ひとりの夜もそばにいようぜ　君と僕の歌を歌う

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i'm going to sleep

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
but i just want to say that

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
life can be better, you know, than what it is now

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
this was not what i had imagined and this is not where i wanted to be... i don't know how it became this, but it did.. I'm not dealing too well with it because i am simply too tired and exhausted and busy to think beyond the next hour.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i wish i was back there. but that is a luxury to fantasized and wish these days because it doesn't change anything.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
and with every passing day, the memories that keeps me happy and reminds me that there is another life than this, is slipping and fading further away... and i feel like it was all more of a ghost image than it was a reality

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i want something else, but i don't know what is it that i want. and these days, i don't know how i fucked myself up so badly, sunk so fucking low, that i let everyone else step on me

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i have become... pathetic...

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
and i know in my heart of hearts that i can't blame my friends for thinking that I am pathetic and a loser... because... I am.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
And i've allowed myself to be that way.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i've allowed my life to be that.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
and i've allowed my friends, people, to treat me like that.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
and i seem to be wallowing in it, even..

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
I don't know man.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i don't know what to feel anymore.... because i am too exhausted to feel anything.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
and my brains is too tired to want to think anymore, except the next lesson i have to teach and how to teach it for the hour.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
I guess this is how people die. Die without knowing they were dying.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
Well i know I am dying. Yet.. i persist

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
I persist because i do like my students.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
but every other bullshit..

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i just feel like dying... collapsing... shutting down... falling out... putting a bullet through my head, or foot, whichever that would kick start my brains enough to get through the next hour...

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
I just want to stop. I just want to sit. I just want to have a little time to breathe. I just want to listen to Lunkhead and remember what it's like to live. What it's like to be truly happy.. Just because.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
And the whole fucking world doesn't even seem to care.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
becauses they say i am complaining

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
because they'll say that this is part and parcel of life... which it is.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
because they say that i should just shut up if i am not going to do somethign about it.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
tell me, what can i do? what can i do when i don't even have the strength to go through the next minute? when I can't even breathe or be alert at that very moment?

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
what can i do?

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
i want to say fuck you to all those who think it's so simple just to let everything go-- because sometimes, life doesn't offer such simple solutions anymore-- and it's plain immaturity to think it does.

Luis... Michelle... I miss you says:
then again... maybe it's fuck you to me... because i always make things so heavy and emotional and complicated.. when maybe, just maybe, it's as simple as just.... letting go.


There's too much work at work but there's always too much work at work no matter where you work. I have 5 hours of continuous classes to teach almost everyday, rush from one class to another, switch caps from one class to another, it may all be english but it's a whole different class and different lesson and different material and different preperation to teach, STAND for five frigging hours... On top of that i have to do admin work, coordinate with other lecturers in the departemnt to help MrsT, think of paperwork, do record book, PREPARE LESSON PLANS (which means I have to do it OUTSIDE of college hours), mark papers, plan out COURSE OUTLINE, prepare exam papers, crack my head to entertain the kids, VISION WORK ADVERTIZING SETTING DEADLINES MAKING SURE THAT THERE ARE REPORTERS MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A MAGAZINE AT THE END OF THE YEAR, DEALING WITH AND KEEPING TRACK OF AND CALLING UP ADVERTIZERS, then you have stupid Cocurriculum shit like Sports Carnival waste of fucking time... DOWN TO FUCKING HAVING TO UNLOCK CLASSROOM DOORS. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!!!!

DON'T THE FUCKING ADMIN PEOPLE REALIZE THAT I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE NO RESOURCE TO DO THIS???????????????????? WHERE THE HELL DO THEY THINK I COME OUT WITH THE LESSONS??? FROM MY NON EXISTING PREVIOUS WORKING EXPERIENCE???????????? WHAT THE FUCK!!!! You want me to do a million other fucking thigns and you want me to teach and you want me to give my best to my students??? LIKE HOW THE FUCK DO I DO THAT??? I don't even have time to fucking breathe sometimes and you want me to figure all these shit out and STILL do more fucking admin work.... AND SOLVE ANY OTHER FUCKING TINY SHIT PROBLEMS that arise. WTF.

Tell me how, how the fuck, do you expect me to think about my life? Think about quitting?? YEAH, with what time??? With what mental capacity?!!! I don't even have the strength to think or to go on to the next hour and you want me to contemplate about quitting????

