Freelance
よ(yo)! TomHa,
Today was quite a day... went to pray 观音菩萨 at my neighborhood temple as i simply am not pious enough to make my way down to Sibei Road... Now wonder there wasn't any divine intervention when I was struggling up Hanuman Tibba. Anyway, that is not the point.. I am really not pious enough...
So, then I went for lunch at my favourite Hokkien mee stall in Bt Batok Shopping Centre (those kind with a lot of coffee shop and HDB stalls kind) and freakingly, I saw E-fung, Stephen, however you'll like to call him, anyway I don't think he knows my name even though we chatted for like an hour plus over his lor mee and my Hokkien mee. In then end, given that we are connected by the identity of having gone through the MIR program, we had to talk about mountains after all the talk about his impending North and South pole thing, his freelancing job ( He earns $5- 8k freelancing, voyeuring around - Now, WY you can stop medicine liao...), photography... Was surprised that I could talk so much to someone whom I knew through books instead of acquaintances.
Anyway, in the end, the conclusion was that mountain changes people. You'll look at things at a different perspective from before, taking more things seriously, although I must admit that I still got a long way to go before being a matured person, but, on hindsight, I realy see some improvement, however minuscule it is, in myself. In the past, you ask me to design a cover page, i would just ask you to fuck off, and even if I were to be so polite to accept it, the job would certainly be those kind of 2-hour finish job. certainly did not expect myself to spend 2 full days, pon-ning lectures and lessons, coop-ed behind my laptop or desktopdesigning that stupid thing. Must admit that I am super inefficient in design though.. so my 2 full day might only be someone else's half a day. I wouldn't expect myself to spend so much time researching on the monsoon, consulting even the Geog Professors who had no inkling of relationship to me! Shall blog my findings and research after exams... Man, I had changed, not that I had matured or anything, I had started to become more responsible in doing what that I like to do! Next improvement that I would like to see in me is to be more responsible in what that I don't like to do as well!
Quotable quotes from coffee talk:
Mountains... they make you realise what that you really want...
Stephen Chow.
