Back to SG (updated 26 Apr 05)

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darlings playing around in downtown san diego...

the darlings....


this photo turned out nicer than expected. we are great photographers... =)


lovely her at san diego's convention centre...


him as the funky dude...

fm thinking abt going home...

today is saturday mar 26, 4.15pm EST.
im still at duke... sitting in a study room alone with all our stuff messily placed around me. darling is upstairs in her room, napping. she's been so tired, with her hectic classes, writing assignments, french quizes/orals, more boring classes (i can back her up on that). not been sleeping enough. not to add that having me around undoubtedly bogged her life down even more. sighz...

Sun 27-Mar-05 Raleigh (RDU) Depart 6:15 am Terminal C
to San Diego (SAN) Arrive 10:57 am Terminal 1.
im flying back tmr liaoz. la jolla, my home away from home. =( as with everyone else, no one likes school to start. well, not many. i certainly don't. as most would have known, winter 05 has been a bad quarter for me. results are out, though i certainly didnt do my very best (to perhaps what a* and the rest of the ratpack would think), i can definitely survive on what i got. what u get is what u put in. this saying is rarely wrong. life is not only abt studies and grades. there are other matters of higher importance to me than grades, and i wont regret my decision to do so.

Spring Quarter 2005.
this is gonna be the MOST hectic quarter im gonna experience. i signed up for 2 lab attachments, one in a plant bio lab, which is counted as a coursework (Independent Studies), the other in the VA Hospital on parathyroid hormone-related protein, which I am volunteering for. both will take up all of my weekday afternns, from 2pm till 6pm. this is all in addition to my usual courseload. wondering if i shld take 3 or 4 other graded classes? Pass/NoPass? sighz... will i survive, will i die? que sara sara, what will be will be. the futures not for ours to see. que sara sara, what will be will be.

Summer 2005
going home. my real home this time. singapore. not that its gonna be fun. lab attachment during most of the 2 or so months that ill be back, mid/late-june till mid-sept. but will i be going straight home after my finals? do i have money to travel around? should i fly back to duke to 陪 my darling for a week in her summer school? do i have money left over to buy an ipod to relieve my severe lack of hdd space on my laptop? arghz.

now.
accomplished little this break. slept little, ate a lot. no exercise, again. completed the frame for the jigsaw puzzle that we did over winter break. formatted my laptop, updated darling's. completed revamping this site. fun? not really. going for classes with darling and keeping her awake to finish her work. but it was certainly time well-spent. to shadow her across sch and seeing the professsors she's been complaining abt. the place, the atmosphere. i can now understand more, as she did. which couple doesnt want to spend all their time together doing nothing of consequence and watching sunsets and star-studdled skies? why wouldnt we want to do the same?

but again, reality is cruel. hearts break at separations, hearts melt at reunions.

i can only pray that reality will go easy on us two. till we meet again...

randomtots.com - yet another complete revamp...

introducing the new randomtots.com, a combined/shared blog for both the darlings... based on blogger, and inspired by a site i saw many years ago when blogging was still for the techie-savvy crowd, this new design hopes to draw our friends together into a bigger, more active community.

ok. enough of the officious sounding crap. :p i just have too much time to spare, starting from week 7 of winter quarter (or so) till now. there can be never enough time spent on and for darling anyway. =)

my fingers sure are itchy to mess around with randomtots and get my money's worth out of it... this new design brings some technical problems. it was designed for Mozilla Firefox with minimal resolution of 1024 x 768. i do hope that pple with problems viewing this site drop me a message (and a printscreen, if possible) so that i can improve this for everyone.

awaiting patiently for comments...

darlings @ duke university, durham, nc

4.10am Eastern Standard Time.

