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今天突然发现， 好友都在国外。

数来数去数不清， 数到不开心。 : (


（ 当然，这个城市里还是藏有


一

个，

两个，

一群一班，

老朋友，小朋友，

知己朋友，猪朋狗友（！），

损友，良友，

摄友，设友，舞友，

超级好朋友


还有家人。 ）


还有还有

还友还友

一个永远不会遗弃我的 良 友 。

fishing in the sky and flying in the lake

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august 2009, marina barrage.

august 2009, marina barrage.

june 2007, lake by a sommarhus in sweden.


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how time flies, while waiting.

风筝飞，日落下 ／／（ 天时、地利、人和 ）

a few weeks ago, it suddenly dawned upon me that... i am currently twenty something..when i am thirty something, my parents will be seventy something.... when i am forty something, God-willing, they will be eighty something!! and i thought that my dad is so blessed that at age sixty something, he still has his mother around.

and so the next day i decided to start making it a point to mai tu liao with regards to things that we say we want to do together. and so i took them to Henderson waves cos we've been talking about going there for yonks.

and it was a wonderful impromptu morning. : ]

haha and earlier this week was part two of the new mai tu liao mantra... after finishing up some work in the morning and spending the afternoon in my childhood neighbourhood with my lindy hop ensemble friends for an AEP assembly thingie, i found the afternoon super sunny, windy and absolutely favourable for kite-flying.

and so with the kites i've been buying with much secret hope in my heart from the toy shop at tan quee lan the past few times i've been running errands in the area, i carted my parents off to marina barrage to finally go fly kite (literally) together!

after a few days of "风筝已备，只欠东风" the wind finally came accompanied with glorious sunshine!

wah i think it was the first time in my life that i've flown a kite so high up that it took almost half an hour just winding it back down when we had to leave. it was a real struggle to get the kite really flying high cos as my father pointed out to me, i had bought a kite meant for 3 year olds haha. we even had to tumpang the kite string. i think that means join it up. anyway wah sunshine, wind, kite and laughing parents.















song boh!!

回故

在去年的这个时候我好像用了我的好光相机捕捉了一个小男孩在人群中带着超大的观阳镜的画面。不知道为什么，这个画面常时不时的浮现在我的想像中。。。

i was thinking about this picture i took about a year ago. with a little spectator boy and his oversized disposable shades for looking at the sunrise we were all sharing. wondering if it was really exactly a year ago, i went to check out my notebook from that trip and wow true enough, i really did take this picture exactly a year ago! 2nd july 2008. zhun until cannot zhun siah. wah my sudden moments of clear memory amidst my general lack of day to day memory do scare me a fair bit sometimes too.



一年前在阿里山的友团。一年后在回故的我。

时间啊时间，你可以不要飞得那么快吗？

记得在前往苏澳火车上偶然遇到的年长夫妇和也在毕业旅行的年轻情侣都很友善的主动跟我们交谈。阿姨还说我们好像还挺开心的。

好想念跟一伙人去长途旅行的感觉咽！

我们今年是否能去文莱探望文莱公主呢？

希望。希望。我们去实现吧！

milk

i think this must have been the first time i found a little friendlet lying on my lap to drink milk. it was so strangely calming and comforting and a real joy actually.

it reminded me of some lyrics i heard/read recently:

日子很短 只要是陪在孩子的身旁

i guess in that little pocket of time watching joash drinking milk i got a glimpse of what that might feel like. children are a blessing indeed. big joy in small packages.

i wonder how our friendlets would feel about all this facebooking and blogging and flickring and multiplying and whatnotting about them when they eventually do grow up and learn to start googling themselves. perhaps unlike us, they'd already be immune to all of this and find it perfectly natural.



photo by stanley cheong, from a time before i knew how to carry little kids.

time is flying.

i'm not sure if i'm on the same speed though. :]

the rain is so tempting

i've been watching the lightning out at sea from my living room window every few nights amidst these recent weeks of crazy winds and lightning storms.

the nonstop and silent lightning reminded me of the northern lights that i slept under once many seasons ago but could not see. (clouds!!)

so much lightning, so many flashes of maybes before the rain finally trickled and then tumbled crashing down tempting me to run right out into it.

and then there was finally thunder loud and clear and once again, hours after the first flicker in the sky.


i need to run in the rain again! it's been too long of a little while now!

"I do set my bow in the cloud . . . "

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Genesis 9 : 8 - 17

8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.


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i got an sms from my othermother yesterday that reminded me to look up in the sky, for there was a rainbow encircling the midday sun at that moment. i strained my neck a fair bit to see it before having to rush out for an assignment but wow it was worth it. it's been a while since i've seen a circular rainbow, maybe years. it seems like there have been quite a few rainbows this year though, don't know if it's really been more rainbows happening or have people around just been noticing them more.

later that night my bible reading led me to this passage quoted above about Noah and the first rainbow in the sky.

wow it was surely no coincidence.

let us all look up and remember more.