Into Lin's head #4.

Dignity

/ˈdignitē/ noun

1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache. 

2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes.

3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom.

4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter. 

5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself.

6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it. 

7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don't want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable.

8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission.

9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from.

10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.

Shannon L. alder

2.2 THINGS: Kin Yan Agrotech + Secret Santa + Saturday Folks!. ^^ :)

Hello :)

 Headed to Kin Yan Agrotech farm for a field trip with the school one Tuesday.

The farm grew Wheatgrass, Pea sprouts, Mushrooms, Cacti and Aloe Vera.

Learned the cycle of harvesting Wheatgrass first.

It looks very satisfying to cut them.

Seeds!

Where the mushrooms grow.

I'd include the name of these bag thingies but they sound kind of weird and I'm not sure if I heard correctly so let's just not.. :')

I don't know how I feel about mushrooms..

They look really gross sometimes. ><

Ms Mona: This one is nice, there's a pattern!

=.= HAHAHA.

We looked up and saw an eagle.

(The guy said it was a hawk but now I don't think there's hawks in Singapore, are there?)

And we just got more fascinated about the eagle than the cactus. :'D

So majestic. *v*

Oh did I mention these cacti are edible? :>

Soon we had the chance to taste the stuff they grow.

First up...

WHEATGRASS.

Described as:
Very, very, very good for you. It has a sweet taste, but the only downside that puts people off is the smell. It smells of grass.

My verdict:

Probably still very, very, very good for me. It amazingly does taste sweet even though there was no sugar added into it (definitely no sugar added, I saw the dude squeeze it on the spot). It smells like 1000000000% grass oh my yucks oh the grass smell. x.x

Next up...

CACTUS.

Described as:

It's like eating a green apple.

My verdict:

It's texture is definitely softer than a green apple, or any kind of apple at that. It tasted a little sour at first and then it became rather tasteless. My face throughout eating this was just O.o :/ >:/. I'm really confused about how it tastes but I can go without tasting it again.

Nextttttt...

ALOE VERA.

It looked so easy and satisfying to cut, this one. *v*

Described as:

 I don't recall how they described this.

Probably due to the fact that in my head, it was going to taste like the ones in a KOI drink yum!

My verdict:

Note to self: THIS IS NOT KOI CAFE HAHAHA.

The aloe vera itself was pretty much tasteless.

But do you see that goo down the toothpick?

That goo was bitter and wasn't very pleasant to swallow.

It's a very good example of expectation vs reality. 

Last but not least..

MUSHROOMS!

No need for descriptions, but here's my verdict.

Okay this one definitely deserved the exclamation point.

Really not sure why, but mushrooms cooked in oyster sauce and sesame oil never tasted so good. :'D

They literally cooked us three plates of mixed mushrooms and people just downed it like they're at home. :')

Yup, had to remake this at home. :>

The final one is..

BROWNIES!

Just kidding.

The mushrooms were the last of the edible food.

So apart from the eating, we got to plant too.

Rifqa actually deliberately sprayed water on me.

SO ANNOYING HAHAHA.

They look like chickpeas!

(Are they?! :/)

Cover with a damp paper towel.

And they gave us a box!

It's like a cake box.

Part of me wished I was carrying cake instead. :/ :'D

WEEEEEEE~

I know the box says Wheatgrass but what we're really planting is Pea sprouts!

Had a hard time telling people what it is.

There, these thingies!

The really cute auntie hahaha.

We got jellies as well.

And a bottle of Rosella water.

Not sure what it is, but the ants attacked it and I haven't tried it yet. :/

Bringing this home was such a challenge, all the seeds practically rolled over to one side.

So sorry, plant. :x
All in all, I really quite enjoyed this field trip.
Except the part where I lived in fear because there was a cat and someone scared me.
( You know who you are. >:( )
Will show you a picture of my Pea Sprouts in the next post! :D

Saw these chumps for the first time in 2015.

Did our little gift exchange thing which enlightened me quite a bit HAHAHA.

Ruling wasn't in Singapore though hence the picture representative.
I love gift exchange thingies!
Thank you so much for such an awesome first meeting in 2015,
I LOVE YOU ALL. ^^ :D

MY (not so) SECRET SANTA!

Not so because...HAHAHA. :D

But really, though, thank you's not good enough. :)

Please do keep smiling and doing things that make you happy cause you deserve it. ^^

 I'm gonna miss you terribly when you fly off. :(

Headed off to Sunday Folks after that..

And called ourselves the Saturday Folks cause we went on a Saturday. :')

Had to wait 13 tables before getting ours, but I found a Phoon Huat and spent some time there.

