hey everyone -

i know it's very much not like me to privatize this place, but at least for now, perhaps until after EOYs, this place will be just friends (: add me if you want to read!

i'm just back here to talk about what i've been thinking of the past few days -

The leadership course we attended asked us to rank the top five values that were closest to us, out of a list of fifty. I chose

• "Adventure", to explore what others have only seen
• "Love", to treasure each person for who he is
• "Creativity", to challenge myself and my limits
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after two hours of math today i couldn't help but think that getting outside the house - at least for half an hour - was in order, so i went exploring the neighborhood.

it isn't really a neighborhood in the sense of an estate - i'm actually talking about the stretch of road along upper thomson road that's crammed with eateries, small shops and other ( Read more... )

 i love you both

Smoking a poem;
by Marc Daniel Nair -

I am constantly on the look-out for poets,
chain-rhyming, five-stanza-a-day poets,
palming their pencil and notebook in back pockets,
lighting up lines with the practiced ease of habit

I search for them in sunlit corners of trains,
between shelves of public libraries.
I find them pacing and waiting at bus-stops,
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anonymously dedicated post, to someone who's not broke but broken-hearted. thank you SO MUCH for today (:

We became linen
curtains - swinging but not
touching, stirring the sunset
with the fingers of the trees.
I thought you laughed but
it was a trick of the light,
that danced across the room
strummed my guitar
sat in my window
brushed past my memories and
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while reading all these
posts something just gives
way emotion is scribbled
everywhere like rain
in a crying alley tell
me why tears fall 
and hearts burn