Friday, March 30, 2012

Someone like you

My favourite cover.
 (pause the dumblydoo player thingy at the left side bar and listen to this!)

This song needs no reintroduction...

The truth is, this song, to me, is never really about finding someone like the person you love before... It's a simple fact really; each of us are different, unique individuals... The sad truth about this song is that, you'll never actually really find someone like that again. No matter how much you hope, how much you want to, it's never gonna happen. Because even if the appearance is the same, the heart may not be.

It's sad, isn't it?

"Sometimes it lasts in love... Sometimes it hurts instead..."

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Melodrama

Interestingly or rather, sadly, my life has become so topsy turvy that it has become a melodrama. And to end the plot and stop the guessing games among you, I really have to tell you (this "you" applies to everyone) this because whenever you've hit the button (well, when our conversation goes that point, anyway), you take up a pitch fork and jam it straight into my heart.

So I'll tell you this.

It's gone. What's gone? She's gone.

That's more than enough to understand. Details? No, I'm not gonna post it here.

I know I've been an idiotic emo lately but besides this issue, there're so many things just popping up and grabbing me by the neck. I can't breathe... And so, I avoid. I need space... I need time to breathe...

So please... Stop guessing. It makes life harder for you and me.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Spectating.

Sometimes, being a spectator as the world spins is very very hard to take. You start to be stagnant, while others just move on with their lives. You're forgotten or rather, you think you're forgotten. But like spectators of a football match or an audience in the cinema, this is what you do... You sit there, watching, thinking, sucking in whatever is showed to you. Apply that to life and what appears to be reality suddenly looks like a soap opera of sorts.

Isn't life full of contradictions then? If Shakespear said that we are all actors in a stage called life, then why... Why am I here spectating this soap opera? Does it mean that I've lost my script? Or is this His way to teach me a few things?

I'm tired. And as I try to accept what I'm shown, I find it hard. I start to alienate myself from what I'm watching, from the actor and actress involved. Not too long ago, I was the actor. Not too long ago, I held the script. but not anymore. The director decided that I suck, took my script, tear it to shreds and kicked me out. He then printed a new one for this new actor when he could have just took my script and gave it to him; not to mention that it could have saved a few trees. However, I digress.

Spectating is a very lonely affair. The stage play runs, but you're the only person watching it because well, it's your stage, your life. While others move up and play their parts in your stage, you start to realize what kind of persons they are. Then... you question yourself... You question them... And loneliness is not a very nice affair to have. Many times, we said that we want to be alone but really, don't you just want someone to be there and pat your shoulder/head and say everything's gonna be alright? That everything is gonna be okay? No? Okay, that just applies to me then.

As the stage play spews the unspewable and inconceivable thoughts, you start to hallucinate and think more than you should. You start to long for the stage that was once yours. You hit an all time low. You call out but no one listens because the stage play is well, playing and the performers won't stop until the play has ended.

Part of this spectating debacle is that once in a while you try to get someone in to watch the play with you. Many times, I felt that it's unfair because the play is meant for you. Bringing someone in meant they would have to share the burden of spectating with you. However, I know it's nice to have that someone to accompany you even if he/she only watches a small part of the play. But you do know that sooner or later that someone would have to leave your play because he/she has their own play to attend to, no?

Okay, well, as a last note, spectating also makes you look like a complete whiny idiot. Just check my Twitter.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

All time low

Too many things happened. Some I'm not very willing to reveal to everyone. Some... are just so dramatic that I can't begin to describe how it is like...

I'm in my all time low. Perhaps, this is just one of those times that fell on one of my heaviest semesters. My shoulders are heavy and my confidence is fading.

You asked me to believe in my team. I do. I do believe them...

The truth is I have difficulty believing in myself now...

And so... I know I have to cling onto God the most now.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

A matter of time

Everything is just a matter of time.

It took 9999 tries before Edison successfully invented the bulb.

It takes 90 minutes for a game of football to be won or lost.

It takes four hours to drive from KL to Taiping.

It takes approximately three minutes to know a good song but sometimes a lifetime to write a good one.

It takes less than a second to smile and light up someone's day.

Monday, March 5, 2012

As they sat and spoke

Stuck in the wilderness,
He drifted from the north to the south,
In search for truth,
or was it in search for peace?

He could not fathom the gentle wind's music,
Nor the joyful ray of the sun,
He was alone,
And he resigned to loneliness.

He wandered and wondered,
Then came along the three,
In search also for truth and peace,
And they sat and spoke,
About the old and new.

The contents of the heart is emptied,
The soul of the four lifted,
Burdens now thrown away,
As they sat and spoke,
About the old and new.

For now he found,
A promise and a calming peace,
He understood now the gentle wind's music,
And the little joyful ray of the sun,
That loneliness is not a thing to resigned to,
and to err is human,
Among a company of four,
As they sat and spoke,
They found courage, peace, truth and hope.

p.s a dedication to you three. :)

Sunday, March 4, 2012

An Upward Curve

The hint of joy, 

The disguise of sorrow, 


The portrayal of shyness, 


The haven of hidden sarcasm,


The beauty in people,


An upward curve,


A smile.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Yellow for Kuantan

Do you know this song? I'm sure you do.

If you don't, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MwjX4dG72s

I don't know why but this song really really suits Kuantan because of the whole hulabaloo Lynas thing.

We were travelling to Kuantan that Saturday night. It was dark. Snores echoed around the bus along with its engine and hydraulic brakes. A weird symphony. Then one of my friends looked out the window and said, "look at the stars over here!"

And then this song just pops into my head.

My mind was full of imaginations of a post apocalyptic-Lynas-radioactive-waste-leakage world. This song just fits in that world so well.

Notice the chorus?

"Your skin, yea your skin and bones
Turning into something beautiful
D'you know? That I love you so.
I love you so."

Then the second chorus

""Your skin, yea your skin and bones
Turning into something beautiful
D'you know? For you I'd bleed myself dry
For you I'd bleed myself dry..."

Imagine a parent singing this to his/her child... The child; a little life so full of potential now dragged apart so violently by irresponsibility and ignorance. But to the parent, it doesn't matter if the child would look yellow from radiation infection. All the child has to know is how much the parent loves him/her. It's a promise, that if a cure can be found, even at the expense of the parent's life, the mom or dad would do it. And their solace? The stars. They keep shining. They represent a glimmer of hope in life.

Indeed, Kuantan, look at the stars, look how they shine for you... and all the things you do...

We wept for you.