The Stupid, clever, ugly, good-looking, rich and the poor...
Dear TomHa,
What had happened to all the people these days? Isn't this suppoesed to be a happy week? Afterall, Liverpool won the champions league amid all the adversity posed onto them at half time, and given that we, living in this little island named Singapore, which was a crown colony of the British imperial past, should be celebrating about it for at least another week! Well, not everybody watch football and understand the significance of sports on the lives of an average person like me... No matter...
Well, I guess somebody really need to wake up and look around at what they have and stop whining about what they don't have (I hope that whining is not too strong a word here..). I guess it gets pretty distracting when people all over your own hometown keeps talking about how lousy the local guys are, that the rigours of Army life is not turning our guys stronger, but whinier. And all this woohaa is really making me feel sick. Can't this guys who are like that stop what they are doing, me inclusive.. Can't they take a look around and feel that serving their own nation for only 2 1/2 years a discount already? What do we owe the nation? We owe them our lives and livelihood and I certainly believe that we are obliged to maintain them at this status quo, if not, for the better. Perhaps that is why I signed on, I don't know, perhaps I signed on because I knew from the very start that my parents would not have a good time putting me through such an expensive education which their son hates in the first place... How disappointed would they be to learn that their son would prefer to be stupid and not know anything. Yes, the education had done wonders in making me a study-phobic. Perhaps I am just emulating the heroes who had done their part in serving their nation with such pride, dignity and gutso and live on in the hearts of the many generations that followed their departure from this Earth. Perhaps I only want to keep myself from spending that much money on a product like education which I know I would never have liked in the first place. I like to be stupid, as I would like to stress again, but the workings of the society decreed that I could not.
So, I guess this is how the almighty or whatever up there like to do, to make fun of us, the lowly beings which in the end, turned out to be not so lowly afterall, as you compare how our brain works to say, a goldfish? A rich and competent man who was born ugly. A poor and incompetent man who is born handsome, pretty, aesthetically appealing, whatever. Any permutaion of them will do, but the conclusion is that no one gets everything that they want. I would prefer to be put in the situation of being ugly, but being rich and competent. Afterall, I had started slogging ever since I started looking like a adult. Tuitioning kids while telling them that I am some graduate majoring in chinese (Hey, their results really improved ok..), waitering, gardening, even dish wahing at some coffee shop. I had done it all. I think I can be called a part time king. Now, SAF forbids me to work and I had obliged. The trade off in accepting this scholarship is that I would not be rich at the end of my uni days. Trust me, I whined about that quite some days/weeks/months ago. So, so what if you can't speak well but write well? Do you have to cling on the ambition on being a lawyer? Or do you have other choices like journalism to work on? If you choose your ambition over what you do best, I guess it is best that you learn to cope with whatever you have now and improve on it. I have never seen a good looking lawyer (REAL ONE!!!) anyway, and like what my mum always says, Smart people are always the ugly ones... Also, Beethoven is deaf...
Nonetheless, I must stress that as a person with eyes that sometimes stray by themselves, and kicked off a scholarship interview before even being interviewed due to lousy grades, as a person who is doing what he hates most now, but have no other choice and have a set of teeth that does not want to line up properly when he was young and has an odd sense of humor that not many people can understand and am poor and poor with social skills, I am in no position to comment anything. But, as what I always say, No teacher can fully understand why his class finds him boring...
Sunday, May 29, 2005
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
You'll Never Walk Alone!
Dear TomHa,
What A Night! Or should I say, what a morning! Liverpool won albeit a opening barrage of goals from AC Milan! 3-0 at half time against the almighty, who would have thought that they would actually come back with 3 goals in 6 minutes from the 54th to the 60th, although there was quite a scare from Alonso's missed penalty which he converted the rebound. Phew! Football is not for the faint hearted certainly as the match ended in a 3-all draw. Extra time was rather boring though as Liverpool played rather defensively and Milan's attacks were rather senseless and off target. The real scare came when Shevchenko came through and tried to put it away about 3 feet in front of goal and Dudek somehow manages to palm it to his feet again and he caught the rebound and Dudek became the hero again as he palms this one away to safety! Phew.. I would have died watching.
Penalties ensued. Liverpool endured to win 3-2 as Milan fumbled and their talismanic hero Shevchenko failed to convert his spot kick which would have given them a lifeline! Although I must say that he must have been influenced by Dudek's crazy dance in front of him as he takes his kick.
