on beauty

today there was this article by sumiko tan in the sunday times abt beauty..abt how it fades with age and how so many women resort to plastic surgery to maintain their looks. that article was stuck in my head the whole day man.sumiko tan is seriously one of my fave ST journalists and i've always liked reading her articles, but this one in particular was really thought-provoking,at least for me.
hmmm.i guess that when we're in the prime of our youth the thought of being old and wrinkled is probably the last thing on our minds yeah?haha (x i never really thot much abt it till today,cos it seems like some far off kinda thing..but today it occurred to me that all those ppl who bank on their looks to see them thru life shld seriously start finding other jobs,cos one cant be gorgeous forever! and by that i mean gorgeous on the outside..cos inner beauty is a whole different ball game.the sad but harsh truth is that beauty fades.like feste said,"youth's a stuff will not endure"..even the most gorgeous ppl now are gonna grow old sometime. so. we shld busy ourselves cultivating values like honesty and integrity,and developing our own individual multi-faceted intelligences,instead of constantly primping and preening in the mirror.....since these things arent gonna be affected by the ravages of time like physical beauty is. haha no wonder my mum keeps telling me to study hard and grow up to be a clever person...and she never tells me to be pretty!haha.when i kid around and tell her how i want to get a vacuous job next time which doesnt make use of the brain,she'll give me The Look.lol

"Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised" [proverbs 31:30]

yeahhh. man........ i will TRY not to place so much emphasis on looks anymore la.tho i think its gonna be hard for someone as vain as me. =/ but seriously,i think i shld start cultivating things of lasting value.!! butof course this doesnt mean that i'm gonna let myself become all ugly and gross la!now that is a disturbing thot.after all,life's abt striking a balance isnt it (:

one more paper

yes!gonna end tml oh yes (:
not that its been great,i think both my sciences are screwed.but shant think abt that now..happy things:ytd i met audrey agn!!!!!!!imiss u dear.we go way back,since kindergarten huh (: thanks yuliang for calling her to come mug with us i had alotta fun.it was nice studying with the fairsians they're a crazy bunch hahaha.
anw two things i learnt abt exams during this two weeks of torture:
#1.they make ppl fat. take me for example.i've been mugging somuch and i havent exercised for donkeys years,so when i weighed myself last week it nearly gave me a heart attack. and so the next day i went running.
#2.exams bond ppl tgt. i think its really comforting to noe that sec4s nationwide are muggin their asses off for prelims too,haha. and its fun to study with ppl,esp those from church. man.i heart u guysloads and loads (:

nyeh k i'll blog more another time. i think i shld do maths now......havent touched the stuff since 12

back!

i havent blogged for donkey years!! haha.but life's been good,more or less(: have alot to blog abt but feelin lazy now. this holiday i intend to be extremely hardworking cos er, its one week to prelims and i've only covered one chapt of bio and a few pages of chem and one chapt of hist and one act of twelfth nite and 3chapters of tet. which sounds like alot but it really isnt. gahhh.
anw, i've decided that i want to go to ac next yr. (: becos 1.its near my house 2.alot of myfrens are gg there,esp those from church 3.they have drama elec 4.their uniform is nice 5.its a methodist sch
of course i've heard alotta not so nice stuf abt that sch too la,but i'll trust wad steffi/jesse/huey hien/hazel/karl have told me abt it. mmm. acjc acjc acjc
i'm working my butt off now just so tt i can get into that sch. cos unlike my smart,ambitious frens i wun be aiming for 6pts.haha. i think if i can get 17 or lower for prelims it shld be fine?cos they'll moderate,and then 4pts from hcl and cca. lol..hopefully (: mmmm i'll be happy with anything i get as long as i noe that i did my best la. so just gonna study and leave it to God.
but then agn feodor's dad is e vp so mayb i can go appeal to him if i cant get into ac thru mygrades. HAHAHA =)


nah.







i can do it! can.