Sweet Memories.

Memories. It's a place in the past we sometimes go to for comfort, when the present just isn't good enough. It's also a place that holds our lives together. It can also be a place where dreams are blurred... Where the lines between the truth and the wanted become unclear. 

I've got so many great, amazing memories that I never dare to forget. My first bike, my first crush, my first Summer romance... etc. Memories of people in life. Family. Friends. Best Friends. 

The thing is, I love those memories and I cherish it so, so much. But I'd never want to relive it. This is because, nothing you do in the present can live up to a great memory; a great memory cannot be duplicated or bested. 

I've liked and admired. I've lived a dream. My Summer romances in Vietnam have been innocent and amazing. But everytime I return to Vietnam, it's never the same story, we can never pick up where we left off. Because we have two things against us, distance and time.

i'll never forget that moment

when i saw you for the first time

how our first date went

anything but smooth and fine

so young and so stupid

we couldn't say a thing

astonishing, it even started

even despite the arguing

but we lived in that moment

we didn't think about the Fall

how our time together was spent

how we could've had it all

we barely spoke a day

but what was, was enough

it all sent me into such a daze

i never felt like giving up

until i left and then came back

then realised what had happened

everything was spinning out of whack

everything. us. weakened.

but nothing hurts more 

than seeing your face

trying so hard to ignore

the fact you've been replaced

but you never even fought

was it not good enough for you?

so then everything i've thought

was it just me being a fool?

i'll never forget our memories

as i can't ever make new ones

not the same, anyway, like you and me

as the saying goes, what's done, is done

i still reminisce our days

the confession, the date

long walks at night along the bay

the calls, the fights, the wait

it may be four thousand miles

but i hope and wish you all the best

to always have a great smile

to find great love to confess

time

What would I do without technology? I might be able to achieve in my academics at a higher level - I might have a more active lifestyle - I might have time. I was watching a Disney show, Sonny With A Chance, yeah I know, Disney - I love it. The point is, Demi Lovato performed a song called Me, Myself and Time. It had amazing lyrics. They were very original and the song was just really good. 

I've always thought to myself how amazing people from history are, our ancestors. They were able to build giant boats, buildings that are architecturally amazing! They were able to survive in a completely different environment. They may not have had a longer life-span than those of us today, but they did so much. Great people from probably not-so-great backgrounds doing great things, without technology. They were born with such a skillful mind. The kind of mind that we take for granted these days. The kind of mind that made history.

Even as I'm typing, I'm thinking about their great calligraphy skills that we have lost. We're slacking off because well who cares how neat our handwriting is when typing is so much easier and less time-consuming. We are losing value skills through evolution to make life better... I'm not going to live in the past and cut myself off from society but If I had a chance to go back in time and observe those great minds at work and see how people lived before technology, that would be worth more than any fortune or material object in this entire universe.

if we just let everything

become ambient and disappear

we will risk losing

everything we love so dear

don't sit and wait for the next tick

get out there and beat the tock

don't waste time by making a list

don't waste it by checking the clock

but what if we do

if we stop and look at life

at the red, green and blues

really seeing for the first time

sense all that is

around, above and beyond

while you both still exist

before it's all gone