mix tape.

4:24 PM

i'd give anything to be able to leave on a jet plane now. i'm serious! though unsure of the destination.. anywhere's fine with me. ok as long as it's not a place where i can't speak the language.

didnt get the placement for exchange (because NTU has too little foreign contacts or my GPA sucked too badly). my roomie and suhui got the placements(: but that means it's gonna be a lonely next sem for me.
daniel not staying.. jianhao not staying.. derrick might not be staying.. yiiyin and yongjie graduate..
I AM LEFT FRIENDLESS. ok that's assuming i can get a hall next year. HAHA.

never mind. we'll see how that works out.

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i recently joined a facebook group called "LOVE, The Hemingway Project"
FYI, Ernest Hemingway is very famous author. i've never read any of his works but i've heard of him.

he said one of his greatest love stories was made up of just 6 words:

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

at first glance you might feel bewildered. how can anyone manage to write a story in just SIX words? what happened to the baby? why were the shoes never worn?
could it be still birth?

my first interpretation was..

somewhere sometime there was a young couple who was very much in love. they were both not well-off, but lived comfortably. one day the girl discovered that she was pregnant. both were not prepared for the pregnancy. the boy was 20 and the girl was 17. she told him the news with such fear and trepidation she almost broke down. and the boy was in shock too. but in a split second he cradled her face in his hand.. telling her how happy he was to hear he was going to become a father.
he could barely contain his excitement. the very next day he rushed into town to get a pair of baby shoes for his unborn child. "blue.. or pink?" he couldn't decide as he didn't even know his baby's gender! and so he decided to go with the most neutral colour, white. which also stood for purity and grace, among other things.
as time went by, the girl's stomach grew bigger, and she subjected to scorn and contempt by the others. these others.. who thought they were so pure, so high and mighty. such saints they thought themselves to be.
she quit school, and the boy did too. to work and earn money in preparation for raising a baby. since their parents have more or less disowned them in fear of this young couple bringing shame to their families.
the girl needed support, but could find none in the boy's arms. he was always too busy, rushing in and out of town to run errands for rich merchants and traders. he loved her so much he was willing to suffer anything. but he didn't know that the girl would gladly trade a diamond ring for more quality time spent just sitting beside him.
but one day the girl got tired of this. all she knew was, she could not stay in that town anymore. she left.
where she went, nobody knew.
overwhelmed by grief.. the boy put the baby shoes up for sale. no, he was not really thinking that anyone would buy it. it was just an act of commemorating and perhaps perpetuating the pain of finding and losing two people which he held so dear.

or you could interpret the second part as still birth.. which would be equally tragic.

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anyway i'm done writing for today.

finally, laid eyes on.. something special.

that's my six word love story. have a go too! (: