Recently, I've been describing the things that happen day by day in more details because I've come to appreciate them more. Sometimes the things we want to remember are the smaller moments, such as trying to find pinwheels to put in my house and actually finding one I'm satisfied with one night when Guang Yi, Joshua, and I were on our way to Ru Wen's store in Tiong Bahru.
I've been reading about feng shui, though I've paused for a while because I also started reading a novel halfway through and I prefer reading one thing at a time. This has been something I'd wanted to study since last year, and I bought a book at a book fair during a night's out from camp. The book had been sitting in my shelf for half a year before I started on it.
What triggered me to start reading it was the new year, when Jt and I headed to Ru Wen's store and we chatted about how Ru Wen felt that this year, her luck had been ridiculously bad so far. Jt's dad knows about these things (ba zi / feng shui) and Ru Wen asked whether Jt could ask her dad to do a reading for her. It turned out to be quite accurate and thus interesting.
It's just nice that this month, I finally moved into my brother's room, so we share it now and I can apply feng shui cures to it.
So, those things above are some of those small things that happened in my life, except the last paragraph, because so-called getting my own room had been something I want for a very long time. Can you believe I've been sleeping in a temporary position in my parents' room ever since secondary school?
Other small moments that I want to remember from this month (and I haven't blogged about) includes...
- eating a really nice chocolate tart from Crusty Oven, a shop behind the library near Junction 8. Crusty Oven used to sponsor Scrum!, the show I helped with during internship.
- actually working out in a fitness corner because the "machines" there can be adjusted to increase difficulty. It was unintentional. Joshua, Jt, and I were just hanging around and the machines just happened to be there.
- finding out more about my friends.
- more disillusion; I always believe that everyone's life is filtered by perceptions and these lenses that rearrange how they see things. These lenses blinds us to certain things and create false image of what we see, so the less we let these lenses affect us, the closer we are to seeing things as what they are. This month, I realise I pay too little attention and I exclude too many people in my personal stuff - and the unhealthy thing is that 70% of my life is personal.
- my third 24km-route march, which I just completed.
- attending a parade, of which we spent a lot of time doing nothing. My army friends were addicted to this phone game called Colour Switch, and I still don't understand why.
- continuing to work on Muchilludes, which I'm going to keep working on. (shameless plug: I'm quite happy with my latest post about failure)
- starting a poetry Tumblr with Joshua, Zi Xing and Jessica. Visit The Adjunct Wordsmiths here.
I guess I'm progressing okay on my new year's resolution, and I'm seeing the results. The bad part is me regressing into not eating a lot and still not moving on after I complete something (eg. reanalysing episodes of shows I've watched which I've realised was really pointless).
This has been a good month. Supposedly, it's a bad year for people born in the year of Dog, but I choose not to care because I know we can overcome that and make our own good. To the rest of the year!
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