Monday, October 24, 2011

Trust is fragile



Empty


That was how every single one of us were when we first came to this world.
As we ventured through unknown ground with nothing, we gained new things.

New Emotions
New Friends
New Experiences
New Memories

Despite gaining so much, there will always be times when one would feel empty. So empty as though we just went a round around hell and back to the starting line.

Sounds like something which happened to you before?

That is also the time when we start to feel moody and emotional. Duration would vary largely depending on the person's character and reason.

Other negative emotions such as loneliness usually follow suite and start bringing your world down to hell.

Best way to recover would be that someone comes along and checks you out, shares your burdens, shares your woes, and walk with you by your side.

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That is what friends are for isn't they? To have fun together, share each other's woes, joy, laughter and all other whatnots.

Someone whom you could rely on
Someone whom you could share secrets with
Someone whom you could bitch together with
Someone whom... you could show your true self to..

Then again, could you really be sure that this friend of yours is TRUSTABLE ?

Trust is something E X T R E M E L Y fragile.

It takes a really long time with a lot of effort to gain trust but takes little effort and an instant to lose it.

Sad to say, you can't always be sure that someone you know and currently trust truly means well. Plus even if you currently trust them, who can say what is going to happen later? Some incident could happen the very next minute and your friend could turn into a foe.

That is why there are cases of people who close themselves up after they end up losing a friend due to trust issues. There are also even those who close themselves up at the very start.

Why would they do something like that?

They are just simply afraid to get hurt and would rather be alone.

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I once mentioned this to a friend of mine..

I suck at a game called "Life" and fail at the a topic called "Friends".

It has been awhile since then but till this moment, I think I've gotten worse at it. I'll very much like to blame it on the lack of meet-ups, lack of communication, lack of chances..

Though it all probably adds up to lack of EFFORT...Lack of fate even?

You control what you do with your life but there are definitely so many things that are beyond your control. What you could do is to do your best and live life to the fullest.

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It has been a really stale and mundane year for me..NS, NS, NS. I'm currently way past the stage of having vigorous training every week and having mostly 5 days of boring life with 1.5 days of precious weekends to spare. ..

*Just realise that I ranted bout my mundane life in my previous post!*

Majority of my time is truly wasted doing nothing meaningful. Time could had been better spent on learning a new skill or at the very least, honing my current skills.

Much of my knowledge from Polytechnic have been lost..They are probably so deep in my mind that they have to be excavated using an excavator. Worse still, they might have escaped through the escape pods (Made from hair strands) and escaped last November.

My oh my, what am I going to do?! All those poor strands of hair had been shaved off my head already!
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This is definitely my worst year ever. Even after setting aside NS and related issues, everything else seems brim and going downhill...The source of the problem has been found and as much as I'd like to say that I would be able to fix it myself, it just ain't possible! Now I wonder who could help...

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Darker than Black

Good afternoon!
Its the first of October! 30 days to Halloween! :D

When you're reading this I'd already be in Thailand! (Scheduled blog posting XD). I wonder how I'll survive the weather in Thailand as temperature could get as high as 36 degree celsius and get as low as 10-12 degree celsius! OMG! X_X

That means I'll either be nicely roasted or served chilled ! >.< The heat is more of an issue for me as I'm able to get tanned easily! (Think charcoal black)

Imagine when I'm back after 16 DAYS!, the only part of myself which is tanned is my face! (I'll covered all over apart from my face). Plus not to mention the spectacle marks left by the tanning.. This spells disaster! :O

I'll be back on the 16th of October at approximately 10pm so anyone who wants to come over to say hi could feel free to text me! :D

Till then,
Hasta la vista, baby ;)

Friday, September 30, 2011

Start of a new journey

*Drum roll*

TAG ME!~

Hey everyone! It has been a really really long time since the last time I have logged in to blogger! There is always so much on my mind that I couldn't decide on what to blog and thus the lack of entries.

As it has been quite awhile since I last came by my blog, I went to skim through my past blog entries and it reminded me of something really important. This space had always been for me to look back at what I had been through I'm my life and (supposed to) serve as a reminder to myself.

Mistakes of the past should stay in the past.
Happiness of the past should continue on into the present and onwards beyond the future.
The past should be something to learn from and nothing beyond that.
Living within your past has no benefits except to torment yourself even more.


Time after time again, I look back only to see the same old thing.