And yes, I hate thi fucking job but i do love my students, and THAT is why i am not leaving, it's for the students, you know...... THAT, and also, i want to save up money to leave this country later... and unemployment sucks resources.

Every job has its shittiness. I understand. That is why i dont' quit either coz nothing gurantees that the next job won't suck even more-- you can't just flit from job to job you know--

and my greatest problem is that i just don't know how to get from HERE to what i truly want to do in life.

God please... I want to do something that love and I am happy in... NOT try to dig through the dirt and mud to find something to love and happy with... I dont' want that.. I don't want to do that anymore because it is very very very very tiring and very exausting and I am Tired Lord, and I am very Exhausted Lord, and this is not even the beginging of it yet...

I just want to be happy and be happy with what I am doing.


Justin says:
I know you're probably gonna be asleep by the time you get this, but I want to at least reply to you and let you know that, at least you know. You know how you feel and that this life is just strangling you, and you're doing all you can do now just to make it. You can only do what you can do, and that's all anyone can expect of you.

Justin says:
and you can see how you were feeding on all the negativity that you not only felt for yourself, but that you received as well, and it just isn't good or healthy, but it is perfectly normal in your situation. You've become a teacher, and your students are your lifeline, your strength, and if I know you you're doing the best you can do to be the best teacher they've had, and if that's what you need

Justin says:
to be able to keep on, then Elaine, run with it! Do what you've gotta do so that you can survive and hold on to that part of you that was so awesome. The part of you that got to live and breathe and enjoy life. Don't lose that part, and things should go far more smoothly.

Justin says:
and while I don't know what you're going through personally, you promised not to die on me, remember? We've gotta hang out sometime, remember? So hold on! We've got some serious hanging out to do sometime, ya know?

Justin says:
I wish I could stay up late like before and chat with you 1on1 instead of like this, but I just can't anymore. I don't have the energy to stay up like that, but I'm glad to have the opportunity to even just say 'hi' to you

Justin says:
but that doesn't matter, because you're stuck. You're in the forest and you can see plenty of trees, you just can't find the way out to sweet, sweet civilization. But one day you will, and I hope you can take some comfort in that

Justin says:
if you can not forget all the good times you had, then you may just have some more, or even better times, in the future. A future that hopefully we can both take part in my friend



Thanks Justin, I needed that =)

when memory blends into a series of continuous images and the melodies of songs conjures the feeling of those moments once again, like remembering it just like yesterday.

when you feel as if you closed your eyes, and you opened it, you were there again.

when the dream feels like it's so close... once again... in my heart weaved with these melodies that triggers these feelings and images to make it all so real and so close once again...

I don't want to lose the feeling with each repetition of this song... I want the feeling to remain so that the memory of it may not fade either... I want to preserve the song as if in the dream as we sang together that night, with one voice when the dream was real... I want to remember, i want to keep in my heart, i want to cherish, i want to fold them up and hold them close and never want it to fade away or pale with time and yellow with age the intensity and solidity of not just the images, not just memories, but also more importantly, how it felt like that night, those nights, that time, being there in that dream come true...


http://www.sendspace.com/file/afjpxw

http://www.sendspace.com/file/p7mm0k

So here are the songs as we sang that night... as one voice... as one and I felt that I belonged there in that crowd, in that dream.


今夜終わらない迷路を飛び出して
忘れていた気持ちを描くのさ。

今日も終わらない夢を見る。

IELTS TOMORROW!! DIE DIE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! NIGEL WHERE ARE YOU????? >______________<

There's a beautiful sky tonight and
if you were by my side then we could share it but you are gone.
So come at me with your moon and burn me in the stars
cause nothing matters anymore.

If I could only see you now for about an hour
maybe just a minute
just to ask
What has she got that I don't have?
Is it her brown eyes?
I know blue eyes get boring but I'll wear dark glasses all the time and
hey if you want me to, I'll take a knife to my own bright eyes.

If I could only see you now for about an hour
maybe just a minute
just to ask
what has she got that I don't have?
Is it her brown eyes?
Well, I'll give you a thousand reasons that tonight
you should grant me this one wish.
Like the one year of my life that I gave to you and
now you put me through hell.
You break me up.

I should hate you, but I can't replace you in my heart.
Why am I so pathetic?
I don't get it why you won't return my calls.

Can't you look at me once?
And please if you got a minute,
enjoy this lonely sky with me.
It'll swallow us whole if we only let it.

