Category: My life
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[DIARY] A Well-Intended Closure
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Been a while since I last saw the likes of my WordPress interface. Most unfortunately the whole of last month was a whirlwind of flights, school (which I detest thanks to very uninspiring professors) and social activities I’ve been meaning to keep up with. Suddenly, it’s December, and the we’ve all hit the final chapter in…
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COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE
A little sneak of what I did. Anybody knows this old Joni Mitchell song? “Come with me I know the way” she says “It’s down, down, down the dark ladder” xoxo, Viktoria Jean
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Reflections – On Life’s New Undertakings
For the best part of 2014, I thought my gap year was turning into a gap lifetime. In 2013 my bachelor’s degree in psychology was fresh meat from the chopping block, and in 2014 I’m sitting on decaying sheets of qualification, swatting at hungry flies. In a world where sitting on your laurels is success (and causatively, happiness)’s greatest nemesis, hitting…
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We’ve been here before
And so each ventureIs a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate,With shabby equipment always deterioratingIn the general mess of imprecision of feeling,Undisciplined squads of emotion. – T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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HOW DO I
HOW DO I How do I sleep with voices in my head – telling me what to do, what to say, who to love in a torrential rain of unspoken words, this cascade of love misplaced from desired keepers whose intentions long expired; all memories are deadweight. How do I sleep with footsteps in my…
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#Firstworldproblems
Touched down from Copenhagen in the morning and headed straight for dance rehearsals after a quick nap! Had sooo much to catch up with, plus it’s the last rehearsal for the alumni item today. Wearing our club’s yellow shirt with its (now) faded prints and dancing in the open air in University Town brought back…
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Shut Up and Dance
Remember this? My favourite NUS Dance Blast Shut Up and Dance (SUAD) Concert 2011 choreography by Xuzi, Erwin and Kevin. This video was taken (by Ulrica!!) during one of our last few vetting sessions with April Rodriguez, Joesar Alvar and Pat. It was a flurry of costume changes (twice during the 5-minute item), and running…
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I have loved the stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night
I’m packed for the wrong occasion. It’s my birthday. I’ve got a luggage so heavy, but when opened, it’s completely and utterly empty.
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November, Please Be Awesome
Saying goodbye to a beautiful month of October, ushering in my favorite year-end season, with a resolution to be always mindful, never to treat anyone with a careless disregard. I was in London treading on mounds of fallen autumn leaves, feeling nostalgia for days gone by. And suddenly I’m in Christchurch with my fourth bout…
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Question&Answers
Received these messages in my inbox and would hereby like to reply them! Sorry if your message was from some time ago…and thank you for leaving them!:) Appreciated! – “…Your goodreads library is massive! Who’s your favourite author and why?” – housdencintia Thanks!! I love Haruki Murakami ever since I picked up Wind-Up Bird Chronicle…
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London Lovin’: Notting Hill
Autumn leaves crunching beneath my feet, light rain smattering wet droplets on my leather outer. Can you imagine how happy I was to see the ‘travel bookstore’ with a blue door on Notting Hill? Mostly I was busy snapping pictures, head in the clouds, wishing I could step into a bookstore and meet my personal…
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London Lovin’: Patisserie Valerie
Tucked away in the streets of Notthing Hill is a Patisserie Valerie – great wifi connectivity, comfy sofas, and mad awesome latte with cake! As it is now late-summer, London is all overcast skies and occasional light drizzles, which is perfect for a hot cuppa. Nothing makes me gladder than to see a spacious cafè…
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London Lovin’: Marylebone Parish Church Gardens
Trekked to Marylebone High Street on foot from Oxford Circus Underground. (Yes it was a loooong journey and walking is what I do when I hate staying in the hotel room with nothing to do) It’s a cool late-summer day with overcast skies but no sign of rain – perfect for a lazy walk in…
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London Lovin’: Salads Galore
In an attempt to eat healthy, after weeks of body-damaging food & activities, I’m (finally) faithfully eating my greens! The variety of salads at Pret A Manger is staggering. Besides being so darn fresh this salmon couscous is actually very yummy! Also, my mom will be glad I’m not just eating chips, chocs and cereal…
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Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take
A meeting, a perfume launch, and an after-work HappyHour at Words Worth — all these on my only day home this week! Loving what I do because I could be spending the entire day in bed with my truckload of books, but if I’m not filling up my days and making sure I’m dead beat…
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Travel-diary: Mirabellgarten of Salzburg, Austria
Gorgeous flowers in a heart of a beautiful city. Couldn’t help falling in love with the immaculate garden, the Papagena fountain and greenhouse Orangerie The very garden where Sound of Music was filmed Gates to the horticultural masterpiece Mirabell Palace, which houses the offices of Salzburg’s mayor and the municipal council The palace where flowers…
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a different sky
I can’t fight the sentiments flooding back alongside memories — simply by hearing a song, when my iPod’s on shuffle, it’s completely out of the blue — to think that out of 12-hundred songs, the one song that makes your heart clench has to play just as your mind’s too clear to be distracted. I…