Fireflies

Alrighty. In case you haven't heard of Fireflies by Owl City, you should know YOU'RE MISSING OUT KIDDO. Hardy har har, well I owe a lot to Adam Young for this song and for it being able to inspire me and provide a muse for my latest story. The idea's been running around in my head for weeks but I'd never been able to release it (Until now that is, duhm duhm...DUHM)

I can't say much about the novel for now, but just know that it has pretty much the same story idea as the one I used for my NaNoWriMo project but a whole lot awesomer. And just in case you heard the song and liked it, here're the lyrics so you can sing along and learn to love it just as how I do :D

Fireflies lyrics
Songwriters: Young, Adam;

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep

'Cause they'd fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
You'd think me rude
But I would just stand and stare

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance

A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

Leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
'Cause I feel like such an insomniac
(Please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep
(Please take me away from here)
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep

To ten million fireflies
I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell

But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
'Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams

Pictures of my Hard core camping trip

Pictures of my hard core camping trip that would make the Terminator curl up and suck his thumb

Merlin doesn't have anything like this

If you look closely enough you can tell that I'm seriously ill *cough cough*

Meditating. Yup, thats my dad

Sony Mp3. My saving grace. My life line.

If anyone says their camping accommodations sucked, I'll laugh and show them this picture

After trekking for hours through mud, dirt and water, i had to dry my sneakers to avoid Trench Foot

Dinner. Just joking.

Waterfall right in front of our "campsite"

*Wipes tears* I'm so proud of this

Behold, camp site De' La Say

...Well I'm not a pessimist

‘Cause you know how it is, when you're about to enter a whole new and completely alien world of LRTs and honking cars that seem to perpetually make it their life's calling to wake innocent victims in the middle of the night. Now, I’m not saying that all unfamiliar landscapes consist of flashing lights and malls with more names than I have fingers; it just so happens that yours truly has as much tolerance for greenhouse gases as I do for RBPs or Really Bad People .


And just before setting off to the south (I say going down, my mom says heading south), I couldn’t help but speculate in the all too familiar ways of “Will this happen? Will the experience be soul crushingly horrible? Will I enjoy myself? What if? How if? When will…? WTF????” And somewhere I knew, not to keep your hopes up, not to dream about the glam possibilities, because being optimistic only crushes you - till you’re nothing but a grey lil’ speck of that stuff stuck between your two front teeth.
That’s the pessimistic view of life.


And I have more then plentiful friends who would attest to that. But suddenly it hit me (someway between Tapah and Sg. Buloh) that no! I can’t keep living my life like this, because a pessimist is exactly that. You think that you’re doing yourself a favor by shadowing the lowly view of life where everyone’s a child molesting jerk and the only sustenance which doesn’t end up giving you cancer is water*.


Because no matter what happens, even if it’s the greatest thing on earth, all you’ll be able to think is “Great, yeah, sure...But we're all gonna die in the end” The glass is always half empty and though you fool yourselves into thinking that the view ain’t so bad, it’ll always be that ‘what’s the point?’ mindset which dampens everything.


You think that an optimist is someone who’s constantly setting themselves up for disappointment by setting such high standards, but I’ve got news for you buddy...Just as I was in mid-way through speculating how my sleeping arrangements would be like, it hit me (what the oxford dictionary calls an epiphany and Oprah calls an Ahah! Moment). That there was one more word we keep overlooking. It’s called an idealist. Definition found via


Wikipedia: the philosophical theory that maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas.
Or Uncyclopedia: Basically idealists assert either one of three things and therefore belong to one of three schools of thought: Those who believe that chairs don’t exist. Those who believe that tables don’t exist.
Those who believe that trees don't exist.

Because, optimists on the lighter hand, only see the bright side of things even when something goes horrendously wrong. Nothing brings them down, they don’t set themselves up for disappointment; they’re incapable of disappointment. Optimists realize that without the shit and crap, there’s no learning, and so they keep moving forward without fear of falling.
So next time you decide it’s better to just look down and think ‘well, it could get worse’, think it could get better. And shoot for the stars so when you fall, it’ll be on the clouds.

*Which, in fact little buddies, is wrong: It’s been scientifically proven that consuming too much hot water can lead to throat cancer