Oh what a night, will blog more abt it later.. not in the right state of mind at the moment..
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Dear TomHa,
Guess HTML is really not an easy programming language. In comparison, C and C++ appears to be much more simpler, although I must admit that I had proper lectures and tutorials to go with. Any case, guess you'll have to be stuck with this Blogger template for quite a while as I go polish up on my HTML skills with more hours in the library. Librarians these days are really rather slack. Why aren't they stacking the books properly and mending them properly? Or rather, should I say, people are getting less and less civic conscious? Afterall, if everybody is aas civic conscious as a textbook citizen should be, a librarian job would really, be to just stack the return books and stamp the return dates. Anyway, that is really beside the point.
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Sunday, May 22, 2005
What A Day!
Dear Tomha,
Finally, I went for tree climbing today. It was so exciting, although rather tiring. I sweated like I had just finish my marathon last year yet only doing only 5 climbs! Haha, this tree climbing is not like those I used to do on Mango trees for purpose of of course, to pluck the ripened mangoes down for consumption. This one is more technical and thus allows you to go higher than an average mango tree! The tree in the photo is about 4 stories high and boy do I feel so satisfied, gratified, whatever-fied, after the climb. The view is so unreal! We were climbing somewhere behind Alexandra Hospital and the natural scenic view is magnificent there and I never knew. I saw a kingfisher perched on the tree beside the tree I climbed and when would you be able to look at birds perching on a tree top? Man do I feel so happy. There are more photos in my flickr account and that little white speck in this photo is me all right.. I was the only one wearing white..
The technicalities of tree climbing sounds almost similar to rock climbing except that rock climbing only employs the rope for safety purposes while in tree climbing, the rope is your tool to get up as well! A blake hitch is used to get you up while there is a little loop which you used to step up fully, push the blake hitch up, then pull the loop up, then step up, push the hitch, pull the loop and the viscous cycle continue! Quite cool huh?
What a wonderful Vesak Day this day had become. Instead of letting go of animals back into the wild, I had embraced nature in its most untouched state. A tree is afterall, a community of living things!
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Friday, May 20, 2005
I can't wait for the day when I work officially and have $$...
Dear Tomha,
I don't think that many people know that my passion is always for volcanoes and our Earth's climate. no matter, now you know.. Perhaps that was why I chose to do geography rather than history, although my grades for history should be much better (or was it not? Can't remember.. who can remember their lower sec grades anyway). Was surfing around the Internet just now when I came across Mount Kilimanjaro and gosh.. I had really forgotten about it for many years already. Afterall, A'level geography did not talk much about African volcanoes and I was too enthralled by El Nino and La Nina too care. Well, a spectacular sight isn't it, Mount Kilimanjaro? A stratovolcano by nature and it had become dormant since modern times (A test to all who took geography.. which year did the modern time start? hehe.. will tell u the answer after a few days..hehe) albeit still emitting some levels of steam and sulphur. It is the biggest volcano along the East West line of the East African Rift Valley and I must say, the most spectacular of them all. I have more photos of it downloaded from the net in my flickr account.. Just clicked on my daily zeitgeist and you'll be able to view them. One of the many spectacular crafts of Mother Nature I must say of Mount Kilimanjaro or, shining mountain in Swahili...
PS.. I don't know everything I said in this entry. Some are copied and pasted...
Sigh, the surfing around the sea of information had ignited a certain thirst in me to climb! Luckily, treeclimbing starts this Sunday! Argh! so exciting! Can't wait for it (Why am I squirming like a little girl??)! Also, I just realised I had not trekked for a long long time already. Anyone wanna go for the tree top trail along the central catchment? Feeling quite gian for Bt Timah also, it had been a long four years since I last climbed it! Selangor, Malaysia, anyone? Sometime in the end of July? I will go recce travel packages for it if anyone is willing to accompany this bore on this nature appreciation pilgrimage to our friendly neighbour country.
Till then..
