This is a disclaimer: THE FOLLOWING POST IS NOT A POEM

I was thinking today, well in my usual anne self, why should i be so lucky to be in a safe country with a stable government, in a good school, not daily frought with thoughts of who in my family will be killed next by some mad men rampaging around the country, with family all safe, no sickness except for that ugly sore throat that's sapping my voice, and friends all around me

Wow, philo is getting to me...i decided to draw up a new, drabblish, yet not drabblish fanfic, of life if i was in another country. like not in a school, not in a safe place, not have a good and square healthy three meals a day thing... i might transplant some of you lucky or unlucky friends into it too.

i'll use pseudo names of course. im obviously moira, but i need all friends who i'll probably use in my story, namely the baboonz and melissa plus a few add ons i'll think of. i might not put this plan into action, it's just an idea floating around in the air at the moment...maybe i'll use my other balletroxmylife.blogspot.com blog to post it... still thinking...i need a good blogskin...

well i'll let the idea float around more and i just might write it :)

well tell me what you think...oh yeah, for friends im using, i'll try to stick to exactly how you are normally towards me and all...

and tell e what war-torn country i should write to be in...

haha

thanks dears

moira rose out

last night
only last night
i dreamt of heaven
and what eternal peace felt like

the roads paved with gold glimmered
with a crystal clear sea next to it
and jewelled walls sparkling
with ebony gates opening just for me

i dreamt of grassy fields of childhood
the sun beating gently on my back
the wind making my hair fly
the sense that this is where i belong

while i felt the happiness
of reaching my final goal
i seemed to remember a struggle
a torturous journey to home

i remembered how tears feel like on my face
how anger cuts you up inside
how hatred numbs your senses
how disappointment sinks in my stomach

yet i can still smile
still laugh
in that safe haven
of home

i woke up when it was still black outside
and felt reality wash over me
but i thank God for that taste of heaven
of what he gave to me that night

for i'm still a pilgrim
wayward and swayed by temptation
but with this hope in my heart
i'm plugging along life's way

i wonder what today brings...


A/N: this is based on an actual dream i had a while ago. i dreamt of a tiny little corner of heaven, like a teensy bit of happiness. well i woke up and felt like saying, "darn, if only that could last longer..." and i would have said it if i didn't have my sis next to me sleeping. then i kinda pondered on it for a while and wondered if this was a foreshadowing of what was to come...hmmm...wonder if i'll sight the city soon, but still hoping, still praying...

moira rose out

Crossroads

I'm standing at a crossroad
a convergence of two split roads
they'll never meet again
they'll just keep on growing further and further away

I'm making a choice,
turn left or turn right
and I'm wondering,
if all I wanted was more time

I'm wishing for the world to stand still
just give me a bit more time
a bit, just a bit
so I can stay here in limbo a bit longer

I know this will change my life
to pick between living a life with friends I've made this year
or a passion I've had for more years than I can remember,
which one?

The year will come to an end
sooner or later
and the decision will be upon me
to choose which way I'll go.

And suddenly,
all the effort I've put in,
all the friends I've made,
all the dreams I've had,
are tipping the scales this way and that.

And all of that,
seems to boil down to,
just three words,
judo or ballet?


A/N: Sorry for the emo-ing, but what rebecca said to me during judo camp really stuck. when i told her that i'd given up ballet, something i've been doing for 9 years already, just to start judo, she said, "it's a wonder what people give up for judo". I choked up then. It struck me that, i HAD given p a hell of a lot for judo, and it's not like im getting anywhere with it. i'm NOT good, contrary to popular belief. AND SO THERE! so i'm still stuck. still choosing, and the balance tips back and forth. hopefully, it will become steady when the time comes to choose
moira rose out

Post-Holiday Blues

One last golden day

of holidays long gone

To stay in the present is my wish

yet it's hopelessly unattainable


As surely as the sun sets today

I will leave this happy haven

the golden will seep through into blackness

leaving me grasping for wisps of memories long gone


Where is my yesterday?

