Gossips have their funny ways of working to my ears. They come to me from people I least expect to, people I hardly know, occasions when I simply want to play and can't be bothered and so on. Even my own mother has a habit of sharing news of others whom I hardly know, with me. Sometimes it is nice to know certain things but sometimes it just sucks to know anything at all. One of the worst is gossip about family breaking up. Husbands cheating on wives and wives getting to know by checking on their husbands' handphones. And the recent one that I heard of is father who worked as a bus driver to earn a keeping for his wife and 3 sons. He lost his driving license some time ago due to an incident of drink driving. After some time of jobless living (2 of his sons are working), he later found a job but got diagnosed with stomach cancer. You think that's bad? His wife is out with another guy! And his sons know about it but help their mom to cover it up. What kind of shit is this? Well.. Given that there might be things that the father may have done wrong, I still feel that there should be a certain sense of family value here.. oh well.. Who am I to judge?
On a separate note, my mom was going to donate money to a blind beggar some time ago. She was a little confused over where she should place the money or how she should hand it to the beggar since he doesn't have a thing to collect the money and his hands are full. During the little confusion, he reached his hand out a little in the direction of my mom. I guess it was pretty obvious that he wasn't blind after all. I did consider telling my mom to not hand him the money but decided against it. No doubt I do consider it to be a fair degree of cheating but I am a privileged kid like many others. We grow up in manageable families who don't have to worry about many needs in life. It gives us a leverage to talk about the importance of values and stuffs as we do not have to worry about survival. It feels kind of wrong then to condemn a person for infringing on certain values...
The Origin. 5/29/2007 06:38:00 pm
On a separate note, I realized that I feel kind of weird sitting in the living room, watching tv with my family. It has been a long time since I last caught a tv serial I suppose. It is a fair bit irritating when my mom or my sis started to comment about the show and speculate what is to happen next. It is at such moments that I remember WeiLi’s words of wisdom that women tend to talk when watching movies or tv while men do not. Ha.. But I guess it is just something that needs to be accepted as some kind of bonding.
The Origin. 5/26/2007 12:27:00 am
The Origin. 5/23/2007 04:56:00 am
I often question why some people put on an act when we are befriending each other. I feel like yelling out to them, "It doesn't matter how I judge you! So get on with it and show me the real you!" Then again, the me which I feel is real at that point in time is but a mask, I think. So how can I ask for what I am not doing? I guess who somebody is, is simply the combination of the masks we put on. Each mask is the real us at any one point in time when we put them on, and yet fake as we change to another one later.
On a separate note, Lin Run and Ai Tian surprised me on Saturday when they gave a 'Kenneth' answer to a question that they themselves posed. The words are not exactly as I would have put them but the meaning is essentially the same. The question is, "Would you not go to France for your girlfriend?" (assumption made is that I have a gf by then) The 'Kenneth' answer, "The Kenneth at this point in time will not but in future he might." It is quite accurate though I must say that the chances of 'the future' as suggested is slim. ha..
The Origin. 5/21/2007 09:19:00 pm
In a way, I grew fond of clusters of shophouses and the CBD (the older part of it) because of the buildings speaking one theme in each area. I dunno how to put it into words but I hope u guys understand what I'm hitting at. ha~
On a separate note, spent an evening with Joel, Jie Hui, Kevin, Felyna and Jin Rui in Settlers Cafe. It was an event thingy organised by Joel's cell group. Ha.. I have to give it to Joel that as promised, there wasn't any preaching session involved. It was a fun filled night and we became members of Settlers Cafe through sheer luck. (We won a mini competition)
I have also grew kinda fond of such kind of photograps(if u see what I mean):
The Origin. 5/19/2007 12:52:00 am
The over-used motto of 'doing what your heart desires' (or along this line) is pretty much screwed by itself. Just how many of us are trapped in the system of education in Singapore and how many of us are worried about our prospects after taking a course we desire? What if we do not desire to study in the first place?
Furthermore, how about the simple words of wisdom about how you need to love what you do to succeed in it? I have learnt (in the army) that with the right attitude, success is possible. Right attitude can be bred.
Lastly, we have all been deceived! Remember that we were told that JC will be fun when we were in Secondary sch? And how Uni will be a breeze when we were slaving our lives away for A levels? These are all lies!!! Created in an attempt to give us motivation to climb the education ladder!
But oh well... Life is still beautiful...
The Origin. 5/14/2007 08:03:00 pm
On a separate note, the trip to Ophir was fun. Although the view from the top was a let-down to me, the satisfaction of completion was great for me as it was afterall my first time.
The Origin. 5/11/2007 10:46:00 pm
On a separate note, I came across two of these today at Bugis (near the temple).
As I was waiting for my parents to complete their shopping, I spent a considerable amount of time there to observe them. I must say that the following is subject to my interpretation. I feel that the timing and day couldn't be better for such a stunt ( I shall use stunt for I do not know of a better word). It is the 15th on the chinese calendar today, a day when worshippers flock to the temple to pray and stuffs like that. To me the guy on the right seems to represent some form of a religious preacher while the lady on the left seems to represent some form of a chinese goddess or sth. Yet both are dressed in european style so that the link with the religion is not that clear. Then wat really grabbed my interest was the use of toy birds in their hands. The birds flap their wings as the tableaux move their hands in actions of 'all hear' and 'let's rejoice' sort of way. at least this was the impression I got. Anyway, the message I seemed to interpret from it all is that they are showing the constraints of religions and urging people to be free of it. ha.. None too clear?? Oh well..
The Origin. 5/01/2007 09:31:00 pm