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1. Yellow backpack 2. Car shoe (I love the blue suede one with white laces) 3. Grey, really nice. And the sculptural scarf rocks too. Though the dude’s hand action’s a wee bit queer no? 4. Really Jedi like. Yeah.

And you’ll get lost, every river that you try to cross
Lost! - Coldplay

Paris Fashion Week
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If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

James 1:5

So to all those studying like mad, or trying to, for the upcoming Common Tests (myself included), do your best, and leave the rest to God.

Art by Lora Lamm

Singapore Art Museum, 8 June 2010

This place holds quite a fair bit of childhood memories for me. I believe the first art exhibition I went for was at this museum. There was also a brilliant exhibition held there many years ago – Faberge (2001, I believe), an exhibition that I loved and even visited twice. In addition, I also remember the Rodin showcase there, though the year it was organised in evades me. Okay, I admit, I was, and remain rather artsy-fartsy.

All those memories belong to my past, my childhood. Yet, despite the decade (or so) that has elapsed since I last visited the museum, little has changed at the museum. The same spiral staircase that greeted visitors seeking to go to the second floor still remains (with the exception of a chandelier that used to occupy the void that the stairs encircle). The chapel still looks the same, and every inch of it still remind me of the moments that I had spent there as a child (hmm, this does make it seem as if I lived my childhood there, but no, that is not the case).

And now I add a new memory to the many others affiliated with this building – the first, and probably most successful class outing that I’ve attended. And also Joel’s birthday, which was on the very same day as the outing.

P.S. Thanks for the treat at Dôme, Nat.
And Joel, hope you had an enjoyable birthday, even if art museums aren’t really your fancy.

Equally adorable is the Shetland sheepdog along with the other dog (whatever it’s breed is) below.

Image Credit: House of Gold & we could grow up together

I discovered this architect’s work from a book I got at Kinokuniya the other day (yeah, I’m one of those odd kids who hang out at the ‘quiet’ section of the bookstore – the design area, where most normal teenagers would only go there to get away from the crowd to read their magazines). Anyway, I must say, I am truly infatuated.

Everything is so clean and restrained.

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 4:4

Thanks, God. You truly are one awesome Father in heaven.

I know that same strength will rub-off when I’m trying to study. Yeah.

Its been too long since the last time I got new music.

I need rest. Actually, I need restful sleep.

Oh meeting up with Lionel was something cool for today. Great to know he’s doing fine.

Rules exist for a purpose. They are designed to control or prevent a deeper underlying issue that society experiences. Take for example, the rule against the consumption of food and drinks in trains. Of course, the issue that forms the basis of the rule’s existence does not lie within the very consumption of food and beverages in the train cabin itself, but rather, the problem of litter it could potentially cause.

Which leads me to this point of realization: If there’s a better way of enforcing the principal or issue a rule guards (or guards against), then why not go for that?

For example, if people were civil and cautious (not  to spill drinks or drop crumbs, as in the case of the earlier example), then the rule is redundant, since the very issue it guards is not at any risk or is being threatened. Let’s not get too anal retentive over rules, but rather, see how our judgment lies above it, that sometimes, there is in fact a wiser and more effective way of letting things be.

Just a food for thought.

This post does not target anyone.