The Anatomy of My Thoughts = Rowan-ism

If you went out today and saw a girl on a purple mountain bike, riding clumsily along the side of the road falling into gutters and such, that was probably me. I woke up kinda early and decided that I would take my bike out for a much needed spin. So, I took the purple monstrosity of a bike down the lift and headed for the reservoir. I knew that to get to the reservoir itself, I had to turn left but there was another path headed right and... well, I had no idea where it led to and I had never gone that way before, so naturally I turned right towards uncertainty. After a few minutes of blissful cycling on this strange path which I had all to myself, I came across a path that said that it was a connector path to Bedok Park or something like that and I was supposed to cross an overhead bridge and so on. After lugging the purple monster over the bridge, I was supposed to go straight and follow the path. But NO! I didn't. - So typical of me. Anyways of to the right side of the foot of ...

I am so freaking emotional right now! Its so unlike me to be a useless throbbing bundle of girlyness ! I am melancholic because I miss everything there is to miss! I miss High School, Philippines, Hong Kong and all of the friends and family whom I haven't seen for ages. I don't know what's up with me! I think that the span of the holidays is just too long. I've been by myself for prolonged periods of time and I end up thinking too much and analyzing my past social relationships. Gosh, I swear. I even took the Jungian test that I took for psychology and my results changed from an ENTP and finally ENFP ! Note the change from T to F- Thinker to Feeler! Oh and most of you know how much of a hippy I am so I'm pretty upset that a large proportion of the population did not participate in Earth Hour. How hard is it to turn off a freaking light bulb? I don't want my future kids and grand kids to miss out on seeing snowy mountain peaks just because millions of people...

Dear readers, I have a curfew which you probably know about but here are the unspoken terms of engagement. I'm 21 and I have a ridiculous curfew- but only when I'm here in Singapore. You can safely assume that I'm pretty pissed about it. I'm basically supposed to be home before dark, which is around 7.30 or else my mum goes ballistic! I can't believe that they only enforce the curfew here in Singapore which is... theoretically one of the safer countries in the world. I can stay out pretty late in the Philippines and its much more dangerous to be out at night there. I'm not saying that I should have a curfew in the Philippines as well, I'm just trying to say that they, as parents, they could at least be consistent. Here's why I think I have a curfew. 1- My parent's don't trust me. I have no idea why they wouldn't trust me when all these years I've been trying to prove myself trustworthy. 2- They are insecure about how they raised me. Well....

I feel so refreshed. Today, I met with a good old friend from High School and I must say that the reunion felt kind of like a homecoming. I had been so accustomed to my High School life that I guess I can confidently say that I had found my niche in my four years there. The only sad part was the nostalgia, the desire to return to a former place and time. I will digress here to explain something interesting about nostalgia. Nostalgia come from root words, nostos and algos translating to " the pain felt when a person wants to return home". An interesting thing about this is that Nostalgia was once considered an illness. Swiss mercenaries used to feel weak and demoralized because they were away from home. Pics! On other things- I think that I may have some sort of food poisoning because I've been alternating between diahorroeah and constipation. I can't eat because it comes out one way or another. Pooh. I love food too. I don't know if its nostalgia or what.

I think I have a case of acute social impaired- ness . Sometimes I wonder why I'm so challenged in social intercourse, but then I think again and realize that somewhere along my learning curve, my social skills went one way and my speaking skills went the other- I know that sounds ridiculous because you don't often see one without the other. After all of these years, can you believe that I regularly offend my mother? My very own mother doesn't get me! My dad too, sometimes but not too often. If you've met me, you probably know that I am fairly comfortable in my own skin- maybe too comfortable. Some people find me cocky and rude but that can all be attributed to a generous sprinkling of self esteem- I was taught that, if I believed in myself- or at least acted as if I did, people will believe in me. The Asian culture values humility. See the clash? Asian families feel that elders deserve more respect hence since I treat everyone pretty much as an equal to me and, someon...

