where thoughts materialise.

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

you know you miss my older entries

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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

A mary can idle, but not at the american idol show pls
The idols have landed, sung and thrilled.

the idols (from left) : george, diana, jasmine, jpl, latoya, jen hudsen & the almighty fantasia

It was the best picture i had of all of them. Though i sat rather close to the stage, i only wonder why the camera churned out pics that made them look like ants.

I write with a slightly irritable throat and a hoarse voice. To say the idols rocked the house is an understatement. I seriously never had more fun and boogie shakin' at a concert. The crowd went wild (well most at least, i'll come to that later), we danced the evening away and hollered. The energy was infectious.

Which brings me to the point of this entry. Yes, a mary can idle, in fact tom, dick or harry can idle too. but to sit and idle at the concert? there were people who simply sat through the whole concert with their butts stuck to the seats as if it's surgically attcached like it's part of their body. and party poopers they were.
See previous post on 'you know whats funny?'
why did they even come to the concert in the first place.
but as soon as i realized i was feeling rather splenetic so much that it distracted me from the show, i simply paused, surrendered myself to the music and got the groovin' goin.
too much negative energy aint good. and i aint gonna spend the bulk of this post complainin.

And so, i was glad i had shujun beside me. She was a good sport. We screamed, waved, clapped and basically became high school kids all over again. At times like this, I wished i never grew older. With age comes responsibilty and the taming of the child within. And that kid inside becomes meek, mellow and mild. The alliteration was purely conincidental. And if one day that kiddo should die, what's left is one very boring person who cant appreciate life and its simple wonders. Just like Thomas Gradgrind in Charles Dicken's Hard Times.

I intended to take sly's pic for my sis (she adores him and i dunno why) but chris saw my cam and nudged sly to give a nice smile, which he did. So i was oblidged to get chris within the frame. And thank goodness i did, for chris livened the pic with that smile (man that smile!)

and i expected maia to be more 'active' and bubbly. when i asked her for a pic, she froze and fused onto her seat. ah bengs watch on.

jessea was very approachable and friendly. she's pretty too i think. but her disappointment from her fall was evident and apparent. the only thing i could do for her is to make her feel popular, hence this picture.

and as the lyrics of a carpenter's song goes,

which i feel encapsulates the essence of the evening:

Children
It was more fun to be children.
We just took life as it happened
Run thru the days,
Don't look behind.

Over
Wink of an eye and it's over.
What a surprise to discover,
We were people ourselves.
What kind of people did we want to be?
No answer ever came to me.
"Never growing older, never growing wiser, children ever." - John Logan

nimgnoy let the night fall at 11:13 PM

2 comments

2 Comments:

At 4:42 PM, juice.susceptible said...: helloo! haha you're satisfying the base human need for recognition for these peeps by wanting to take their photos... oh well, t'is all in the spirit of fun!

yeah poor jesessea (dunno how to speel).. she's one of the nicer people.. at least those that i managed to encounter.
At 1:31 PM, nimgnoy said...: hannah: yes, i feel like im back in rv again. those s club n bardot n those helluva crazy days. well i had a cam in hand so..
angie: glad to see u hereeee! jessea is hot...but old.
hani: go back to sleep!