buried in friends and family

defined by going abroad and discovering new places

shaped by laughter and love


Where is my tomorrow?

buried in textbooks and worksheets

defined by MYAs and EOYs

shaped by expectations and meeting them




I'm hopelessly living in a present

with time ticking away

deciding if I should

to grasp what is yesterday's to keep

or to hope that what tomorrow brings never comes


A/N: sorry i haven't been posting but i've been writing like a lunatic on fanfic for a while and haven't got the time. the poem featured above is on going back to school and me being my ornery self, hate it

HATE IT. i envy that kimberley pah, gets to go to CANADA, skip the EOYs, not fair...
ahh but i managed to finish lots of fanfics (4 chappies of What kind of human are you?, 2 oneshots and 1 chappie of So Near Yet so far) wootz^^
so i'm okay...
i guess...

moira rose out



okay, this is a final fantasy 7 inspired poem, sorry but it has spoilers, some of it at least.

clang
my sword hits yours
causing sparks to dance
you taught me all i know now
and i'm using it to kill you.

why?
why did you leave?
you made it so difficult for me
i have to kill you
lest get killed myself.

dying
do i fear it?
fear it enough to kill my best mentor?
maybe so
maybe no

we whirl round and round
parrying blows like we used to do during training
where you'd call out to me what to do
what happened to those happy times?
what happened to us?

but i can't kill you
in some strange way
i love you like you're my father
i can't let you die
knowing it was because of me.

i drop my sword
as the ultimate sign of surrender
but i did it just as you lunged forward
the sword of your family's honour
slides into me.

strangely,
i don't feel much pain
i just feel at peace
even when i hear your cry of anguish
as my blood falls on your hands.

A/N: i don't expect that many of you know the story behind this, but i can't tell you, lest ispoil your fun if you choose to buy this game. in truth, to be ABSOLUTELY melodramatic, i nearly cried after Genesis commited suicide. i mean, i kinda indirectly killed him. and he was my favourite character. once i switched to Tseng as my fav character, he gets wounded! i'm a walking curse...
anyways, i can't seem to kill Angeal, but i wrote this cos i felt it's such an injustice on him to die at my hand, since he was my teacher. so i rewrote that bit as a poem.
hope you liked it
dedicated to all final fantasy fans of crisis core or anything else.
oh btw, i think Sephiroth looks pretty handsome, even though he has bad dress sense, haha
moira rose out

QUIZ!!!!
taken off someone's blog, some eugene guy i think, apparently ashie/ah gong likes him...
okAAAAAyyy

1. Do you like your present school?
Oh yeah, as in i've spent like half my life wanting to come to RGSS so i think it's a fantastic school

2. What do you want the most right now?
Me? I want to immigrate to America

3. Who is the closest person to you in you school?
Melissa Tham and Lee Zi Xin and Nicolette Lee (fellow raju-ka)

4. Do you hate your friends sometimes?
Yah, sometimes, when they pester me or when i get pissed, but i always stop after about ten minutes so no harm done

5. Are you afraid of death?
No, it's a way of going to God faster...

6. Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
Well, there's always something good at the end of a struggle, so i try to keep my eye on that.

7. What is your goal this year?
become better at judo, do well in FPS, get to Australia etc.

8. Do you believe in eternal love?
Well, let's just say that, it happens, but maybe not to me

9. Have you ever broken someone's heart that he/she wanted to commit suicide?
wow wow, i don't think anyone's ever liked me enough to commit suicide if i broke their heart...

10. What do you enjoy doing the most?
POETRY and READING LITERATURE!!!!(major lit-freak warning)

11. Have you ever done anything for your admirer?
WHAT???!!! like i said, i don't think anyone's liked me enough to be my admirer...

