masquerade; paper faces on parade

Monday, June 19, 2006

Requoting the quotes that Addie had plastered over his site.

Do take some time off to read them

25 quotes regarding friendship.

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anaïs Nin

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."" - C.S. Lewis

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling." - Arthur Brisbane,"The Book of Today"

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it." - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." - John Churton Collins

"It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

"When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship." - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"The road to a friend's house is never long." -Danish proverb

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard

"True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." - Epicurus

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." - C. S. Lewis

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” - Bernard Meltzer

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” - Gloria Naylor (African-American novelist and educator, 1950)

"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Anonymous

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." - Unknown

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Friends are treasures." -Horace Bruns

"A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have." - Unknown

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Home sweet home
Arrived back in the tiny red dot we call home on friday evening and after a much missed mom prepared meal, I was out again for good old Singapore prata with Derrick and chan Fan, followed by drinks and the opening match of the world cup over at Robertson quay.. and it wasn't till 6 in the morning that I finally hit the pillows.

The next day was pretty much the same, meeting up with Bryna and Ales for a meal (it was for Alex's birthday) and followed by football session with my dad n bro...

Thoughts about the european trip
London was anything but CHEAP... food, transport and accomodation are mad even by euorpean standards...

Barcelona was by far my favorite destination of all the cities I been to. People are warm, food is good and shopping good too for mid range labels like springfield and zara (springfield is so cheap here compared to SG prices)

Paris, Milan and Rome was good for sightseeing and just sitting down to enjoy the metropolitan beat while Nice was relaxed and laidback. Florence was beautiful but I hated the weather while shopping was good, especially in tuscany as Brenda had pointed out

A new chapter
Work has officially commenced today and I am sure fighting to get used to it after 2 months of doing nothing...

I was late 10 mins (good thing the boss wasnt around) and was fighting to stay awake... so much for my first day huh...

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Saturday, June 03, 2006

In one of the roman internet centres now.. just did the tour of the Vatican museums and man.... the queue to get in was mad! 3 hours. can u believe it...

Haven't gotten the chance to send out my postcards from the vatican city yet because they closes at 2.30 and it was impossible to get into the Vatican post office at St Peter's square cos of some mass they are holding today... but so far I got to say i am loving Rome more den i do for Florence..

One good thing about Florence though was the outlet shopping in the region of Leccio, in Tuscany and darn, the shopping trip that was organised was only 2.5hrs - way too short to get over to the D&G and Prada outlets.... I might sound like a looney here blowing money on these labels but man.. when u look at the prices they are going for, you will probably do the same thing...

I got 2 wallets, one ferragmo and one gucci - one of which will likely be given to my dad as a prezzie and a belt for myself and they got to be at least 50-60% cheaper than those u find in Singapore. Who cares if they are from last season. singapore prob is one or two seasons behind. ; P

More to see in Rome. The Colosseo, the Pantheon....

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Thursday, June 01, 2006

brr... I rreally can't take the winds here no more.... thank goodness i wioll be heading for rome tomorrow... and the transport system here is just so inefficient you would think it cease to exist at times-hence the reson for me sitting here to blòg...

apparently the train just got delayed for an hour... and it's not something unusual here.. and outlet shopping which was supposed to be at 9.30 has been pushed back to 3pm totally catching us offguard. one word. damned.

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