love and devotion

As life goes on, days rolling into nights, it will become clear that you never really stop missing someone special who's gone; you just learn to live around the gaping hole of their absence. When you lose someone you can't imagine living without, your heart breaks wide open, and the bad news is you never completely get over the loss. You will never forget them. However, in a backwards way, this is also the good news. They live on in the warmth of your broken heart that doesn't fully heal back up, and you will continue to grow and experience life, even with your wound. It's like badly breaking an ankle that never heals perfectly, that still hurts when you dance, but you dance anyway with a slight limp, and this limp just adds to the depth of your performance and the authenticity of your character. The people you lose will always remain a part of you, for better or for worse.

3-in-1 goodness

I wasn't too confident about my paper proposal making it through the review ratings but turns out it wasn't too bad after all. Scored 3.75 and made it to the >3.5 ratings shortlist. It then got shortlisted as one of the 5 papers for presentation in the Technical Session - which will be my first technical presentation in a regional SPE conference! To top it up, turns out that a technical presentation in an SPE conference automatically allows me to publish my paper in SPE's technical paper database, OnePetro; which is the perfect stepping stone to getting published in SPE publications in the future.

6 months to go....to overcome this daunting thought, to gather my nerves, to prepare myself mentally to do this and to do it well. May the force be with me.  

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#panicking-in-solitude

The One

Tell me, tell me that you want me
And I'll be yours completely, for better or for worse

I know we'll have our disagreements, be fighting for no reason
I wouldn't change it for the world

Cause I knew, the first day that I met you
I was never going to let you slip away

And I still remember feeling nervous
Trying to find the right words to say to you

You make my heart feel like it's summer, when the rain is pouring down
You make my whole world feel so right when it's wrong
That's how I know you are the one
That's why I know you are the one

Life is hard but with you I am prepared for what is yet to come
Cause our two hearts will make it easy
Joining up the pieces together making one

The melody and lyrics describe so perfectly just how I feel for you.