"And that's how it goes kids. The friends, neighbors, drinking buddies and partners in crime you love so much when you're young, as the years go by, you just lose touch.
You will be shocked when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That's why when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it."

- himym

:)

being scared

"Doesn't being scared let you know you are on to something important" 
"If your not scared, then you are not taking a chance. And if you are not scared, then what the hell are you doing?"

- HIMYM

thoughts from HIMYM #2 - right place right time

it felt like i have blogged about this, but since i cant remember and find this so thought-provoking, here i am again:

it is an episode whereby ted retold his story about that one particular day where the little things changed his life forever.
rather than going to his usual bagel store, he decided to go to another one after finding out that robin got food poisoning from the usual place.
rather than just walking by the magazine stall, he stopped by to check out barney's 200 in one of the magazine.
rather than walking directly to the bagel store, he made a detour to pay $1 to the homeless guy whom he bought marshall's charts from.
all these led to him meeting stella (former girlfriend who left him at the altar) and tony, and resulted him in getting a job as a professor.

for those who dont know better, you may term it coincident, or being at the right place at the right time. you may term like just like the show did: You see, the universe has a plan kids, and that plan is always in motion. All these little parts of the machine constantly working, making sure that you end up exactly where you're supposed to be, exactly when you're supposed to be there. The right place at the right time. the show may call it "the universe" but i know very well that it is God who is behind all these, He has a plan for everyone and everything happened so that everyone can come to know Him.

just like my testimony i said on the day of my baptism. it is no mere coincident that i am where i am today. i would very likely not be attending church if amy didnt invite me to her church youth camp (which i am very curious to know what made her do so), i would not have become friends with amy if i didnt persevere and stayed in the frisbee team despite not having any friends. i would not have joined the frisbee team if i wasnt in smu, and wouldnt have been in smu (but in nus fass!) if my jc classmates didnt rave about smu, wouldnt have considered business school if my then jc crush wasnt doing business, wouldnt have made in the sajc if it wasnt for the three months as a guest student, wouldnt have been a guest student if my then secondary class clown ask me along to apply for it, would not be in st andrew's if my mum didnt just put down a nearby good reputation school after my first choice of victoria. wouldnt have done how i did if i wasnt around good company.

many "if" things happened over the past 30 years. if i was to put it all in a excel =IF formula, excel would probably crash. no computer or AI could have planned such things, no human for that matter. im sure my parents would have secretly hoped that i did better and joined my elder brother at RI. if i had control, i would have been in nus business school. but the truth is in life, we can plan but ultimately, it is God's plans for us that matters.

 

thoughts from HIMYM #1

so i mentioned that i started watching himym a while back, and as wordly as the show is, there are times when some quotes really get you thinking about life.

so in this episode, ted gets advice on how long it takes for someone to get over a relationship:

• Lily says half the length of the entire relationship
• Marshall says one week for every month you were together
• Robin says 10,000 drinks
• Barney says the amount of steps to get out the door. 
• Ted finds that he starts to forget about his last relationship the minute he meets the woman that will help him get over it.

while i do think most on this list is funny though rubbish, the one about "half the length of the entire relationship" kinda struck a chord. so the halfway mark is coming right up, i just wonder, is that time coming up?