Live well, work hard, play play? 
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Where did all the hours go?
Didn’t time use to pass by slow?
Maybe the clocks now turn too fast
We aren’t even done with the past
And it’s already tomorrow.
Where have all the hours gone?
Mysteriously from bed till morn
Someone halt this temporal theft
We haven’t arrived before we’ve left
Feeling weak, weary and worn.
Where did all the hours go
In this busy life full of woe?
We move quicker from A to B
Yet when we finally pause to see
What have we got to show?
Where have all the hours gone?
Between work and play we’re torn
Don’t we miss our friends and family
And just being stupid and silly?
When will we ever be done?
Where did all the hours go?
All this pointless bustle really blows
So I say we gotta find a new way
To beat the blues on this fresh Monday
Or else pay for what surely follows.
Where have all the hours gone
From the second that we were born?
Who cares? This ain’t a test.
All we want is some damn rest
Before all the good fun is gone!
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Credits: Photographs by Lyrical Lemongrass @ Palate Palette, Kuala Lumpur.
At least you pause and see … that’s the key. Good reminder.
» Chin
Hahaha, the choice of words in your phrasing suddenly reminded me of the radio hit ‘Stop and Stare’ … I mean, I wanna stop, but not to just sit down and stare dumbfounded at the world around me…
The hours are still there.
It’s still keep as accurately by the atomic clocks.
We are just preoccupied with useless stuff and fluff. sigh…
» keropokman
Too true. That’s-a-why we have to work at removing the fluff from our lives so eventually we work less and get to rest/play/have fun. Or else we end up completely exhausted with our tongues rolling out like a certain someone in the second picture above. Ahem.
Haiiih..
Time won’t wait Kenny.
Let’s stop procrastinate and let’s so things we wanna do!
Before all the good fun is GONE!
the good thing is that everyone has 24 hrs! Just a matter on how we use them or prioritise!
Oh no. I got to rush to my next appt! oops.. *waves*
I’ve learned days are long, but life is short.
» Moja
That’s what I keep telling myself: Time won’t wait. What’s stopping me from doing what I really wanna do?
And there’s so MUCH I wanna do before the day is done…
» daphne
LOL!!
» Jemima
True, but ain’t it true also that the days are also getting shorter?
I dread Mondays. Like how I’m feeling today. Slow paced, mundane, and endless work to be done. I’ll jump for joy if the weekend consists of 3 days instead of 2.
» J2Kfm
Guess what? I think some countries do have 3 day weekends! Lucky citizens, no doubt.
What would you do with the extra day, though? I’ll prolly spend it SLEEPING!
what face reaction lai?
» Boss Cat
Mostly a reaction to non-stop tedium and all the woes of the world falling down on one’s shoulder.
Suggests spa retreat as ideal solution. Any sponsor?
OMG. What have you been doing!
» Paul
Heh. Heh heh heh.
aiyo young man … stay calmmmmmm
» Lianne
Oh don’t worry, I am calm lah. Just exhausted. Can’t believe the week has started again. Man, the time truly flies… like at supersonic speed!
i hardly ever use the word “time” these days.
everything has been reduced to “moments”.
and “winks” when it comes to sleep.
thank goodness for celebrations like mooncake festivals to remind us of those good old days of candles, lanterns and of course, mooncakes.
» Nic (KHKL)
Ah, the Mooncake Festival. Or Mid-Autumn Festival, as it were. I’m not sure I’m looking forward to that anymore. I’m so stuffed with mooncakes already!!
kenny, where did all the years go? I believe it is the work of the same time thief.
and a word of advice – stop frowning like that. hehe!
ya man, where have all the hours gone? It’s kinda frightening when I start to “analyze” the hours….yucks! There are people who think hours are gone fast and so put their schedule so full -they want to accomplish the most in this lifetime; YET… there are people who think hours are gone fast and has already learn how to slow down. But now I’m put in the middle of a mad rush again!
In the Islamic prophecy, correct me if i am wrong, one of the many signs of Judgment day is basically time hasten up drastically.
