"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

So were the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He was a German writer, and George Eliot even called him "Germany's greatest man of letters".

In tribute to that profound quote, I made this:

It's amazing how refreshing it is to ask yourself, can you put in certain elements that make you, you - into a collage of pictures? I mean, those really are some of my favourite things (and people - wanted to put in photos of Denise and Carmen also, but couldn't find their pictures on my notebook - will redo this collage another time, hehe). Those pictures more or less give you an illustration of the person I am today.

There are the usual material things - a favourite restaurant, a blog, a car, my automatic eyeliner sticks in various colours, my favourite hotel room in the world, my all-time favourite food outside home ... And then there are the more abstract things, like Happiness and Imagination (which I feel are the 2 most important "abstract" elements to me) ... And then there's the people who make me smile, laugh, want to be a better person but also feel good the way I am ...

Those pictures in that collage, those are just some of the reasons why I love this life. :)

That, and the huge array of tools Photoshop has to offer. ;P

I'm not a trained psychologist, but I couldn't recommend it more highly as a therapeutic project - make a collage of the things that make you smile when you remember them. Make that collage, and you'll be surprised how at peace you feel, knowing you have all those things that you are grateful for. :)

On other updates in my bubble-wrapped world, I've discovered the humour of Pon & Zi cartoons (thanks to Shern Ren). :D

And now I'm excited to start school again in July. :) I literally am looking forward to it - nervous, excited, happy, curious, the whole works. It really is a second chance, and I'm lucky enough to be able to have a second chance.
Only glitch now is to work out how to explain to people what I'm studying. Especially in languages other than English. Currently, this is how the standard conversation goes:
KPC: So, what are you studying now?
Me: Arts.
KPC: What? Like drawing, arts?
Me: No, not at all. Err - like post-World War ideologies, and newsroom theories, and journalism, and public relations, and contemporary film and television studies, and contemporary fiction, postcolonial and diasporic literature, maybe even contemporary feminist theories ....
KPC: What? Not drawing, arts?
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Not to worry, it'll be okay eventually. :) You know that saying "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end"? I really like that one.