Oh time and education....

I recently read an article on a modern illness yet to be cured, especially prominent in developed countries. This illness has a cure, but those infected do not wish to take it. Instead, they carry on their lives with it, oblivious to the damage done to them. This illness in the article was called "busyness".

Just a few keypoints I picked out from the article. I have no idea where the article is and thus the sentence may vary quite a sum, since it was read quite some time ago. Some of the examples would be using my own as well. Despite technological advancements trying to increase the effeciency of humans, the time saving effect we try to grasp at has become a time wasting one. We build and buy cars to get us to places faster. Instead, we get stuck in traffic and red faced drivers are definitely not a rare sight. We build washing machines, printers, computers, trying to get the job done faster. Yet, we never seem to have enough time.

Some may believe it is an issue of time management. However, with the increasing expectations and jobs we place on ourselves, we end up with less leisure time than our ancestors did before. Even with our leisre time, we fill it to the brim with all sorts of activities. Even in the most unlikely of places, be it on the bus or the toilet bowl, one is expected to be working all the time. If we are not SEEN doing something, contributing to society, we would ths be considered a burden, a pile of junk slowing down society.

In spending our free time doing something, even of the least importance, we fail to sit back and relax. Children are forced to study or die in this competitive world. The time to dream, think and grow has been robbed from or childhood. Being a teen in the face of an important examination, this is not difficult to relate to. I can do all the work I want, but if I am not seen doing it, it doesn't count and I get nagged all the time. There is no time for me to relax or daydream, for my life is expected to be composed of study, eat and sleep. Nothing else is important. School hours are extended till it is like a five day work week. The older generations expect nothing less.

Education is considered a priority, so much that probably 75% of out lives are forced into it. The older generation do not bother of how the new system works. Their stubborn mindset limits advancements. In my case, JC is a must and going to poly means that I'll be a failure in life forever. However, in this day and age, JC and poly should be equally recognised. They are after all using 2 different teaching methods. I happen to be more of a kinetic learner and can't sit in a lecture hall or I'll fall into a deep slumber, hence, I kinda want to go poly cause it is a more hands on approach. However, with my parents influence, JC still gotta be my first choice before poly.

So.... what the heck people. You gotta learn to relax and change with the times. Don't follow the system you are used to, but rather adapt it to fir the advancements of the society. The system has gotta be less rigid or just because your learning style is different, you'll be forced to go down the gutter.

Believe?!

There are the free thinkers and then there are those with a religion.... My family believes in Buddhism. However, I am not sure whether to classify myself as a free thinker or Buddhist since I believe in some of the more basic theories most religions have, like the Karma system, where you do good and get good Karma kinda thing...

However, in face of the reborn system, like afterlife and then you get reborn.... I don't exactly believe in the kinda thing as well, like heaven and hell... Personally, I have experienced many of the Deja Vu thing, so I believe in what I experience (well, I don't experience everything, so theory plays a part in covering the gaps)... I think that (well, I guess you could say that I believe in that reborn thing) your "soul" (if there is such a thing...) gets "reused" in the same time. You know the space time theory where there is history, present and future and then the parallel worlds... Yeah.... I think that your "soul" is placed back into the same time given another of the countless returns. Hence your soul shall go through another cycle of jumping through parallel worlds to chose the best choice. However, your soul does not remember all the right choices. That's why there may be the repetitive going through of cycles. Something like memorising a passage of life. Where at some parts seem so familiar that the time line of parallel worlds lapse. That's where you get your Deja Vu thing, where you remember you have gone through the same thing. Until your soul can memorise the entire passage of life and choose when to alternate around the parallel worlds, I have no idea what happens after that. Maybe you cease to exist... maybe you continue to exist on the path called fate. I don't know.

So, who cares about such things... It is afterall, just another random theory based on what I feel. Does not matter if others believe otherwise. Theory is afterall, hard to proof but easy to eliminate. Science if afterall a product of elimination, where you are served packages of theories and find the most probable one through elimination. However, if there are exceptions, these makes things a whole load complicated and more theories try to push over the existing ones...

So, let us just live life the way it is... Share the theories, accept ideas from other theories and make one you believe. Does not matter, when you're dead, you're dead. For all I know, maybe life is only one long path which ends with nothing.

Yeah! Another boring blog!

I will be going to Kuala Lumpur this Thursday evening by train. Celebrating my maternal side grandmother's Birthday. Birthday dinner on Sunday night. Not sure when exactly is her birthday though... All I know is that it would be on the weekdays.

Anyway... Back to topic! The complaining part! Yeah! What the heck...

So... What am I going to complain about now. Actually, I have nothing to complain about today.

However, I got a new table! IKEA sent the parts. Fixed it up within two hours. Table with a board for pin-ups and a separate drawer thingy... So, it is larger than my current work table bt it is for my computer and all. So my one desk and the other computer table will be replaced by this big table. But the total are would be a little less than the two tables add together, but it will fit, I think.

O levels next year but I am not studying, so... Yeah. What the heck. BB guys! (Or whoever reads my blogs...)

Boredom

The web, a place of wide range connection that can fulfill many wishes. Then WHY does it keep me so BORED!!!

I am not sure if I am the only one but I get bored of playing computer games, surfing the net, et cetera.

