No Man Is An Island


Meredith: Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’s not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event —big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.




Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed, but sometimes the pain gets you when you least expect it, hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it, and life always makes more.

A wise man once said – “You can have anything in life if you’re willing to sacrifice everything else for it.” What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. Too often going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building. Of course the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming. When we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick sides….or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us, and not the other way around, that’s when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.



- Grey's Anatomy Season 2







mugging with pau was productive just now.
Novena's starbucks is such a nice place to mug or chill.

i think generally, Novena is a nice place to live in.

I'm a transformationalists.
Globalisation brought about many social changes but it's not anywhere near to the end like what hyperglobalist thinks. we're still far away from having a centralised government and global culture. maybe what's most obvious is the widening income gap between countries and people. (something pau and me have been talking about for the whole day). it's sad to see the rich countries getting richer while poor third world countries became poorer. the rich exploit them by shifting production to the country with the excuse of creating jobs for them. in actual fact, most of the profits go to them and people in third world countries are constantly trapped in the poverty cycle. Their country on the other hand, moves towards capitalism in hope to lessen the burden of nation deficits. However, the needs of its people are not taken care of. this breaks into a cycle which caused the country to be poorer than what it was.

Sociology may be a pain to study. but it makes you think more. - about the people and things around you.



-turn a deaf ear to

No Man Is An Island


Meredith: Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’s not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event —big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.




Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed, but sometimes the pain gets you when you least expect it, hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it, and life always makes more.

A wise man once said – “You can have anything in life if you’re willing to sacrifice everything else for it.” What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. Too often going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building. Of course the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming. When we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick sides….or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us, and not the other way around, that’s when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.



- Grey's Anatomy Season 2







mugging with pau was productive just now.
Novena's starbucks is such a nice place to mug or chill.

i think generally, Novena is a nice place to live in.

I'm a transformationalists.
Globalisation brought about many social changes but it's not anywhere near to the end like what hyperglobalist thinks. we're still far away from having a centralised government and global culture. maybe what's most obvious is the widening income gap between countries and people. (something pau and me have been talking about for the whole day). it's sad to see the rich countries getting richer while poor third world countries became poorer. the rich exploit them by shifting production to the country with the excuse of creating jobs for them. in actual fact, most of the profits go to them and people in third world countries are constantly trapped in the poverty cycle. Their country on the other hand, moves towards capitalism in hope to lessen the burden of nation deficits. However, the needs of its people are not taken care of. this breaks into a cycle which caused the country to be poorer than what it was.

Sociology may be a pain to study. but it makes you think more. - about the people and things around you.



-turn a deaf ear to