Monday, December 18
18 Dec - This amazing woman was borned. The one who shower love and care for her love ones. The one who makes so many sacrifices for the family. The one who gives nothing but her heart to look after me. The one who brought me up the way I ought to be and prevented me from being led astray. The one who provides me with everything and gives in to whatever I asked for. The one whom I am grateful and thankful for. The one whom I love with all my heart. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mum!!
5:04:00 PM
Tuesday, December 12
Groundless ACCUSATIONS. IMMATURE thinking. ILLOGICAL argument.
makes me wonder why some people bother to explain themselves. Everything that I have or is awarded to me is hard-earned and definitely well-deserved. I need no one else to come and judge my efforts nor tell me what is right. Worse still, behind my back. Well let's just say instead of judging others, maybe it would do some good to channel this energy, so vibrant and robust, towards personal character-building.
Honestly I really can't be bothered. I have more things like Dreamweaver to explore and make my blog more interesting. Notice the additions to this blog. Haha. This previously wordy site is finally getting some images and extensive hyperlinks (at least for my level). Thanks to Dreamweaver and Eugene. I'm still learning and I will continue to make this site more beefy. Yummy.
11:29:00 PM
Friday, December 8
Fights, bickering, backstabbing, gossiping, sarcasm are some destructive words that can break the relationships forged between people if they are put into action. Sadly, these words, so harmless as they may seem, are put in action every minute in an attempt to destroy each beautiful day that we are given.
It still puzzles me as to why people want to pick a fight with one another. Do they enjoy it? Does it give them a sense of satisfaction to see the other hurt by our senseless deeds? Do we feel better about ourselves when we make someone feel worse about himself? Personally, I am not one who likes to pick a fight with another person, simply because it ruins both his and my mood. And at the end of the day, I know it takes away credits from my personality, discounting me as a person. So rather than getting on one another's nerve and grumbling about what a bitch the other party has been, why not get down and trash things over? Wouldn't that be a better alternative than cutting each other's throat and making ourselves bitter and vengeful?
Back when I was young, I would often find myself picking a fight with someone else over the pettiest issue and everyone would resort to "don't friend you already" method to get their way around the fight. Come to think of it, how childish could I get. But I guess that was the everyone got by fights and quarrels when they were young. And by the next second, I would be fooling around with the one whom I hated like 5 seconds ago. What do we understand about hate when we were still bubbly and fun-loving. But what happened to the innocent and magnanimous kid that was so forgiving?
Growing up can be a terrifying thing, especially the changes that can occur to one. We become more unforgiving, unreasonable and hateful towards people whom have done us wrong. We go all out to put the blame on others, pick fault with everything, make others feel lousy about themselves just so to get back at the one whom we feel is indebted to us for his misdeeds. And the scary thing is that we are oblivious to these changes that have consumed us, leaving us estranged and bitter, eventually a lonely individual.
To be thrown into the real world and seeing all the unpleasant side of the world is enough to overwhelm a young adult. To know that he has lost his innocence and youth to the reality of this world is shocking too. But to realise that he has become one with this ugly community is absolutely horrifying even though many are ignorant or choose to ignore this. As it is, everyday that is given to us is hardly beautiful when so many negative things are happening out there. And by that I mean more serious stuff like disasters, diseases, terrosits. Who is going to care about petty friendship issues in the midst of all these? We do, people who pick a fight do, and I wonder is it justified to dismiss children's little fights as childish when we have already stoop to the same level as them.
People are only contented after they ruin the intimate bonds that they share with one another. Could we just be more appreciative and enjoy those beautiful things that are given to us, when there are so few of them that we can think of. Perhaps we may just find ourselves waking up everyday feeling that it is worth appreciating and for us to enjoy the company of people whom we have made acquaintence with.
1:40:00 AM
Sunday, December 3
This picture was taken on 5 May 2005, the actual day of SYF competition. I believe this is the instrument store in Meridian Junior College. In the blink of the eye, we are already coming to the end of the year 2006. What a fast-paced year come to think about it.
Anyway I was with Eugene at the newly opened Tampines IKEA today. Well this outlet isn't very much different from the one you will find in Alexandria there, just that it is located in the east. We took a quick walk through the entire perimeter, only stopping once in a while when we see something interesting. There was no possibility to explore the place due to the over-spilling crowd. I was just telling Eugene just outside the building that I could see people being squashed against the windows and some others spilling out of the windows and are falling out. I can't even begin to describe how the situation was like. People queued for free parking lots, got in line just to get into the overcrowding mall, pestered the salesman for free door gifts, queued up for hotdogs and chicken wings as if they would grant them immortality, dashed for the shutterbus that could allow them to save every single cent possible. Sigh. Singaporeans.
Eugene was telling me that this year is a good year for opening shopping malls and I must say it is damn true. Take Vivocity for example, people poured into the mall even before half of the shops that existed are open. Weekday or weekend, the mall is amazingly packed and I am still puzzled by this phenomenon. Don't people have work, studies to manage?? I guess this sudden outbreak of new shopping malls has encouraged people to move their lazy ass out of their house to check out the latest that this island has to offer. Probably motivated by the rise of GST next year as well, people are doing more shopping so that they can save on whatever they can before prices soar sky high next year.
The only thing I am unhappy with is the fact that everybody is rushing to wherever is new and has sale. Take the Adidas warehouse sale that Eugene and I went to last week. It was like a fishmarket and to think that I thought no one knew about this sale. I must have been an idiot to think so. This is Singapore for goodness sake, sale is what we kill to get to, dude. Sigh. Give this whole IKEA-newly-open incident another few weeks and when a new place of interest springs up, people are going to charge at it and I will have the entire IKEA to myself and can slowly take a stroll. Having said that, I must also say that the crowd does spice up the festive-holiday mood a little. So I guess it ain't so bad afterall. Ha.
12:19:00 AM
