random notes

it's amazing how we've all grown. meeting up with bunches of girlfriends over the past week reminds me how fortunate i am to be able to count on them. 

reading about behavioural econs in the course of work (by our fave lecturer, no less) , reminds me of my fave module which marries econs and psy together. 

i admit - i do miss mugging.

frm anth good read. :) loves being a bookworm! yay

there's too much to stick around for - if not in the pursuit of happiness, then at the very least out of stubborn curiousity.
-erica riveria, insatiable.

the end to the caterpillar is the beginning to the butterfly.
-random quote on a stamp.

just hoping to keep the faith

two quotes from my latest read (which, on a side note, makes me want to go to tibet, more than ever) - the open road: the global journey of the 14th Dalai Lama, by Pico Iyer.

hope, as vaclav havel has said, is not the belief that everything will end happily ever after; it probably won't. it is simply the belief that something makes sense, regardless of how things turn out, and even if that sense is not apprehensible to us.

you do not heal problems just by shouting at them; you look at them and offer what you can.

stay happy, please.

circularity

if sleep was all you wanted, how can i deprive you of such basic needs?
if faith was all we needed, where then can i find it?

most of us have been poor all our lives, but we are rich in our hearts
-ha jin, the crazed.

crazy crazy world, sometimes. but this much i hope is true.

some time during the week, this thought came to mind: maybe i am really rather lucky after all.

being surrounded by the best of people in life and at work, largely worry-free (except for the worrywart in me) and doing things i like... I ought to count my blessings. I ought to cherish things better. but it's human, perhaps, to always feel wanting, or a lack of something.

because sometime during the same week, i felt overwhelmed and tempted to lash out complaints and grudges to anyone who would listen. like everyone wants a piece of you which you can't give. Like you feel as if there just isnt enough time in a day for stuff.

I just need to constantly remind myself that i'm truly blessed. i must count my luckystars :)