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Dear TomHa,
Went for an art exhibition held by Lau and friend that is in NJ (Har??!! I go art exhibition??!!). Anyway, I just missed forays into NJ to have their roti pratas.. haha, all right, that is not the point. It is amazing isn't it, TomHa? That something so simple as lying down to sleep can be interpreted by artists into something so moving, that (granted if I remember correctly) she is actually trying to express her feelings to her grandpa who is rather old and that the generation gap in between them disallowed her to confess her feelings towards him accurately verbally, hence the artworks which I think she felt to be her best communicating medium in this instance(??), although it never was meant to be a project. Anyway, the final work on a corroding zinc plate is really, in my opinion, rather impressive, not in her resourcefulness to find that kind of a zinc plate but by the evoculation (is there such a word? refer evoke) of a stronger emotion in painting her grandpa in this corroding, if not decomposing metal plate. That time is devouring her grandpa slowly into the abyss of nothingness, just like what time had done to the corroding zinc plate which is nothing like its past shimmering glow... Sigh, the fragility of life and the infeelings of time...
Anyway, there is this drawing by her friend that really caught my interest in the end. It is this painting in pencil and I seriously couldn't make out what in the world is the artist trying to conjure. Afterall, it looked pretty much like what I had drawn in my textbooks and lecture notes. Those that I had drawn or should I say GrandDaddy Chew (Zhou1 Gong!) when I was holding a pen or pencil in my hands and dozed off, striking some lines here and there. It was the most unartistic piece of artwork that I had ever since and perhaps that is why I only never passed my art during my lower secondary days. Sigh, some people are artistically challenged you know? Anyway, it was quite a shocking revelation when Lau told us that her friend is actually drawing seed pods! What the... I even thought of it to be a landscape sketch of Bukit Timah Road! With the dirty looking space to be the big canal in the middle of the roads! And those things that I deemed to be cyclists wearing those kind of Charlie Chaplin hats (forgot what they are called) are supposingly, the seeds of the seed pods! Wow... ermmm.. Ok....
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All the bad guys think they are good guys...
Dear Tomha,
Long Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Far Away...
Trumpets blared, before the trombones come in to join in the orchestra in a series of insane triple tonguings and triplets before belting the all too familiar theme of Star Wars, bringing in the familiar sprawling introduction to the film. Episode III: War!.... The fist word of the sprawling introduction tells as much about the theme of the film that we are eagerly anticipating for. Revenge of the Sith is non-stop pulsating light sabre duels from the start till the end, albeit a little distraction here and there about the dark side of the force, a little debates here and there in the Jedi Council (How did Lucas thought up of all these cool names??), a little kisses here and there, a little irritating animals here and there as well. On the whole, the trailer pretty much explains a lot about what to expect for in the movie. 2 and a half hours of great visual effects and mind boggling story telling about politics, mentor-tutelage and couple love, and of course, good versus evil. Coupled with the ever great performance by the London Symphony Orchestra in the background providing the powerful background music, What more can you ask for a fitting end to a franchise that spans more than a generation??
Sigh, Lord of the Rings ended, Indiana Jones ended albeit quite long ago, Star Wars had ended as well.. Will there ever be a fitting replacement trilogy in the future?
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Dear TomHa,
Decided that I will be a little freaky today and joined some of the malays downstairs for a game of Sepak Takraw, a game that I had always wanted to learn and pick up, and boy do my hamstrings hurt now, especially since I did not do any warm-up. Must say that still there are some sports genes left in my body and those kicks that I had learnt during my wushu days had gotten me into good stead (Is this the way to phrase it?? Hmm). Anyway, Malays are seriously the most intriguing race, not that I know much about the Indians. Hmm.. Maybe after I make and enforce that decision, I would go join a little cricket.. Hehe, I am a multi-racial guy!
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Monday, May 16, 2005
Dear TomHa,
I think that in a week's time or so, I am going to reach a decision that is going to stick with me for life, a decision that I had made, procrastinated, reverted, and digressed for too long a time. All I hope is that it does not affect anybody.
Had a talk with Daming sometime back and he said something like "Good friends don't crap with each other all the time.." Darn, seriously, I doubt that I would ever be a good friend to anyone. Just look and analyse, how many times had I ever talk seriously to anyone about sensitive issues. The probability of that is as rare as finding a Dodo in Singapore. I am not a good friend. I am just someone whom you can count on for a very good crapping session. And, sometimes which occurs to me to be most of the time, when I am off form, and my craps becomes pretty much distasteful and unfunny, things can get pretty ugly. Well, just hope that I would grow up soon enough, after all, I am going to be a full fledged adult next year.
