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"Lights out baby!"

Happy New Year (to be) everyone. 

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And then it'll be a lifelong journey with - 

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Maybe it’s just me? But I think I have mood terms that decide how great I’m feeling. I’m not talking PMS or situational or characteristic determination but rather that of moods that change with the weather. Most days, I can’t sleep. Can’t sleep til it’s time to get up. I’m not sure why my mind is a hall of pandemonium each and every night; and I spend daylight hours exhausted and trying to keep awake. Such a screwed up biological clock. 

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"There's a war in my mind."

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Real comfort zones. 

Where life can never begin.

source: Huangshan by 號獃 H.D on Flickr

"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith." 

- R.A. Salvator, Streams of Silver

(via goodreads)

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I didn't think this much would change in the span of about a week. As I cross things off my check list, I realize (for probably the 100th time this year) that I'm not the same person who wrote the things down. 

This year has been one hell of a ride; but I wouldn't trade it for all the world has to offer. If I could do the things I did, I might not have done them all the same; but I'd still do them. 

And finally, as we're drawing to a very near close to the end of the year; I must add that I did not foresee something that would take me by surprise before the year came to a close. 

I am happy. I am content. I may have worries; but which human doesn't? I may not be sure of what tomorrow holds for me; but for now, I'm just satisfied with where I stand. 

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

source: Canadian Timber Wolf by Rudy in Ottawa on Flickr

"To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonel, a tearing, a holwing, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strenth that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here." To say "I am." 

- O.R. Melling

(via: goodreads)

source: yellow leaves by volpheobe on Flickr

"and the leaves were telling secrets to the wind."

- Peter Mulvey

source: Untitled by Maria Strajnic on Flickr

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” 

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

source: gloomy day. by Moey Photography on Flickr

"The world is a tragedy to those to feel, but a comedy to those who think"

- Horace Walpole

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"Youth is wasted on the young"

- George Bernard Shaw

To the both of both of you. Who've had the longest battles. 

The shortest lives. 

And to the rooftop where you met. 

source: ocean views by gary parker photography on Flickr

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"
- William Shakespeare

fleeting by andrew evans on Flickr

"A wounded dear leaps the highest"

- Emily Dickinson

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I apologize for the days of hiatus that I have unconsciously put myself through. The past week or so has been hectic and happening. And while I’ve encountered some of the more first-times in the past week than I’ve had this year; I think it’s been an exceptional accomplishment given how the year is drawing to a close. 

There are so many things to tick off the never-ending to-do list, but somehow this year ends on the sourest and sweetest of notes. There's a bitter after-taste as well as an anticipation that's gut-tingling. 

Cheers to the remaining weeks of December ahead! 

So Heineken Thirst 2013 was exceptional. If you’d ask me personally how it went, I’d have answered as honestly as I could. Half the time; I was just stoked and the other half was spent avoiding other ravers (who – a. do not respect personal space b. grinders/gropers c. were just out of it). But the music was good and the atmosphere thriving on testosterone, pheromones, sweat, drugs, alcohol and adrenaline. It’s not exactly an ideal situation to be found in. Overall, I’d say it was definitely the rave of the year – a great wrap to the end of the year.

I still wonder why I enjoy these things. For now, youth and the appeal of fast-paced lifestyle will be my solid reasons. 

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Given how I've watched a majority of these movies alone and enjoyed it, I'm not really sure if I should feel adequate about sharing special movies with someone. 

"Let's go said he

Not too far said she

What's too far said he

Where you are said she."

   - E.E Cummings from may i feel said he (via:violentwavesofemotion)

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HAHAHAHAHA

I'm sorry to screw an intense moment up but really? REALLY?! 

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I think the best place to be is inside someone's mind. 

I love mental graphics and their interludes. 

I also find it amazing how a person can be internally extraordinary but externally ordinary. 

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Sometimes it's too quiet. Sometimes it's too loud. 

Sometimes it's just not enough of both. 

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I love it when I have so many books to read 

that I don't have time to think of the other shit. 

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Happens all the time. All the damned time. 

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I hate strawberry flavoured anything. 

But I still wonder about you. 

Beautiful scenic design models from Matilda The Musical by Tony-winner Rob Howell and his crew.

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I'm quite a movie buff; but I'm painfully selective over the type of shows that I watch. I tend to spoil it for myself almost all the time (I shit you not). So, having gone on a movie in an actual cinema (for the first time in months), I still stand by the fact that cinemas aren't really my thing. Something about the whole voyeuristic feeling of being inside a dark room, the potentiality of being watched and scrutinized from security camera and the whole impersonal and public feel of the "arena" makes me feel so out of place and self-conscious. I feel repressed and depressed inside a dark cinema and that overwhelming feeling often makes me feel like I need a light (or ten); the oppressive sounds coming from the speakers. 

So while everyone else was enjoying the wholly actionable scenes of Thor 2, I scrunched lower into my seat and contemplated some unnecessary facts of life that I had yet to think of. Maybe even the most ridiculous scenarios that life could have conjured up for me in the darkness of a cinema. Harrrrrr...how amusing. 

And I also realized that I've only been to an actual theater a few times. Or maybe a couple more than I can recall, but I really can't pinpoint anything memorable from shows that I've sat through. Musical recitals, dance recitals, drama plays and musicals. It's been a dream to actually watch a real theater show. Something about a theater that seems so open and surreal - so welcoming, so honest and real - the definition of real art - openly expressive, welcoming-ly brutal about portrayals. 

How could I ask so much of you after what we'd agreed?

I do miss you. So so much. 

But there's nothing left to hold on to. 

Today, I wrapped up my education in college. And I'm feeling both feelings of the spectrum, iridescent joy and passionate sorrow. I've said goodbye (or more of a temporary farewell) to the people I have turned to for the past one and a half years - the people I have shared so many emotions with - people I've come to look at as "family". 

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I've still got to remind myself that this isn't goodbye however; we will still meet. Be it under different circumstances and fairly frequently too (insert bitter laugh), and even though most of us won't really stay in touch, there'll be that one reminiscent characteristic that makes them stand out in your memories as having been part of your life. And yourself having the honour of being part of theirs. I look forward to seeing/hearing/doing something that reminds me of someone and should that day come, pick up the phone and dial their numbers. 

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Oh well, I tried. 

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Twas' a dark dark dark period

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These days are spent restlessly drifting through the whirlwind of moving on, moving around and moving fast. There's just simply no time. There's so many things we want to do, but not enough time. And when I think back to the beginning of the year, I've come so far. It's what a year does for you. And I try so hard to hold on to the things that I have now, but I'll have to let it go one day in order to move on. 

"I was praying that you and me might end up together

It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert

But I'm holding you closer than most"

- A Drop in the Ocean - Ron Pope