I LOVE THAT SHOP! :D

Tried the Earl Grey Lavender flavor, which everyone kind of doubted cause they were afraid it would taste like air freshener. :')

But I loved it, though, I think I liked it more than I thought I would.

AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN! :D

Lastly..

Wen Feng donated me a packet of Applesauce the other day..
So I turned it into Mini Apple Pies!
Recipe from Laura Vitale, she made Apple Pie Cookies, but I just changed her cookie base to pie crust.
Could improve on the pie crust much, much, much more.
YUM YUM.

Du vet jeg elsker deg.
Goodbye

Into Lin's head #3.

Have you ever had to

Just stand there and watch

The dark clouds approach closer

And closer

Towards you

 Or breathing in

The atmosphere

That gets thicker and thicker

With fog and mist

 Standing, looking over

Paths and roads

Some of which leads to dead ends

And some which goes on forever

 Some days it gets too heavy

So it pours

Like the rain

Or the waterfalls

Sometimes you feel alone

Or crave isolation

Especially after giving

What feels like

A huge part

Of Yourself
To someone else

But you can't stay there

You gotta move

And just keep moving

Find that beauty

Find that meaning

Stop and just look at things

 Get in touch with them

Picture them

Write them

Keep searching for them.

Why do I bother going places?

Looking at artifacts,

Old things behind glasses,

Things I cannot even get hold of,

Take pictures of everything

Type the things some people say

Write down my thoughts

Watching videos

Posting pictures on social media

Have so many dreams about traveling

Because I want to show myself that

There are still beauty in this world.

And even if I don't find it in humans

I can find it in things, in places

And I'll know just what to do to lift myself up again.

 But

Isn't it rather funny

How in the end

No matter what

We actually do find
This one type of comfort

In people?

Du vet jeg elsker deg.

Goodbye

SIGNature 2014 + Mus8um Hopping #2 + GBTB!. ^^ :)

Well, hello there!

The first week of term break has been rather eventful. ^^

But first..

Baby Zulfiqar has grown so much from the last time I saw him!!

Mummy decided to just put him in my arms and leave me alone that day.. :')

(She knows that I am really not confident with handling infants hahaha so she just walked over, gave him to me and walked away giggling =.=)

I survived about 7 minutes with both of us being awkward and then he started getting really uncomfortable and wanted to cry so I returned him to his Mummy. :'D

But he's getting really cute I wish I could just give him a massive hug. *v*

Caught Night At The Museum 3 with Mum & Bro on Friday..

Bangers & Mash.

I actually really quite like this for the movies.

But every time I look at it, it reminds me of Miley Cyrus...

O.O

The movie was alright; especially Ahkmenrah. *v*

Had dinner with them and then went off to SP for SIGNature 2014.

So apparently I dropped off one bus stop later than I should.

As I backtracked from the bus stop, I saw an entrance to the school and decided to enter it.

Very clever, Lin.

And then I walked and walked and walked through what seemed like endless corridors.

SP has a lot of corridors and construction work. :/

After a lot of gut feelings and calls,

Kian Hui saved me in the end, though. :')

Reached still in time for registration and got some candy!

A rather random Panoramic picture of the whole place. :>

Us people.

Plus Shimei at the back! :')

It was a really, really lovely night watching all the performances.

Was really refreshing and inspired watching their style of interpreting and song signing.
They also had a nice Christmas tree made of lights for their photobooth.

Thank you Kelvin for snapping this picture. :>

MC14/15 REPRESENT.^^

With Stephen.
Thank you SPSLC for organising such a lovely night.
All the best with the club and the rest of your future events and endeavours!

Saturday.
Headed out in the noon, unsure of which buses to take, which paths to walk..
But I did it and despite having dropped off at completely different bus stops and completely following my gut feeling on where to walk, I finally found Aqilah. :>
Also passed by two other museums before finally reaching this one..

Yaaaaas, have always wanted to go here!

It looks really pretty, and for some reason I've always (secretly) wished I was Peranakan.

Probably mainly because of the food and outfits. :-)

Yes, that girl on the right is a bit creepy hahaha. :')

Walked in and got a shock because I thought this was a real cat. :')

It's some kind of a gift to the museum from someone.

No idea why they would do this to people. :(

The receptionist lady was really nice!

Asked us a few questions and gave us our stickers.

Yay another one!

Need somewhere to paste all these stickers now.

Some days, don't you just wish you can do that.. ^

Sucker for mirrors.

Especially huge, full-body ones.

Casually getting photobombed by the man and woman at the back.

