I can't.

I just can't bring myself to be like everyone else around me.

It's frustrating; it's confusing.

I wish I can get a little help in finding my way.

Plainly, undoubtedly.

As Greg aptly puts it, "It's like walking - put your left foot out, then your right foot, then your left foot, then your right..... When things don't work, try it again later. When you fail, just try again and again."

We were talking about perseverance, failures, and motivation.

When I was in foundation year (in arts college), I should have learnt. I should have understood what Mary, my lecturer, was trying to instill in us - the innocence and playfulness of a child. 

I was sharing with Kayla just recently how weird it is that I actually have to learn to be what I used to be. When we got to know each other donkey years ago (we were 14), I was this carefree, contented, free-spirited and optimistic girl. 

However, like a typical Singaporean sanguine-teen, I lost it along the way while growing up. It is strange how I can't simply revert back to my former character; that I have to learn how to become that way again.

There are some people I admire. I don't envy (at least, I don't want to envy) them, but I admire them. The people who can be pure as a dove, and shrewd like a snake. By the way, God says that we have to be pure like doves, yet shrewd like snakes.

Matthew 10:16 - I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

So, you want to stop whining?

“Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. 

You will wake up every morning with a limitless reservoir of energy and enthusiasm. All your thoughts will be focused on your definite objective. 

You won’t have time to waste time. Valuable mental power will, therefore, not be wasted on trifling thoughts. You will automatically erase the worry habit and become far more effective and productive. 

Interestingly, you will also have a deep sense of inner harmony, as if you are somehow being guided to realize your mission. It is a wonderful feeling.” 

- Robin Sharma, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari"

Constant 10

Some of us live on a constant 10 - a constant pain level of 10.

Though we appear like a 0.

If a doubt comes...

...cast it aside as a sin. 

Every perceived problem is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

Unaffected German Charm

"Whether it is Milan, Miami or Basle, the world’s most important design fairs these days are all focused on what is called high-end design – rare, expensive and above all only available in a limited series. It has been the main factor affecting the way people view the sector for quite some time and in fact somehow contradicts its original purpose – the industrially manufactured mass-product. The only country whose design culture seems to have been left untouched by this development seems to be Germany. German design functions, is technically sophisticated and radiates a cool, no-nonsense image." 

- Andrej Kupetz

It all boils down to

They want perfect bodies. They want perfect souls.

They want to be noticed when they're not around.

We forgot we are nature

We focused so much on the economy, that we forgot we're part of nature.
We focused so much on ourselves, that we forgot we're not living in a vacuum.

There are so many of us using so many resources so quickly. Yet no one seem to stop and wonder if we might be depleting the resources.

We seem to think nature is a separate entity.
We seem to think the economy is a part of us.

We seem to think nature is our limitless ATM machine.

We seem to have forgotten we are nature and nature is us.

Of those manipulated zombie dolls

If you really are a designer, as you claim, you'd start using your brain for once to think, reflect and analyze, and finally open your eyes and ears as well to see and hear what's going on in this world.

After you've finally exercised your brain, eyes and ears a little, you'd soften your hearts a little and open your minds a little to feel and think for others.

Then you truly would be a designer and artist.

Instead of a poseur.

Subway Art and Design

Subways are excellent locations to promote cultural appreciation and reflect a local place's heritage.

A site that features many outstandingly designed subways:

http://mic-ro.com/metro/metroart.html