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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Happiness is a faithful friend.
“You” Laws:
1. Remain in the present moment. Future and past should only come up when absolutely necessary.
2. Live life passionately. If you are in a dead-end job or just unhappy, search out your life’s passion.
3. Be grateful for everything. Every heart beat is a gift. Realize how lucky we are to be alive.
4. An energy level higher than that of those around you is contagious.
5. Give your energy willingly to everyone. It is drawn from a limitless source.
6. If your energy does drop, everything will be alright. Those people who you gave energy to will return the favor.
7. Your emotional state is independent of external factors. We learned at an early age to look at the world to show us how to feel. I am reminded of a child who scrapes his knee and looks around to see if anyone will comfort him if he were to start crying, if no one is around he will get up and keep playing.
8. Truthfully speak your mind. No matter what emotional response you have at first. Over time your truthful thoughts will erode from societal input. Your thoughts will become more positive and beneficial.
9. Be comfortable touching others. Touch others more. Be aware of how others enjoy your touch.
10. Be happy with yourself as you are now. There is no other time other than this eternal Now to be happy.
11. Strive towards perfection. Set lofty goals and do right action every day towards those goals.
12. Be empathetic, then rise. Sometimes people want you to feel their pain. Sacrifice your good vibes for them, then pull them up with you back to your previous state.
13. A positive mind is very powerful. There are times for negativity, but those times are rare.
14. Never give up on or condemn another person. They may not be aware they are hurting you. Forgive so you may be forgiven.
15. Failure is another step towards success. Don’t let failures slow you down. If they do, then this is what I do: I envision myself in old age looking back and laughing at how many failures led to my great successes.
16. Stop comparing yourself to others. We are each on our own path.
17. Understand other opinions. Rather than sticking to your point of view, people will enjoy your vibe much more if you don?t argue your opinion to be ‘Right’ and not ‘Wrong’. It is win-win.
18. Have faith that your good vibes are flowing into those around you and lifting them.
19. Meditate or use another centering ritual. Rituals have been very vital to humanity.
20. Drink water frequently. Divide your body weight in two, that is the number of fluid ounces of water you need daily.
21. Keep your body fit and healthy by exercising and eating right.
~ Universal Laws
1. No one wants disrespect.
2. We all are pursuing our own version of happiness.
3. Remember, everyone is on their own path with their own goals.
4. Good vibes resonate and amplify with other good vibes exponentially.
5. The world will be a better place when we leave it than when we found it.
6. We all want to be rich and powerful, but few can rise up. Be happy regardless of your status.
7. Life is abundant. Money, love, and joy can all be yours in excess.
8. Work hard to improve the world around you. It will return the favor.
9. The universe is naturally a happy, good place.
10. Do not fear death. Life is inescapably eternal
Happiness is not something we have to chase. That's what our dreams are for. Happiness is something to experience and indulge in throughout life - to make it more positive for oneself and other around them. At least that's what my philosophy is at this point in my life. :D
[Edit]
It has been a long week.
Now, I am officially broke, part of the BUCKETLIST CLUB, confused, slightly scared and a man with a dreamchart.
I just wanna take a portion of this blog to reflect on something I wanna think about in terms of drama. Stanislavski put within his memoirs, part of acting was to bring to a public arena a very personal moment. I suddenly know why I haven't been able to grow as much and as smoothly as an actor during my time in JG. I was never able to bring that personal flair to the table, cuz I was afraid of being judged. Now this is going to be something I'll have to work on. Bringing out the private moments of a character's life, up onto the grand stage. Sigh, I am a slow learner after all. :P
so I'm in this BUCKETLIST CLUB Great. Hahah, this is my dreamchart everyone. My aim? To open a cabaret that's home to a theatre and events company that will bring the best of music, dance and art to Singapore. I wanna own a cabaret and hopefully be able to perform in it one day. When I said this, the speaker didn't know what a cabaret was...and a woman said it was where there were skimply clad women dancing for men. Singaporean salary women. Urgh.
Here's something for you to bite on judgmental woman. Lea Michele, that girl from Glee. The one your kids watch? Yea, SHE IS SINGING IN A CABARET. Is she skimply clad? No. PRECISELY MY POINT. A cabaret is not a strip club.
But yea, that's my dream. So I need to learn about cabarets around the world. :/ I need to travel and learn. ): ):
To be part of a bucketlist club at 19. Feels like I am counting down to my death. So depressive...but inspiring. Haha...take the steps to your dreams, or keep dreaming and stop bitching.