Yikes.
» kak teh
Yes, I believe so. Let’s track this time thief down and do nasty Inquisitor things to him.
And what did me Mum said about frowning like that? That the wind would change and my face would be stuck that way? Oh the horrors!
» tigerfish
I think I’m one of those people guilty of cramming their schedules full of activities… Need to decompress…
» Leo
Again, horrors of horrors! Yikes and double-yikes!
Does a chrono watch helps?
Remember a Korean documentary on a writer that in order to focus and have time he locked himself up in a room for a year and his wife just pass him the necessities, now got time? Hei I didnt ask you to be locked up in Ivory Tower?
» JENCOOKS
If you were to lock me up in a room (or an ivory tower), make sure to pass me plenty of DVDs and three-kilogram jars of Nutella. And chips. And OJ. And… well, maybe just the hotline to the nearest grocery mart with a delivery number.
the hours , minutes & secs are fast coming to 916
…so get ready for it
» backStreetGluttons
916?
Someone has to create a time machine!
or Doraemon perhaps?
*doing assignments.
“Time goes by so slowly for those who waits,”….sings the wise ol’ Madonna. So I guess you weren’t waiting or bumming around. Sounds like good quality for a business partner. LOL
Eh that’s all u need in life, that’s easy….muahahaha.
» Moja
A Time Machine or a Cloning Machine, to make more of me, to get more done and have more fun!
» A Lil Fat Monkey
Yes our sage Madge… We get all the wisdom we need from Maddie, we do.
How very perspicacious of you to observe this. Also a good quality for a business partner. LOL
» JENCOOKS
I am easy, that’s true.
i think if i had to compose an ode to time laidat, my hours will all be gone too…and probably hair too…bow bow, i am not worthy…
hahahah both of you look so funny in many ways, well captured photos! lol!
they have carbon trading, hmmm if i have time trading.
slackers will earn dough from it! LOL..
» fatboybakes
Truth be told, the pics were originally meant for a spiffier, sunnier post. But when I finally had the time (no pun intended) to sit down to write about it, I was soooo exhausted that this was what turned up instead.
And aiya, what bow bow? It is I who is truly not worthy…
*bow, bow*
» Big Boys Oven
Well for that we have to thank the irreplaceable and inimitable Lyrical Lemongrass. Few folks could capture this ugly mug o’ mine so well.
» keropokman
Can I just have sleep trading? LOL
wonderful idea. you can pay me to sleep for you. LOL
» keropokman
Eh, harlo — I thought it was the other way round???
Owh… I definitely need clones to attend classes and doing my assignments. Hahahaha. So, I can sit back, blogging and relax whilst the clones do all the works.
Yessss!
» Moja
Or better yet, be a mutant like the Multiple Man — make as many clones of yourself when you need them and then absorb them back when you don’t need! How cool is that?
Agree, agree!
Hahahaha. That sounds cool too! Fuiyoh, I will never late for classes and lectures ever again.
Geez banana.
My stomach has been singing all day long. I better get prepare to brake-fast.
The minutes are so sloooooooooooooooooow.
» Moja
The minutes may be slow, but wouldn’t it be worse if they never go?
tell me, do u have a relative studying med in adelaide as well? cos one of my junior looks suspiciously like u @_@
where has all the time gone?
when days used to be so long
where I can sing many songs
those days…they are long gone
» Jun
Not that I know of. Is this one of my clones we were discussing earlier, a few comments above yours?
» zewt
Wow. Sounds like you were a major karaoke fan, bro. LOL
24 hours is alwiz not enough for me….. how great if there is 25 hours a day..
Whoa, you got one clone on the loose. Now, you have to track ‘Kenny’ back, dude! He’s in Adelaide!
Maybe the idea of cloning wasn’t a good idea after all.
Hahahaha.
» Jackson Kah
25 hours a day? Round that up to 30 and count me in!
