Monday, February 25, 2008
Just a little bit.
Been a while since I’ve bothered to really write down anything here.. Days are passing by so quickly and yet so slowly, somehow I can’t seem to find the energy in me to really bother to pen down my thoughts.. it always seems so much easier just to let life pass by without stopping to really look at what’s going on around me, to enjoy the little things that make life so worth living. Been really.. numb, I guess, for the past few months, perhaps even the past few years, rarely anything to spark my interest in life anymore. Perhaps I’m just out of practice, and if I’d just give myself the chance, put in the effort to embrace the morning breeze, extend that extra handshake to someone, act on the little thoughts that I have, but am usually just too scared or lazy to do anything about.. Then I might just realise a different side of me.
Well. Read a couple of really dumb things in the newspaper on Sunday, which was probably the only day since dunno when that I decided to read the paper properly, since I went BK for breakfast and didn’t feel like stepping out of the house for a mere 20 min. Anyway dumb thing number one was an article on Sporean women expecting too much of their boyfriends, and there was this interviewee who said she’d expect her boyfriend to open doors, carry her handbag etc and basically be her slave because “why else would I have a boyfriend? I might as well go out with my girlfriends.” ??! like really lar woman, you have some serious issues here?? maybe that’s why you’re still single at 32.
Dumb thing number two was this huge headline that said “PM Lee Fully Behind Singapore’s Bid to Host the 2010 Youth Olympics” or something. Please, is that like the most “DUH!” thing you’ve ever read ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. And you put it up so big as if it’s such a deep statement. I think it’s because of these little silly things (and the fact that the only big news seems to be M’sian elections which I really can’t give a damn about) that I haven’t read the papers in a while (and yes I know the other part would be because I’m lazy but we touched on that already so DROP IT ><”).
Next.. er. Realise that I’ve been going out with my classmates more now that we’re not in school anymore.. and I’m probably beginning to erm. treasure them more? or at least, get to know them a little better. We’ve met up like. the last 3 weekends. Some of us anyway, since all the guys (except lucky me) are in army and most of the girls seem very busy. If we can keep it up I’d personally be very impressed. haha.
Played soccer on Saturday with the usual gang minus weisong. Apparently what my sis and a couple of my seniors (girls) said is true.. army guys just can’t stop talking about army stuff. So most of the game progressed with running commentary about fieldcamp, the delicious nature of field rations, grenade throwing etc etc from gengrui and whao, with me and chin ee being quite left out. hurr. But that’s okay. I’ve quite adjusted to my new unit already.. Which brings me on to the next little insight, that is sports really brings people together.. English isn’t the universal language, sports is. Recently after the soccer tournament, the morning runs, the games days, I’ve really become quite comfortable with most of the guys in my department, even though we have such different personal backgrounds and everything.. it’s as if after the first couple of rounds of soccer, I see them differently, and they probably see me differently as well, and we’re not all so scared or alienated anymore.
Okay this is a very long and disjointed post. Give me a little while to adjust back to writing and using my brain. It’s really rotten now.
As a final word, Park Bench Theories by Jamie Scott & The Town is a really good album (:
stained with coffee at 8:57 PM