Time to prepare for the final papers. Time to pull up my GPa or let it dwindle. Not a choice I have to make. It has to and will happen, inevitably. I'll just be sure to set myself up for it.
There are certain elements to what makes a good person. Esteem is important and it is a vital part of life. Losing it is self destructive, yet having too much of it is unhealthy. Don't let the chalk lines define what you should be, rub them out - it may cost you some skin and abrasions. But at least you don't have to be locked in a deadpan expression of who you are not. There are some feeling you want, some feeling you don't and some feelings you keep locked away in the basement of your heart. I feel what I feel, I know what I feel and I accept what I feel because no one can take that from me or mash that feeling into what they want it. They can break my body but not my soul. I live for now, with the past and future only considered when necessary.
Monday, February 14, 2011
The crackle before the fall...
Sunday night, my house is battlefield of my parents right now. Over my little brother, with me caught in the middle of it. Apparently I am not the most sensible of teenagers, going out on a Sunday to visit a friend's house and go for a movie. I wonder why I even bother sometimes. I am always the horrible son who is has never been good enough to be taken seriously and always expected to perform better. Well, to that I say...go to know and I've got better things to do with my little unworthy life. (:
This is my code of life right now. I don't believe that it is a doctrine to live by but it is how I to best cope with what I have at the moment. Discipline can take a back seat, I don't need to control everything right now because that limits life's many lessons.
Oops. Didn't see that coming.
But a guy's gotta be what a guy's gotta be. It is a passage of life. Simply because guys flip between "periods" of hedonistic bachelor-hood and self-fulfilling desires to be in a loving relationship. Hence, the cheating husbands and unfaithful boyfriends. Monogamy isn't something that swings up our avenue. So when it is the 20th wedding anniversary and it is a loving relationship - you know there is cause for celebration.
On to more fun issues...
CRS group meeting with my little nephew Ferbious. XD
CNY report. Boring. Absolutely boring. Visitations were out of formality. The only good that came out of it was the fun I had gambling. Which kinda went along the line of superstitious gambler's beliefs from my cousin and uncle. LOL. Probability always wins. (: Which got me $68. Yep yep.
Oh oh and...
Watched black swan today. AWESOME FILM...apart from the masturbation scene and lesbian scene and seduction scene - hey, I'm a hot blooded guy. Deal with it. It held so many relevant metaphors for today's societal structures. Where we are caught between being frigid and in control as opposed to "living a little" on the edge. *SPOILER* Nina died... (Fairy insists that she does.) ): ): ): But as sad as it is, the movie is AWESOME!!! and deserves every pop of the 4/5 popcorns that people give it.
It is Valentine's. Pray my mind survives.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Relativity
The principle of relativity was taught to me when I was 15. The fact that nothing that is defined remains set in stone, and it changes in relation to what revolves around it. The pencil never falls, it is pulled by gravity. We don't drop the loads off our shoulder, we merely shift it and let it fall to the ground.
Now relativity is reborn as a concept to me. It is the principle behind the phrase "change is the only constant." That's why the gifted are not always the successful, the hardworking are not always the best rewarded.
I guess the reason why I am on this topic in the first place is the retrospect on what's happening now. Though it is right in the fray of assignments, projects, papers and exam preparations. Strangely this is how I feel...
Eye of the storm - a bit too literally - but it is a quiet place in the middle of the chaos that just makes everything seem so surreal. It is almost like I am a consciousness within my being watching as my vessel does its work on a subconscious level. I am asphyxiated by the complex layers of thoughts that permeate the invisible membrane of the human mind - that which gives birth to consciousness, ideas, emotions, senses and a placid randomness of my choosing.
Playing is surprisingly hard work and I finally understand why adults envy children...the same way children envy the power an adult has. We work on a spectrum of growth. Borne with the endless imagination and seemingly limitless energy as children; we are curbed by laws and norms of society by people who envied and feared for the worst - resulting in the growth of an adult. Responsible and sensible but insufficiently equipped with the non-categoric imagination of a child - we end up tiring fast and growing dull. A large lot fill in the middle, out of the edge - out of sight and out of mind.
In the middle, I feel barraged by stress and managing against an invisible foe whom I cannot see, smell, hear or touch. The temptation of escapism and narcissism is there, I suppose here's where I admit that I give in. (: Self reflection is not ranting - I'm lying, it is. But at least it is ranting with a meaning. Likened to playing - with meaning; applied drama. And I wondered why I am where I am.
Diploma in Applied Drama and Psychology, eh? I can work with that. (: