"Always look on the bright side of life."


This was a quote written by Carrie's brother, Dexter in his high school's yearbook.

When I chanced upon the quote, I was amazed at how much a simple quote like this could touch me. There must have at least a thousand students in that book, each with their own quote. And everyone else seemed to be trying really hard to leave a mark in the year book. Some wrote poetry, some used flowery words and played with literature.

The quotes I suppose, were meant as a memento for fellow students. Something people can remember you by, and hopefully, be encouraged by?

Most students filled up the entire space they were allocated with words which had sounded cheem and nice, but what really really caught my attention, were these simple words on a very very blank space beside Dexter's picture.

"Always look on the bright side of life."

So cliche. Some may say.

I've heard it a million times, from other friends and on the Carlsberg advert.

But how many of you can say "I apply this to my life." ?

That's what caught my attention. In the sea of complicated quotes in this complicated world, something as simple, as fundamental as that really hit me hard on the head.

It came out like a precious stone, pure and unadultered by the complications of the world. It stuck out like an innocent child, who believes in the good of the world, who remains positive even in the darkest of times.

So amazing.

Sometimes we try to hard to make sense of the world we were never meant to understand.

We go about in circles, searching for that answer.

We could go on and on and never find what we want to find or wind or not even knowing what we're looking for in the first place.

Life's complicated as it is.

Why not, with a ready smile and an open heart, let's....

Always look on the bright side of life?

Dexter Yeo rocks for the cool unpretentious quote. ROCKS!

Like this little poodle a friend of mine just adopted, it was born with a handicap with its hind legs a little longer and weaker than most dogs, unable to walk or run without
sometimes the hind legs giving way or taking a slip.

And yet, when you watch this little dog run and play, you can't help but
want to cuddle it and feed it ice cream for still curiously chasing after anything
that catches its attention regardless of its disability.

My favourite part of the Mayday concert, was actually the extremely well done
photo montage of their pictures, from when they first came together as a band through
their many achievements and time spent together as friends.

It really came through as a testimony. A testimony of the many things they proclaim in their songs. For some warp reason, I actually wanted to kneel down and worship God in that atmosphere because the songs were so powerful and uplifting.


(From Left: Keith, Lishan, PF, Rubbish Bin, Rubbish Truck.)
Thank you Keith for the tickets!

I may not have been jumping around like the loyal Mayday fans all over the stadium,
but I was absorbing every little thing that was going on...

May everyday be Mayday. HOHO.

p.s. I've been receiving alot of encouragement lately from Singapore and Taiwanese friends, and I just want to say that I wouldn't have gotten through it so quickly without you all.

I'm really ok now, my previous post was not meant to be an emo one, it was simply a reminder to myself, and also an answer to what 'expert' tagged. There's no such thing as "they're just better than us."

Its almost like you're admitting defeat without even putting up a fight and I couldn't help but throw up my immediate reaction to that tag in a post.