the end is in sight?
comforting thought... with 32 days till prelims and my friends leaving for the States. bleah
Maroon 5 - She will be loved
Beauty queen of only eighteen
She had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else
I drove for miles and miles
And wound up at your door
I've had you so many times but somehow
I want more
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
Tap on my window, knock on my door
I want to make you feel beautiful
I know I tend to get so insecure
It doesn't matter anymore
It's not always rainbows and butterflies
It's compromise, it moves us along
My heart is full and my door's always open
You can come anytime you want
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
I know where you hide
Alone in your car
Know all of the things that make you who you are
I know that goodbye means nothing at all
Comes back and begs me to catch her every time she falls
Tap on my window, knock on my door
I want to make you feel beautiful
I don't mind spending every day
Out on your corner in the pouring rain, oh
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye
in Passage to India, which is the best lit text i have studied, Neo-Platonic thought subscribes to the view that all union in the mortal world is but temporal in every sense of the word. these days i wish i could just withdraw into my own shell of contemplating and training for the trials that lie ahead. but John Donne is right, "No man is an island, every man is part of the Continent." life is a paradox. Friends ends in a few weeks, though i already watched the ending still... why do all the good things in life have to come to an end?
on another note, my friend told me about tearing during NDP today when we were studying. i for one, have been brought up loathing the edifice the entire system was built on. hypocritical meritocracy. i have not watch NDP for the past 4 years and i don't think i ever will again, i do not say the pledge in the morning, i am helluva jaded idealist. Tim msg-ed me during NDP, "jingoism the bastard brother of patriotism." But then again the quote fit 19th Century Europe appropriately but can hardly be applied to Singapore's context, because most people are hardly even patriotic, let alone jingoistic. to my memory only India, China and the USSR have NDPs apart from us. showcasing their nuclear missiles and military might, well at least that might be something one can take pride in, we can blow you up if you don't see eye to eye with us. here we have a mouse that squeaks and puts on dances in the hope of creating a national unity out of hardly any form of struggle. despite the horrendous reality of the situation, the fact is that blood has to be spilled and it is this common loss and suffering that bonds peoples into a nation. mistakes might occur along the way for man is never perfect but even that is an experience. nations are never created over night, not even over decades.so go on bragging, you have never sacrificed your flesh and blood on the altar of freedom for ideals that the nation was built on. so what is there to be proud of? maybe the ideals of "pragmatism and rolling in the dollars" ? hardly fitting. and we're not even talking about the mandarin form of government which entrusts the nation's future in the virtues of someone who could be flawed, instead of the people's right to rule. so here's to 39 years of pragmatic money making by Singapore .inc. The Republic is dead. Long live the Republic.
Maroon 5 - She will be loved
Beauty queen of only eighteen
She had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else
I drove for miles and miles
And wound up at your door
I've had you so many times but somehow
I want more
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
Tap on my window, knock on my door
I want to make you feel beautiful
I know I tend to get so insecure
It doesn't matter anymore
It's not always rainbows and butterflies
It's compromise, it moves us along
My heart is full and my door's always open
You can come anytime you want
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
I know where you hide
Alone in your car
Know all of the things that make you who you are
I know that goodbye means nothing at all
Comes back and begs me to catch her every time she falls
Tap on my window, knock on my door
I want to make you feel beautiful
I don't mind spending every day
Out on your corner in the pouring rain, oh
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye
in Passage to India, which is the best lit text i have studied, Neo-Platonic thought subscribes to the view that all union in the mortal world is but temporal in every sense of the word. these days i wish i could just withdraw into my own shell of contemplating and training for the trials that lie ahead. but John Donne is right, "No man is an island, every man is part of the Continent." life is a paradox. Friends ends in a few weeks, though i already watched the ending still... why do all the good things in life have to come to an end?
on another note, my friend told me about tearing during NDP today when we were studying. i for one, have been brought up loathing the edifice the entire system was built on. hypocritical meritocracy. i have not watch NDP for the past 4 years and i don't think i ever will again, i do not say the pledge in the morning, i am helluva jaded idealist. Tim msg-ed me during NDP, "jingoism the bastard brother of patriotism." But then again the quote fit 19th Century Europe appropriately but can hardly be applied to Singapore's context, because most people are hardly even patriotic, let alone jingoistic. to my memory only India, China and the USSR have NDPs apart from us. showcasing their nuclear missiles and military might, well at least that might be something one can take pride in, we can blow you up if you don't see eye to eye with us. here we have a mouse that squeaks and puts on dances in the hope of creating a national unity out of hardly any form of struggle. despite the horrendous reality of the situation, the fact is that blood has to be spilled and it is this common loss and suffering that bonds peoples into a nation. mistakes might occur along the way for man is never perfect but even that is an experience. nations are never created over night, not even over decades.so go on bragging, you have never sacrificed your flesh and blood on the altar of freedom for ideals that the nation was built on. so what is there to be proud of? maybe the ideals of "pragmatism and rolling in the dollars" ? hardly fitting. and we're not even talking about the mandarin form of government which entrusts the nation's future in the virtues of someone who could be flawed, instead of the people's right to rule. so here's to 39 years of pragmatic money making by Singapore .inc. The Republic is dead. Long live the Republic.
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