12) Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux."

11) Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick," a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "Manure Stick."

10) Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea."

9) Pepsi's "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in Chinese.

8) When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the labels of what's inside, since many people can't read.

7) Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.

6) Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken," was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."

5) When American Airlines wanted to advertise its new leather first class seats in the Mexican market, it translated its "Fly In Leather" campaign literally, which meant "Fly Naked" (vuela en cuero) in Spanish.

4) An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I Saw the Potato" (la papa).

3) The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation read "Are You Lactating?"

2) General Motors had a very famous fiasco in trying to market the Nova car in Central and South America. "No va" in Spanish means, "It Doesn't Go".

1) The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth."

those were some of the worst ad slogans ever :) hope u enjoyed that break from the grind. u did? great.



NOW GET BACK TO IT.

hello did the psychometric test thing today at Rjc. haha i only mangaged to complete one section out of three. mandi..managed to finish all. ah well. it should stll be interesting to get the results for the personality bit though. rj was big and industrial looking. definitely not the place i'd like to be in, although with A's on the way, i might reconsider haha. anyway here's a glimpse of the RJ culture of mugging me and mandi found while roaming around the place, enjoy!

have a laugh.

my blogskin is slightly gay. haha. but i like the sunset feel of it. too bad if the best sunset skin me and mandi managed to find had the words "be mine" plastered over it. pity about the invisible tagboard.

mm i haven't watched a couple of movies i wanted to watch. balls of fury, simpsons and rush hour 3. good mis of slapstick and intelligent wit. as intelligent as homer simpson can get anyway. mmm. need to get more studying done in the coming weeks to prelims and A's. its like, i'm almost getting into the studying mode. but not quite. yet.


This old couple is ready to go to sleep so the old man lies on the bed but the old woman lies down on the floor.
The old man asks, "Why are you going to sleep on the floor?"
The old woman says, "Because I want to feel something hard for a change."

hello?

gym concert was well worth it just for the laughs haha. alvan and perry were hilarious with their various dances and poses. the dance item was damn disturbing. haha freaky dolls. mmm. and thanks to mandi for feverishly trying to sort out the XML stuff for blogger.

you've stumbled onto an insanely, ironically secluded part of the internet. congratulations!

er. hi

hello. i have a blog. this may be of no consequence to you. its ok. because its of no consequence to me either. BUT thankyou mandi :) may this blog have an enriching journey. if it does not then its really ok right? yes i am done.