Again, I would like to stress again, I hope the decision I make in the next few days would not affect anyone...
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Sunday, May 15, 2005
Dear TomHa,
It appears to me that my best friend this holiday is me, myself and I. All that I had been doing is to go for tuition, swim a bit, play ping pong with the wall, eat, sleep, go online to serve around the sea of information, read a little and that's it! Argh!! How counter productive this holidays had become. Tree climbing kept postponing the starting date, and referee course would not start until July. Sigh.. I am so bored to death and I haven't repaired my bicycle to a condition fit enough for the roads. No speed, no adrenaline, lots of blisters on my palms, sigh...
Kids these days are so irritating. Gone are the days when teachers are the authority of control in the classroom. Gone are the days when all the kids will do in class is to sit quietly and always nod in agreement to whatever the teacher say, waiting for the time to wilt away. Hmm.. am I describing my childhood? No matter, but it appears to me that kids these days are so ill-bred. Perhaps 2nd generation parents are no longer like the first generation parents, where children are taught to revere the authorithy and respect the cane. Gone are the days when teachers are have it all within their control. No wonder the incentives by the government to promote procreation, with kids like those that I teach romping the streets...
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
Weird
Dear TomHa,
My paddle, well it is not really mine but Nus' but it is assigned to me, had apparently gone MIA together with its owner from Kallang after SDBA! So weird, Jiansheng said he saw it last week, yet no one could actually pin point its location! How werid, perhaps I could do with some help from the Crime Library, alright, bad joke...
Upon some serious reflection, I realised that I actually joined canoeing due to peer pressure as the only sole reason! I mean, without those peer pressure, I would never ever had joined a racing sport in the first place! Afterall, you really have to give it to those athletes involved in racing sports like track and field, kayaking, canoeing, marathon and many many more. They just never get tired of doing the same thing over and over again. I mean even the training is just as dull, going up and down the same old place over and over again. It is so repetitive and stale that it is really no wonder that they are so outrageouly overpaid to keep them motivated. And in our case, when we apparently get no money out of all these outrageous sufferings, How to get motivated?? All the sports that I had been involved in had been much more interesting. Look at WuShu... yes, it is also stale and repetitive and rather senseless to learn stunts that would not be able to defend you effectively in the real world, but at least after all the sufferings, you get to show off to your peers!! Basketball, needless to say is the most interesting game ever, and Jordan alone has endless tricks for you to emulate. Even after I forsake sport and games for some cultural enlightenment - band - it is certainly more interesting than paddling. To get to know pieces that gives you goosebumps and make your hair stand and being able to try to play those pieces to give others the goosbumps and hair-raising experience is a quite an enriching experience! Haha, even juggling, playing table tennis with the wall(my new vent-your-frustration interests) is more intersting. Sigh, always say 'no' to negative influence little kids, or you will end up like uncle with 10 blisters, 1 on each finger...
Anyway, a little point to touch on about all racing sports are really boring. Cycling is definitely not boring. Haha, after cycling for many years, I must say that cycling can really get you into the worst injuries yet still leaving you a happy man at the end of the day. The satisfaction that the lush winds that are gushing upon your face is propelled by your own muscle power is so gratifying. I guess I am a speed junkie... Haha.
My chest hurts a little lately, I suspect some of my old injury is working up on me with all that rain. Sigh.. Rheumatism at such a tender age? I think I am going to die early. Can still remember vividly that fateful day when I was trying some stunt to impress some friends, skipping with my very short gym towel. Lost my balance on one skip and I lost my balance and stumbled a little and out of nowhere, there is a table and I knocked out one of my rib bones against the table edge. Doc says I was really lucky to have not punctured my lungs and I took 7 months to recover fully. Worst injury ever.. Jordan was right that injuring your ribs is the worst thing ever. And I did it before my 11th birthday! I don't think I will ever recover from it, just as Frodo will never recover from his stab at Weathertop. Nice reference.
