Wednesday, February 24, 2010

catch a falling star....

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put it in your pocket
save it for a rainy day

i once read in the sunday age an article on the lines of how females tend to become stuck to the past and hence are more likely to be unhappy and depressed. whereas, on the other hand, males often forget the past more easily, move on quickly and dwell less on unhappy memories. i am not a fan of stereotypes, but this generalisation seems somewhat true albeit, of course, there are always exceptions and lots of other factors like personality and etc which come into play too. reminiscing isn't necessarily a bad thing, and to overlook the past too much mightn't be such a great thing either...in the end it always comes down to balance...

....pages gone by and already written are sneaking up to cast a shadow on those fresh new pages to come. the ink is spilling and is not quite sure where to run. the corners are fraying because the pages aren't being turned. the words remain bottled and buried beneath a million question marks...

but for one thing i am quite sure to say, happy memories never fail to add a dash of sunshine to cloudy days. thank you, for those memories, because i always keep them in my pocket, for those rainy days :)

Monday, February 8, 2010

c is for cupcake

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i have this recent obsession with cupcakes, not that i've baked any (yet!) or even eaten any in the past so many months...

there's something sweet and rather fairytale-ish about cupcakes. perhaps, deep down inside i'm just keen to go crazy over decorating mini cakes with icing, choc chips, sprinkles, raspberries...you name it. i haven't yet found a good enough excuse to bake and embellish a batch of cupcakes though >_< and i really should be eating healthy food instead of rich lusciously delicious cupcakes brimming with sweet sugar, creamy butter and a load of other high GI ingredients...in the meantime, (while i gather motivation to exercise and think of a convincing excuse to create some cupcakes) i figured i'd just doodle it out onto my sketchbook instead - 100% fun and 0% calories :]

...and voila, a petit gateaux, from blueberrymint's sketchbook bakery.....




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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

a fresh start and a taste of the rainbow

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twenty ten. a new year.

there's something about new years that always brings an extra spark and a good sprinkle of fairy dust to the summer holidays. somewhat somehow another year has been journeyed through...and before you know it, it is time to turn to a new page and therein lies opportunity to start afresh. a clean, blank, untouched page - eagerly waiting to become filled with happy moments and realised dreams.
it's like that feeling of glimpsing the rainbow behind the clouds, the sweet taste of hope.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

abracadabra

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hocus pocus focus,

anyone got a magic wand i can borrow?


lol, i think i've pretty much metabolised even my reserve stores of motivation. oh dear, and i've still got a little over two weeks to go till the summer hols finally come. help!!! argh.

need to F O C U S >___<

...and exercise more self control...


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

chasing the butterfly

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there's something unspokenly beautiful about nature,
even on rainy days

i was walking home from the bus stop the other day, it was getting dark and pouring like mad. my icicle temperature hands were clinging tightly onto my umbrella in the windy rain. as i trudged towards home, i was feeling outright exhausted after a long day of uni, and was silently cursing the sky for ending my day with a downpour.


then i noticed the trees in my street. they were leafless, but full of little white blossoms, like snow caught in mid air and strung together in a gracefully complex way. despite the howling wind that brought the branches trembling, there was something cheerful and optimistic about the wintry trees. just standing there, in a content yet nonchalant way.


and it made me think, and come to realise, how barricading the unpleasant things by doing other seemingly happier things is only a temporary band-aid. attempting to chase after happiness is futile. perhaps it'd be better, like the white blossom tree, to face the ever-changing weather...simply just as it is.



"Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder"
[Henry David Thoreau]




Wednesday, July 22, 2009

cute creativity

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some cute handmade items that caught my eye while i was window shopping on the net:



...a scrumptious looking chocolate parfait necklace


....super adorable panda buttons



....a quirky little 'life with tea' handpainted wooden brooch
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Monday, July 20, 2009

la di da di da .....

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if only
the sunshine would come out to play


one of those faintly purposeful days, just been eating food, feeding my growing addiction to playfish games, weeding the garden, and doing other random things that don't really go together. i'm feeling fidgety. and it's agitating.

i dunno, but sometimes i feel like i need to go off on a holiday, or just do something drastically different and run away for a moment or two. it's odd, that mixed emotional state of being tired and energised at the same time.

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