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I usually like a simple, plain desktop. But clutter once in a while is nice :) - I watch TV, and I see a couple kiss, and I wonder how they do it. As in... If I were an actress, and a role required me to kiss, I wouldn't do it. Why? Because I think kissing is something intimate. It's something reserved for a couple. (I'm not talking about your mommy kissing your forehead when you were five before she tucked you in, said goodnight and turned off the lights.) I wouldn't kiss just anybody. It's weird to talk about kissing. But anyway. The same goes with wearing less than one should. I don't get how actresses bare their bodies for a scene. I mean, MANY people are going to see you in the buff - it's not nice! You may have what the world would define as a perfect body, but seriously. When less than __% of your body is covered up... only your spouse has the right to see it. When you bare yourself for all, it's like lowering your worth? Like you're saying it...

Wow. I can log into my Monash University page :D yay. It's quite cool. As in, the page is not cool - it's like the usual ordinary looking school portals. But being able to log in is cool. And though this page is so ordinary looking and in fact, not very pretty, it's interesting! Because there are so many useful things on it. SCHOOL IS STARTING! omg. Okay I think maybe I am finally getting excited. My page tells me the weather forecast for tonight is 18 degrees celsius. And I already have 39 emails. Somehow. My account calls me jluo. So uncool. But anyway. I can enroll for the units I want, here. Quite exciting - I'll be studying communications and sociology. I think my modules are going to be fun :D I packed almost all my stuff today, to see if I can fit everything in my luggage. Then after I was done, I took out half the now crumpled clothes, cos well, I still need to wear clothes for the next few days right. Thank you, to the people who sent me recipes :) - The life ...

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I bought stationery today. Again :D Even though I really don't need stationery. And. Qantas is offering about $600 for air tickets to Melbourne! Like, awesome canz. AHHH! ah. I spent some time looking at some of the many cookbooks at home. But the stuff are all so hard to cook! So many steps and so many ingredients. In other words, I am lazy. :P Hi would you like to recommend me a good website where I can find simple recipes, or share some of your own recipes with me? haha. - Good company today, I had. Met Mag for breakfast at Good Morning Nanyang Cafe at Chinatown point - good company, good food, good ambience. Lunch with the two people in the picture below. I think Yoshinoya is boring but it's okay ha ha. Sorry I didn't bother to resize the picture but see now, people can download the picture and put as wallpaper cos you so handsum ah and Ms Tan everything also new hor - new specs, new dress, new cardi, new bag, new shoes - top to toe sia. On the train home we saw suc...

I've got a trenchcoat! :D

Some people have been asking what would be good material on the topic of romantic relationships, be it to read, do a study on, or as guidance for being in a relationship for the first time. So here are a few I'd recommend, taken from a list I've read/heard so far. Check out the synopsis' at the links provided: 10 Keys to Choosing a Life Partner by Pastor Benny Ho. (Click on the link and choose Resources for the audio.) Out of all the messages I've heard about the topic of relationships, this is the best. It's the most "whole" message I've received, encompassing pretty much every basic thing you need to know about this topic. However, while practical, it is not personable, unlike most books on such topics which usually give examples based on personal experience. It's very similar to Ravi Zacharias' I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebecca which has both the book, and an audio which I think you can download. Both this and Benny Ho's glean lessons fro...

- "We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glowworm." – Winston Churchill

It's quite funny when I go give a workshop, and one of the students is someone I know :D I've started to keep a log of books that I've read. Because when people ask me to recommend books, unless the books were super outstanding, I can't remember which book is better than the other, and which to recommend for what, specifically. I like it that my mama cultivated it in us kids to love reading since we were young. I'm going to have a little library in my house next time. Actually, my house already has a mini library I guess. We need more shelves. \m/ - The life you've always wanted John Ortberg According to a much-traveled analogy, if we put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will immediately hop out. But put the frog in water that’s at room temperature and hear it slowly, and the creature will stay there until it boils to death. Put him in a lethal environment suddenly, and he will escape. But introduce the danger gradually, and he will never notice. The truth i...

