Today, I found myself.. (Day 352)

Today, I found myself dreading the weeks to come which will surely be filled with more annoyance and hatred.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 338)

Today, I found myself a year up and a day away from change.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 296)

Today, I found myself about to be deprived of the freedom to act while needing to take on a different persona.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 287)

Today, I found myself a minor once again wishing all the clocks in the world would stop.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 277)

Today, I found myself bested by the powers of the human spirit and trying to fight the prospect of perfection.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 275)

Today, I found myself visiting the ties that bind wishing that solace wasn’t an understatement.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 274)

Today, I found myself reuniting for the cause of festival with emphatic tosses of the Chinese salad.

Skeptical: Chinese New Year

Photo credits: http://www.seenobjects.org/2005-02-09-chinese-new-year

A rather obtuse and skeptical take on the lunar new year,

• Spring Cleaning is just another way to make sure the Chinese clean their homes.
• Spring Cleaning= Dust-fest.
• Ang Paos (Red Packets) are rewards for kids who help in Spring Cleaning, much like how you get presents if you’ve been good all year round, at Christmas.
• Wearing black or dark colors doesn’t mean you’ll be unlucky, it just means you dislike dressing up in bright colors.
• Cutting/trimming/getting a new hair-do is spring cleaning yourself.
• Technically all you need to survive Chinese New Year is a new shirt (don’t even bother with jeans/pants) and a pair of oranges and you’re good to rock and roll.
• Don’t worry monsters are a thing of the past. That’s why we don’t need firecrackers.
• New year puns in text messages are awesome; eg,“Have a roaring new year” (with reference to the year of the Tiger).
• Chinese horoscopes (or horoscopes in general) usually aren’t accurate.
• Yusheng (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng) is the only good reason to mess things up during the New Year.

Take the above with a pinch of salt.

That being said, Chinese New Year is all about the family and showing appreciation, much like other festivals, which are pockets for quality family time. Also, it stresses on a good start to the new year!

Everyone should therefore, embrace the festival and appreciate the beauty and significance behind the customs involved.

Happy Chinese New Year to all readers.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 268)

Today, I found myself drained of brain and consciousness as preparations slowly firm up.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 226)

Today, I found myself coughing Christmas away amidst worries of work. 

Today, I found myself.. (Day 225)

Today, I found myself counting down to Christmas under a hoodie.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 221)

Today, I found myself a sad excuse of what yesterday brought.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 213)

Today, I found myself disappointed with a place with no signboard and taking a breath before plunging back into the water of work.

Cool Tie.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 201)

Today, I found myself with the wind blowing at my face, wishing that an escape would be in order.

Rest.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 145)

Today, I found myself cheering in my heart silently whilst observing the true meaning of family.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 111)

Today, I found myself understanding the other better over an oversized waiter, chips, drinks and the LCD of football.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 104)

Today, I found myself writing a special get-well in mind and heart.

Zoom.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 69)

Today, I found myself relaxing in a room of my future.

Today, I found myself.. (Day 62)

Today, I found myself frustrated by nature despite testing the limits of my liver.

Packages of Happiness

A couple of significant events happened ever since I last posted here on metallic-stains.

For one, school has finally started after a long break (of 2 months) and year 2 is gradually set in motion. A new year often means new modules and with that, naturally new challenges surface, which interestingly, is much anticipated.

On a personal level, the pass week saw happiness in the air.

Packets of Significance.

I like it when events as such occur in my life, I mean don't you? Everyone strives to be happy and for the people around them to be happy as well, and I think family events are good examples of such happiness.

A smile can mean many things. The human expression is vast and often not as simple as it seems. We might smile to accommodate, or even to mask our true feelings so when do we know when we're truly happy in our lives?

Happiness is an underrated emotion.

From young, we've been bred to "be happy". The first emotive word which is taught to children is often the word "happy", ie. "I am happy". So much so that as we grow and develop as human beings, we avoid using "Happy" as it is simply too simple and over used.

We tend to look for more profound ways of expressing ourselves as we feel that the things we perceive are complicated and a simple word would not be able to convey its true essence.

But herein lies the question; whoever decreed that emotions and perceptions are to be complex?

Personally, I feel that emotions, though complex in nature, need not necessarily be expressed in a complicated fashion. Often, we find ourselves in a position where it becomes hard for us to express how we feel, so why not try something simple?

This is the reason why I like family events. What I see at these events isn't complex beyond human comprehension, nor is it rocket science; I see emotion being expressed freely and simply.

We often do not realize that simplicity at these events as we are often very much immersed in the atmosphere and the emotion of the event.

For me, happiness is an emotion I would like persist throughout my life. I mean if you had a nice happy way to live your life, why would you want to choose otherwise?

Happiness isn't hard to find; just look around you.

Anyone of significance, I believe, will be able to instill this simplistic emotion into you.

Dusk.

So yea, that's that I guess. After a short mini hiatus, I guess I finally found time to update this space, so watch out for more stuff to come.

Evidently, I've been preoccupied with day to day activities and more prominently, events and the such.

However, though updates may be very much restricted as per my schedule, feel free to check out some of the other social networking sites I've been on, to the right of this post (ie, facebook, Twitter, flickr).

On a side note, I think more people should start using twitter, and those who are using it, should update frequently. Just saying.

Twitter's pretty interesting and all so I urge you social networking junkies out there to go take a look and who knows, you might be twittering even more than I am!

In all, check back soon and till then.

*the pictures you see in this post belong to metallic-stains and its respective owner and any uncredited or uninformed use of materials or excerpts from the blog's content will be liable for further action. This sounds all serious and stuff.

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