I'm now sitting/lying on a nice comfy red sofa in the Commons Room of Duke University, Randolph Dorm building.

spring break. sigh. finally. so glad that winter is finally over. it was such a horrific and eventful quarter that i dont dare to think about it now. much less recall in details and blog about it. academics suffer drastically, hearts were broken, but im so glad everything worked out in the end.

or so i hope. finals just ended 3 days ago on friday morning. that is possibly the only damage that i could not protect myself from. im not a genius who can learn everything on the day before exams anyway. pray for me and we'll see what happened.

tired.

been feeling so tired the entire quarter. don says that spring will be better. i certainly hope so. im taking on too much workload, and im wondering if its too early to regret it or not. 2 lab attachments, one each in a plant bio (on cell division) and a hospital research lab (on parathyroid hormone-related protein). 12 hrs each week minimum. how do i survive next quarter?

headache.

spring break is about relaxation. not worries. but 3 weeks is simply too short. barely enough to have fun, definiteiy not enough to recharge to the initial levels. i know i shld read my 2cm thick file of readinds. yah, i shld. but will i? hard qns to answer.

do hope everyone is enjoying themselves. life is too short. live it to the max. live on the edge. just like me. remind me to tell abt me missing 2 flights on consective days when flying into durham. ull find it super interesting. :p

im tired....... brain shutting off. ttys.

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edit on monday morning 1030am EST: i must be really tired last night. spring break is one week starting today, not 3 weeks as i stated above. still thinking of winter break. :p

味道 - 辛晓琪

3 more days till the darlings meet...

今天晚上的星星很少
不知道它们跑那去了
赤裸裸的天空
星星多寂廖
我以为伤心可以很少
我以为我能过的很好
谁知道一想你
思念苦无药
无处可逃

想念你的笑
想念你的外套
想念你白色袜子
和身上的味道
我想念你的吻
和手指淡淡烟草味道
记忆中曾被爱的味道

(music)
今天晚上心事很少
不知道这样算好不好
赤裸裸的寂寞
朝着心头绕
我以为伤心可以很少
我以为我能过的很好
谁知道一想你
思念苦无药
无处可逃

想念你的笑
想念你的外套
想念你白色袜子
和你身上的味道
我想念你的吻
和手指淡淡烟草味道
记忆中曾被爱的味道
想念你的笑
想念你的外套
想念你白色袜子
和身上的味道
我想念你的吻
和手指淡淡烟草味道
记忆中曾被爱的味道

-void-

tired. tired. tired.
what else can i say.

the past few weeks has been simply... tiring.
too many things happening than my mind can handle.

god, pls. give me a break. or give me more time. or give me super human abilities.

oh wait. remove the last pt. with great powers come great responsibilities. i've had enough responsibilites for now already. thank you for trusting so so much in me. sometimes i wonder if i am deserving of so much work. but well. i do trust in u. that u wont let me fall. or stumble. or falter. or let me fear that i will do any of those.

oh well. sigh. i better start doing my job. responsibly settling all those responsibilites.
god, give me the strength to carry on.

thank you.



-disclaimer- the author is not a christian. he is almost an atheist, though he wouldnt go as far to say that. he refers to god as a all benovalent being that comprises of good will within him, and the strength he pulls from all the good friends around him.

许愿 - 梁永琪 & 古巨基

我喜欢回味
记忆的美
让人懂得感谢

你现在让谁
听你喜悦
陪你掉眼泪

嘿好久不见
请你许个愿
要感情不再那么容易变
让心不被距离拉得太遥远

我寄了张卡片
地址是感觉
收件人叫永远
像是你又递来一杯热咖啡
生活有了你的温柔调味

我寄了张卡片
画你的笑脸
写祝福的留言
请把我的名字默念一百遍
好梦就会趁你睡醒实现

我习惯感觉
记忆的美
能让温柔不灭

你现在让谁
吻你的脸
疼你的一切

嘿好久不见
请你许个愿
要感情不再那么容易变
让心不被距离拉得太遥远

我寄了张卡片
地址是感觉
收件人叫永远
像是你又递来一杯热咖啡
生活有了你的温柔调味

我寄了张卡片
画你的笑脸
写祝福的留言
请把我的名字默念一百遍
好梦就会趁你睡醒实现