人生南北多歧路。将想神仙，也要凡人做。
百代兴亡朝复暮，江风吹到前朝树。　功名富贵无凭据。费尽心情，总把流光误。　浊酒三杯沉醉去，水流花谢知何处。

Dear TomHa,
Quote this from a book I bought at the World Book Fair yesterday. 儒林外史, guess anyone who had any affiliation with chinese literature should know how famous this ancient novel should be. The quote describes some of life philosophies which I had sadly failed tracing the author of it. Afterall, I suspect that it is quoted from another person by the author of the book. It just does not sound like the author's words. Never mind, shall not play this stupid hide and seek game for long. For those who could not comprehend the meaning of the quote, in direct translation, it says, life north south has a lot of obstacles. Generals, premieres, gods also needs ordinary people to fill up the posts. Hundreds of dynasties boom and bust, the river wind blows down the tree of the past era. You don't leave anything with your rank and riches, while spending all your feelings, and get your priorities wrong. 3 rounds of wine and you go drunk, the river flows, the flower fades and you don't know where you are... Hence it just means that riches and power are only worldy possession. Men spend their lifetime chasing it, but in the end, when they really got it, it just does not seem to be as good as what they had thought it out to be. From the past till the present, who had actually seen through this??

Anyway, enough literature for this entry, not many would have understand what I was saying anyway.. Not much revelation in anything this week, not much interesting fact this past week. Just that I really hope that my some of my old friends would turn up for the alumni dinner, and we could have some good gathering. Found that the advancement of technology might have shrunk the relative distance between people, but at the mean time, it had also made the distances between people further and further apart. I know, this topic had been everywhere on the general papers top 10 popular questions but in the end of the day, don't you think that it is so serious a problem that we must address? Now that everyone has a handphone, where SMS is the very much cheaper way to communicate, when is the last time that you chat with somebody hurting your eardrums in the process? Perhaps it is just me, I am not sure. But somehow, I still find the old way of getting to your friends through the household phone to be a more intimate way of communication and also, it apparently reduces the hazards of radiation.

I guess the recent spate of missing personnels had resulted in a more sympathetic nation in Singapore. Today is the second time when I see an adult asking if a rather forlorn-looking kid if he is lost or anything, showing some care and concern to a little child especially since it is already like 9pm. Perhaps I was ignorant or whatever, but this recent sightings of public sympathy and the public's moral obligation gives me a different view on the people of Singapore, and I guess this is good, that there are people who are apparently less educated than some tertiary students lending their bit to the society at large through some simple questions like "Girl, are you lost? You sure you are on the right bus?" and some simple gestures like a little "Good morning", "Selamat Bagi" (Hope I got the spelling right) in the languages of the other races to the person who serves you! I find that really makes you happy at the end of the day. I tried doing that to the Roti Prata uncle yestermorning, and although he gave me a rather stunned look, he smiled back and replied politely, and I was happy for the whole of yesterday. Haha. No wonder some people say I am a freak. And whoever is Jj please say which one are you please.. I know too many liao..

There is this bakery in the Bt Batok with a baker whom I find to be rather pretty and I guess I am rather smitten with her. Been buying cakes from the shop which I would have never eaten and some of them are rather lousy tasting. Who likes a blueberry chocolate cake? Guess I caught the syndrome from Xinru, but at least my crush should be better than a fruit seller, afterall, you need specific skills to be a baker, and I guess she is a professional. Boy, I am getting so poor buying cakes...