September 2011
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Interesting Find: meet the world campaign.
proteanteen:
stellaberggg:
United States
Angola
Somalia
China
Colombia
Burkina
This is horrifying.
June 2011
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October 2010
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“But I guess that’s just the way it is. And life doesn’t always work. That’s...”
– (via poeticheartache)
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Strangers of the Soul
His boots crunched upon the sandy shores of the beach as he made his way towards his favourite spot. He always found himself walking towards that spot when his mind was filled with troubling thoughts. The evening air was crisp and cool on his face. For a moment, a fleeting questioned flitted across his mind as he wondered whose child the wind belong to. Its swift arrival, though, was followed by...
June 2010
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MOVED!
I have moved! :D
http://www.nicholastong.com/blog
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Every long lost dream led me to where you are Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars Pointing me on my way into your loving arms This much I know is true
Bon voyage.
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Life is getting unnecessarily complicated.
Anyway, here’s a little preview of my upcoming template!
Yep, that’s the draft cover page. There’s still the Flash/After Effects animations, PHP...
May 2010
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Vessels
It’s really nice knowing that after so many years as friends, after going through our individual trials and group tribulations, after experiencing life-changing… well, changes, and after traversing our divergent paths, we can still be the same with one another. We can still talk about the things that worry us the most; we can still walk around aimlessly, content in one another’s...
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Flash Forward
FlashForward is clearly the most addictive show I have ever watched! The plot is extremely mystifying and engaging, and the way the layers of intrigue are gradually peeled away is scintillating. The basic premise is that a Black Swan event occurs that appears to be an act of God: everyone in the world loses consciousness for 137 seconds and is gifted with a glimpse of a future that is exactly 6...
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Risk-taking seems to be a dominant feature of our DNA. We beat the traffic to reach the incoming bus. We run up and down the stairs. We sleep too little and work too much. We test our limits. We step out of our boundaries. We don’t listen enough. We shut others out. We gamble with our relationships. We pretend that everything is alright. We say things we are not sure of. We make-believe. We...
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The hopeful world
We live in so many different worlds: the physical world, where the contours of reality are defined by natural laws and shaped by our actions; the hopeful world, an imagined and plausible construct where our hopes and dreams meld to form a semblance of reality; and the fantasy world, a chimerical creation forged upon frivolous impulses, hidden desires and unusual visions.
Reality can be upsetting...
“No one ever said that life would be fair, or that the moments you wanted to last...”
– (via poeticheartache)
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16 Things You Can Do In 1 Day To Improve Your Life
Neil Strauss:
1. Register your full name as a web domain if you haven’t yet.You never know when you’re going to want your personal website.If www.[yourname].com is already taken, don’t worry - there arealternatives.For example, who owns jamesjoyce.com? Answer: A bar in Dublin beatthe author’s estate to it. But there are always other options, likehyphenating the name and...
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A boy posed a challenge to his girlfriend to live a day without him. No communications at all and he said that if she passed it, he’ll love her forever. The girl agreed. She didn’t text or call him the whole day, without knowing that her boyfriend had only 24 hours to live because he’s suffering from cancer. She excitedly went to her boyfriend’s house the next day. Tears fell as she saw her...
I’ve been looking for volunteering opportunities that involve children. You know, those meet and get to know them kind of stuff? Every child has the potential to become someone great in their own rights, but social circumstances sometimes interfere to batter their self-esteem.
And the problem is that when we start losing confidence in ourselves, the insidious ‘darkness’ from...
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Where music and lyrics may only mask, knowledge and narrative postpone.
Even then, this is merely temporarily; it is not the solution.
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Tortoise and the Hare
As I sped across the viridian beauty of East Coast Park on my purring bike, my distracted mind stumbled upon a little epiphany about the age-old story about the race between the tortoise and the hare:
The moral of the story behind the tortoise and the hare tale is not that being slow and steady will win you the race, for the 99 races after that were won by the hare. The real message is that YOU...
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A shooting star shot across the speckled sky of his technicoloured world. He was dazzled; he was mesmirised; he was taken in. But in that split second before he could wish upon it, a twin star could be seen following in companionable pursuit. He knew then that it was not meant to be. This sprinkled stardust was not meant for him. He just happened to be caught up in this constellation of poetic...
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Inspiration = Inspired Actions
Inspiration is the engine of life. Just watched a couple of magic performances which have amazed me till no end… I AM INSPIRED! Interest may have lighted the first spark, but it is inspiration that will fuel it into a blazing inferno.