If I could only see you now for about an hour
maybe just a minute
just to ask
what has she got that I don't have?
Is it her brown eyes?
Well, I'll give a thousand reasons
that tonight you should grant me this one wish.
Like the one year of my life that I gave to you and
now you put me through hell.
You break me up.
If this sky's going to eat us then I'd like to be digested
into a million pieces with you.
I'd love to be scattered to hell with you.
To hell with you.

あまりに安っぽい例え話だけど
曇り空も晴れた空も同じ空であるように
笑い声も涙さえも
大事な君自身の君らしさに違いないのだと僕は思う
誰が何を言おうとも僕はそう思う

This is such a worn-out example, but,
As the cloudy sky and the fine sky are the same skies,
so is your laughter and your tears the real/same you.


I think Yoshitarou wrote it so beautifully here... It's something I've been feeling lately... I feel so incongruent sometimes, you know, like the pieces of me don't fit together, or at least, what i show to others is not what I truly feel and truly am inside... But yet, whether it's the serious or crappy me, the happy or depressed me, i feel that both are my truth... my ownself.
It's just that I am expected to be who i am not... But when I play too much, sometimes there are also a deviation from that "i don't care" person too..


I don't know... I realized today that I don't have anyone to talk with. I realized that for the past 3 months (geez it has ONLY BEEN 3 months!) I've encapsulated my world too tightly around college, and I feel like i'm suffocating because of that because I have no breather away from this world.
Don't get me wrong, the kids are great and the friends are awesome... But I've always been one who needed two worlds... Because when i got sick or dissapointed or hurt or choked by one, i always had another to turn to help me breathe and live and learn to live again...

But i realize that I don't have that these days... And I realize I really have no one to really talk to anymore... I mean sure Chee Woh has really been great for these few months, but... I don't tell him everything either (it's not like he'll listen to me whine abt some guy right????? wait... then again.. hahahaha) But anyway... I just feel really really suffocated inside... i guess it's because I don't really have anyone or anywhere to just pour and ditch everything to to help me run away... or at least, to help me unburden and find the calm...

I'm heartbroken, directionless, unhappy... above all, I'm heartbroken...

Then again, i am sure there are worse situations in life to be in than mine.

Adrian Loh will always be Adrian Loh. Damn! I wish i had a fraction of the brilliance!

QUESTION: What stands in the way of you reaching your goals?

As cliché as it sounds, I believe we are our own best friend or worst enemy, our own angels or demons. Growing up, we tend to “discover ourselves” by systematically probing our desires and facing our fears. We're compulsive, and impulsive, we make decisions, voluntarily or involuntarily without regard to consequence. And when you're young, that's not always a bad thing. Because your evolution depends on it. On making mistakes. Of course, when you've “found yourself”, you realize that that is only half the challenge, because the real question that remains – the thing that matters most – is whether you can stay true to it. The problem is, as we grow older, we tend to lose our ability to face those fears. Maybe its because we have more to lose. So instead, most people choose willing or unwillingly, to run and hide and ignore. They go about their lives, having swept the demons under the rug, praying that they never come back. And of course, they always do. The challenge therefore, is to grow old and somehow not lose our capacity for wonder, to dare, to attempt. Because the answer has to be in the attempt.

QUESTION: What do you see yourself as 10 years from now?

It's perhaps a privilege of youth, a gift awarded to the young, priceless to the older: the ability to see life as boundless, limited only by the limits of your own vision. There is a saying, that we are not measured by our experience, so much as we are measured by our capacity for experience. Thus, the most honest answer I can think of would be to simply say, that I don't know. And I say that as a good thing. Life is simply too big, too awesome, for me to restrain it and cage it in a bottle on a shelf and call it my future. I am too much in love with life to do that. It would be untrue to myself. And while I may plan, I plan also with an abandon, because the essence of living comes from not knowing, sometimes it comes by accident, by chance and by surprise. And to close our eyes to it, to narrow our vision so explicitly until we are blind to everything else, is to dismiss all the other exciting things that make life worth living. And if there is one thing I've learned from cooking and running a restaurant, it is that we are not homogenous in our tastes, or singular in our appetites, not when it comes to food, or clothing, and especially not when it comes to choosing how we want to live our lives.

IELTS class was crappy today.... sigh failure failure......... TOTAL failure la me...

Anyway, I think I might implement Nigel's suggestion for the class... I really wanna make d class good so no one will complain about my teaching... Anyway, thanks nigel for helping out... At least don't feel so nervous now though I am still quite scared about it....