Errata: I read all those books in 10 hours... i mean 3 hours each. except for the paul arden one which is very thin. and spelling error: tinkled not tickled

I'm now eating chocolate that i got from Nigara Falls. Meixin... THANKS SO MUCH! Spring just returned from USA to meet up with me today at the expense of her sleep and jet lag. And she got me a pack of Saddam Hussein Playing cards!!!! WA!!!!!!! sorry for sounding so ridiculous but its really very nice and cool and i really appreciate your friendship spring... I had a 'date' with spring today before indulging in shopping pleasures with the faculty of computer science. He needed a makeover thus i was busy plying him with fabric... haha... today was fun... went to watch shrek 2 and its even funnier than shrek 1. Really crazy and zany. had to rush down to the stupid Maison de la France to get brochures when we are in France... I don't even know if there are German or Italian tourism offices in Singapore. Will have to pack my stuff tm and maybe this will be my last serious post before i embark on my voyage of self-discovery in europe.

Paris, City of Light, Life and Love. Here is a list of places i want to visit there...
Tour Eiffel, Hotel des Invalides, Champs Elysees, Champs-de-mars, Ecole Militaire, Place de la Concorde, La Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Saint Germain des Pres, Montmartre, Basilique du Sacre Coeur, Latin Quartier, Sorbonne, Ile de la Cite, Ile Saint-Louis, Notre Dame Cathedral, Opera Garnier, Jardins de Luxembourg, jardin de Tuilleries, Bastille, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Centre Pompidou, Arc de Triomphe, La Defense, Trocadero, Grand Palais, Moulin Rouge etc... I don't think i have enough time to cover everything... sigh... and this is only Paris.. what about the rest!

Further more im not going to Mont St. Michel, Giverny, Versailles, Vincennes, Vaux le Vicomte, Barbizon, Rambouillet, Montmorency, Bordeaux, Orleans, Biarritz, Chartres, Dijon, Arles, Saint-Tropez, Cannes etc... sigh... Going Fontainbleu though. I want to visit La Bibiliotheque National de France... which houses one of the greatest collections of books ever in the world!!!! sigh. I will go france next year man. Unless im going off to places like Greece or Egypt... ah the mystical sands of time... cradles of civilizations ans mankind. I don't mind going turkey though... there are nice carpets there... I want to photograph everything like mad when im there... I LOVE EUROPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't blog anymore cos im tired but i could just write a thesis on paris alone... much less rome.. .the eternal city, seat of the papacy, the glorious hills upon which romulus founded the city that would last more than a thousand years. As you walk there you could feel the presence of Julius Caesar being stabbed on the streets. You can here the strains of the violin as Nero played it whilst rome burnt. The roars emanating from the Colosseum are a mixtrue of both man and beast. The charging hoofs of the circus maximus as Ben-Hur reins in his chariots and horses. The Huns at the Capital of Western Christendom. The glory of Michaelangelo and his sistine chapel. The fountain of trevi, being carved and molded bu Bernini. The marvellous Baths of caracalla and the huge dome of St. Peter's Basillica rising from above the ancient city... towering in faith and hope. Can you not feel the waters of the Tiber, that fed and nursed the city of Scipio, Caesar and Michaelangelo, of Nero, Borgia and Brutus. The city of Lazio and Roma, the city that once held sway over the western world. A single word from its mouth was like gold and salvation to many. Do you not feel the history?

Met quite a few friends this few days... quite nice to see everybody before they leave for their trips overseas. Was feeling a bit down thus my blogging frequency has decreased somewhat but now my optimism for the tour is making me willing to blog again. I am going to do a vincent van gogh and cezanne... i will go to provence and soak in the culture there and maybe when i retire next time... i will buy a property there so that i can paint scenery...

