Wednesday, May 28


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Stop blogging. Guess what I wrote? Lol.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:27 pm

Sunday, May 25


The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another... Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.

- Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759


This quote somehow struck a chord in me. Gotta put it down here.

Posted by Isabelle at 4:59 pm

Tuesday, May 20


I'm making a countdown to end of IA.

Making a countdown to my China/Hongkong trip.

Making a countdown to start of my year 4.

Making a countdown to end of university life.

So many countdowns. I wonder if at the end of each countdown, does a new one begin?

I guess they do. It's like starting a new chapter in life, and you count down to the next one. That's how you look forward to everything ya? We like to peer over at the things that are beyond your scope of vision, and that's most likely because you don't want to look at those things that are in your view now. Probably we just don't want to accept the fact that everything is happening in real time.

Stop and smell the flowers sometimes. No matter if they stink, at least they are physical.

Posted by Isabelle at 11:48 pm

Saturday, May 17


The word 'tired' is almost always overused in all sorts of occasions, and almost always undermine the intensity of emotions that hide behind the single word.

It's the one word that gets anyone out of the stickiest situations, and effectively eschews the real question that he or she doesn't really want to answer, or have no answer for.

It's the one word that people will naturally feel that it has satisfied totally the "Are you ok?" question. No one really asks much after that.

It's really probably the one word of convenience for everyone else to carry on with their lives.

But seriously. I'm just tired.

Posted by Isabelle at 6:55 pm


Cool. I changed my blog layout, and I love the colour. (I really do love orange, don't I?)

3 weeks left, and I'm trying to churn out the dreaded IA report. I probably won't do well in this stupid internship, I just want to get it over and done with it.

And yeah, I don't know why in the end I'm still awake at this ungodly hour. The main thing I think I did was to change out the previous layout. So damn proud of myself. Hah.

Posted by Isabelle at 4:10 am

Wednesday, May 14


Oh ya, I hate my blog layout. What the hell was I thinking when I used it?

Dammit, dammit, dammit.

*schedules to change out the layout*

Posted by Isabelle at 12:34 am


Wow, 5 months and I'm finally back to look at the previous state of my blog. Not bad, I thought I abandoned this place a year ago. Obviously I had come back just early this year to brush some dust off.

It's depressing to look at it actually. While I'm always trying to appear my utmost best when I'm behaving like a person, it's here when I look at what I'm really writing, that's the sad part. When I read my previous posts, it's as though a part of me is breaking off from reality and trying to find a place to paste itself up. Publicise itself if you would call it.

Gaining sympathy, really. Cheap empathy from people who supposedly understand the pain and suffering of, oh, the cruel cruel world. Getting at small pinches of the world's humanity touch. I guess it's pathetic. I apologise for my irrational outcries.

(Of course I know when I was writing those I really felt that way, and that's really because I was in the dumps and having all those mood swings and bad days. Basically I know I felt... crap. That's goes to show that even the most out-bursting, postive-vibes-giving person CAN have their bad hair days.)

Anyway, back to updates. I'm still on internship at the same old company (need to censor my own words) and yes, I'm glad to be finally getting out of internship, and moving on to the next stage of my life. Not without a hiatus first of course.

Planning on my biggest trip as of yet (I'm not rich, so be it) to Shanghai. The biggest reason to go there would be to visit my boyfriend (yes, free accom) and to shop like a mad woman (I need the thrill yet again). The next best thing would be stopping over at Hong Kong, so it's like one stone kill two birds thing. Yep.

Damn looking forward to setting myself free.

Posted by Isabelle at 12:18 am