Yeah, I know I have not been blogging latel due to my examinations but it actually ended a week ago. Got back my results. I will post them on my other bolg; the school one of course. Link in the side bar <<

So, what do I do when I am BORED? Good question. I am not sure myself. Since I have so much free time, I am just going to rant about the crap of my life and stuff that I feel about other stuff. It is midnight already though. Probably past it by the end of the blog...

I have not got much to complain about actually, but I will share one of my dislikes: DIETS!!! Why the hell are people going on diet! Live your life to the max! Eat whatever you want, but eat your greens too or the shitting would hurt like hell...

There are loads of people out there who are anorexic, and then there are those who are obese. Well, the smaller problem first. Anorexic people NEED to enjoy life more. Why on Earth are you people eating so little?! Scared of the BIG problem. Excercise does the job. Yeah yeah, there are those who say eating is a waste of time. Well, based on evolution, things are changed to adept to the suroundings. Well, why do you have taste buds? Well, so you CAN TASTE the DELICIOUS food you people can eat! The other fact is just to taste thing that gone bad, but what the heck. Eat more! Scared of health problems? Well, you're HAVING one! Life is going to end anyway. So learn to enjoy! The world is ending in 2012 after all, that is if you belive the Mayans.

Then now, the BIG problem. Obesity. Yeah, enjoying food is great. But, WHAT ARE YOU DOING! You people are just wasting supplies for those who need it. The poor, the anorexic, et cetera. You people are not ENJOYING food, you people are filling extra RESERVES! Look at those bags around you. Man! You people do not need that! Throw it away! Those are CRAP! You make the world look like shit!

Then another problem... The end of the world in 2012. Wow, how fanciful. Then why are those scientists and researcher still working! The world is going to END! Why do you need the money for. Go buy a mansion and eat luxuriously till the end of the world! Hell man. The Mayans predicted loads of things right. It is the future man! Then they decided to stop writing and people INFER that it means the end of the world. For all I know, this post is just another piece of waste floating about the "abysmal" internet. Then, maybe, just maybe, when the world ACTUALLY ends in 2012, I am screaming my lungs out running down the street trying to save myself. I bet the Mayan just got bored of writing the story but forgotten to put a FULL STOP at the end of the sentence. Abrubt ending to such a factual recount an English teacher would probably say. What that is it? You ain't writing anymore?! Well, of course! Do you know how friggin boring it would be to write and essay of "What happens in the future". It is even CARVED into a wall! How tiring would that be?! Now, athors just gotta type it out. Well, try CARVING it into STONE! The Mayans got bored about telling their kids what to do till 2011 and let them have independence in 2012. That is all!

Last problem, those who CLAIM that they are fearless of death. "HAHA! You thinks you can kill me?! Bring it!" Next moment, the guy is rolling on the floor begging for mercy. You don't fear death?! Well, why don't you just die now?!

Well, actually there are loads more problem. But, I'll end here for today and give it a break from my ranting. Till next time!

Recycle more!

My mother asked my sister to clean up her table. All the trash went into the bin. However, was it really trash? Well, I managed to ransack more then half of the paper that were recycable. And out of the ones I ransacked, there were Secondary 1 mock examination papers, not even touched at all. And out of that pile I ransacked, about 20% of it were reusable. And this was not all the paper they threw away! There's still loads more waiting to be saved. There's already one mammoth pile of recycable paper under my table. Will out them up for recycling tomorrow...

So save the friggin Earth already. Mother Nature gave us life and the Earth let us live on it without expecting anything in return. Yet, we ungrateful beings continuously pollute and destroy the enviroment. Talk about being civilised.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. In fact, there is actually no such thing as trash. Everything can be, and should be, recycled somehow or the other. I collected so much useful material from just what my sister threw away in one go! Just imagine the amount of gold we threw into the drains and buried under the ground, not bothering to give them a second chance. Imagine the amount of people throwing this gold to nowhere at one time! And they did this act countlessly! We need to save the world. If not for us, at least for our descendants.

Why are we biting the hand that feeds us?! Shouldn't we be more grateful? Do you think we actually have the right to call outselves a living thing beyond that of what shold be classified as mammals? Are we as civilised as we claim to be?

National Day!

Yeah, I know it is a bit late and stuff. National day on the 9th of August. That was a Monday. Sunday, we had a National Day Carnival held at the HDB blocks behind my school. Kinda last minute notice, but we got everything together still. Check my CCA blog for more info on this.

There was the National Day Parade at the Padang, but I didn't watch it... neither live nor on television. They said it was much grander than the last one though... Not much here, so yeah, that is it for now. Sorry for the really late update...

1st August! Guess what day it is!

It is my mother's birthday. Also two of my friends' birthdays. Darren and Royson. Happy birthday you people!

So yesterday, we wet to the international buffet at United Square. I love the food there. Good variety and delicious food. Ranges from starters to main course to dessert. It has everything to cover you for a more than luxurious meal. All for a really reasonable price too!

Okay, now that makes me look like I'm being sponsored by them and promoting them or something. Hehe... Nah, my blogs are all non-profitable.

Anyway, some pictures when I got full but couldn't resist temptation... At least I finished them without puking!