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Saturday, June 18, 2005

dead energizer battery

that's my nickname on msn today. dead energizer battery: going, going, (almost) gone. seriously that's exactly how i feel today. been feeling tired and wearied since thursday began, and all those last-min meetings and schedules popped up. "i'm too shattered to do anything", anyway (it's from duran duran's one of those days).

but today was more exhaustive than yesterday for me. cos i had even less sleep than the nite before, and slightly more things to do today than yesterday....and if there's one thing i've noticed, lack of sleep tends to make me more prone to bouts of depression and moodiness, besides being physically depleted of energy. and yeah, i had much more of that today....lost count of the times i had to pull myself aside n pray until i felt better / stronger.

and in really bad cases of extreme sleep deprivation, it affects the expression on my face too....i just can't, literally cannot smile, cannot look happy, no matter how hard i try to twist n contort my face. my face muscles just....feel too tired to smile too...and i end up having this look which, from feedback from the past, makes me look angry, which i'm totally not. i'm just tired. so i had a lot of explaining to do, eheh.

but my face muscles did manage to relax though, and finally be able to smile, when my friends who were my friends (if u get what i mean) made me laugh. yeah, but the minute i was left alone, the face started to drag and pull itself down....and that look of, in actual truth, tiredness, would come up again.

honestly i don't know how else i had the physical strength to do all i had to do these 2 days, than through the empowerment of the holy spirit. i really think i would have died from exhaustion if the holy spirit didn't sustain me with energy and zest that came (seemingly) from out of nowhere.

and it is in tired moments like these when i just close my eyes and turn up the volume to the music i'm listening to..which is, not so loud cos if it is, it'll aggravate my near-headache, woozy, i-need-peace-and-quiet feeling. and today it just happened to be oasis for me. was closing my eyes, resting my head against the wall with the headphones blasting peace through my ears in the library for quite some time, while at the same time talking to god or letting my thoughts pass through slowly.

DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER

by Oasis
Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don’t you know you might find
A better place to play

You said that you’ve never been (sounds like ’bean’ in order to rhyme w/’seen’)
But all the things that you’ve seen
They slowly fade away

So I’ll start a revolution from my bed
’cuz you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, summertime’s in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out

And so, sally can wait
She knows it’s too late as we’re walking on by
Her soul slides away
But don’t look back in anger
I heard you say

Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows
If it’s not our day

Please don’t put your life in the hands
Of a rock and roll band
You'll throw it all away

I’m gonna start a revolution from my bed
’cuz you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, ’cuz summertime’s in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
’cuz you ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out

And so, sally can wait
She knows it’s too late as she’s walking on by
My soul slides away
But don’t look back in anger
I heard you say

So, sally can wait
She knows it’s too late as we’re walking on by
Her soul slides away
But don’t look back in anger
I heard you say

So, sally can wait
She knows it’s too late as she’s walking on by
My soul slides away
But don’t look back in anger
Don’t look back in anger
I heard you say

At least not today.