Not creepy at all.. O.O

Did I mention how we tried to open every door we came upon?

We ended up finding one that can actually be opened and it led us to the balcony!

More picture opportunities!

I was not ready.

 Saw these things which you can press, and I went along pressing every single one I came across.

Until Aqilah told me that there's probably some kind of activity sheet where you put the paper in between the gap, press it and it'll make a cut and I just went O.O :O

I saw the activity sheet as we walked out of the museum later on.

The temptation to walk through the whole museum again just to complete the sheet was too real.

This is wedding bed and some chairs.

It looks quite cozy inside but it doesn't look that soft and fluffy to sleep on. :/

Oooo random boy in Baju Kurung, Samping and Songkok accompanying the wedsters.

(Wedsters = some kind of random name I came up with)

Peranakan is pretty much kind of like Malay + Chinese, though right? :/

"12 days? Like Christmas!"
"Oooh, Nasi Lemak~"

"Yeah, the sang khek umm what?"

Old school telephones!

I liked this part, the first one on the left reminds me of P. Ramlee's movies.

The middle one I have.

The last one is still pretty normal. :>

The cool (yet creepy) thing about these telephones was that when you pick it up, it stimulates a typical conversation you would have with a Peranakan person.

In this case, I talked to Betty about getting  job interview and an aunt on naughty young children.

Kinda creepy when you think about who's voices it actually is. O.O

(Also bothers me a little of the fact that many, many, many other people have placed it on their ears etc ><)

O.O

"Oh, that's pretty cool."

"It looks like the character in Silent Hill."

"OMG YA."

In this part, there's a chair which you can sit on and pretend you're having a meal with a Peranakan family.

They also played a recording of people talking, sounds of plates, cups and spoons moving etc to really stimulate the meal.

Pretty cool.

But there's just too many empty plates and bowls, to be honest. :/ :P

One of my favorite parts!!!

THE KITCHEN. *v*

Some of the things I've seen in my Kampungs, which I find really cool.

Oh, when we walked into this part, there was a security guard in there.

As we were looking at the kitchen, the blinds of the window over there just started to roll up slowly.

*I look at the security guard, he looks at me, I look at Aqilah, she looks at me, "What is going on??" "Oh thanks." O.O*

:'D

Really cool things though, check out that charcoal-fired stoves.

 Check out that hanging box of plates etc though?

Not sure if the thingy on the right is a drawer/cabinet or some kind of wooden sofa you can sit on when you get tired cooking.

  Three generations of pestle and mortars?

The kitchen would be the important thing in a house for me, apart from the bedroom. :P

 Followed the stairs and ended up in a gallery of beautiful batiks.

I love Batik designs. *v*

Dropped by the washroom and it smelled nice in there. :>

Aqilah telling me how much she likes the top she's wearing (especially the pockets). :'D

Went over to the graffiti wall Aqilah found outside the museum.

It started getting a bit cloudy but still managed to get some pictures. :>

Awkward.

Sorry. :/

Not sure if I've mentioned this, you guys know my ultimate favorite colour is green.

But red is my second favorite. :>

Well actually, only if it's with green.

Still my top two colours. ^^

*Looks at wall and reads the quote*

"What does it mean?"

"No idea."

"'ll just take a picture and figure it out later."

:'D

Saw some shiny triangular things and decided to take a look..

Only to realise that it didn't actually impress us much. :/

Picture anyway.

"Are we going to this museum?"

"I don't know!"

*starts drizzling quite intensely*

"OK WE'RE GOING IN."

*runs into the museum*

:')

Oooo look at that. O.O

Walked over to Plaza Sing where I got my KOI (Aqilah macam tahu je), we walked around and had dinner.

I made no purchases of any kind even after entering many shops with the Sale sign on it.

*pats back*

We then hopped on to the MRT to head to Gardens By The Bay.

We dropped off at the new station (Marina Bay South Pier?) and was so clueless because it was so ulu and empty.

So we got on the MRT back to Marina Bay where there were more humans. :')

Followed the signs to head to GBTB and finally made it!

Aqilah was being really sneaky and walking really fast and when I finally knew why I was like just like..

:O O.O :O :O :O :O WHAAAAAAAAT.

Yup, tickets to the Flower Dome & Cloud Forest.

I mean, for a girl who is not overly-nature-y, the place is pretty darn well made.

(Although a part of me kept asking if things were real, I don't know man, the fact that it's enclosed like in an exhibition gives everything a man-made feel.)

But that waterfall though.

IT WAS TALL AND SPLASHY AND COLD!!

How do you take a good picture of that?!

