Saturday, March 15, 2008
What constitutes a defining moment?
Something that is etched in your memory for life?
Something so impactful it changes your life forever?
Or perhaps something that makes you realise who you are and what's your story?
A defining moment to me is ...
Sleeping atop a cold mountain unsheltered in a thunderstorm,
It's walking for days with no rest with people so close they're practically family,
It's capturing the objective after a fierce fire fight,
It's watching the sunrise knowing the mission was accomplished,
It's throwing my peak cap to the skies, drunken with emotions and exuberance,
Above all it's breaking the limits,
pushing myself past what I thought I was,
making my parents proud,
forging a brotherhood so strong,
and achieving.
This one's for my late grandfather.
Rest in peace.
- 11:39 AM -
Friday, March 07, 2008
I outmuscled hercules,
I outran tenderfoot,
I sought the greensleeves,
I captured the skylark,
I made the nightbird sing,
I defeated the scorpion king,
I broke the spade,
I danced with the wolf,
I skinned the jaguar,
I encaged the panther,
I tamed the wildcat,
I hunted the hunter,
I saved crusoe,
I became the castaway,
I triumphed the lancer,
I survived the dump-in,
And I reached the crescendo.
Now I head back to where it all began ..
- 6:59 PM -
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
The mist surrounds, it suffocates,
the kiss of death, the eternal light,
call it what you want,
the saviour, the snatcher,
it means different things to different people,
no saint, nor sinner
is out of its sinister reach.
to me,
it means i never got the last say,
i swallow my goodbyes,
i choke on my regrets,
for the hand of neverland never relinquishes its prize,
nor do the dead from beyond the grave.
so if you're there,
staring down to us,
read my mind, my thoughts, my prayers,
and hear all the words unsaid,
for all the times i could not say it,
i never stopped thinking it,
feeling it, believing it.
so as i cower in my shell,
vulnerable as the newborn,
wretched as the dying,
i seek not sanctuary,
nor deliverance,
but that it's not too late to let you know.
- 8:20 AM -
Monday, March 26, 2007
Blood for face
Sweat for dirt
Three X's for the stone
To break this curse
A ritual's due
I believe I'm not alone
Shell of shotgun
Pint of gin
Numb us up to shield the pins
Renew our faith
Which way we can
To fall in love with life again
To fall in love
To fall in love
To fall in love with life again
- 12:38 AM -
Thursday, January 25, 2007
It's harsh because
just as you learn to love,
you are forced to learn to part and leave behind.
And that concludes a chapter in my book,
i fought you to fight for you,
i gave up on you,
i couldn't bear to,
but in the end,
i love you.
ALL.
- 8:14 AM -
Monday, January 01, 2007
It seems to me that we have been conditioned in a particular way.
The system.
Right here in good ol' Singapore, has conditioned us in such a way that we are unable to believe and see past the norms and social pretenses created by our own doing.
Somewhere between seeking the almighty dollar and establishing ambitious social stances, we have created a web of disillusionment that creates walls, boundaries and cowers us into thinking that anything outside the normal limitations is utterly impossible and should not even be comprehended.
For some reason, it has sucked us of the ability to believe. To believe and look beyond the preset horizon.
Well, I don't need your disbelief, skepticism and disbelief. Pack up your negativity and go on home honey.
Let's start 2007 without the shakles of conformity and convention and start breaking free. Else one day we may just wake up realising our golden years are gone. Shit, that scares me.
This one's for you babe, I'm gonna make it work, all we need is some belief. Belief in the unknown and the unprecedented. It's a risk, it's a half-chance, but I'll take it.
- 4:04 AM -
Monday, December 18, 2006
The nights are lonely without you around.
Won't you come back?
So I can follow you into the wild forests,
and across the vast oceans,
atop the highest peaks,
of our imagination.
That's all we need,
just you and I.
- 7:07 AM -