October 2010
1 post
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September 2010
3 posts
Enter kellyswee.com! →
I have shifted my blog to kellyswee.com! I am considering to delete this blog! So run away from here soon! Haha!
Shift the focus
Today was quite a day where I talked to people whom I haven’t done so in a long while. Some of which I didn’t expect, but I met them along the way through coincidences.
Decided to take a different path and met up with several people coincidentally.
See how things turn out differently when we do something differently?
It makes me appreciate my life better as these people remind me...
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
5 posts
Kelly's 5 simple tips to ease frustrations
If you are ever feeling frustrated or annoyed
1) Just feel frustrated
Nobody says it’s wrong nor bad to feel frustrated. They just didn’t say it was good. Oops.
2) Do something you like
Why not? If you can spend minutes or hours feeling uneasy, annoyed and frustrated over someone or some people, what’s stopping you from spending a teeny weeny few minutes on doing something...
“It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”
– Inception
“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands...”
– Robert Orben
Watching the world cup
I haven’t caught any of the matches so far.
The last time I watched was with my dad in 2006. Four years ago.
And this year, I have been wanting to watch the world cup matches very badly, but I haven’t got my ass down on the sofa to watch even one.
Then I just realised something.
I watched the world cup not because I was a hard-core fan of any countries (although I root for Germany...
Best of two worlds
Who doesn’t want the best of two worlds?
All we do is to choose. But the problem becomes difficult when giving up either one of them is actually painful.
Pain is such a inner torture. It eats you from inside and it affects you as a person to function and operate properly. Nobody wants to feel the pain. Nobody wants to get hurt.
Who doesn’t want to be happy?
June 2010
6 posts
“There is no rose without any thorns.”
Rediscover
Today is such a day to feel and emote so greatly. More than usual.
Perhaps discovery and realization adds color to our boring lives.
Isn’t it lovely when rediscover your love for something?
It’s always very exciting to love something or someone for the first time. The feeling of affections affects the person who love and the person being loved.
Sadly, things get stagnant soon and...
Competence or incompetence?
It suddenly dawned on me today that I am not up for big things. Seems like everyone else is better than me and I am not competent in what I do.
Is it because of my lack of focus?
Is it because I am doing too many things at a time?
Is it because I don’t specialize such that I am only mediocre?
Am I really a jack of all trades but master of none?
You know, it’s really a very...
“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different...”
– Eric Gill
Remember
Sometimes we just want to remember something so badly that we are afraid of forgetting it someday.
We dig into our pens. We mark it on the calendar. We blog about it. We make a note in our mobile phones. We take photos of it. We tell somebody about it. We make a conscious effort to so what it takes.
As days pass by. the memory of it starts to blur and soon we have seemed to have forgotten...
Of compliments and criticism
Some people are born into a world full of compliments. They are so used to hearing praises about themselves whenever they have done something well. They are usually very happy and pleasant. But when they haven’t done something well in the eyes of some, they are exposed to nasty words which are like blades piercing into their delicate hearts. They often feel terrible and take a longer time to...
May 2010
6 posts
Love Bridge
This is my 100th post in this Tumblr blog! To commemorate this momentous moment, I shall be blogging on something memorable to me.
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I was in Taipei last month and I visited their famous Love Bridge at Fisherman’s Wharf with nobody else except for my dearest love.
We boarded one of the last yachts at about 715PM at night. It was considered pretty late to go there as most people go...
Housewives' tale: Moles (on the skin)
This post is specially dedicated to my two students, Thana and Sabila, who have this strange likeness (or fetish?) for “moles” which is something that I unfortunately still can’t figure up till today. I told them I would write a book on moles for them one day, but here’s a blog post first. I wonder if they will actually see this, but well never mind. They know that I love...
Thoughts about love
There is no complaint for deep love.
I have been watching dramas on online streaming and I came across that line. It’s actually from a ancient Chinese quote. Perhaps people from the ancient generations tend to be more romantic and mushy than we could ever imagined.
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I cannot help but think about my own current love relationship.
I always think that there’s no right or wrong....
A lovely getaway
Forget about the pile of work that is right on my mind.
I have serious withdrawal symptoms every time I looked at my photos from my recent travel - Taiwan.
It’s my third time to Taiwan and I’m still loving it pretty much. The language, the food, shopping and culture make me very delighted. I went to three cities in Taiwan, namely Taipei, Hsinchu and Kaohsiung. Was really excited...
“What does MOM stands for?
MOM = Must Obey Me
Happy Mother’s Day to all...”
– Unknown
“I’m seriously BROKE. - Admit it, we aren’t exactly serious about it...”
– kellyswee
April 2010
8 posts
Nothing is certain
I really hate to feel this way when nothing is certain. When things fall short of expectations, we can never be sure of what might come along in the future. If only all surprises were pleasant. Apparently, not all are.
I guess each time when I feel disappointed, it teaches me something. Never be too sure. Never assume too much. Even the most assumable thing could just turn out in a way you would...
Fixing a broken heart
A broken heart takes time to heal.
Sometimes it hurts so badly that we have to cry it out loud. Sometimes it hurts so badly that we cannot stop crying. Sometimes it still hurts after we have cried.
Shattered pieces will piece together gradually. The broken heart is fixed eventually. But cracks will always be cracks. Because of the cracks, the heart is more vulnerable to breaking again. And more...
“There is nothing bad nor good, but thinking makes it so.”
– Shakespeare
“Mastering languages makes the world a richer place.”
