Friday, February 06, 2004

Life through a lens

Like I will continue to emphasise, life is getting too predictable and stale. Mug, eat, sleep, repeat with other stuff included once in a while, like training, reading econs text or the rare comic here and there.
Kitson was talking to me about his chance to go overseas to England to study, i wonder if I would ever have the courage to leave here, and everything I know behind, just to "escape" singapore's education system. I'm no big fan of it, but it serves our purpose and no choice I guess. I'm a slave to a society which views paper qualifications as very important (now where have we heard this before?) In any case, when the time comes for me to leave for university overseas, if i make it, I think the feelings I will have on that day will be really screwed up I guess.
Oh, for some excitement.
Reading other people's blogs, some people go clubbing for their excitement. I must first state that I'm no advocate of clubbing, but I'm an advocate for personal freedom so go ahead and satisfy your preferences as that will help reach Pareto optimality. However, I think clubbing is definately not the lifestyle for me, I'm just one of those people who prefers peace and quiet then loud music, plus I can't stand booze, and the negative connotation that clubbing brings is enough to turn me off. Haha, you are most probably thinking "what a sheltered boy he is." but that's who I am. However, I would like to go just once, to see for myself what is it really like, before I get wrong ideas of it and make baseless arguments. But certainly not in the immediate future. Maybe when I am older, much older.
I remember ben lee telling me that, I quoteh "go clubbing on friday night and still come for activity on saturday at 8 am." My shifu, as always. His words of wisdom have always inspired me. I wonder what is he doing now?
So cross that out. Sleep is out of the question as well. The paradox of sleep is that, if I were to go to bed earlier, it means I'm bringing forward school, as I wake up at the same time everyday. But I need sleep, otherwise, it's zzzz in lectures again. Bio lectures are my designated zzzz times, which is really bad as I always walk out of bio lectures with someone else's notes in tow as I need to copy what I had missed.
Reading is another alternative, but I rarely even have time to read the papers, let alone a book. Think of it, in 1 day, I have to read the papers, the week's copies of time and newsweek and an econs book. How much more reading can I squeeze in? Also, the time spent on finding a book also needs to taken into consideration.
So, most of the time I spend it surfing the net, but if there are no new articles to read, I would spend only 15 mins, then it's back to work.
Go out? Like I said, all the Guys TM are all busy with their own lives that I think we will find it hard to meet. But will still try to get a LAN session going. Missed the CS madness that always happens during our maniac fights. Yeah, but going out causes me to have nagging thoughts which go along the lines of "you shouldn't be here, you should be mugging for the A's!!!!" Guilt trip galore.
Writing? Currently lack any inspiration or motivation. My poetry collection remains stagnant ever since i did that one which was a tribute to a graveyard being excavated. Short stories ripped from my 23 chapter epic seems very cheapskate and lacks the "epic" idea I had originally in mine, leading to sloppy and unemotive pieces that I'm ashamed to call them mine. Bad pride, I know, but I don't want to write something just for the sake of doing so, besides writing is so mentally exhausting at times, sourcing for new ideas. Or I should just feed myself with enough infrodel and caffeine and maybe I can do a li bai or coleridge and type out some nonsense which may become the bane of literature students when I'm dead and buried. They shall whine over why I wrote odes to urns and pondered over what I was smoking during my time.
Sighz, which leads me back to the point life is boring. And from the look of things it will stay this way for the 1st 3 months, then downhill all the way. Oh well, life ain't a bed of roses, so if I don't like something, I should get off my butt and do something about it.
Still waiting for War and Peace trade, Armada #3 trade, comics (especially dreamwave's transformers comics) are the real sin in life. Bloody expensive, 36 bucks for something which has less pages than a manga, which only costs $5, but highly satisfying. Oh well, not all the good things in life come free and with a potential lawsuit or police raid.
In conclusion, my life is boring. Bravo. Which means.... time to start downloading anime again... need people to recommned me series, or better still lend me cds.

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