Aqilah then told me that the reason why we walked so fast was so that we won't miss the mist.

(See what we did there)

Look at that infrastructure though. *v*

Pitcher Plants!!

Did people actually make a wish and throw coins in here? O.O

"Go take eh, I need I need a dollar or two."

"Eh, that's coins from China."

At Level 7, we walked on the bridge in the previous picture.

Still unsure how high I must be till I get uncomfortable or "scared of heights".

I don't think I am afraid of heights, but I'm pretty sure that there's a limit of how high I can be till I get freaked out.

Will let you know when I find out.

Till then, standing and looking down from that height felt quite nice to me.

Almost like I was flying and up so high from the world. ^^

^^

These things which I always see in crystal shops!!

"It's not real right?"

"IT IS!!!"

"Eh look, got Malaysian ringgit inside!"

"TAKE IT HURRY!!"

Especially these things,

ARE THEY REAL?!

How can they hold up?

Is it real?? O.O

*takes pictures of flowers*

"Eh, I thought you don't really like flowers?"

"My Mum really likes purple things."

"Ohh, okay."

"Wanna go check the Earth?"

"Yeah, sure."

:'D

Somewhat a short film screening on what would happen if the Earth gains another 5 degrees.

Kinda scary.

Watched the whole thing 1.5 times mainly cause we were kinda tired and sitting down feels nice. :'D

Got fairly dark and Aqilah wanted to look at the Waterfall (now lighted up) so we backtracked and opened more doors (hahaha) and finally found the right lift.

Managed to go right back to the start (thanks to that dude) and saw that it turned purple. *v*

Wowwwwww wow wow. :O

Just wow huh.

"Living in the moment"

HAHAHA this pose hahahaha new favorite pose. :P

Found a bench and sat, chilling and talking till 8pm so that we can see the mist again!!

This time, we watched it fly everywhere and discovering where it came from. O.O

Another cool thing is that it was SO COLD in the forest.

Like when are you ever in a forest/park in Singapore and not sweat but instead freeze?!

:O

Guess this is what it'd be like to walk around the parks in UK, huh? ;) :P

HAHAHA.

Headed to the Flower Dome after that and...

Saw much pretty lights and flowers!

Such cute flower bushes.

Like mini versions of those big white flower things..

(Not so good with flowers, sorry.)

Found the flowers that is imprinted on the outerwear I was wearing. :')

And...

ROSES!

Never expected myself to like roses but :P

White roses are gorgeous.

So are red ones.

And (to me) it's quite hard to believe that red roses actually do smell good.

 If you ever come across a legit red rose,

SMELL IT, I TELL YOU, SMELL IT!!!

It really smells like rose syrup/water/etc, but just a tad bit less sweet.

(Duh, they add loads of sugar in syrup don't they.)

A lovely (rather old) lady told us that those which has yet to fully bloom smell even sweeter.

So I smelled them all and literally poked my nose into them. :')

Mmmm.

There's even a maroon rose!

 I was trying to sit on it.

Really tiny white flowers which grows in clusters!

So cute, I could look at them forever. *v*

Some cacti which made me feel really weird. :/

Don't like them.

Next up was the Christmas lights!

(Which I absentmindedly said looked like Deepavali lights hahaha don't it though?!)

Lights can be so pretty.

Tried taking polaroids selfie-style but HAHAHA.

Still love them, thank you!!

We also were just in time and managed to catch the dancing lights of the thingys.

They played songs from Frozen, and then suddenly a whole jam of Mariah Carey. :'D

 Yes, these thingies.

It rained just as we began to head back home, where (as usual) we got confused and had to change trains because this and that and whatnot. :')

Still good fun and laughs nonetheless! :'D

To Aqilah

The words "Thank You" is really an understatement for how grateful I am to have met you, and for every thoughtful little thing you have done not just for me but for everyone else too.
You really are one of a kind and you really do make me want to change all things negative.
Allow me to remind you like how you've reminded me;
You should just be you and stay you..
Know that you are amazing and special in your own way, and with such a heart that you hold, you will make an impact on so many people's lives.
If not everyone, then let me tell you that you did on mine.
To much better days, weeks, years.
Keep strong and stay smiling.
Syukran for everything. :')

This goes for everyone reading this too.
I know it can be really difficult when you're in the process/phase of figuring out who you are, or fixing yourself.
But just remember..
"Trust that time will mend, and if not mended together, then mended apart."

Most of the pictures in this post are from Aqilah, by the way.
Will probably do a picture post next.

Hope you lot had a good break. :)

Du vet jeg elsker deg.
Goodbye