*grInz*
yeah... this is officially my public journal, for the eyes of my friends and people whom i do trust not to give out any important information which may just happen to appear in here:) i've decided to use the username daisytoots afterall... instead of bullsarebetter, as suggested by hui qing:) hahaha...
exams are finalLy over:) though it seems rather weird to be doing nothing much after having a certain goal everyday (eg. studying for elective literature and additional mathematics at the same time:)... we're getting our results back next week... hopefully i'll be able to pass chemistry and a-maths... oh welLz:) and probably physics as welLz:) getting back higher chinese tomorrow:) it wasn't a very niCe paper to do:)
hahaa:) toa payoh's NEW air-con interchange officially opened today. it's rather cool:) 'cos it seems like a mall instead of a bus interchange... probably because of all those shops around... they've got a sushi bar! *bEaMz* second one in toa payoh i've seen:) the first one's the Sakae Sushi bar which is in the entertainment centre... speaking of which, i seldom frequent that place, so it's not strange that i didn't see that sushi bar till like... uh-hmmz... a few months ago:) *grInz*
perhaps for the viewing pleasure of others, i shall type normally for the rest of the entry:)
reading this book by some visionary philosopher Sam Keen, titled 'To love and be loved'. wonderful ideas the author gave:) gave a lot of insight into the entire concept of love... for example, like ehz.. u know most of the time when we talk of love, we get reminded of the love between couples and such? okay fine... we do talk about love between family members, between friends and such, but MOST of the focus is on the romance in love, rightz?:) rightz:) well...he touches on love about (pardon while i quote, i'm not exactly very eloquent:) 'the family, the neighbourhood, the polios, the land, the wilderness, the community of nonhuman sentiment beings':)
there's something in pg 29 and 30 of the book which i found rather nice:)
When we say "love is a gift", we are reminded that sometimes it is simply bestowed to us. When we think this way, we might go as far as to define a good friendship, a good love affair, a good family, or a good society as one in which love is freely given and does not have to be earned or deserved.
When we say we are "swept off our feet" and "head over heels in love", we are reminded that passion may rush in like a tidal wave driven by some earthquake in the briny deep and smash every boat in a well-designed harbour.
When we say that love is "a basic need, a drive or instinct" we are reminded that at the very bottom love is something more than a happy occurence, something more than an emotion or feeling, something more than a way of acting. In philosophical language the impulse to love is said to be a "vocation" or "calling" that is "ontological" - rooted in the fundamental structure of our being (Thus Paul Tillich's definition: "Love is the ontological drive toward the reunion of the separated")
*heh* i have three more psychology books to read:) don't i sound learned? hahaha... but all these interest me you see:) the workings of the mind, the behaviour of people. well welLz:)
btw...darren hayes's birthday's on the same day as enrique iglesius:) if i didn't remember wrongly that is... both of them are born on the 8th of May:) listening to jennifer lopez now:) she sounds a little different in between the previous years and now:) but yeah, she still rules:) hahaha:) even fungi agrees with me on that point (i hope)
it's rather strange to visualise someone 5 years older than you being your junior:) hahaha:)

learning to empathise,
xinyinG:)