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Quarter-life crisis

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

i have no clear recollection of anything that happened before my life in japan. it is as if i only began to live the moment i left my hometown. as if what happened had been too frightening and i had wished those memories away. but i know they used to be there, collecting in the space between my ears, because they surface now and then again when i least expect it and this is the time now to record each individual fragment before age strips me of my cognitive abilities.

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DEVELOPING LEXOPHILIA

Monday, April 28th, 2008

monday’s semantics class has made chong one oh-so-happy girl!

and not just because i pleased my professor immensely with my quick-witted observation in class today lol

well anw the point is

my frequent updates this month have surprised even myself…

but after lesson today, i figured i had to apologize for my impertinence as reflected in last week’s entry

professor wasnt completely wrong
but neither was i completely right
language is necessary for thought indeed,
but not all the time.

despite being a linguistics student,
i must (most shamefacedly) confess that i had been deluded by a false dilemma

well apologies and regrets aside,

semantics is chock-full of philosophy, logic, and rhetoric
which is just my cup of tea!!
i realise i talk to so many people with different concepts and opinions, understanding semantics really helps with effective communication

well i might bore you but it helps me to revise so im just gonna put down the key words of what i learnt today :)
- entailment
- contrariety
- tautologies
- pleonasm
- zeugma
- semantic externalism
- truth conditions

and as of present i am exceedingly charmed by this site here
check out the link for Animelds!

STORMS WITHIN

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

it gets too difficult to breathe sometimes
in a lonely lonely society
where everyone pretends to know one another

i wonder how many times ive brooded
and given up
and tried to solve it once and for all
and given up

and no matter how many times i face the same problem
i never ever seem to become less susceptible

why do i have to be the one to always remind myself?

i must be to blame
for i never seem to learn
not to listen to what other people say
not to let myself be affected by others
what really matters is how I feel inside
what other people think and what other people say are not important

i get so tired sometimes
dealing with people who never seem to think before they open their mouth

by the way,
saying sorry is pointless
when the harm has already been done…

maybe i am still too naive
maybe i am still idealistic enough to have hope in mankind
to believe that there is no need to be less sensitive when every human can just be more thoughtful

STAYING POSITIVE

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

dont cry

dont be sad

it’s not the end.

it’s not over yet.

it’s never over,

cuz you havent given up.

it’s not yet time to give up,

cuz theres still room for improvement.

theres always room for improvement.

ON THE EDGE OF A CLIFF

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

first, you feel disbelief.
your brain suddenly feels like it contains cotton wool
you look through your eyes but it’s like watching someone else’s life story unfold before you

you never once thought that one day it would happen to you as well.

its like a dream. no, more like a nightmare…
your hands tremble.
you are in shock.

then
it’s as if you hear the alarm clock
you suddenly wake up
you grasp the situation

you know you have to pull yourself together!

it’s not the end yet! you have not lost!
you repeatedly remind yourself not to give up.

you turn your depression into strength.
you accept this as your next challenge.

but things dont go as smoothly as you had wanted

you never expected it to be so difficult to keep faith

you cant stop replaying the scenes in your head
but you cannot comprehend where you went wrong

you are angry
yet you want to cry
you demand to know why this is happening to you

you have been disappointed too many times.
you are turning desperate.

now
all you can think about is what you should have done then to make it better
but there is no room for regret
you can only be resigned to what the future has in store for you

well, at least you tried your best.

FLEETING PASSIONS

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

a rare moment of idealism

so many desires

so little time

chong wants to be back in the arms of her piano

chong wants to learn sign language

chong wants to master singing in harmony

chong wants to watch live theatre at broadway

chong wants to know she will find a job that she enjoys

chong wants to be the CEO of her company

would i be able to accomplish everything before my expiry date?

BRAND NEW DAY

Monday, October 16th, 2006

and it is a brand new entry
with a brand new layout
in a brand new country(=^▽^=)

or entries, rather…

sorry i took so long to get my fat ass up and start updating about my life in japan
i apologize deeply for my laziness m(___)m

author’s note:
i designed this layout on firefox in mac os
so it gets kinda terribly screwed especially on ie windows
but it shld be alright as long as you use firefox

im totally pissed off with ie at the moment
and the problem gets worse if you use old versions of windows
and the screwed up parts cant be fixed
because it’s basically a problem on ie’s part
so i implore
pls dont use internet explorer anymore everybody

ok go on to read about my life if you want to :P
it’s dated from the day i touched down in tokyo
which is… err more than a month ago
sorry again