Quite angry that i didn't manage to go to a few places... Like Como, Capri, Milan. Como is like how beautiful la... the italian lakes are famous! If you remember star wars espisode 1 i think... there was this gorgeous villa in which natalie portman and hayden christensen got off a boat... its in Como and i am not going there... sigh.... another of my watercolour painting spots. I could like compose poetry, write music and paint there la... sigh... wishful thinking. I want to go capri... i mean like its the island of the gods la... the roman emperors have used it as their playing ground for like eternity and i want to dive of the clear blue waters of the mediterranean sea and enjoy the wonderful beauty that has been capri... island of circe and the lotus eaters... so beautiful that it makes you never want to leave after you have tasted what it has to offer. Im also not going Ibiza, Valencia, Parma, Salzburg, Berlin, Madrid and many other places... size.. .PARMA and Valencia... enough said. Berlin... house of modern architecture, Madrid... i want to visit the Prado museum.... home to Goya and el Greco. Salzburg... birthplace of Mozart... I love mozart... Warsaw too... i love chopin.

I don't know much about Europe... but i want to see the Venus de milo... and all the caravaggios, Berninis, da vinci's, monet's and whatever there is to see... Giverny... Le Nymphaeas....

Jade: can get me a few pics of the glorious garden of Monet? with the waterlillies if they are in bloom pls... i love monet... and toulouse lautrec and renoir and sisley. Dali rodin and picasso. I amd going to see Gaudi in Barcelona... This is an architectural masterpiece never to be missed. I mean how often can you see a whole city that has almost been designed by one of the greatest masters of modern architecture himself. I prefer him to Frank Lloyd Wright. But im not visiting the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao nor am i being a faithful catholic and taking the pilgrims route of st. jacques de Santiago de Compostela. sigh... i want to migrate to europe. And just live with beauty around me my life... I could live in the swiss alps too... everyday snow sun and coffee... wa!!!!

I was pondering over something today. sigh... life sux sometimes... especially in light over what i have been hearing lately. I'm terribly guilty that i couldn't help. All i could do was to listen. Not that i don't want to help or proffer advice but i was really tired and was quite mentally blanked out. I was a bad friend yesterday for being such a useless twit when you asked for advice. I don't know until now if it would be a good idea to switch lives but maybe its better of being who you are. I don't have a simple life i admit but simple lives are boring and unexciting. I prefer the race of life. I could be selfish for saying that u would be better as who u are cos maybe ur more useful that way or i don't see the need for anybody to copy my life, so pls forgive me for saying this. maybe sometimes people need time and sometimes its clearer from the outside and you cannot expect everybody to help themselves. Most of the time people are unable to, maybe they don't have the discipline that you have or the understanding that you are blessed with. Look on the bright side... i don't have a high self-esteem cos im never contented with the way i am... if you think ur a second-class citizen... im even worse i guess. considering the circumstances you're familliar with you should realise that your life is unique in its plainness and people appreciate you for that. Your willingness to help should come from within and never be extinguished when you see all the nonchalance and ambivalence and lack of consideration around you. I like your helpful attitude and i think its a noble ideal to achieve. So don't think of doubting yourself for one moment for i can tell you that people will definitely prefer you the way you are and that includes me to. It will never be the same person i know if you tried to be somebody else. God put you on this world with a certain purpose in mind and i guess you already know what the purpose is so perfect it and embellish it but never try to change it. you will only be running away if you want to be somebody else. I want to be who i want to be. That is my attitude. Im not changing the way i treat this world. I change cos i want to and there is a need to. You want to change cos you just want to escape. Its not going to work. Y the bitterness and disillusionment? Sometimes you can be even more bitter than i am and i don't see y? I always believe in one myth... and that is pandora's box. There will always be hope in this world no matter how hard it is to find it. That is where i keep myself going... Everyday is a new day and a new opportunity. I usually take a lot of things for granted but since knowing you i have wisened up and begun to see things in a new light. I thank you for your friendship and if the time comes again when you feel down, i provide a listening ear and any advice that i can. My memory of the conversation is quite poor as i was tired but if there is anything you want me to say over this issue just give me a call and tell me what you said. my brain can work much better now.

My juniors are coming medicine... yippee! I will be counselling a few i guess. haha... stress.


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