– kellyswee
Pleasant surprises
Yesterday, the newly-turned-a-year-older Clarice told me that she really liked the winter wear that I have gotten for her. She told me that she had seen that shawl from online photos before and thought it looked really good. And the surprise came to her when the image came alive.
Last month, my dear Denise told me that she really liked the watch plus its accompanying accessories that I had gotten...
“Cause the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.”
– Vanilla Twilight by Owl City
March 2010
7 posts
Doctor Swee
Come in. Yes, that’s me, you didn’t get it wrong.
For the past 24 hours, I was a doctor.
For Lovesick and Homesick.
I guess I am very feelings-oriented person. When someone dear to my heart comes telling me something that they are upset over, I feel a lot for them. There were so much more messages that I had received from their choked voices and down-spirited tone more than the...
Was I really dreaming?
I had such a scary dream. A dream that I actually believe it’s real. A dream that is still vivid on my mind right now. A dream that I probably didn’t wake up from. Surrealism describes it all.
I can now feel that the dream is getting further from me. I don’t want it to but it can’t be helped as I’m settling myself back to the world that I am from.
What an...
“What was delicious before isn’t delicious anymore. What was fun before...”
– kellyswee
Leaving behind
A student of mine today gave me an interesting insight. We were talking about losing our loved ones and how devastated we will be.
“I would think it’ll be the end of the world of my parents die,” she said with conviction.
“Isn’t it better if we all die together?” she asked.
I laughed and I said that wasn’t possible.
“No, it’s possible. We...
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
– Walt Disney
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease...”
– Oscar Wilde
STRESSED...DESSERTS
Stressed? Let’s take it from the opposite way then. I need some Desserts and they better be decent.
I was very pissed a while ago but I have decided to stop complaining and get a life. A better life, I mean.
I feel very mentally drained. If I were a computer, I would just shut myself down immediately.
Repressing my urge to release vulgarities in a fit of pique is pretty much tormenting....
February 2010
3 posts
“Fake your own kidnapping. And see if anyone pays the ransom. Somebody must have...”
– This Book will change your life
Sunshine surprise
Sunshine surprise came knocking on the door on the night of 13 February.
I answered the door and the man said, “Kelly Swee?”
And yes it was for me, and yes it was from him! Yay! :D
Very happy and pleasantly surprised indeed! Alrights I have to admit this but the first thought that came into my mind was: Last year’s flowers seemed prettier! Haha!
But I do LOVE SUNFLOWERS!...
Miracles
This is gonna be a happy post, I promise. There is no reason for me to be unhappy after such an awesome experience. Amazing things do happen, when you put your heart to it. If you want to see a miracle, first be a miracle, then start creating miracles.
I never knew how much our friendship meant to us. I never knew how far we were willing to go for our dear friend to give her the best present we...
January 2010
5 posts
Priorities
Today’s another bad day. I don’t mean to blog about unhappy stuff all the time. Well, I did blog about something happy before the this post but I removed it due to some reasons and it became an unhappy incident eventually. What an irony. Imagine how terrible it feels when I saw it as a happy thing while the other party saw it so negatively. Sigh. Why are all these happening these days?...
"The cup is full!"
There are so many things on my mind recently and I would definitely like to blog all of them. Well, let’s just start from an unhappy incident.
The gist of the story is: I GOT MAD. And I started saying hurtful things to the one whom I have claimed to love and miss all the time. Sigh.
I don’t understand why. I knew it was wrong of me to use these words. I never liked to hear them too....
Amazing returns
Yesterday I was asked why I was being so nice to my friends even when they do not seem to treat me as well as I did to them.
It used to matter to me in the past but it doesn’t cross my mind anymore. And I feel so much happier now. I realised that there is no way to judge how well we treat people. Perhaps I am not seen as “so nice” in the eyes of others. If I were to buy an...
Disillusion
Yesterday I was looking through many of the videos that I have taken. It happens all the time when I explored my folders. I even repeated some scenes over and over again. Some of which are my favorites or dislikes. Chardy hates it whenever I pause and rewind/ fast forward the video when it is still playing. Maybe it’s really annoying. Perhaps I am so used to doing that when it comes to...
December 2009
9 posts
It's TOMORROW
The new year begins. For some, it doesn’t matter. For some, they aren’t happy about it. For some, they are elated about it! And I happen to belong to the third group! :D
For me, it’s gonna be a start of a new journey. A journey where I put a serious focus on money, passion and love! Actually the journey has already started a long time ago. Chardy and I are always talking and...
Merry Christmas (X3)
This might be the third christmas that dolly and I have spent together. But I can never forget how christmas was like for the first and second years.
We came back from a party at Kim Peng’s that was full of laughter and noises. We left her place around 1am. Back in my room, the world seemed to have quieten down. We started talking about the past. Usually I talk more than him. It was...
The type of weekend that should exist
It’s Monday. No blues spotted. Because the weekend was just lovely. :D
For the record, the two dolls didn’t quarrel or squabble or argue over the weekend! Yay! Let’s pop some champagne to celebrate the one of the rarest times of the year! :D
Alrights, I admit at times I was being difficult and sulked for a few NANO seconds but it was indeed just a mere few NANO seconds okay....
Surprises
I woke up this morning in a brightly lit room. Crap. I forgot to switch off the lights again.
Then I started thinking about yesterday night. I broke into a smile.
I’ve always love surprises. And I was part of one, just last night. It was a marriage proposal surprise! :D
My friends Marcus and Jacinta are happily engaged now! I captured the whole thing on video (yay!) but more details published...