Another guitar version of 'The Entertainer', performed by Tommy Emmanuel. Jon you're right! this guy's good too =)

Was reading up on Tommy Emmanuel, and he's a great fan of Chet Atkins. They even recorded an album together, 'The Day Finger Prickers Took Over the World'. Gonna get my hands on those if i can find it! =D

The Entertainer - Scott Joplin

I'm currently learning how to play this on the piano, and thought it'd be interesting if it was played on the guitar.

I think it sounds really great on the guitar! Chet Atkins is really talented =p

What a shame

I received a mailer in my NTU mailbox from an NTU personnel, regarding a programme organised by an external company. As not much details were provided in the brochure, I emailed the company itself to clarify my questions. Probably being lazy in just answering 2 simple questions, he/she requested me to ask the NTU personnel instead, since she has received all the information.

Fair enough.

So I emailed the NTU personnel, and asked the same 2 simple questions. Guess what her reply was?
"Please direct your enquiries to XXX (not revealing which company it is)"

What kind of system is this? Pushing around the job of just answering 2 simple questions? Fine if the NTU personnel doesn't know the details, because seriously, the brochure doesn't provide the most important detail: the deadline for submission of application.

What a shame.

Old school: Troll dolls

Remember these... ?

I don't see them in stores anymore. =(
And I think the pink one is more common!

Life with Braces - Day 4

Chicken nuggets
Subway
Vegetables
Chicken
Beef
Pork
Some remaining CNY goodies like prawn roll and cereal-mashmallow
Vongole
Chips
Chocolate

and the list goes on..

I can't eat all these food. I feel so terrible when I see people eating these stuff, but I can't touch them (at least not now). I can't chew or bite, and I'm taking forever to brush my teeth, brushing my teeth almost after every meal and before I sleep. I'm so, so upset.

Ohwells, I chose this path anyway.. Just gonna bear with it for the next year and a half.

I wanna watch 'Valkyrie' and 'Marley and Me'!

P.S: Operation Valkyrie is more commonly known as the 20th July plot.
Cool...

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Sometimes, it's best to just take refuge in reticence.

Wordsworth

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars
that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
in such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
what wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils,

-William Wordsworth

Not just because I have to memorise this by heart, but I think this is a rather beautiful poem. Probably one of the nicer poems I've enjoyed reading so far. By the way, the daffodils in the picture above are really beautiful. :)

"God doesn't plan for anyone to be a loser"
My dear kira couldn't have put it more aptly. What she mentioned has put some fresh insights in my mind now, and I guess it's half a burden off my shoulders with this thought in mind. That being said, I still need to decide and make up my mind soon.

Making decisions, whether major or trivial, aren't exactly the easiest things to do, especially when circumstances call for you to either please one or another, or rather, please another person or myself. Often times I fail to decide according to what pleases God, which should be primary. As I grow, I've come to realise that decision making has taken on a new level, and one wrong decision will just land me in dire consequences. Needless to say, there were many bad decisions I've made in life, but it's good to learn from the mistakes made. As the saying goes, 'once bitten, twice as shy'.

What does it really mean to have wisdom in decision making? It's something that's so easy to say, yet difficult to fathom.

I like to ask myself sometimes, if a particular scenario were to happen, how would I make my decision? Unfortunately I can never come up with a proper answer (as usual), and it's even worse when it really happens and you're caught in the web of dilemma.


Frustrating...