Nouvelle Vague

translated as "Bossa Nova" *portuguese, "New Wave" *french. love them.



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To Death with Love

Dear Death,

Tell me something I don't know about you?
That you are a cause of our tears, sadness and sorrow.
We mourn because you exist.
That you never fail to meet us at the end of it all,
Or, is it you that has ended it for us.

You are part of the destiny, the path and the cycle,
of Birth, Life, Death and Rebirth.
Death. The Anti-Climax, a sudden halt to all that is alive.
The point they say "your life flashed past ur eyes"
The expected ending, that undermines our purpose.
For what we live if we should die?

Or we lived to die to live again.
The heavenly realms, so they speak, for the good,
And the the fury of hell for those who've sinned.
If death is eternal, then better dead than alive.

You are the truth of life,
Because through death, we know we lived.
If we live only for a day,
What would we be doing today?
If everyone lived everyday like their last,
We could be living in a world of love.
Or we could be complaining about what we did not have
on our last day, everyday.
Choose.

We can't fight You, Death,
But Rockstars live forever.

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Sincere condolences to all who loved Wayne, drummer of rockband The Suns.
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Electrify My Life "BPB"

Last night we celebrated Marcelly's Birthday Party at Gotham Penthouse in Clarke Quay. A themed club with male strippers and hot dudes... YES! Men... for the women rights and "Bachelorette" hen parties...


http://www.gothampenthouse.com.sg/promo/show.html

So the sexual charge was peaking high, as we saw the babies from Johannesburg dance their butts around over 3 sets of performances. After the 2nd set I was convinced that they were never gonna be mine, but I wondered what they would really be like off-stage... Or backstage. *Ooo* As I discussed with Weihao, we sorta agreed that the most "provocative" of em probably is most decent, and vice versa. But truth is, you can never tell...

I turned my attention to the ladies on the floor. All the girls looked on with a tinge of love-lust glow, and "we" just couldn't keep out gaps closed. Heh. I definitely blushed. And some girls really played the heat, and teased the boys. I took the back seat for a cooler night. I don't exactly like getting high and dry.

*HAHAHA*

Well, it was truely a fun night we had. Tequila Shots, Tequila pops, Henessy, Johnie Walker...

So Marcelly, the birthday girl, without a doubt, was pretty sloshed. Yet while she layed by the pillar near the Taxi Stand... She could still identify friends passing by. She's incredible.

Met up with some friends whom I haven't seen in a long time since I left University Hostel. We sent Marcelly and Mr Gan (her BPB) home. That girl could still cook us Kimchi Noodles. *Babe, it was one of the best I've had since* Did a little more catching up, and then got on home.

"BPB" - "Beautiful Perfect Boyfriend"

This dude stood up to the challenge! He watched on the lap dance, encouraged it, cheered it on! The girl on the hot seat was his GF. His face didn't change a bit!

http://www.gothampenthouse.com.sg/

**Naked "BPB"s... Strip and Electrify Our lives**

Life Changing Amount of Money

Does Money change your life?
Yes.
Does Money change you?
Not always...

Recently I've been asking people around me. What could be a life changing amount of money for them?

SGD 1 million dollars was the unanimous answer.

When I went for an audition for the game show "Deal or No Deal", they also asked me this question. I too said one million.

I had gone to try out the game show just for a chance to get enough money to pay off my school fees loan and just perhaps have some for home improvements. SGD250,000 was the grand prize offered. Well just for reference sake, you can't buy a nice apartment to stay for that amount of money, but you can definitely change a hell lot about life, for things that need money.

WHen they asked me what I would do with the 1 million dollars, I mentioned to give my parents a new home to stay, and then a place for myself, and then I paused.... becos having done that, the money would now be insufficient for anything more.

Money. Life seldom ends with enough money, it also is never about the money. How much is enough? Depends on what you want to do with it.

I figured, SGD 100,000 would be more than sufficient amount to change my. No I will not retire immediately into old age at 26 years old, but I would have gotten off the debt of twenty thousand dollars, make some home improvements, consider to do some investments, and continue to work and prepare, to allow for the next phase of life to unfold. With that I will be free from a host of necessities that incessantly required the attention of my finances.

Weibin asked me how I would change. I don't think I will change. If there were things I wanted to change about myself, they were things money can't change. And if anything was to change, it would be the quality of life and the liberation from nagging things like a washing machine that doesn't work properly, a fridge that's too small, and the tropic heat that endlessly calls for a new AC system to be in house. Most importantly, I'll still be searching for that cheap ticket out of town this summer, hang out with the same friends I love, go to the same places I like.

Lastly, it will be a waste of money, if there are no uses for it.

Vivid Dreams

I remembered 3 extremely vivd dreams from last night. They pierced so deep into my mind, I went to google it as I woke up, to try figure out the possible meanings and symbols in them.

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The first most important of all, and the clearest. Was that I was at the wake of my Dad. I didn't cry, wasn't sad at all. That frightened me a lot and from time to time I questioned and asked myself how is it I am not crying. I love my dad and respected him for having gone through many very hard times in life. We barely have conflicts at home and I didn't understand my dream at all.

"Death or dying in a dream seldom refers to an actual death. Death refers to changes in one's life, or attitudes toward certain persons, or fears of dying. Here are some possibilities of what death, dying or a dead person may represent in a dream. Death is a motif and may be the central motif of the dream.

(3) If the dead person in the dream is actually a living person - and especially if that person is your partner or parent or sibling - the dream may be expressing unconscious resentment towards that person, or a desire to be indepentent of that person. Feelings toward someone close are often ambivalent (conflicting): love or respect mixed with fear or hatred or resentment or jealousy."

- http://www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/dsdeath.html

So I read on. Perhaps it was the desired to be independent.

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The 2nd dream was a revisit Lithuania, to a party at Ignas' home. I remember I brought a friend and was running up the back stairway. Looked alittle different but I knew in my head it was the right place. The door opened and I saw Iggy, and egle, and the usual crowded house party. Lot's of alcohol on the table. I said to Iggy, "Do you know which drink I missed most?" He said, "Starka, Vodka..." I smiled, and poured out the next drink, "Yes.. Starka and Cranberry Vodka!" I asked Egle, "Where's Agne?" And we waited while talking to all the people in the house...

Indeed I missed the Starka. But I missed more the friends and the fact that I was away from home in Lithuania. It perhaps an added tinge of freedom which made the Starka sweeter in Lithuania.

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I also remembered briefly, a call from an ex-colleague, whom I've called to meet again this coming Monday. I was to present the opportunity to him to consider an investment. In the call, he was enthusiastic and excited.

In reality, I've called him, and it took me some time to persuade him about the opportunity. And well he wasn't all that enthusiastic, and I dunno if tomorrow he will actually meet me. For this, I think was to do with my perspectives about my latest career move.

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The company I work for is a land asset management company. Through a non-speculative physical asset, Land, as our investment vehicle, we offer money making opportunities for individuals, ie. investments. I'd like to think of it as something everybody should be excited about, that most individuals should really want to know how they can make more money, besides working their asses off like "peasants" - Quoting Irving.

Sometimes people complain about their work - overworked, under paid. Yet when the option comes to their doorstep, they push it away in fear and sceptism. Aren't you just fufilling your own prophecy, of the viscous working cycle you can't seem to get out of?

**Knock knock... Don't be afraid...