December 30, 2006
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Ah, Everything is Good
Music Playing: We are the Reason
Original music composition & Lyrics: Avalon
Performed and Arranged by: Reuben Wong
*Please turn up speakers“Always. Everytime. Every year.
People rush, hurried and most of them forget:
That without remembering Christmas,
they could very well forget the most important act in the universe.
A bridge was built, over an impossible set of laws,
at the expense of His only Son, we are free.
ざんねんだよ、この世界”
As requested by many,
my video performance of a much anticipated illusion (Originally created by Wayne Houchin)
This is my performance of “Indecent” at the National University of Singapore
The video camera was left in total control of the Spectator’s friend.Fear. What is Fear? Is this Fear?
When you dodge you think to yourself, “I’m afraid of getting cut.”
When you attack you think to yourself, “I’m afraid of cutting someone”
When you try to protect you think to yourself, “I’m afraid of letting them die”Why should we then let Fear remain as Fear?
If we could make it our Resolve then,
If you dodge you should think to yourself, “I wont let them cut me“
If you protect someone you could think to yourself, “I won’t let them die“
If you attack you can think to yourself,
“I’ll cut them”
THIS shall be my Resolve.~Reuben’s Thoughts (inspired from Bleach)
Merry Christmas 2006 Ah.. Christmas in Singapore!
Always a wet and busy one at that…
People running around,
flowers and cable car dinners are 200% MORE expensive…
Consistent rain caused Thompson’s Floral Thingies to flood like..
like… how I’d jam the shower drainage to play with my toys while bathing as a kid.
This Christmas, is indeed somewhat rather different.
I had the feeling that there’s some mysterious force
that’s trying to destroy the Essence of Christmas…But as far as I’m concerned,
Christmas is definitely a time to remember valuable things.
Things that had caused infinite possibilities to materialize,
as well as the very reason for my blessed life.
But on a lighter side,
this year perhaps felt physically different because:
The decorations were wierd.
It blatently looked like a tri-mix culture clash
between Lantern festival, Deepavali and Christmas.
Thankfully, Shopping centres did have great tastes for their own Christmas Trees.
Outside Paragon a beautiful lighted Tree at night.
And on the right a Christmas tree hung at Suntec. If it fell… gg
And our trusty Takashimaya does it again!
And the Hilton Hotel has an awesome modern design…
Some wanted a white Christmas. The Cathay wanted a pink one.
and at Bishan J8, they wanted a Blue one.
And at the Serangoon Gardens Country Club, a simple one…
while at Thompson Plaza, they’ve got a White ChristmasNormally, I’d like to spend my Christmas in a quiet setting.
It’s a time I’d want to relax, and feel the ambiance.
BUT in little Singapore, that is fundamentally impossible.
Thus me and dear had to “walk around town” few days before Christmas.
Thankfully in the weeeeeee hours, Orchard’s really quiet.
It’s rare to find Orchard underpass.. completely passable.
And the view looks nicer with JUST dear there. wahahaOn that very same day earlier,
we managed to visit the newly renovated National Museum!
And oh boy, I’m not a history person but I absolutely enjoyed it!
I learnt alot about our food culture and fashion too.
Honestly, I never knew anything about the “Tok tok Mee” thingie.
Or about how the British love our satay in those days.
The internal structure of the Museum is Art itself.
And it has “rooms” of various “topics of interest”Ah yes, so after all the walking, eating and.. eating.
It was time to get back to serious business and get gifts for close friends.
Well I got stuff for my Physics friends and Dynamic Duo…
But perhaps the most difficult choice of presents was for Dear.
It seemed as if its very hard to get something for the ones you love.
Especially if they happened to be a woman of your dreams.
In anycase, I decided to put in some additional effort this year…
And had a spark of creativity as I walked by Spotlight at Plaza Singapura.A chanced upon a Photo Frame with a deep space.
and I recalled my futile attempt at making a clay bunny with dear.
Then my mind started blitzing into fitting a Christmas thingie into a picture thingie.
And boy, the “ingredients” were tough to handle!
At my 2nd ever touching clay, I found myself paint blotted,
clay powdered and cutting bits of paper till 4am.
At section 3 of my room, a mess of Paper and colour pencils laid.
The chocolate was not used for the present. It’s my foooood.
Long time since I used a brush and Poster colours too.
I enjoyed playing with the Glue though.
And there’s the clay and the shaping tools.
I had to make individual “atoms” then fit them together to become…
A clay thingie with a Christmas Tree an glow star,
Shimi and Yuri,
3 Christmas Cards with writings inside,
“Me and Dear” in a present box, dropped by Centre (background)
Yeah, it’s really small and all, but I still kinda liked the idea.
Was satisfied with my result.And there were a bottle of special Pills for her with that too!
Didn’t take a picture, but basically its a bottle of red pills!
the are actually “Princess Pills.”
well, dear’s always having a hard time at work,
Staying up late, doing work at home and stuff…
(wtf you workaholics, making my dear stressed up)
And I really don’t like the idea of her slogging away even at home!
In any case, those pills would remind her that no one has the right to bully her.
After all, she IS a princess...And what did Dear get me?
Something that my parents or friends would have never bought.
And it’s something that I’ve always liked.
