Stop Press!

Trying to finish Cyprus trip. Four new videos uploaded into previous posts.

After trotting around Southeast Asia over the summer, I'm now back in the UK - Cambridge to be exact. Am trying my best to update as frequently as my clinical course will allow.

Entries on Italy and France two winters ago have been put on hold indefinitely. Read: possibly never. But we shall see.

Entries on Greece and Turkey last winter have also been put on hold for the time being.

Posted:
Don Det (Laos), Don Khone

Places yet to blog about:
Ban Nakasang, Champasak, Pakse, Tha Kaek, Vientienne, Vang Vien, Ban Phoudindaeng, Luang Prabang, Khon Kaen (Thailand), Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), London (England), Cambridge

Sunday 30 May 2004

what are you, friend?

maybe it's just a post-exam symptom...or maybe it's because i've too much free time on my hands this holidays (although it's only for a fortnight and i've my assignments to complete)...but i've been seeing a lot of my friends these past few days...they're everywhere!...at a restaurant, at a bookshop, in a shopping complex, walking down the street or driving along a road...everywhere!

i've ruled out the possibility of hallucinations...as i'm quite sure that other people notice their presence too...therefore, this leaves me with only two other possible rationales:

1. they really ARE my friends themselves, or
2. they're an almost exact replica of my friends.

out of the many times that this has happened...only a few are classified under the first category...for example, when i bumped into mei ling and yi chung in midvalley and managed to catch up on them...most of them however, are classified under the second category...for example, i saw a pretty good imitation of emilyn who's currently studying in australia...but i'm diverging from the subject...

because of this...i've been thinking a lot about them these past few days...what are they doing?...how are they doing?...stuffs like that...i've done so much thinking that i've come to the point of asking myself what friends truly are (yeah yeah...i know...i think too much :P ...that probably explains my white hair...heheh :D )

i was already in too deep to swim up to the surface...so after expanding much of my thoughts...i've come to the conclusion that friends are mere entities (not necessarily human or even real, for that matter) that we meet for a short span of time along our own path of life...who shape and mould our character...rationalise our actions and mature our thoughts...and basically make us grow as a human being...before leaving us just with memories of the times that we had shared together.

why do i say so?...well, think about it...how many of us can truly say that we have a life-long friend? (obviously not from the very day we were born, but at least ever since we gained a vague sense of consciousness and shrouded memory)...how many of us still remain close to our childhood friends and not just have their contacts stashed somewhere in our phonebooks or stored in our e-mail address list?...i've an uncountable number of friends...some having a positive effect on me whilst others having the opposite...some i still keep in touch with whilst others i don't...and some i've still retained their contacts whilst some i've lost...but i'll always cherish the memories that we had shared together...for sure.

if life can be allegorised to a hitchhike across europe from east to west...then friends can be likened to the people whom we thumb a ride from...each of us have our own destinations and our own modes of transport...but our journeys will somehow criss-cross...and the impact we make on each other depends on whether we decide to give each other a ride or not...we are just intersections of lines in the grand design created by God that is Life.

there's no doubt that we will meet and make new friends as we all travel along the path of life...and there's no doubt too that they will influence us...either in a good or bad way...and consequentially, those time will also be either happy or sad...but in the end, we will all move on with nothing but the bitter sweet memories that were to us left by our friends...but if that were the case...if i were to be true...then isn't life truly a lonely journey that we all undertake together?

Wednesday 26 May 2004

yay! my first blog entry!

hey ppl!

as u can deduce from the title...this is my first blog entry so i'm kinda new to this...although i've been meaning to start one to record every aspect of my life...my thoughts n my feelings...

thought of designing my own blog at first but i was jus too lazy and i din have the time...what with my college work n all...anywayz...i'll try to update my blog frequently...hopefully once a week...when i get back from college during the weekends...

seeing that this is my first entry...i won't say much yet...hope that u'll bookmark this blog n return to it now n then...till then...take care n God blez...