"To change myself from *like this* into *like that*.. Become more of *like this*... Stop being *like that*"

So what is the "like this" and "like that" referring to you ask? Those are just merely words that had been repeated so many times that the usage of them is becoming a joke, HA HA HA, =/

Procrastination is one thing but I just brought it to a whole new level! Supacrastion! :D

On a more serious note, actually deep down inside I know the solution to my problems but just that I've been constantly thinking and thinking and thinking too much that and not putting those thoughts into actions.


YOUR life is the result of decisions that you have made. You are currently here due to decisions you have been making up until now since you were a kid.

From simple ones like "What should I wear today?"
till tougher (and dangerous) ones like "Should I jay walk?"
till brain-wreaking ones like "Should I buy a DSLR? (While having only $2000 in the bank and a DSLR cost $1700)"
come haunting you for an answer.

Regardless of having made good decisions or bad decisions, they have all brought you to where and what you are today. Instead of dwelling over your screwed up personality which you had in the past, you should look forward to becoming better!

Here's a quote from an awesome friend "Keep thinking that you're a happy and positive person, and you'll become one eventually.". What she says definitely make sense because our mindset is something which also affects our sanity in making "correct" decisions. Whether those decisions turn out to be good or bad, largely depends on so many other factors...
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If I dive in any further into the topic I think it'll be end of September before I even complete this entry! Setting all the hoo-has aside, life has been.. well, pretty much BORING. A typical week would have my Monday till Friday spent in camp, leaving me with 1.5 precious days of weekends! Sunday is 1/2 day due to the fact that I have to book-in at night. =((

Apart from that, life IS BORING! I should seriously utilize my time better while in camp or my brain will seriously rot into smithereens, disintegrate into micro organism and eventually become nothingness.

I've been reading DSLR magazines, inspirational books and newspapers and still getting sick of trying to "kill time". If only there was something I could do to earn money while using all these precious time in camp. My bank has been really "hungry" lately and its threatening to eat me up as well! AHH!~

With the pathetic amount of money I'm getting every single month, it is no surprise that I've been running low on cash. I'd thought of working during the weekends to earn additional cash before but weekends are seriously too precious for me spend time working! So much time spent in camp doing non-productive activities while the Earth is revolving day after day after day.
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Effort into having meet-ups during weekends had been quite successful and with the addition of my crappy HTC Touch2, I'm at least able to keep myself connected friends via Twitter and Facebook on weekdays. Though somehow somewhere SOMETHING is still lacking....

I shall let the photo do the rest of the talking XD

Monday, September 05, 2011

The time is...

Its about time.. For an update.
STAY TUNED

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

The Love : Hate Relationship

Good morning everyone!

BOTAK JOHN HERE!

By the time anyone is reading this, I'm already at Pasir Ris taking the bus to SAF Ferry Terminal. Would be under confinement for the next TWO WEEKS so do leave me an SMS to say hi =)

The fateful day of 5th Novemember 2010 was a memorable one. Why? Thats the day where I went to shave for crewcut hairstyle. The process was torturous and the sight of hair disappearing from my head was definitely unwanted. If you didn't know, my hair is what made me, ME. John without hair just simply makes him the same as any other NS men. =(

On the positive side, I'm just taking it as changing a new set of hair. =) Its day 4 of this love : hate relationship and truthfully speaking, the feeling is not bad =) It takes me merely ONE second for me to dry my hair. O_O! Thats effing crazy! NEVER before (Apart from when I was a baby) has this been possible before.


I'd never been a fan of crewcut nor fancied the hairstyle. I mean, what comes to your mind when you see a young male with these two things.

1. Black spectacles
2. Crewcut hairstyle

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NS MAN or EX-Convict

Not to forget that there are 101 other nicer hairstyles which we could have and make use look 101% more unique as well =)

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I'm all geared up for NS. Physically I'm DEFINITELY NOT ready. Mentally? Just about 75% prepared. (Though I'm pretty sure that would decrease when I go in due to the strict discipline that would tear your mind apart before putting it back together again)

I'm going to start eating my brunch which has been beside me for the past 10 minutes. Take care people! All the best in your studies/exam/work/FYP/FO Camp =)

I actually seriously wanted to post my botak photos here.. But on second thought..I'll leave that for next time ;) Here are some more spoilers for those who already saw me yesterday.







*PS* I'll be out soon. Lets get out and have fun when I'm out in two weeks!