(This seems like a weird timing to blog, considering I have quite a few projects on my plate. But I guess I'm quite moved by what my friend had to say ( Read more... )

marketing for an event has always been difficult. marketing for an arts event is even harder. and marketing for a chinese orchestra concert is probably (almost) harder than anything else.

i don't know whether i've tried hard enough to sell this particular concert. i realised that maybe it wasn't so hard to sell the esplanade concert, though i didn't ( Read more... )

"wocoom wocoom wocoom..."

"moocow moocow moocow..."

will the insane ever become sane again? or are they permanently condemned?

sitting in a cold library
don't know what's going on anymore
staring at an excessively bright screen
feeling all too insecure

that monstrous creature can't wait to suck away every inch of my soul
temptation brings me closer towards him
and i almost reach out to give in
but i stop in my tracks
not sure where to go
not sure what to do
not sure if this is the ( Read more... )

finally dug out my old poem from CT class. (copied over from the old blog...)

somehow it all comes back to me. why i chose to be in arts. why i keep going back to arts. and somehow my current position now is just a mere diversion from my true vocation.

Tulips in the Sky

I dreamt I was a tulip in the sky.

Mists serpentine, entwined.

These globes of ( Read more... )

sometimes, fatigue overwhelms your existence. you feel its entire weight on your body, and the monster sits itself comfortably, not wanting to relent in torturing you.

you struggle to breathe and collapse onto life's stage in the middle of a performance.

the audience is shocked, momentarily. then as the paramedics lift that cold lifeless body off ( Read more... )

This is what Wikipedia has to say about my 'drug' addiction:

"Caffeine tolerance develops very quickly, especially among heavy coffee drinkers. (That's me.) Complete tolerance to sleep disruption effects of caffeine develops after consuming 400 mg of caffeine 3 times a day for 7 days. Complete tolerance to subjective effects of caffeine was observed ( Read more... )

this is becoming a masochistic ritual ( Read more... )

three more hours to go before the end of the day ( Read more... )

this is an extremely bad habit, but i think that this is the last resort when it comes to staying awake in the office. i don't know why i find it so hard to concentrate. well, the task that i'm working on at hand is not all that interesting (honestly, i think i don't really like doing research) and i'd rather work on projects with tighter deadlines ( Read more... )