I didn’t like the cruise. Couldn’t sleep, or eat.
I didn’t like the crowd. The fact that there were more Singaporeans than ever made the whole experience that much more dreadful.
The shoving and pushing. The kiasuism… need I say more?

Crowds, no matter the type of people, put me off.
It put me off swimming, lazing by the pool, and even just hanging around the decks.
It also kinda made me lose my appetite at mealtimes.

Hahaha! That all sounds bad! Well, the crew were really friendly and nice, except when they were busy and frustrated with irritating people.

But hey! It was my 1st time on a cruise.
I must say it’s really not my thing.
Didn’t like the idea of being stuck on a ship, in the middle of the ocean (read: nowhere).

And I must say the cabin type my mum picked didn’t help. There weren’t any windows! Not even a porthole!
No sunlight. I kinda withered. =)

Someone’s really gonna have to drag me onto a cruise again, arms flailing, legs kicking =)

Really looking forward to Hongkong & Europe & hopefully if all pans out, Scandinavia!

“humanity’s greatest legacy is the “ethnosphere,” the cultural counterpart to the biosphere, and “the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.” ~ ted.com

Some parts of the video :

• Voodoo – one of the greatest religions in the world simply because the continent of Africa is so commonly forgotten.
• All cultures in all times, have engaged in the impossibilities of life.
• It’s power, not change or technology, that threatens the integrity of the ethnosphere. Power, the crude face of domination. And whenever you look around the world, you’ll discover these aren’t cultures destined to fade away. These are dynamic living peoples being driven out of existence by identifiable forces that are beyond their capacity to adapt to.
• Genocide, the physical extinction of a people is universally condemned but Ethnocide, the destruction of a people’s way of life, is not only not condemned, it is universally, in many quarters, celebrated, as part of the development strategy.
• The pain of Tibet can be impossible to bear, but the redemptive spirit of the people is something to behold.
• And in the end, then, it really comes down to a choice. Do we want to live in a monochromatic world of monotony or do we want to embrace a polychromatic world of diversity?
• Margaret Mead, the great anthropologist, said before she died that her greatest fear was that as we drifted towards this blandly amorphous generic world view not only would we see the entire range of the human imagination reduced to a more narrow modality of thought, but that we would wake from a dream one day having forgotten there were even other possibilities.
• When these myriad cultures of the world are asked the meaning of being human, they respond with 10,000 different voices. And it’s within that song that we will all rediscover the possibility of being what we are: a fully conscious species, fully aware of ensuring that all peoples and all gardens find a way to flourish. And there are great moments of optimism.
• It is pretty obvious, at least to those of us who have travelled to these remote reaches of the planet, to realise that they are not remote at all. They are homelands of somebody. They represent branches of a human imagination, right from the dawn of time. And for all of us, the dreams of these children, like the dreams of our own children, become part of the naked Geography of hope.
• “we believe that politicians will never accomplish anything…we think that polemics are not persuasive, but we think that storytelling can change the world, and so we are probably the best storytelling institution in the world.”
• “… the central revelation of anthropology: that this world deserves to exist in a diverse way, that we can find a way to live in a truly multicultural pluralistic world where all of the wisdom of all peoples can contribute to our collective well-being.”

It crash landed… Not very gracefully, I must say.

It not only took out the lamp at the gate, but also wiped out any chances of my mum heading out of the house n giving me a couple hours of peace.

But it warranted photos…
its 15 mins of fame…

I’ve had a peaceful couple of days. Love it =)
“Don’t jolt me just yet … ”

Just watched the latest episode of 90210. (yeah yeah yeah … cliche,…kiddy,…poseur,…I can give you that long list of vocab…)
This episode kinda dragged me over the edge, that emotional edge.
In 45 minutes or thereabouts, I watched :

1. a rich kid grow up, own up to her own mistakes, realizing she’s not over a guy she loved
2. 2 daughters forgive their alcoholic mum who is about to die from cancer, despite her never being there for them
3. a girl returning to drugs to alleviate her emotional pain and sorrow and lying to her friends about it
4. another girl allow a boy to manipulate her so much she doesn’t realise she’s an entirely different person around him and she refuses to hear anything bad about him despite several rumours about him, also to hide from the hurt she feels from being outcast by her friends
5. a boy punch another but ends up pushing him down the stairs in rage and having the “oh shit” look on his face while scooting off
6. parents working together on their relationship while dealing with their children’s issues
7. 2 adults from different worlds trying to make their relationship work, meaning compromise and sacrifice for each of them
8. a girl putting aside her feelings for a guy to just be his best friend

that kinda rounds up alot of stuff happening around the world, no?

Don’t you just love the photographs on National Geographic? From the days of old till the present, photography from NG has always been quite amazing! How these photographers sit for hours to just capture that one magical moment … it’s kinda beyond me…

Speaking about moments, that’s probably something I can’t quite say I fully understand. It’s all about the moments …

I’m so looking forward to 2010, to Hong Kong in March, Cambodia somewhere in the 1st quarter of the year, Norway/Finland/Iceland somewhere in the 2nd quarter, Europe somewhere in the 3rd quarter . . . it’s soooo exciting!

I still love life, no matter what it throws at me. Afterall, what goes up must come down and what goes down, must come up … That describes my life too. The phases. That nagging feeling at the back of your head when you’ve had a good run for quite a while now. Or that wait for just a couple of moments to signal the beginnings of a good run and the end of a nightmare.

No matter the pain, love, love-nots, hurt, disappointment, loneliness etc … they’ve all kinda taught me stuff, itsy bitsy stuff that are sometimes hard to put into words, yet one word kinda sums Life up, Life as we know it – an Adventure.