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This is truely the most heartbreaking photo I have ever seen. Quoting the photo caption directly:

“In this Nov. 6, 2008 file photo, young Protegee carries her niece, Response, as she looks for her parents in the village Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo. When photographed on Nov. 6, Protegee was in a crowd of thousands in the town of Kiwanja, having walked for three days by herself after being separated from her mother as they fled on foot from her town about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. Protegee finally found her mother, Esperance Nirakagori, in Kiwanja at a makeshift refugee camp six days after they were separated.”

It brings me to think about many things that are beyond our imagination or knowledge. Another side of the world that’s so dark and lonely we refuse to think about it.

On the lighter side of life, a cute little photo essay of a cotton tail bunny:

I am quite addicted to Issuu nowadays. It’s a site where users published their magazine/publication online. Alot of really great stuff there.

1. Meatloaf
2. Swimming
3. Wasabi
4. Pillow
5. Mercury
6. Rooftops
7. French fries

As I am desperately trying not to blog about work, a random list of things off my head at 1.35am. It’s only been less than two months, I think I need a good break soon.

I finally got a project off my back (for a while) today. Been staying in the office till 9 plus, 10pm the last few days. I finally went home slightly earlier today at 7pm.

But but, another project is in and I got tons to do. I am looking at my going-out-Friday-night taken away from me…again.

It was thunderstorming and raining in the office today. I stared out at the window and like everyone else, wish I was at home sleeping and snuggling my blanket but noooo, I am stuck in a cold office. Weekends never really seem such a big deal while working at Starbucks cos..I still work on weekends, and it’s more fun to work on weekends. One of the best thing in the world is to be able to do your own thing while everyone else is stuck in a cubicle. Evil I know but that’s ok cos I am one of the miserable cubicle (ok I don’t exactly work in a cubicle) working person now.

I seriously, seriously (x1000) need to find something else to blog about other then work.

Do you like Early Grey tea? I don’t.

Towards the end of the day at work, I got quite distracted. But I don’t know what is it so I decided to put it aside only to realise while walking to train station after work, it’s still there.

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I just deleted a whole chunk of paragraph, figured out it was too whiny even for myself to spell-check it.

But anyway, yes I was quite distracted today at work, partly because I am sick and drowsy throughout the whole day.

I wish I can write better to describe everything I feel about work. It’s just a whole new environment I am trying to get used to, or maybe even reluctant to get used to.

I think I never want to grow up.

On normal-er things, I got a new ipod! It’s the old 5th generation classic one actually. See, my ipod batteries were spoiled and it cost $117.70 to fix it. It took me a couple of months to save up/decided to fix it. I brought it down to Apple and to my surprise, they said they don’t fix it anymore but they will offer me a new one of exact same model at the same price of batteries repair. Lucky for me, I decided to wait much later to fix it so I can get a new one! I think it’s cos the new generation of nano just came out.

:( I am boring.

I would love to do some work now but I am just staring blankly at the computer screen, I am tired. And it isn’t helping that the Justice Bao Temple (there isn’t exactly a temple, they are trying to raise funds to build one..now it’s just tents in the middle of the field and it’s been a year or so) is rehearsing for the Hungry Ghost Festival. Think of gongs and bells and instruments that make ‘dong dong’ sounds.

I took the City Hopper home today after work. It’s a straight bus home from town and it goes right to my doorstep. However, I missed my bus stop by around 5 stops. And I rarely miss stops. Bus stops at Fernvale, Sengkang are very far apart.

I could take a bus home but I decided to take a slow 20 minutes walk back. The late afternoon sun was really quite lovely, it was a little warm cos I was wearing full black but it was nice to feel the warmth of the sun, after days of gloomy weather. There are tons of trees and a river, thanks to the not-yet-developed land.

But it won’t stay like that for long thanks to the government’s endless plan to have a building or structure on every centimeter of land. Construction is on-going at every single place in Singapore. There are always construction at Fernvale, the whole of Orchard is under construction, the MRT..soon Singapore will be nothing be a BIG cloud of dust. And we will sink earlier and I will die cos I don’t know how to swim.

The sun rised late today, and it was a great sunset.
It feels quite great waking up before the sunrise, and sitting at the bus stop watching sunrise and then be home on time just to catch the sunset.

Today was one of those days I was very aware of my pet peeves. My pet peeve is that I have a need for everything to be in perfect order. Like now I need every song in my itunes to be in order. Everything in that little form needs to be filled up, all the caps and non-caps at the right places, all the tags and every in perfect, perfect order.

And today, I decided to “tidy” up my Firefox Favourite list. That wasn’t fun. And today I was so inspired to do everything in one day but of cos that didn’t happen since everything need to be perfect before I move on to the next and that include mental and written lists.

I will stop boring everyone and myself. So then, I was very much inspired by this. It is a collection of 366 photos taken by Taylor McKnight. He took a photo a day for a whole year in 2004 so he could look back at it after the year ends to remember all the things that happened. And I am going to start one and I already have all these wonder things I can do with the photos. And here’s the first day, 7th of July to start off. This definitely put my point-and-shoot camera to good use.

And all ideas of photolog and new doman came in and blah all the pet peeves wonders which I managed to talk myself out of.

I woke up and the first thing in my head was “I don’t have a job.”

Tomorrow is my Mother’s birthday, I want to make her something, like arts and crafts things.

Today was many, many things in my head but I really did nothing much about them except to think about them which can be very useful sometimes.

I have been staring at my blog for a few hours, like really I just keep going/coming here and stare at this. Maybe because it’s pretty but most importantly I want to add stuff.

And stuff, I got no idea what. I have ideas but not workable.

Like a photoblog, I want to make a photoblog but I don’t take enough pictures.

And I want more links. And then I stare and think.

One of those nights, you just love contradicting yourself myself.

And I just blogged, a few hours ago.