Consternation.

Listening to the late Michael Jackson's 'We Are The World' and watching the remake 'World 25 for Haiti' on YouTube tonight reduced me to tears. Not for the first time. Children waving their hands in the air... How I wanted to thrust my own into the screen - take each and every hand into mine and wash away their despair. Although countless times, I have heard the same words and melody.

How often have you heard news about the next disaster striking a part of the Earth's once-beautiful profile? Wade in a shallow pool of momentary anguish, and consequently let the emotion pass? Like how the phrase 'Africans are poverty-stricken' no longer conveys a significance; overused, but undermined.

I know you know that one can only empathize if constrained into the unfortunate's shoes. Figuratively, of course. What shoes? But can you imagine living the way they do? Either to have agonized since birth, or to be robbed of a peaceful lifestyle de repente... Can you imagine inhaling their air, walking their walk, surviving the painful ticking of seconds? Maybe, just maybe you can paint a vague picture. But if you were the one to be perpetually devastated, frustrated with your hapless fate, creating "if-this-didn't-happen-I-would-be"-s, If you were the one exposed to the world - as a subject, a victim, a pitiful soul. If you were the one such artistes gather in a hall to sing to...

No, I can't bear the thought.

This really affects me.

How do you pacify a sensitive douche without actually giving in? (:

Retrace.

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade

Laying everybody low with a love song that he made

Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade

Says something like "you and me babe, how about it?"

Juliet says "hey, it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack"

He's underneath the window she's singing "hey la my boyfriend's back

You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that"

Anyway what you gonna do about it?

Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start

And I bet that you exploded into my heart

And I forget I forget the movie song

When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?

Juliet

Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame

Both dirty, both mean, yes and the dream was just the same

And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real

How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver

You can fall for chains of gold

You can fall for pretty strangers

And the promises they hold

You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah

Now you just say "oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him"

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry

You said "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die"

There's a place for us you know the movie song

When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?

Juliet

I can't do the talk, like the talk on the TV

And I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be

I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you

I can't do anything except be in love with you

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be

All I do is keep the beat and the bad company

Now all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme

Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any time

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry

You said I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die

There's a place for us you know the movie song

When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?

Juliet

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade

Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made

Finds a convinient streetlight, steps out of the shade

Says something like "you and me babe, how about it?"

"You and me babe, how about it?"

Matt Nathanson

Sooo many things to get done before Monday.

I'm supposed to be 'living life to the fullest', or something like that.

Durrr.

Cause I love the way you call me baby.

Hummm. (:

Today I drowned in a sea of emotions.

Just like how a diver discovers a coral on one surface and a starfish on another, I am cumbrously wading past endless surfaces. Care to join me in my little adventure? - that will potentially persist, endless as I indicated?

But it's no more.

Singing along as I strum my guitar. And it's midnight. Hmm...

I don't want to be your rebound.

Navigate the Wooden Smiles.

No, I really don't...

So you said, this is all we have. The prices you paid, for the mess we set. You know I took a leap of faith, and got myself lost. Probably flew past the boundary, or maybe my heart was tossed. Too easy to fall, too easy to let it happen. I should have known it all, I should have really listened. From magazines to stories, to rumours to celebrities; From signs to warnings, to people telling me.

Did you know...

I tied my hands for you to destinate further, pinned my feet together so you win the races, held my tongue to not be a bother, made way for you in crowded places. Brew you coffee I had the leftovers, used the salt for you to have the sugar. Swallowed my tears to not frustrate you, yet when I cry you say that's all I do.

I love your warm embraces, the cute notes and little letters, fluttering light kisses and flirty smses. I love the short movies or shows, your radiant glow. But somehow they're all short-lived, apparently thats all you can give.

I really don't know how to live.

Adeline Kong

31st October 2008

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I traded my dreams for this mess of memories.

#1 Snow Moments

I founded Snow. (:

It represents my secret taste of possessing contentment.

The verdict? It tastes real sweet.

Derived it from S.A.L.J.I. The beauty of the Malay language. Mmm.

I: "I dropped my pen to the ground, just like how my heart crashed into a sea of equations."

Yeah Math was really that difficult.

I'll treasure these few last weeks I have with all of you.

The dice were loaded from the start.

And you promised me everything
Yeah you promised me thick and thin
Now you just turn away and say
Juliet, yeah you know I used to have a scene with her.

No, I am not crazy over John Park. At all. Please don't tell me if you are, I will be the least interested person to know.

(:

And I forget, I forget, this movie song.

Uno.

I'd sign up for twitter only to follow certain world icons.

To be honest I think twitter is 90 % for those with plenty of time to fling away.

And I'm a busy woman.

So this is probably my little personal outlet. In which my future posts will be entirely arbitrary.

What am I doing, blogging?

After two months?

Why, you will never know.

I will never know.

(:

tryaliltenderness, I have missed you.