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

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

I am nestled between shelf 109 and 110 in the Central Library now, feeling absolutely relieved I got through my Cities presentation, Population group essay and Biophysical report all within the last 4 hours or so.

And the result is quite a worn-out me, seeking a quiet repose here where I am, feeling slightly sick (or perhaps just tired) and terribly hungry! Which reminds me that the Arts Canteen is officially 18 days to no-show. And no, I have not tried all the food available yet.

This whirlwind of essays and papers and reports and presentations isn't over yet but I am just thankful I am halfway through it, like in the eye of a hurricane - peaceful for now.

And it disturbs me that I am writing about the nitty gritty whinings of an undergrad.

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On to something else, I am just thankful that I am catching the SSO this Thursday evening, perfect timing (they normally play on Fridays), before I jet off on a super early morning flight on Friday out of this pressure cooker. Wheeeee.

I spent the whole lecture just now missing grandma. It just caught me totally unaware and quite out of the blue but my mind was lead in that direction which got me quite down. So I decided to tell you guys (and girls), please please cherish your grandparents while they are alive. If I, who did almost everything to the best I could for grandma, could still missed her so much, what more for the average joe with more pockets for regret?

Speaking of which, we opened grandma's drawer last weekend. It was such a humbling experience seeing seventy odd years of artifacts and experiences unravelling before my eyes. Grandma kept super old coins and documents of her children's school progress and even a ration card from the war.

But what touched all of us was her savings. She must have kept what we gave her for decades. She did not deposit the money into a bank, but she kept them in neat clear folders, each written with the names of her children. Every cent they gave her, if not used for her daily expenses, went into their individual folders. And within each folder, the money was then split so that her grandchildren had a share too. She kept everything, only to return it back to us after she passed on. The amount, we counted, was startling.

She was indeed an amazing and special lady, she loved us too much. There hasn't been a day I do not think of her. And that is why my family is so close, unified by her love, and we're all proud of that.
amazing

nimgnoy let the night fall at 1:50 PM

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1 Comments:

At 11:19 PM, Anonymous said...: miss you!
have fun this weekend!