isn't that rhetoric

my month long trip was long over (can't say break. cos i'm still having my break. haha.) but i can't stop wondering,

what's in a holiday, when you're on your own?

you either

explore and go for an adventure

or slaaaaaack till you can't slack no more.

but i had the whole beijing to myself for a weekend. can't waste that chance no?

i never was much of an adventurer. (i just like to do random stuff that's all)

but there's no point slacking in the hotel - might as well slack at home.

so i went out. and here's what i got.

that's an aerial view of the forbidden city. cool ain't it. i'd love to say i took a helicopter to take that pic. but i'm not so rich. that's just a model in a museum. they had the whole beijing as a model.

and the other is the prestigious tsinghua university. where only 1 out of 1 million applicants get in. hahah i just like that little boy walking away from it. btw do you wonder why in the world of alll places i could go i visit the univerisity? beats me.

walked passed a park. imagine west coast park. but look what i saw: table tennis tables! as if that's not amusing enough, they used cements bricks as their nets. AND they're being used! unlike certain *ahhem* facilities *ahhem* you see around *ahhem* *ahhem*

on the right is the two most famous olympic structures: the birds nest and the water cube. aka the stadium and the swimming pool. i find it interesting how they're widely known and called by their nicknames. you don't often hear people saying "ever been to the durian lately?" around here do you.

this is the greatest amusement. do you see a cctv camera in that sentry house? yep. i tell you. that's how china won their wars against mongolia and other countries during the han dynasty. CCTV.

so what's in a holiday when you're on your own?

you think abt what you can blog abt.

or you open your eyes and wait for God to talk to you about anything under the sun. through anything that your eyes happen to chance upon. this i learned from mr lau hanyang.

i meant to blog before the end of april
and i meant to blog abt my month long trip to guangzhou/beijing/hk/thailand
but my com is ill and emotional.

my apologies.

and my photos are in that com too. ah bummer.

hahaha i can't believe myself. but in guangzhou half my mind was constantly wondering (what can i blog about....) . but i didn't write any of those down, so i forgot most of them already.

tho i don't understand why the internet in guangzhou doesn't allow blogs and wikipedia.
nor why one shopping mall can have 5 adidas AND 5 nike shops inside.
nor why my umbrella was useless to such a fine furry drizzle that it is blown horizontally.
nor why the tips and only the tips of people's shoes (including mine) get dirty.

haha and i bought 2 chinese books abt chinese architecture in guangzhou.
hopefully it would add a certain amt of culture flavour during my studies.
hahahaha in my dreams.

ahh right. a thought did come to me one day when i was walking along a road.
a very very busy shopping road. packed with chinese people. disgustingly packed.

if anyone has even a wee little bit of burden for any chinese,
multiplied by the number of chinese in just guangzhou (i'm not even thinking of the entire china)
its still one heck of a heart wrenching passionate burden for a state (not to mention country)
*shudder*

(wow harry, on a blogging spree?)
just watched stranger than fiction on hbo.

"It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die... then dies. But if the man does know he's going to die, and dies anyway... dies willingly, knowing he could stop it... you tell me...

isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"

going around borders i found so many books that i don't mind reading. don't mind meaning probably at the end of the day i'd just forget about reading these books hahaha.

like mark haddon's new book. he's the author of "curious incident of the dog in the night time". oh. which derrick said was the perfect autistic book for the autistic me. or or "the logic of life". which is an economics book, written by the same author as "the undercover economist". or malcolm gladwell's "blink", jostein gaarder's "sophie's world".

haha don't bother reading that.

all this and i haven't even walked through the christian aisle.

but the problem is, i'm currently stuck in this book. stuck not because it has a 1000 over pages or that i'm determined to finish a dead boring book, but because seriously i don't mind reading it over and over and over again. i don't want to continue reading before i digest what i've read, but that won't do too. so i've decided to transfer what i've read to another stomach- here!

so here's quotes.

"love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself."

"people can only love outside, and can only kiss outside, but Mister God can love you right inside, and Mister God can kiss you right inside, so its different."

"Mister God is different from us because he can finish things and we can't. I can't finish loving you because I shall be dead millions of years before I can finish, but Mister God can finish loving you, and so its not the same kind of love, is it?"

"Humanity in general had an infinite number of points of view, whereas Mister God had an infinite number of viewing points."

"It isn't the Devil in humanity that makes man a lonely creature, its his Godlikeness. It's the fullness of the Good that can't get out or can't find its proper 'other place' that makes for loneliness."

"The instructions weren't to be good and kind and loving, etc., and it therefore followed that you would be more like God. No! The whole point of being alive was to be like Mister God and then you couldn't help but be good and kind and loving, could you?"

"we simply had to admit that Mister God was quite empty. Not empty because they was truly nothing there, but empty because he accepted everything, because he wanted everything and did not reflect anything back!" (referring to how lights and colours work where the colour that we see an object is the colour that 'it doesn't want' and therefore the light of that colour reflects into our eyes")

and i'm not even half way through yet! pfff. before i figure out what each implies i even have to think about whether its worth figuring out in the first place. hurhurhur.

alright alright i know.


everytime i go online i pass by this place and think "oi you're post is wayy overdue. and that january post doesn't even count as a one!"you're not the only one k? so here goes.

haha. i koped the idea from xkcd but i thought of rating all the household chores. its more or less what i've been up to anw (i mean chores. not rating them)










well, tadaaa. maybe i shd add a "enjoyability factor" but you can more or less predict the enjoyability according to this graph. i realise there's a slight trend where effort is proportional to time taken, with cooking as an anomaly. i guess its bcos the more something takes, naturally the more effort required. and ironing is off. the. charts. altho it is the only chore where you can multi task and watch tv at the same time, but urrrggghh. or maybe its bcos i iron 2/3 batches of laundry in one go. hahahahaha. oh and if you haven't noticed, "cleaning my room" isn't even in this graph.





well mr zachary young went to auckland for missions for a month. he's going into his 2nd week i think. the farewell was neat enough. hahaha. and true to hope culture we stood in a circle and chat even before he went into immigration. we might as well be standing in the first floor of cuppage after service where he has to run off first. but i like it that way yea. its like it happens all the time. i'll probably see him even before i meet up some friends i've not met since jc (and i didn't have a big farewell for them). but its impolite to leave without saying goodbye i suppose.

and he's staying with the soh's! how cool is that. thinking of them always brings back memories of taiwan, tho right now with my memory failing i can't seem to put a finger on exactly when and where. its amazing how God works with connections. never would've thought i'd meet them again. the same probably goes for people around me right now. haha it pays to have good memory.

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