sunshine and pink ponies

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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calling all straight men who meet the following pre-req, drop me a message:
1) tall, dark & handsome
2) english speaking & smart
3) loves travelling
4) wants to be a best friend
5) enjoys uncertainty and spontaneity
6) preferably rich enough to support self (ie. buy your own clothes, meals, and occasionally mine) and/or drives
7) loves movies & music
8) loves shopping
9) doesn't mind bitching
10) loves kids & animals
11) doesn't smoke
12) likes a girl with brains, long black hair, big dreams, reads frequently, plays piano, sings all the time, shops non stop & isn't the least intimidated by this list.


i have some exciting news for you.. let's meet. ;) summer vaca is here!

Monday, April 26, 2010

tragedies in life

dear Lord, i had two very very bad papers, and you know how hard i try all the time. i'm freaking out. :( its my birthday, happy things are supposed to happen, but its been rainy and cold all day and nothing good has happened. :(

Sunday, April 25, 2010

timely reminders

i was on the mrt home today; thinking about how crazy the past 6 semesters in school have been and i was suddenly reminded of the conversation i had with Toshi yeseterday before our exam:

toshi: i got a B- for one soci mod last sem
esther: sigh.. i've gotten countless number of Cs for econs, i haven't gotten past a B :(
toshi: how's your cap?
esther: _.__
toshi: whoar, that means your soci is damn power.
esther: why?
toshi: to get many Cs and still be able to sustain that kind of cap means you must do very well for soci. can you imagine what kind of grades you'd be getting without econs?!

i can't remember my exact response to toshi's last statement, but i did remember the conversation till this point, and the Holy Spirit prompted my heart (despite the fact that i was listening to Lady Gaga beep-popping on my ipod, the crowd around me on the train and the instability of the train journey) that it may be me who has worked my butt off for my results and perhaps i do have a knack for sociology, but it is ultimately He who grants me success. All glory to God for the favour in the things i set my hands and heart on.


When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of Glory died;
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
save in the death of Christ, my God;
all the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.

See, from his head, his hands, his feet,
sorrow and love flow mingled down.
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,
or thorns compose so rich a crown.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were an offering far too small;
love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

one of those days.. why is it so hard to move on



I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

i choose to sing

even in the barren-ness of the situations around me, i choose to sing to You a song of praise. How can i keep myself away from You Father. My heart and my soul can't stop crying out even if my flesh is silent.

You see me, that's all i could ask for.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

i was challenged today

1) to re-evaluate the kind of guy i'm looking for
- to balance objectivity and emotions, and understand what i really want in a guy and the rship
- to realize that the life of that guy and his Christian walk should not be two separate components
- to realize that interesting differences can only go so far, and inherent similarities in life and ministry should take centre-stage

2) to keep my convictions for the lost
- to keep in contact with sheep that have strayed because Jesus essentially came for them
- to constantly remind myself what a small group is for - not just for comfort, but also for revealing a bit of Christ through fellowship
- to never lose hope even as seasons change and people move on
- to never get too comfortable that i stop wanting to learn more

3) to learn in the mundane and not look for quick-escape routes
- to realize that i'm at where i am for a reason and to learn something through this process
- to understand that ideas and thoughts may come but they may not be the right thing for this season
- to remind myself that i'm not the saviour, and i never will be - i'm but a vessel
- to expect small/big miracles in every day circumstances cos they are there


along with eggs benedict, people watching, cynism, and bouts of random bitching.
on another note, daddy bought me wireless aux transmitter for the car. :D yay!

Friday, April 16, 2010

i'll never be the same ;)



If We Ever Meet Again

What is someone like you doin in a place like this?
Say Did you come alone or did you bring all your friends?
Say whats your name, what are you drinking
Think I know what are you thinking
Baby whats your sign tell me yours and i'll tell you mine
Say whats somebody like you doin' in a place like this

I'll never be the same if we ever meet again
Won't let you get away
Say if we ever meet again,
This free-falls, got me so, kiss me all night
Don't ever let me go
I'll never be the same if we ever meet again

Do you come here much? I swear i've seen your face before.
Hope you don't see me flash but I cant help but want you more, more
Baby tell me whats your story I aint shy don't you worry
Im flirtin' with my eyes, I wanna leave with you tonight.
Do you come here much? I've gotta see your face some more (some more cause baby I)

I'll never be the same - if we ever meet again
Won't let you get away-ay - say, if we ever meet again
This free fall's got me so
Kiss me all night, don't ever let me go
I'll never be the same

If we ever meet again
I'll have so much more to say (say if we ever meet again)
If we ever meet again
I wont let you go away-ay-ay

I'll never be the same - if we ever meet again
Won't let you get away-ay - say, if we ever meet again
This free fall's got me so
Kiss me all night, don't ever let me go
I'll never be the same
If we ever meet again

small things

-after watching How to Train a Dragon-

me: ohmigawsh i want a dragon! a black one! the night-fury or whatchamacallit!

mary: =.= okay shut up

-convo end-


i heart my meimei. she makes me laugh so hard and forget that i'm actually older than her. :D

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

dear john (random)

i dreamt about you getting back with your ex, and being really really happy.

good on you.

i obviously need a holiday.

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

dear john

i don't know how long its been since i last wrote to you. i hope you've been well, and things are coming along good on your side.

its been really busy this semester, i hardly have time to catch my breath. i've been drowning in work every single day, and sleeping less than 5 hours a day.

i think about you every day, and wonder how you're doing. whenever that happens, i just lose all energy to do anything else. its so hard to move on. its almost like i lost the part of me that mattered the most for the longest time. and now not having it here is just so strange. it feels like there's something missing in my life that i am forced to not find back. it feels like i've lost a piece of me. i wonder if you feel the same way.

i forgive you. i already forgave you the day you mustered up enough courage to tell me how you've been feeling. not that i condone it, or i feel less hurt. not that i think you were right. not that i understand at all, in fact up till this day, i don't. but i forgive you, because i don't have the capacity to be angry at you for more than a moment. i try. but if i have to try so hard, i might as well just not. its silly. i want to talk to you, i want to be around you. but i'm just scared, that the moment i see you again, the determination to move on and never look back would break. i'm afraid that if i look into your dancing eyes again, the emotions would just overwhelm me once more. i'm afraid that when the words 'i've finally found her' roll out from your lips, i'd have to force myself to be happy for you.

when i think about this whole thing, i just feel numb. maybe its cos for the past two months i have so unnaturally forced myself away from you and shoved myself into my work. everyone's been telling me to be strong, but deep inside my heart is still in pieces. you're so selfish. you're so selfish that i don't even know you anymore. in all this, i realized that there has never been me in this picture all these years. its just been you and the rest of the world. it pains me to think that i've been living in my own dream all this while. painting my own fairytale. colouring the future we called 'ours' by myself.

guess it didn't work out in the end. and it's time for us to put down the mountain of emotional baggage and start anew.

i'm so scared now to be vulnerable nowadays. so cynical about everything that has to do with love. so sorry for those who taste it, so sympathetic to those bounded by it, so afraid that i'd never find it again, or worse still find it but to have it fruitless and barren once more. i don't know how long its gonna take. six months, a year, maybe another five years. i don't know. i'll just wait. wait for time to pass us by and for scars to slowly heal and fade.

things will work out for each of us. i know if will. and sometimes i wish that the fairytales that happen in movies would happen to me, and that you'll come and find me again. but that's something that probably wouldn't happen in real life. i said i'd always be there for you, i gave you a promise, but i guess its not possible anymore.

i guess this will be my last letter to you. and i hope providence will guide our paths back when the time is right.

love always,
me