Its easter holidays! and the clock is winding forward 1 hour tomorrow, so that means the time difference between Uk and Singapore will be back to 7 hours. Which is good news! Days are getting longer and nights shorter.. yay!!
I spent more than three hours shopping in Beeston today.. popping in and out of numerous shops, and got some pretty good offers. Sure am gonna miss living in the vicinity next year. I can't live in two places, can i? weekends in beeston, weekdays in dunkirk. doh...
Ade and i whipped up a semi-hawker centre style dinner tonight, with her wanton 果条汤 and my "orh lua" (oyster omelette) except that it was only a look-alike. heehee. actual ingredients were mushroom and spring onion with egg. Nevertheless, we ate till our hearts' content! I was just thinking, im really proud of our singapore hawkers who individually are all such great chefs! i can't wait for my plate of hokkien mee with a bit of chilli at serangoon gardens... oh oh .. oh.
Saturday night was spent at Beeston Free Church; pam ade and i went to watch the choir perform "Crucifixion" by John Stainer. Really soothing music, and the words did have some impact on me. Some of the verses that they sang and minister preached have been heard many times in the numerous occasions that i went to church; i looked around in the audience and saw so many people decades elder than i, and i suppose they've definitely heard those same verses hundreds of times more than i did. I think the purpose of repetition is to remind the listeners constantly about the important themes in Christianity.. guess it's very easy to just forget somethings, sometimes.
Anyway, ever since coming to Nottingham, I've engaged in a lot more self-reflection than i ever did back home. Think it's the case of being away from family, stepping on foreigners' land, and trying hard to grow up and be independent. At times i feel that i'm in the state of balance, i imagine my yin and yang of equal amounts (is that what it's supposed to be?), and just comfortable with myself. Other times I feel so frantic and lost, insecure about everything, and the child in me screams out for comfort and lots of pats on the back. I don't know if 10, 20 years down the road, I'll still have such struggles, or it'll be a completely different kind of internal affairs. Just gotta wait and see.
I spent more than three hours shopping in Beeston today.. popping in and out of numerous shops, and got some pretty good offers. Sure am gonna miss living in the vicinity next year. I can't live in two places, can i? weekends in beeston, weekdays in dunkirk. doh...
Ade and i whipped up a semi-hawker centre style dinner tonight, with her wanton 果条汤 and my "orh lua" (oyster omelette) except that it was only a look-alike. heehee. actual ingredients were mushroom and spring onion with egg. Nevertheless, we ate till our hearts' content! I was just thinking, im really proud of our singapore hawkers who individually are all such great chefs! i can't wait for my plate of hokkien mee with a bit of chilli at serangoon gardens... oh oh .. oh.
Saturday night was spent at Beeston Free Church; pam ade and i went to watch the choir perform "Crucifixion" by John Stainer. Really soothing music, and the words did have some impact on me. Some of the verses that they sang and minister preached have been heard many times in the numerous occasions that i went to church; i looked around in the audience and saw so many people decades elder than i, and i suppose they've definitely heard those same verses hundreds of times more than i did. I think the purpose of repetition is to remind the listeners constantly about the important themes in Christianity.. guess it's very easy to just forget somethings, sometimes.
Anyway, ever since coming to Nottingham, I've engaged in a lot more self-reflection than i ever did back home. Think it's the case of being away from family, stepping on foreigners' land, and trying hard to grow up and be independent. At times i feel that i'm in the state of balance, i imagine my yin and yang of equal amounts (is that what it's supposed to be?), and just comfortable with myself. Other times I feel so frantic and lost, insecure about everything, and the child in me screams out for comfort and lots of pats on the back. I don't know if 10, 20 years down the road, I'll still have such struggles, or it'll be a completely different kind of internal affairs. Just gotta wait and see.
posted by Zig | 10:32 PM
3 Comments:
Hey zj..just a note to say that it's been great doing all these things together this year, and it'll definitely feel different next year when we all move out. But I'll remember the numerous memories we share...look forward to the other trips coming up! =)
maybe its because u got more mirrors in you room now?
hello ade!! me too :)
and to yech: doh.
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