» Moja
Hmm.. having clones running around ain’t what worries me… It’s what they’re doing in my name and face that is potentially horrifying… Uh oh…
Scary isn’t it? I still have the taste of the satay and a few glasses of limau ais in my mouth, in honor of celebration to commemorate the dawn of 2008 and it’s already September now… gosh.
Kenny,
One Question,
Do you pay for this blog, I mean, for this address?
hmm..
» gina
Nine months. Nine months can pass by so fast… well, unless one is pregnant. Then, I dunno… must get feedback from the mommies. Apamacam? Fast/slow?
» Moja
Yes, and yes. I pay a webhosting company to host the blog (i.e. the server space) and I pay for the address/url (i.e. http://lifeforbeginners.com)
Ah, my exact sentiments!!! Time is just slipping out of my fingers faster than before, and sometimes I feel I can’t do anything about it!
Funny, cute, harried limerick – great job!
Oh and frowns should not make others smile, but this one did!
» Camemberu
Hehe, frown or no frown, my face tends to make folks break out spontaneously in laughter anyway.
Isk…
I have mandarin test by tomorrow. I need more time. Moooooooooore time.
Ni hao ma?
Lao shi sure gonna kill me. I’m screwwweeed!
» Moja
Maybe the Chinese would have invented a time machine by now?
haha kenny yeah u’d better worry abt that “clone” and wat he does with that “face” here in ade *grin*
» Jun
Oh dear me, what have “I” been up to Down Under?
Ah, that’s the pout you swore not to show your readers, hahahaha! Good one, precioussss…
» Argus back in CH
The pout that sunk a thousand ships, hahahah…
The PICKLES comic strip once had an excellent explanation for why time moves faster as you get older.
To a 1 year old, 1 more year is like 100% more of his entire life span. Whereas, when you’re forty two, 1 year is 1/42th of your life which makes it a very small quantity, hence, there’s less of it. Makes sense or notch? There is great wisdom to be gleaned from comic strips. It’s my ideal reading material, much like food blogs. Got pictures, and some words.
» fatboybakes
I’m so with you on comic strips as great reading material, daily wisdom encapsulated in 2-4 panels. Do you read “For Better or For Worse”? One of my favourites… the characters actually age and grow up and pass on…
hahahahah! love that squirm kenny!!
what a good way of greeting me…after being away from blog hopping for a while. have missed your blog lots!
» lingzie
Hehe, just imagine if I greet everyone like this… What would they think?? LOL
Ah..and my aunt and I were just lamenting that Ramadhan goes by faster and faster each year! I may have come across an article that said that though we still have the same 24 hours – by some scientific quirk – the measure of a second does get marginally shorter year by year. The reduction is infinitesinal but accummulated…
I’ve got to hunt for that article, It could explain why time scarcity is becoming dire these days!
Thanks for the short and sweet poem, Kenny. Ironically, while time is getting more scarce, attention span is also getting shorter!
» Eliza D
Fortunately my attention span hasn’t deteriorated to the point I’m unable to finish reading your comment!
And I think I’ve read that same article or something similar, but ages ago. But then again, what is time, but countless grains of sands, no?
Where have all the hours gone?
I cannot tell you but I think
I was here
Waiting for the telephone
Waiting for the email
Waiting for a sign
Waiting for an invitation
Waiting for a smile
Waiting for assurance
Waiting for my ships to come home
All the hours
If I add them up
Will mean a lifetime
For I am nearing 45
But I feel like 55
Where have all the hours gone?
Gone to see the doctor
Gone to see the teacher
Gone to buy dinner
Gone to see a man about a dog
Gone to have a smoke
Gone to buy a book
Just out for a while
The hours were elusive
They are simply gone
Daylight saving rule is pervasive
One hour is lost everytime spring/summer comes around
Why is the sun punishing me?
I have to get to meetings one hour earlier now
I have to make sure all my timepieces are correct
My planes, my schedules, my blackberry
Where have all hours gone?
» Mercadia
Wow. Like FBB, I’m wondering where you found all the hours to write this?