Fairytale origins

Indeed all of you know that fairytales have happy endings. But let's take a look on this. Fairytales actually are full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. It is very interesting reading this article on the 'Top 10 Most Gruesome Fairytales'. Here is the link: http://listverse.com/2009/01/06/9-gruesome-fairy-tale-origins/ 

Getting the best out of life :)

         by Lee Kuan Yew :)

                                                                     Lee Kuan Yew

         The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and         

         elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

But I think the most important single lesson I learnt in life was that if you isolate yourself, you’re done for. The human being is a social animal – he needs stimuli, he needs to meet people, to catch up with the world.

I’m determined that I will not, as long as I can, to be reduced, to have my horizons closed on me like that. It is the stimuli, it is the constant interaction with people across the world that keeps me aware and alive to what’s going on and what we can do to adjust to this different world.

In other words, you must have an interest in life. If you believe that at 55, you’re retiring, you’re going to read books, play golf and drink wine, then I think you’re done for. So statistically they will show you that all the people who retire and lead sedentary lives, the pensioners die off very quickly.

So we now have a social problem with medical sciences, new procedures, new drugs, many more people are going to live long lives..

If the mindset is that when I reach retirement age 62, I’m old, I can’t work anymore, I don’t have to work, I just sit back, now is the time I’ll enjoy life, I think you’re making the biggest mistake of your life. After one month, or after two months, even if you go traveling with nothing to do, with no purpose in life, you will just degrade, you’ll go to seed.

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge. If you’re not interested in the world and the world is not interested in you, the biggest punishment a man can receive is total isolation in a dungeon, black and complete withdrawal of all stimuli, that’s real torture.

So when I read that people believe, Singaporeans say: ‘Oh, 62 I’m retiring.’ I say to them: ‘You really want to die quickly?’ If you want to see sunrise tomorrow or sunset, you must have a reason, you must have the stimuli to keep going..’

Have a purpose driven life and finish well, my friends.

          And yes, I think it's true.

Too late

By the time you realised what you had let go is precious to you, it's already too late. Too late to go back. Too late to change everything that had happened. Hoping with a fragile hope. 

Forget the pain

Hopeless

If you ignore me, I won't wait around. I won't bug you, I just won't talk to you. Simple as that. Sure, It's going to be hard. It's going to hurt. But it won't hurt as much as being ignored. I'll move on because it's useless to keep holding on to that fragile hope anymore. 

                                                  

The Vow

I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.
-Paige


I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love.
-Leo

I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.
-Leo


Finally I've get to watched The Vow last Saturday with my sister. I've been waiting for this movie to be released for quite some time. This movie is sweet but the ending was kind of hanging.

                                                                        Paige & Leo

                                                                                                       Paige

Green Lantern

Okay, so exam was over. But not totally over yet as my final exam is around the corner. Oh well, let's put that aside first. It's movie time. I just finish watching this movie called Green Lantern and it was awesome for those who likes actions. It taught me two important things in life that are your Will and Fears. Green lantern is the colour of will power and the Lantern recharges the ring with the will power from every living thing. Since yellow is the colour of fear, and is the only thing Lanterns have no power over, the immortals have decided to conquer this by sending one of their own to control Fear. But Fear conquers this Immortal, and turns him evil. This is where the story begins. Green Lantern was adapted from Marvel comics. Thumbs up!


[as Hal is fighting Parallax with his ring] 
Parallax: I feel your fear growing. You will be dead soon.
Hal Jordan: In brightest day, in blackest night. 
Parallax: When you are gone, I will destroy everything you ever loved.
Hal Jordan: No evil shall escape my sight.
Parallax: Your family, your home, your friends will be no more.
Hal Jordan: Let those who worship evils might
Parallax: The entire human race will be wiped out because you, Hal Jordan, were afraid.
Hal Jordan: Beware of my power. The Green Lantern's light! 




" Of all the Lantern's who have ever worn the ring, there was one who's light shined brightest. At first, his humanity was thought to be weakness, and yet it proved to be his greatest strength."

                                                                      Green lantern

Romance?

I love reading English novels. Reading is one of my favourite past times especially when it comes to English novels. Romance. Horror. Thriller. Mysteries. Name it. Romance with some mixture of mysteries novels have always been at the top of my favourite reading list. I have uncountable of novels here at home. Well, you can easily guess I'm a bookworm now when it comes to English novels. It has been quite some time since I read my last novel because I am busy in my college's activities and studies. Recently, I bought an English novel and it is called ' A Beautiful Dark ' written by Jocelyn Davies. I have not finish reading it yet but the story line is getting interesting. Here is a peek of the cover.

A beautiful dark by Jocelyn Davies