I am slightly more tan today that I was yesterday. That's what I get from not wearing sunscreen. I'm not burned though. The three ladies of the house went swimming - mostly just floating around. It was brilliant except for the fact that my companions aren't really strong swimmers so the three of us were deported to the shallower pool. It was kind of pathetic if not funny. I could kneel down on the floor of that pool and my head would still be above the surface. It was irritating because whenever I tried to do the damn freestyle, my toes would scrape against the pool floor!-I settled for the breast stroke to develop strong pectoralis major muscles, good for you flat ladies out there, that is what you should do! My cousin and I played this diving game thing and my chin was a casualty. I don't know why we thought diving in a shallow pool was a good idea. Anyways, I dove without goggles and basically scraped my chin against the pool bottom. So dumb right?! Anyways, spending...

I just watched "Awake" and I have to start off this post by saying that Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba are two of the most beautiful people ever! Second, The movie "Awake" was the only movie that had me crying from start to finish- and its very hard to get me to cry at a movie. It was dramatic, there was no action at all but the plot just kept you guessing. I have a new favorite movie. It has always been a movie that I wanted to watch just because of the fact that it involves a phenomenon that I had always been curious of, "anesthetic awareness", which is when during an operation, somehow, the patient doesn't loose consiousness. He stays awake to feel every incision, every cut and every tug at his tissues. He can feel the pain of the operation but is completely paralised. He can't scream or even blink to let anyone know that he's awake- He's basically trapped in his body. Anyways, if that wasn't bad enough, he finds out that the su...

Here are the photos from the supposed Movie Date and St Pat's day! The alleged movie date: Who looks taller? St Pat's day! Someone's afraid of the sun! Can you spot me? It rained on our parade! What a bummer! Just when I thought the luck of the Irish was on our side... Wet! I hadn't gotten the chance to retouch it yet so, the contrast is kinda low. Angels! Angelic faces again- I mean the kinds not the two small people beside the kids. Ok, I'm a little tired, will post the rest later- they're all up on facebook though

I so haven't been blogging lately because, well, there's not much to blog about. I've just been reading, learning how to draw anime and how to play the guitar. It's weird though, I have trouble sleeping early. Nowadays I normally get to bed at around 5 or even 6, 4am at the earliest. I am so going to have "jet lag," adjusting to the new "timeline" when I have to go back to the school routine. Oh yeah, also I passed all of my subjects! Whoo! I passed badly though. There were a couple of Ds (yes I am not ashamed to admit it) and my GPA dropped by 0.2 so I guess its not so bad. I am so doing better next sem but I am queasy about the next group of classmates. Yesterday though, most of the ladies and I went to the city with the intent of watching a movie. the imperative word being intent. We didn't actually go and watch a movie, we just bounded around the malls and window shop because few of us actually bought anything, well, except Rach and Yas who h...

A friend sent this to me and I thought it was pretty hilarious so here I am, reposting it because I hate spam in my inbox- so I shouldn't trouble you with it either. Anyways, its pretty good timing because its International Womens' Day so hurray for all women, even if you consider yourself "just-a-girl". Here goes! 3 wishes A woman was out golfing one day when she hit her ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you 3 wishes." The woman freed the frog. The frog said, "Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes that whatever you wish for, your husband will get 10 times more or better!" The woman said, "That would be okay." For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world. The frog warned her, "You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most ...

I know I havent written in ages and so much has happened.- Okay, not that much, but I get the feeling this is going to be a crammed blog entry. I had a Birthday- February 23. It was a bummer that it was on a Monday, but that was okay because there was no school. I didn't really celebrate because I already had my big bash when I turned 18- its a Filipino thing, here, the big bashes are on the 21st birthday. I had 2 really hard exam papers- For Retail, I wrote a whole lot of bull shit on my paper. The last question was so abstract! For PMic, I was so not able to finish the last question and it was worth- gulp, 20 marks! What kind of evil person puts the question with the highest weightage on the last page?! I so hope I pass all of my papers! We celebrated the end of 2.2 The gang, went for buffet and a movie. The food was so so and I ate myself into sickness. I could feel the lipocytes turning into cellulite. We watched "He's Just Not That Tnto You" and I must say, that ...