12. What feeling do you hate the most?
Hate, Pain, Hopelessness, Inferiority, you get the idea

13. Do you cherish every single friendship that you have?
Yeah, as long as my friends cherish them too!!!

14. Who would you probably spend the rest of your life with?
wow, uhh, maybe some guy i'll meet sooner or later, but as i said before, probably no one i know now, no one likes me that much now

15. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
Safety for my family, staying together as a family

16. Do you find life meaningless?
Well, i don't because i inject meaning into my life!!!

17. Who do you love the most?
the most? God of course! then my parents, my sister, my family and a secret someone you shouldn't know about...

18. How handsome/pretty do you think you are?
Not pretty at all...

19. Who do you talk to the most in school?
Huijun, Nicolette, Nurul during judo...

20. What did you live for?
My family and friends and the hope that things will turn out better


Now on to my friends. I have to name 20 people in random order

1. Lim Rei
2. Lee Zi Xin
3. Benjamin Wong
4. Ho Wern
5. Jacqueline Khor
6. Nathaniel Ng
7. Chan Kai Yan
8. Melissa Tham
9. Amanda Choo
10. Ashlynna Ng
11. Ze Fan (cos i saw him today at training)
12. Nicolette Lee
13. Nurul Adhana
14. Jodie Loo
15. James Lek (still can't believe he's in tennis...)
16. Huang Huijun
17. Heidi Gay (no relationship with Colin but...)
18. Colin Gay (it just makes sense to put this under Heidi)
19. Keith Loh
20. Lee Shi Hui

How did you meet #4?
[Wern] last year, uhh i think rei introduced him to the baboons...yah at that time he'd just come back from america and i was frankly, dead jealous

What would you do if you never met #1?

I wouldn't love English the way I do now, and I would never have joined Baboonz United, the coolest gang of boys and girls.

What if #9 and #20 dated?
[Amanda Choo, Lee Shi Hui] okay the last time i checked, these two weren't lesbian okay?

Will #6 and #17 date?
[Nathaniel, Heidi] well uhhh...no way cos heidi's in sec 4 and nat's in sec 1 but hey, love is strange so maybe, maybe so...

Describe #3.
[Benjamin Wong] wow to sum it up, egoistic but he's actually okay i guess, and a lot shorter than me haha...and he irritates me with too many smses but yah, a good friend of mine indeed...

Describe #7
[Chan Kai Yan] this one is good, he has YX chromosomes, prone to take of his shoe and chase you around, screams like an auntie (sorry but it's kinda true), runs like an auntie (sorry again but its true) and has a weird way with the broomstick, oh yah he also loves his grandma a lot...

Do you know any of #12 family members?
[Nicolette] nope, but i've seen them pick her up every now and then...

What would you do if #18 confesses to you that he likes you?
[Colin] ummm... i dunno, i think i'd find it strange cos Colin is, yunno, a very strange nerd, i think he's from a strange breed of human beings... i think i'd probably throw him with an ippon seoinage and then run off.

What language does #15 speak?
[James] don't really know, normally english i guess

How old is #16?
[Huang Huijun] soon to be 13 i think, im slightly older

When was the last time you spoke to #13?
[Nurul] today at training, i was laughing at her and she at me...

Who is #2's fav. band/singer?
[Zi Xin] she doesn't like music much so no one

Would you ever date #4?
[Wern] uhhh contrary to popular belief, no i don't like him. But i'm fine with going out with him as long as its a baboon outing...cos he's not bad company

Would you date #1?
[Rei] NO WAY!!! i'm not lesbian and neither is she...

Is #19 single?
[Keith] as far as i know, yup

What is #10 last name?
[Ashlynna] Ng? duh...

Would you ever be in a relationship with #11?
[Ze Fan] NO WAY MAN!!! as in friends yes, romantic, NOOOOO!!! oh seriously...

