let lemons be angry

How we spend special occasions #1: Thinking we haven't taken shots when we actually have. Note the cosy group hug.

How we spend special occasions #2: Going through many failed attempts to take group photos.

How we spend special occasions #3: Posing in every corner of the house in every permutation of poses possible and falling out of frames.


I love GG nights because we're klutzes underneath our costumes. Although I think we have to come up with a main programme other than phototaking. I owe the documentation of my life mainly to Amelia Chia, however, because nobody else photographs events as much as she does. When I'm old and amnesiac and reliant on photographs to tell me about my past, I'll wonder why it seems like I only hung out with her.

Today I talked about religion in class, and I showed a photograph of the GGs with Janis. I said it wouldn't be as easy to stay in my religion if I didn't have them--normal girls who have more in common with me than just religion. Perhaps someday I'll be tested, thrown into a sea of non-Christians or extreme conservatives, whichever turns out to be more challenging, and I'll have to see how I hang on to this thing that's supposed to be just between me and God.

Maybe venturing into this area of research is asking to be burnt. But I do have questions, big questions, that I think everybody should ask more than once in their lives. Such as "is religion more of tradition and culture than pure religion?" And what is the purpose of religion these days? How does somebody with no religion view life, death, the world, supernatural occurrences?

I desperately want God to be real, because of how great He has shown Himself to be to me. If He were not real, just something I've constructed in my head to help myself understand existence, a placebo effect of sorts, then there suddenly wouldn't be any reason to live. Would there?

I want to hear from anyone and everyone who asks these questions too. Religion may be just a world view to some, but it influences what people eat, who they marry, how they spend their weekends, as if without thinking they allow it to run their lives. It's time to think. If you were to invest in something that runs your life, it had better be real.