The fascinating thing about inspiration is that anyone, at any moment, can plant the unknowing seed of inspiration in another, which may in time grow and...
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Star-crossed Lovers
Magic performances have certainly led to fascinating discoveries about how the different sexes react towards magic as well as epiphanies that reveal fleeting glimpses of the inner machineries of our mind. And now… I boldly present these sweeping generalisations:
Girls prefer performances that appear to be paranormal i.e. such as mind-reading or coincidences. Guys prefer performances that...
April 2010
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I want somebody to share Share the rest of my life...
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Till Death Do Us Apart
“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes. Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce.. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly,...
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The Moment
Perhaps it is the moment when the heart flutters at the sight of that ethereal smile; Or when the willowy silhouette calls to mind a thousand verses of lovelorn poetry.
Perhaps it is the moment when the heart grows warm at the brush of the maiden’s precious sigh; Or when the velvety touch of her fingers feel so right in the spaces between yours.
Perhaps it is the moment when the aroma of...
Let’s reverse engineer this, and make it right this time.
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An A* Dinner
Alright! I’ve come up with another word to use in tandem with ‘awesome’ and it is… ‘A*’! Sounds good, right? In fact, this new terminology can be used in even more creative ways! It can be used…
singularly. It’s an A* for tonight’s dinner celebration! OR Tonight’s outing was A*!
in tandem with ‘awesome’. Tonight’s awesome dinner deserves an...
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Is it Possible to Learn So Much Your Brain Gets...
Northwestern psychology Prof. Paul Reber answers in Scientific American. Excerpt:
The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space,...
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Great-grand-buddy
Woo! I’m a great-grand-buddy now! (sounds rather old though… we were thinking of coming up with substitute names to disguise our very ancient-sounding titles!) Anyway, it was simply superb meeting up with the 27ths :D Really missed us - we’re hands down the most awesome batch ever!
So you would understand why I say I can’t wait for the Med students to finish their exams...
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Success is lonesome. Or is it?
When the present is stillborn, we look towards the future for hope and inspiration. I have been thinking about it recently - my future, career prospects, quality of life, ways to earn a living, and other related issues. How do I wish to define my life? What will the story of my life be? Can I marry my ideals to reality? Traditional conventions suggest that success is a lonely endeavour. To break...
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Project Unprescribed
Eccentricity took over and I decided to brew myself a cup of Lipton tea. It’s 12:31am right now, and I was intending to sleep early since I have been feeling really, really tired physically and mentally the past week. Part of the blame must be apportioned to my greed - I simply want to have MORE TIME to do things that I like. And the only time I can do so is after work, which basically means...
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Most Awesome Coincidence
It’s just too amazing! :D
Just moments ago, I stepped out of the train and walked towards the other end of the MRT station where the escalator is located, putting the book I was just reading into my bag. With my earphones on playing my current favourite song, Eenie Meenie by Justin Bieber ft. Sean Kingston, I didn’t hear the approaching train coming in from the other direction. But my...
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Spoiled vinegar
Names evoke emotions. Names serve as a hotline to the collective experiences that we have been through together and triggers our mental impression to resurface in our mindscape. Names are hyperlinks to the past in the world wide web of our intertwined lives. And while all it takes to clear the cache and delete past history in our internet browsers is to click a button, the same could not be said...
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nostalgia ftw
haha i don’t know why but i’m suddenly very excited about the china trip! seriously, i think it was the ‘chubby cheeks’ comment R used on S. such randomness makes my day. it could also be today has been a very, very tiring day. but somewhat fulfilling i think. HMM and i think i will sign up for y camp. i haven’t done cip for a while already. maybe it will fill up some...
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Derren Brown - Mind Reading
Amazing what the power of suggestion and mild hypnosis can do!
And I’ve found another amazing song with fantastic tempo for snappers to do some finger-blitzing! Introducing… Baby by Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris:
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Magic and Mentalism
…are mind-blowing!
It’s truly fascinating to immerse yourself into a whole new world of mystique, intrigue and magic (literally and figuratively). You learn how amazing your hands can get as you shift your fingers in ways and angles that you have never tried before and as you get familiar with the body of the cards. You start seeing things in novel ways as your mind undergoes a...
March 2010
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"give me 100 baht, PLEASE!"
Back from Phuket; back to reality. OH WELL. Will try to crystallize these precious memories of the awesome adventures and leeeeeeeeeeeegendary undertakings when photos are up!
For now, I’m just filled with dread at having to confront reality once more tomorrow after having had such liberal access to unfettered fun with the best company of friends for FOUR DAYS!
Alas, it is the grey that...