A New Beginning

it's time for a new blog. =)

more details when i get it up and running. for now, i am still in shock, even though i've looked at my employment letter several times today, especially the part that has the two beautiful letters in front of my name. it's surreal. it's indeed the free favours of God.

ten percent of the class didn't make it. this is the highest in recent memory, so in the midst of the relief and joy of passing, many of us are sad. very sad. we've no idea why it turned out like this. hopefully someone would enlighten us.

meanwhile, here is susan boyle's fantastic rendition of one of my favourite songs from the best musical ever - i dreamed a dream from les miserables. i tear up almost everytime i hear this song. this is where fantine tells her story, of a young happy lass who quickly loses her innocence when her boyfriend leaves her after making her pregnant, and who ends up selling her hair, her teeth, and finally, herself, to raise her daughter. somehow it doens't sound so tragic just reading it like this, but if you read the novel and then listen to the song again, it will be hard not to get emotional. youtube's got the embed disabled, so here's the link and the lyrics below.

I Dreamed A Dream

There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.