The life you've always wanted John Ortberg Sunset fatigue is when we are just too tired, or too drained, or too preoccupied, to love the people to whom we have made the deepest promises. Sunset fatigue has set in, (Lewis Grant) says, when • you find yourself rushing even when there’s no reason to; • there is an underlying tension that causes sharp words or sibling quarrels; • you set up mock races (“OK, kids, let’s see who can take a bath fastest”) that are really about your own need to get through it; • you sense a loss of gratitude and wonder; • you indulge in self-destructive escapes from fatigues: abusing alcohol, watching too much TV. It is because it kills love that hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life. Hurry lies behind much of the anger and frustration of modern life. Hurry prevents us from receiving love from the Father or giving it to his children. That’s why Jesus never hurried. If we are to follow Jesus, we must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our lives – because,...

Across the Universe - you either get really bored, or you really like. Well, I liked :D haha. I think the storyline is like eh, not very clear. But the images, sound (they all have really nice voices! Especially Prudence a.k.a. the very random person all over the show), and some awesome dance steps (especially the army and business suit ones!) made it so very worthwhile. Some songs seemed a bit too randomly fit though. But pretty awesome stuff still. Sorry I can't find any better pictures!

Supposed to go play badminton with Liyi but woke up with a red, swollen, teary right eye so too bad. Anyways. Watched The Darjeeling Ltd yesterday with Dawnsa. The Darjeeling Ltd is a train. It is a train that I would like to take a ride on. So quaint, with lovely bold colours and patterns. I like train rides enough to have a music folder in my iTunes called Train Rides . The Darjeeling Ltd is a silly show that makes you go, huh? at the end. Quite spastic nonsense to a certain extent - the rare few weird shows I'd pay to watch. But quite a satisfying movie nonetheless. I like the way Wes Anderson made the movie, and I like Adrien Brody in it. And again I say, the COLOURS! I also very muchly liked the luggage bags which were designed by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton. Probably the first LV things I actually think are really really nice.

The life you've always wanted John Ortberg (In the Bible, Nehemiah states that the joy of the Lord is our strength.) Joy is strength. Its absence will create weakness... You can become a joyful person. With God’s help, it really is possible. The biblical writers would not command it if it were not so, But joyfulness is a learned skill. You must take responsibility for your joy. … For some of us, this does not come easily. You may be joy-impaired. You will have to fight for it. But it can be done. - It's true, you know. I didn't use to be so optimistic. But one day I decided I had to try to be optimistic cos it'd be good for me. So there was a period where every time I thought something negatively, I would sort of scold myself in my head and turn the thought around. Thinking positively is quite a natural thing for me now. I think you should try it too :) - I am so LAZY! I should wake up earlier. I think 8 hours of sleep is too much for me ha ha. Eric and Jeremy left last...

Journal entry - Here I am, here I am. Impure, ugly, nothing much, if anything at all. But here I am, here I am. Do you want that? This is all I have. Take it, or leave it. Impure, ugly, nothing much, if anything at all. Do you want that? Choose. And without hesitation, I know - You'll draw me back into Your loving arms of grace without a doubt, make me something beautiful. Impure, ashamed, nothing much, if anything at all. But You don't care about that. You'll take me anyway, regardless, always. I just have to be here - impure, ugly, nothing much, if anything at all. Here I am, here I am.

Hello, Happy 2008, everybody! Have you met Gary Booker? If you haven't, this is what Gary Booker looks like: Okay sorry that was completely random. Anyways, here is part of an article (slightly edited) by Jessica Lim, published in The Straits Times on 31 Dec. Young and desperately in need of some alone time "... Yet this need for constant companionship can be unhealthy, says American psychologist Abraham Maslow. He argues that peak experiences - profound moments of love, happiness or rapture when a person feels more whole, alive, self-sufficient and yet part of the world - depend on being free of other people, neurotic involvements, needy relationships, obligations and hangovers. Only by being alone, he argues, can we become our real and authentic selves, because we are not consumed with 'we' and ignore our own growth... It is a simple matter of turning off the mobile phone, despite nagging fears that you might miss out on something... The symptoms - fear of getting a ...