School of #3?
[Benjamin Wong] RI

Where does #6 live?
[Nathaniel Ng] ummm some condo near villa verde

What is your favourite thing about #5?
[Jacqueline Khor] the way she looks when she gets pissed at me and huijun calling her jacjac/ digressing during an FPS meet up

Have you ever seen #2 naked?
[Lee Zi Xin] nope...even though she's come over for a sleepover once and bathed in my toilet but no, i haven't, i'm not a pervert yunno...

okay...officially the strangest 2 quizzes EVER
but fun to do
moira out

Yesterday,
or what seemed like yesterday,
the day everything went black.

the winds flooded my ears with noise
the cold bit at my bones
the cyclone grew at a monstrous pace.

its mouth swallowed my home
my family
my happiness.

then it left,
like it hadn't torn away everything i needed to survive,
without a backward glance.

Today,
I've been left in this barren land,
strewn with memories of the past.

the old swing i used to play on,
i can almost hear my laughter,
as daddy pushed me higher and higher.

the tree i used to climb,
i can almost hear mummy screaming at me to come down even when i pretend i can't hear,
even though the tree itself has been torn up by the roots.

i wish i could go back to yesterday,
hold all the things i love close to my heart,
and let myself die with them.

at least then,
i wouldn't have to deal with
an uncertain tomorrow.


A/N: okay so this came out quite fine, as in, even though i kinda took my sis' idea from her poem on the tsunami, but i changed perspective, and used the cyclone instead.
sniffsniff, God bless the survivors
moira out

ROSES (taken off rei's blog)

white,
for innocence, humility, purity
the rose for
young girls with beautiful smiles
with laughter like the tinkling of silver wind-chimes

yellow,
of platonic love between friends
the rose for
the brightness
of childhood days

Coral,
for enthusiasm and desire
the rose for
adolescent years
teetering on adulthood

Pink,
for gentle love and friendship
the rose for
young hearts
bound with friendship and love

Red,
for love, courage and respect
the rose for
romance and marriage
a promise of love forever

Purple,
for protection and a parent's love
the rose for
mothers protecting children
from the outside world

Blue,
for mystery and reaching unattainable goals,
the rose for
triumph and achievement
after toil and work for endless days

Black,
for death and eventual rebirth
the rose for
mourners and grievers
to give hope that the dead will rise once more

A/N: a bit off i know but hey there's a whole wiki on ROSES and what they mean so i just sailed through and wrote something.
haha
moira out

A is for _______

1) 4 LETTER WORD: Away/Afro/Army

2) BOY NAME: Antony/Andrew/Angelo

3) GIRL NAME: Anne!!!/Andrea/Amanda/Angelina/Abigail

4) OCCUPATION: Army Commando?/Animal Doctor (vet)

5) A COLOR: Army Green (eww)/ Apple Red (is that a colour?)

6) SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Ankle Socks (haha)

7) BEVERAGE: Ale?/sports-Ade/gator-Ade

8) FOOD: Aglio de Olio/Apples!!!/

9) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Aerosols?

10) A PLACE: AMERICA!!!!

11) REASON FOR BEING LATE: Armadillo fell on your head and you were hospitalised? (haha)

12) SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Argh!

haha, just a little something off nurul's bloggie!!!

Who am I?

who am i?
a girl,
lost in a faceless crowd
pushing towards a goal
i can't really see

who am i?
an adolescent,
trying, trying
to find an identity
amongst the expectations piled upon me

who am i?
a family member,
trying her best to be obedient,
loving, looking for care and concern,
in a warm embrace

who am i?
a friend,
who strives to be there for others
even when, they aren't there
for me

who am i?
a judoka,
who isn't really good,
that no one really likes,
just the one everyone forgets

who am i?
a Catholic,
groping her way in the world,
straying away from God's path
a lost sheep, prone to danger and temptation

so many roles to play,
so many responsibilities to remember,
yet i know,
i may be just one person in the world,
but to one person, i may mean the world

A/N: okayokay that last line was a bit cheesy but hey, i took it off nurul's blog, go and tell HER about it... haha nurul
moira out