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Dear TomHa,
Argh.. I just love the Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day. Somehow, it just fits in with my life so perfectly. Like this line especially:
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Watched Kingdom of Heaven today and I am seriously wondering why anyone is saying that it is a lousy movie. Although I must agree that Ridley Scott had maked the movie too politically correct, that Orlando Bloom should be the one shooting arrows in behind the walls instead of directing the battle, that Liam Neeson looked more like wielding a light sabre as he did in the Star Wars Part I: Pantom Menace than wielding the sword (High Guard always!), that you expect orcs to rush out of the siege towers than muslims, generally, it is still quite good lah. Haha. Liam Neeson always plays a character that dies too early before he gets to see his protege makes it successfully. Anywhere, I think the best character in the movie must be Salahaddin...
Muslim Warmonger : "We should fight them. Allah will protect us!"
Salahaddin:" How many wars had you all won before I came?"
Warmonger:"Not many, but that is because God had ordained that we lose the war!"
Salahaddin:"No! That's because you all are unprepared!"
Balain:" How much is Jerusalem worth to you?"
Salahaddin:" Nothing.."
Walk a few steps, turns back,
"Everything!"
Alright, I realise it is not really funny over here...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Obese Week
Dear TomHa,
I am officially labelling this week as Obese Week. Had been taking the lift, have not run for ages, been indulging in all the unhealthy stuffs that I think is going to make my fat percentage shoot beyond the 10% mark. Sigh.. I really have to start excercising seriously next week.
Went for many interviews the past few days but to no avail. I had really thought that I had got a job finally as I went for a job interview today somewhere in queenstown for the position of a kitchen helper in a western food stall, but apparently, the uncle boss there wanted a housewife to help him out as he say that housewives should be better, even though I thought I cooked the best fried rice during the interview. The rest of the housewives practically messed up the whole place. Sigh.. I thought I would be able to learn to cook new stuffs this holidays...
Went for a little gym training yesterday and I must admit that attendace is dismal. There are like 3/4 little cats there and a newbie somemore. Haha, guessed I had seriously freaked him out. He was likely complaining to me about a blister on his palm, and there was I, telling him in a very matter-of-factly tone "It is ok if it is not bleeding.." He returned to do his lats pull down, very much freaked out, although I thought it is very normal for us canoeists. Afterall, who is actually psychotic enough to paddle up and down a river stench with all the dead carcasses and digestive ouputs wahed down from every drain and sewage pipe in Singapore? Certainly, only people like us will do that and I don' think that little pain should even matter at all!
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Saturday, May 07, 2005
There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved by some porn and some beer
Dear TomHa,
In typical Zhirong-ish provocative manner, he had tickled all of the canoeist bewilderment and astonishment at a person's ability to belt out silly quotes by himself. Haha. I mean, although there is some truth in what he had said but, it just seemed so crude and distasteful yet still unbelievably funny. I mean, can't he even try to make it a little subtle?
There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved through some paganistic feminine appreciation and some mind- un- sobering tonics..
Allright, that is a rather bad try but someone who is about to study law belting out such crudity is a little unbelieavable, although I must admit, it really serves to make for a good laugh.
In another of his equally out of this world quote, Zhirong had, again, left us in serious hysteria as he lectured us about how the world would be dominated by the female population in the world of the future and in the end, men would end up as the sex toys of the women it is not as if he would mind. But then again, this brilliant student of economics could have probably got that right. I mean, look the power of women these days, men would go on their knees and serve them willingly, with a trick or two in utilising their feminine charm. Unscrupulous, immoral, indignifying, yet if you look at the number of powerful male who had fallen from grace due to their inability to control their inner carnal desires, you might be truly wondering if Constantine had not reshuffled the world towards the Christian faith and eradicated the female's power in the society by large in the world, would the male be even be dominating now? Look again, throughout the society at large, is the child closer to the mum or the dad? I mean, all children were part of their mums and I guess the bonding that they share during the 9 months of pregnancy is enough to stick the child to the mum whether consciously or unconsciously. So in the end, when all women are able to utilise their feminine charm effectively and when all men are falling to their inner carnal desires, perhaps, perhaps, we might see a global shift of power to the side that had been oppressed for quite some time...
A little note... the references to Constantine and various religious issues are taken out of the fictional book, The Da Vinci Code, and that the author had not bothered himself with the validation of Dan Brown's allegory... Also, the comments are based on the author's understanding of Mr Su's comment on female domination..
P.S "Inner Carnal Desires" is a trademark of Mr. Su Zhirong...
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Friday, May 06, 2005
CHIO BU!