A Twinklet with real Swarvoski Crystals.Yes I love shiny things, Crystals and Diamonds too.
I love how the light impinge of them,
causing a small rainbow of colours to form.
I used to wait for glass crystals to drop off the chandeliar,
then I’d take my chance and “Kope” ‘em!
Thanks dear for Julius the Twinklet!And woopee!
Dear came to Church with me at the Indoor Stadium!
It was a combined service at New Creation and Paul brought his gf too.
Yes - the time finally came for my Bro to be with a girl.
Really happy for him that they get along together very well and all.
Hope to see good things blossom for them too!
Liz and I were supposed to have lunch with Paul and Huiying,
but my parents… locked themselves out of the house!
or rather, left the keys in the house (…….)
Anyway, we were waiting for my Dad to pick us for lunch…
And we took some random shots
We’re both wearing white! Having a white couple Christmas!
Ooo I like this picture.Ah yes, and just as I passed Paul his present…
He told me what he wanted to get for me originally.
It’s not the fact that I already bought it that made me write this in,
but rather because of what
he wanted to write IN the present that made me laugh.
Mr Paul wanted to write this in the Death Note,
“Merry Christmas, Reuben Wong”
The Power of YouTubeBecause of Mr.YouTube,
my days of dedication to studying had been reduced…
reduced to watching free anime on Youtube.
no thanks to Mr. Paul for is mention on Bleach,
I was drawn in to the world of Shinigami stuff.
Then Mr. Zhihao said “aiyah, Bleach the Bounto part so boring”
“One Piece much nicer. Every episode is new stuff”
Then I went into One Piece.
Now… I’m Bleaching, One-Piecing, Death-Noting and FFXII-ing.
Ah yes, Ichigo’s transformation to Hollow Bankai form was awesome.
And Luffy’s plain “Son Gokou-ish” mind and tone just cracks me up.
And here we have me and Level 40, just entering the wastelands.
And and always I like to level up my characters well in advanced.
In this case, I’ve got all the licensed grids filled up… but i’m level 40!
I’m convinced the graphics and system is really a wonderful mix.
Christmas Holidays are good.
After all the studying, exams and whatever…
I’ve really enjoyed my time with my rabbits, PS2, Dear and Piano.
Of course I absolutely adore the rain too.
It sees me everyday to chat with the plants.
On one time it got too physical and actually hugged me tight.
…….
And I will NEVER buy the PS3 if it’s anything more than $600!
I still can’t believe my Dad had the idea to buy a PS3 for my cousin who’s 8.
That was… utter madness!
It’s better money spent if it were for me right?
And if it remains to be too ex, I’d just settle for the Wii.
A Physical Time Together 2006/2007 Sem IAnd of course we must ALWAYS have our Buffet together after the exams.
It’s a grand occasion to mark the end of cheat sheets,
Physical constants and tons of equations that we’d…
that we’d probably never ever use every again. *sob*
But in anycase, we went to Kuishinbo once more for the buffet.
BUT
BUT there wasn’t any seafood! wth!
In anycase, our 2 seniors (Graduates doing Masters) came along.
One sneaked away from a Seminar,
while the other came with his gf.
There’s Master-Junhong, shooting me with his questions during presentation
And Master-Mau, erm… erm…
examing the bruillin zone of C atoms in wood!
The ultimate Lorry Drifter Mr. Zhihao, calming watching on.
In the backdrop, Mr. Weikeong thinking about his next bike hike.
And yes my good ol neighbour Qui Xun on the right.
DotA games had become lonely without him.
He had to rent an apartment where there is…
NO INTERNET CONNECTIVITY! Goodness!
Here’s Miss. Andrielle teaching us kids where our cheek is.
She has shown great dedication to her profession as a teacher.
And finally… the Food. WITHOUT the seafood! I miss the crab
And here’s something absolutely irrelevant.
Something I chanced upon at Suntec – A Girly GundamIt’s great that we all could have a good time together.
and i really hope we’ll all keep in touch even after we graduate.
These guys are awesome people.
It’s probably thanks to them that my life in the Physics department was,
so Beautiful.
Really thank god for them man. They rock!
Rabbit Power
Ok just for the record,
It would be good for me to remember…
That after taking our initial hobby of keeping pets.
Liz and I had expanded our numbers.
While I had actually kept my numbers constant at 3,
It still pains me to sell away “Baby” and get “Blackie”
Here’s Good ‘ol Yuri at 1yr at 10 months in her condo.
here’s Blackie who surprisingly got along with Brownie (not in view)But in anycase, Dear’s got alot more to handle.
From a humble number of 2, her rabbits bred to…11.
Few days back is was 9, but now… it’s seriously 11.
She originally had Muachi + Tomi who had 7 babies.
Thankfully she managed to sell 2, but recently…
they gave birth to 4 more.
Goodness gracious.
of all the babies, this one’s really Pretty.
It’s odd though how this rabbit turned out.
Black and White lion head + white teddy = Grey and white?
She’s got 2 others that are completely Black too. Wierd.Well, I hope Dear’s mum can manage with soo many rabbits.
If my rabbits ever get to that number,
Then… then… its gg for me.*gg = good game in counter-strike lingo.
usually implies the end of the game similar to “end of the world” implication.
じゃ、また来週
