i realised that the past few posts have either been slipshod or have just been posted for the sake of posting. seriously. it doesnt really give much or any information about my life so far, with 20 days left to a levels. and with the usual many things that happen in my life, it will really take a long of time to actually type all down here. but regardless, i WILL try.
1) facebooking
jon oh's moving house. with his few cents pay a month. he saved up for about 100 years for that new house. but either way, i havent been to his house at the savannah. its supposedly to be a damn sweet and nice condo. wonder where's he is moving to... randomising on the ze wei's photo, in another attempt to make it the most commented photo in facebook. i seriously think we have done it alr. but i still not sure. might need to source for confirmation from facebook. and then randomising on people wall. and i think that's all.
2) was walking home on one fine day, walking through the eunos mrt station. as usual, i was plugged up on my wireless headphones. suddenly, there was this indian lady who looked to be around 20 something came up to me. she told me she was an ex-convict and was like asking if i considered giving ex-convicts a chance in society. being the nice guy i am, of course i wouldt mind la. i was like super open to whatever she was saying. apparently, she was asking for donations. and below is the excerpt of the conversation.
Indian lady(IL): Hey. I just want to ask you a few questions. do you give ex-convicts a chance in society?
me: erm. yeah.
IL: I am an ex-convict myself, and I am currently doing a project to help ex-convicts. I'm sure you would have spent like hundreds of dollars on yourself in shopping a month right?
me: erm. haha. i dont think so.(i really dont spend so much, and i dont really shop)
IL: all i want is a small donation.(at this point i'm still quite open, i usually donate one. i rmb buying a useless china pen from china for 2 bucks just to help some home) Do you have 5 dollars?
me: (i suddenly rmb that i paid for lots of things in sch, like exam papers and stuff. which almost sapped me of about 40 bucks.) erm. i dont think i have.(i'm quite honest huh?)
IL: what about 2 dollars?
me: i dont have also. becos today i just...(i actually wanted to continue by saying that i paid for lots of sch stuff today and didnt have money leftover)
and before i could finish my sentence, she just walked off. without even listening to whatever i wanted to finish saying or even just a simple 'thank you'. apparently, the logic is: i didnt have money on me, she wanted money, and becos i dont have it, there isnt a need to bother about me. how rude is that??? i really couldnt stand it at that point in time. it was very sudden. i was left standing there wondering what the hell in the whole wide world had just happened. how can a person just suddenly walk away after attempting to get money from me. and i can still rmb that the smile on the IL face was WIPED CLEAN OFF the moment i said i didnt have money on me. which was the truth.
I really want to give ex-convicts a chance in society, but that no-show was clearly given me the clear signal that i seriously dont have the obligation to do so.
3) on a lighter note, I want to commend YU KEE DUCK RICE at BEDOK INTERCHANGE. although i dont sound like a credible source since i'm like a regular customer of that store. that fine day, i went to order duck rice. and the store seemed a little more chaotic than usual. it took sometime for the guy to take my order, but i was fine with that. suddenly, i saw a very old lady limping very slowly by the sides of tables, apparently looking for something. then the guy at the store asked in Hokkien if the old lady had dropped her wallet. people around started to take notice then. the old lady seemed uncertain of what she dropped. dunno if its true, but it did seem that way to me. the store guy kept on asking her, almost to an extent of brainwashing her to believe that its her wallet. maybe cos when people get older, our memory starts to fail. then the old lady said that that wallet is hers, in a very miniscule and soft tone. the store guy walked up to her and passed her the purse. a tiny black purse. and he told her not to drop it on the floor again. i happen to see her open her purse to check if anything was missing, cos the guy told her to check. inside didnt seem to have obscene amounts of money. neither did it have wads of notes or even a few notes. it was just a few coins, and perhaps a 2 dollar note. i couldnt see well. but there was something of which i saw clearly. crystal clear. the smile on the old lady's face cannot be emulated in any other form. the sheer exhilaration on her face was a perfect testimony to the good work of the guy at YU KEE DUCK RICE. a great act that made the day of another person.
4) have been listening to bold as love. both the john mayer version at where the light is concert and the continuum album version. the where the light is version had a part where john mayer started to talk. he was talking about finding ways in life. of what he did for himself. and he came to a conclusion. he said it was corny, he said that its LOVE that is the plain driving force for everything. not the type of love we are thinking about. it about synthesising love for something, to someone, its that kind of love described as "i-got-your-back-love". but to me, when i first heard it, i didnt really feel much towards those words. but after a very alone time in VS, where i am attempting to come to a conclusion myself. i was thinking for deeply for a whole 20 mins. just standing by the koi pond in VS at night, where there was only the light in the canteen and the dark outdoors to keep my company. looking at the koi pond, i was thinking, where i want to go from here? I want to be like John mayer, MAKING THINGS HAPPEN FOR MYSELF. its difficult i reckoned. then i thought. and thought. seriously, its just love. i decided to find a way to synthesise love for my subjects i taking for a levels for the rest of the days until the exams. for, the only way to make things happen for myself, is to synthesise love for my subjects, only then can i do well in it. I am not a man to do things blindly, not in my defintion. and i'm going to start MAKING THINGS HAPPEN FOR MYSELF.