Dear TomHa,
Oh my oh my, I think Jolin is getting more and more chio!! My god! I don't know how many surgeries it took for her to transform from the little girl of yester-yesterday to the look today but I like it! Haha. They nicknamed her the teen boy assassin and boy do I feel so murdered... Although there is a tinge of Ayumi in this photo though... Hmmm
Man, my muscles are aching, all because of my stupid big mouth. Why had I suggested sets of 20 reps yesterday? It is killing every ligament in my body now. Can't even raise my hands straight. Guess a gym session after a swimming workout is a rather bad combination. Well, at least I know now.
Not much issues to complain about this few days, well, no news is perhaps good news! I don;t know, let;s see how this holidays work out...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
You'll Never Walk Alone!
Dear TomHa,
Oh my, oh my, no more the 'special one' Jose?? Haha. Felt so happy that finally, the blue tide of Chelsea is crushed by the insurmountable tide of the red sea. Felt really good, afterall it had been many years since Liverpool actually stop underperforming and give their fans something to cheer about. Now, 90 minutes is all that stands in the way towards the ultimate football prize. All the way! You'll never Walk Alone! The red wave is always behind you!
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Nobody wants me...
Dear TomHa,
I seriously think that in the end, I might end with no work at all due to the green card of invalidity! Damn... That's really bad..
Anyway, went with Wenyang to pay our last respects to former president Mr Wee Kim Wee. Must say that it was a rather sombre moment inside the Istana, albeit the police thoughts that I was a terrorist with a pen knife in my bag.. Darn, I didn't know it was even inside all along. Rest in peace, Mr Wee, may your soul find solace in the achievements that you had done for Singapore.
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Monday, May 02, 2005
Faith does not protect you.. Medicine and airbags do..
Dear TomHa,
Finally caught up with the rest of the world and started reading Dan Brown. Must say that Angels and Demons is a rather compelling read and I guess it is sentences like that of the title of this entry that serves to make his books ever so controversial. Will start Da Vinci Code tommorrow, and I just can't imagine how in the world is it going to be better as all my friends had told me. Anyway, I find that perhaps my study of physics had served me rather well to know about all the things that the scientists are inventing although I must say that everything religion in the book is a big mess in my eyes. I thought I once heard that Christians and Catholics are loggerheads with each other? Then why are the references so freely interchanged with one another? Or issit anything that is associated with churches can be referred to as Christian or Catholics interchangebly. The Carmelengo is rather cool though, and I think that symbology should be a rather interesting module to take, will take it if NUS happened to offer 1 haha.. Illuminati and stuffs are rather ok for me, thanks to the geopolitics class I took last semester. The lecturer told us a great deal about the New World Order and Galileo's Illuminati, and as always, I find reading about the things that I had studied in class being applied to fiction rather interesting.. Hehe
Labour Day had passed, time to look for employment
Don't really want to go back to Orchid Garden, shall tour around the farms in LimChu Kang and all those gardens all around Singapore to seek employment. Hope someone will take interest in my skills of making sure that the flowers bloom! Haha..
Life is good
Slept till around 12pm, quite dizzy after that, guess I am still not used to sleeping a lot, it is like after starving for a few days, you can't just give the victim all the food in the world and expect him to survive.. I guess same thing applies to sleep. In any case, if you do not already know, the very famous chinese poet, Du Fu, died as after being trapped in a hut for a few days after a flood, some kind samaritarian gave him lots of food to eat and upon doing so, Du Fu died of indigestion. What a tragic end to one of the world's most talented poet.. Anyway, back to the point. After breakfast(Maybe lunch should be a better term) and a cup of good coffee and keeping in touch of the rest of the world through my papers, I sat to finish my Angels and Demons. After the reading, I set out on my hedonistic adventure in the NUS swimming pool where I swam till I almost dropped.. Quite intersting to swim in a really congested pool as evsive measures had to be taken at all times. Constant Vigilance or you'll never know when your trunks will be ripped apart by some unknowing person.. Alright, that is a bit of exaggeration. Then, my favourite part of the day, Dinner! Ate Kway Chap and a huge bowl of Ice Kachang for dessert. Life is good Haven't ate Kway Chap for months! All the intestines and stuff and the shivering cold of the ice kachang, certainly brings pleasure to me. Unhealthy indulgence as what I always say, but who cares.. Remember this day, today, Life is good...
Time out, bye!
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