This Christmas...

Well, christmas is around the corner and as expected, we are all rushing about buying presents and doing some shopping. But at this time of the year, can we not forget what is most important here. No it is not the spirit of giving or the idea of celebrating the nativity (YES they are important and all).

But what is the single most important thing is the idea of coming together as a family unit and thanking whichever god you belive in for a wonderful year and how he/they have been gracious to you and protected you for the past 360 days of the year.
No, it is not the time for you to be going out with your friends and getting pissed drunk and mistake your flushed nose to be Rudolf. But it is a time to sincerly look back and well, appreciate it.

Christmas is here and to me there is more to it then just presents and gifts. It should be a time for rememberance. For christians, it is to remember someone who gave his life for you. For others, it is a time to remember people who would give their life for you. It is a time to take stock on the quality of your life and be thankful for it. Just for this day let us not chase ambitions and goals without first taking time to look back and reminisece about the goals that we have accomplished

So this christmas, let us not get wild and over the top, let us not use the excuse of a mistletoe for a free kiss and let us not think christmas is some lightshow that makes Orchard rd more pretty (although it is not the case this year). Let us instead appreciate the friends and appreciate the love bestowed on us.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL.

Thanks

This post is dedicated to the person who managed to help me get all the links into the blog! Tks Colleen, sorry I dunno what is html or any of this programming things, rather noob at this. Thankfully you know this IT thing...





PS: notice the role reversal in this modern world. What next, female Phua Chu Kangs? Hmmm

Bloody Bas***d Breeze!

The problem with technology is that it is not 100% reliable! I was trying to access the e-learning portal which contained my holiday homework and well, lo and behold, I cannot get in and school is starting soon and there is a test for this topic! (go figure).

I mean why can we not stick to paper and pen? There is a saying, if there is nothing wrong with it, don't fix it! Sorry for this flusttered post, but it is very irritating when I cannot get something which I want done. Anyhow, it has been a quiet week, and nothing realy meaningful has sufficed.
It pains me to wonder how the definition of the term 'holiday' has been brutally mauled by the Singaporean education system. No longer do we get to rest, instead we are given homework.

What is this world coming to?

Confessions of a Cab driver 2

Well well , I was on the way back from a cab on Wednesday morning (2am), and I met another interesting cab driver with his own anecdote about life.

He was sharing with me how difficult life was being a cab driver, and how the increase in fares did not just affect us, but him also. He complained of how the new fares had turned off customers who would rather wait for the first bus or first train rather than take the cab. He had also talked about how his 2 children would starting primary school and how he had to single handedly put rice on the table for his wife, his children and himself. Sigh such is his predicament.

Well, he had mentioned about the constraints that he had faced and how he only had primary school education and how it had led to him ending up driving since he was a tender age. Of course, he had also mentioned how times had changed and how one needed an N or O level cert to drive a cab. Subsequently, he was worried that his children would not be able to adapt to the society for them in the future.

Sigh, times have really changed. 3 decades ago, noodles could be bought at 50 cents and things were so much easier. Education was fun and people were happy. Nowadays, we go about our daily innings with this 'computed' mindset and with our even thought or appreciation for life. Life has become such a bitter struggle to make ends meet and has been hard on the general population. I respect this uncle who has chose to struggle on and to continue to work against the odds and try to support his family. The education system has been taxing on us, and I guess, we really need to change and adapt, or else we would be sorely left wanting.


'let us not take the roof over our heads, the food on the table and the starhub cable as simply necessities, when somewhere just maybe a few roads down, these maybe be luxuries.'



PS: if the taxi driver and the passenger is at the loosing end of this new meter system, who is making the dough? Rather obvious eh.

Changes

Friends are back from Aussie-land! Anyhow, Ben has to go for army now, so wont be seeing for long.

Its amazing how things can change since the last time I saw them (which was a year ago). I guess it just emphasizes how we all change and how 365 days can mould someone to a completly new person not jsut physically, but also in terms of his/her character and mannerisms. Well, I think ACJC has changed me alot in both good and bad ways, but then again I am not like the gahmen, I accept that pros come with cons.

Well, I was wondering to myself, can we ever remain true to ourselves? When we first started off as children, we had always claimed that we would never (emphasis on 'never') tell a lie. But looking back, I am afraid that the lies I have made can make you a millionaire if 1 lie cost $1. Well, we say that we would not smoke, not have pre-maritial sex, but how sure are we that we do will abstain?

Tsk tsk tsk, the temprement of the human will, so easily to change, so easy to turn 180 degrees, so easy to love, so easy to hate, so easy to give in.