5) today morning, sat on the study benches while waiting for the maths paper to start. ben lim came up and we sat next to each other talking about random things. as usual. then suddenly, he asked me...
blim: you havent told me who your friend is
me: oh. haha, he's from her class. and he's a him.
blim: you not jealous meh?
me: no. not at all. even in a relationship, we must understand that its still 2 people. 2 different people with different personal lives and different social circles, to a certain extent. I wouldnt want to and dont have the energy to control her life. she want to do what then she do lor. no point me trying to tell her what to do.
blim: this reminds me of what changyang said of love. he said that love is like holding sand in your hands. hold too tight then the sand will flow out. hold to loose the sand will also flow out. so must hold it nicely to an extent which dont jeopardise both parties. but i hold her(pointing to his gf) very tightly. and she still never run away. haha!
me: haha!
i guess it differs from people to people. but as usual, changyang was darn right. the sand thing? totally right. and that's just my modus operandi.
6) was asked to the airport cos cheryl asked me to study there with her on monday. went there, got a big shock. got a lot of mj people. almost to the extent which i felt mj sorta owned the place. i thought i saw cherish there. but then again, i'm not that sure. cos that girl whom i thought was cherish looked very pretty. and i didnt really know whether's its her. anyhow, i didnt really bother. then after studying a while, cheryl used her hp to tell me that she thinks the girl sitting to my right is pretty, dunno which one she talking about. so my natural reaction is to smile. and i did. after that, i went home.
7) just met george today to pass some super secretive thing from ben tan to him. i dont even know what the hell is that. all i knew was that i was told to pass the thing to george the way it is. and i did. and i finshed the courier service.
8) Law kena commando. just like lee jin. law confirm enlistment on 12 december 2008. nothing to change that fact now. he's a sad kid. but for me, mine isnt confirm yet. i checked with the NS portal. and the weird thing for me is that i checked like 6-7 times in 24hours. i think the NS people will think i crazy. then they might think, better sort this guy out quick, before, he keep coming back to jam our servers with his crazy enquiries about his enlistment status. haha. if i suay, i MIGHT just get confirmed tomorrow.
9)this is the last paragraph i'm going to write. i'm really tired. devote this to the most important.
in sch today. saw dawn twice. first time was in the morning. when blim and i were walking to the lt to take the maths mock paper. then i saw dawn and my natural reaction was to grab blim by his sleeve. i somehow got uber excited and almost caused blim to fall down the steps. the second meeting was at the photocopy shop. it was a whirl of events and i didnt really take note. the scenario? i wanted to get a copy of the math mock answers, then i smsed ben tan to help me order. but being me, i went down to get ben tan to order for me, since he alr in the queue. after which i went to talk nonsense with blim in the canteen, who was playing his rubiks cube. then he asked me why i here. so i told him i ordering math mock answers. and he also wanted one. but ben tan also left for the lib. so the order alr processed. then i saw law and nien xiang queuing. so i told ben lim, can, i order for you. so i left my seat and walked over to law. after ordering from law, started to talk cock again with law and nien xiang. suddenly, when its our turn to order, then did i realised that dawn was behind us all the while. law asked her whatever she wanted so can order together. apparently, its the same as us. plus 4 h2 econs mock answers. so when the order was made, law somehow forgot to order the econs. haha. it was realised after everyone was out of the queue.
they were thinking, aiya. must requeue again. but me being me, i saw justin james in the queue. so i told justin to help order the h2 econs mock answers. at first it was weird. cos dawn and co were like stunned and was going like 'queue again?' then i pointed at justin to his bewilderment and said, can make use of people in the queue to order stuff. then they were like stunned. so i just went over to justin and said,'4 h2 econs mock exam answer, thanks'. of course he was okay la. i knew him. then dawn and co realised that the order been made, and no thanks to me,but more to justin for being in the queue at the right time. after that, i talked to justin about his brother, of which he was shocked to hear that i knew his brother. got the h2 econs papers and passed em to dawn. then after that i went to take blim's math paper to pass it to him. during which we had this tiny conversation.
blim: hey. busy talking to dawn ah?
me: haha. (grinning from ear to ear)
then i walked back. then dawn realised that they ordered too little. not enough. so had to requeue again. then i saw brian, hongan bandmate. hehe. make use of friends again. wanted to ask him to order stuff for dawn again. then i was reminded that if dawn were to queue again, it would make no difference, cos dawn was just in the queue behind brian and shi rong. haha shi rong. after that, dawn queued and law,nien xiang and i went to the lib.
hopefully, me using me friends to help dawn and her friend can help me to boost their opinion of me at the same time. heard from blim that its quite difficult to get a good opinion from them. argh. difficult siah. hopefully. just hopefully. dawn remembers me. haha. and hopefully got good opinion. hopefully. haha. i feel i'm on my way!!
so long post. so darn long.