Risk It!
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"One of the best weekends away i ever had was when my flatmate suggested we take off and go to Penang on the spur of the moment", says Gillian, 26. "I'm a total control freak so i wasn't keen on taking off with no place organized to stay. But she talked me round an hour later, we took off each with an overnight bag. We drove out and enroute, stumbled across a fantastic food festival. Later in the day we hopped into the car and drove until we came across a gorgeous hotel overlooking the beach and that's where we stayed. After dinner we went to the cinema and then for coffee where we struck up a conversation with this lovely couple of friends who were also away for the weekend. We ended up playing pictionary with them until 3 am - giggling and having a great time the entire night. One of the two guys we met is now my husband and we're very much in love" extract from Cleo (May 2007 issue)
So cool right? How she took one risk and found a lifetime of happiness...
The article was on taking risks and i was very much drawn to it.... It's weird how sometimes you just need to be reminded about stuff. From magazines or movies or music. I've actually kinda forgotten how it feels to take risks. Last year was full of risks and it felt good. I agreed to emcee knowing fully well that public speaking was my ultimate weakness. I made friends with all kinds of people, people who i didn't even think were reliable at times. I took risks with all my articles in ECHO. I tried to set up a Rotaract Club in SyUC... didn't really work but it was worth the effort. And it felt good doing all those things. It felt good pushing apprehension away and just doing stuff. And then for a while, i kinda stopped. But i'm going to start taking risks again, regardless of how small they are. I can't believe i actually let someone convince me that risks aren't worth taking at times, especially when it comes to relationships. That in my opinion IS a whole load of crap. And you know what? I'm not even going to bother setting the person straight. Go with convention by all means, do stuff the usual way i have absolutely nothing against it. But that's not me, i work for stuff i want. I do not believe that things are handed to you on a silver platter (exp for food in my case). If you want something, you have to work for it. And it's so much more worth it that way. When you know that your effort bore fruit. And if it doesn't, you'll only be determined to work harder. So i'm going to start taking risks again.
On a lighter note, today was kinda okayyy in a way.. When my alarm rang, it was raining. Perfect! And so i pulled my covers over my head and felt myself sink deeper into the mattress. Pure bliss! Or should i say blithe perfection?? (learnt the word in itallics today) I think i crawled out about an hour later. Did some General Paper stuff today but i bummed around for most of the day. I read about the holocaust and then looked up the meaning of words i had written down in my vocab book like a million years ago.
ANd then, i decided to go in search of One Tree Hill season four. Esther had it with her so i drove over to her place. Tricky ordeal i must say! I think i got lost countless times but i didn't give up and i was there about an hour later. LOL. I felt like gollum when i finally got my hands on the cd... i was chanting "my precious" at the back of my mind......... I thought driving back would be a piece of cake but i just couldn't seem to find my way outta that place. I kept going around in circles until i finally took a detour and ended up near One U. Petrol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clocked in 4 hours of One Tree Hill in the afternoon. Ahhhhh! I think i got an overdose of Lucas Scott (played by Chad Michael Murray) coz as time slipped away, i began to notice all these imperfections about him like how his nose looked like a tiny button and how he had this same confused look during confrontations....... Started to annoy me coz i built up Lucas Scott to be this perfect perfect guy... ANywayz, the gals are sluttier than ever this time around and the storyline is kinda weird la but i relish it aneeeeway so yea....
*Horrors* Maybe i'm getting too old for the drama... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
So yup yup, that's pretty much it. Am beginning to wonder why i haven't heard from my editor at YM though.....
So cool right? How she took one risk and found a lifetime of happiness...
The article was on taking risks and i was very much drawn to it.... It's weird how sometimes you just need to be reminded about stuff. From magazines or movies or music. I've actually kinda forgotten how it feels to take risks. Last year was full of risks and it felt good. I agreed to emcee knowing fully well that public speaking was my ultimate weakness. I made friends with all kinds of people, people who i didn't even think were reliable at times. I took risks with all my articles in ECHO. I tried to set up a Rotaract Club in SyUC... didn't really work but it was worth the effort. And it felt good doing all those things. It felt good pushing apprehension away and just doing stuff. And then for a while, i kinda stopped. But i'm going to start taking risks again, regardless of how small they are. I can't believe i actually let someone convince me that risks aren't worth taking at times, especially when it comes to relationships. That in my opinion IS a whole load of crap. And you know what? I'm not even going to bother setting the person straight. Go with convention by all means, do stuff the usual way i have absolutely nothing against it. But that's not me, i work for stuff i want. I do not believe that things are handed to you on a silver platter (exp for food in my case). If you want something, you have to work for it. And it's so much more worth it that way. When you know that your effort bore fruit. And if it doesn't, you'll only be determined to work harder. So i'm going to start taking risks again.
On a lighter note, today was kinda okayyy in a way.. When my alarm rang, it was raining. Perfect! And so i pulled my covers over my head and felt myself sink deeper into the mattress. Pure bliss! Or should i say blithe perfection?? (learnt the word in itallics today) I think i crawled out about an hour later. Did some General Paper stuff today but i bummed around for most of the day. I read about the holocaust and then looked up the meaning of words i had written down in my vocab book like a million years ago.
ANd then, i decided to go in search of One Tree Hill season four. Esther had it with her so i drove over to her place. Tricky ordeal i must say! I think i got lost countless times but i didn't give up and i was there about an hour later. LOL. I felt like gollum when i finally got my hands on the cd... i was chanting "my precious" at the back of my mind......... I thought driving back would be a piece of cake but i just couldn't seem to find my way outta that place. I kept going around in circles until i finally took a detour and ended up near One U. Petrol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clocked in 4 hours of One Tree Hill in the afternoon. Ahhhhh! I think i got an overdose of Lucas Scott (played by Chad Michael Murray) coz as time slipped away, i began to notice all these imperfections about him like how his nose looked like a tiny button and how he had this same confused look during confrontations....... Started to annoy me coz i built up Lucas Scott to be this perfect perfect guy... ANywayz, the gals are sluttier than ever this time around and the storyline is kinda weird la but i relish it aneeeeway so yea....
*Horrors* Maybe i'm getting too old for the drama... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
So yup yup, that's pretty much it. Am beginning to wonder why i haven't heard from my editor at YM though.....
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