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| Good afternoon, school was a bummer, but I managed to learn some things, barely. Thank God I don't need to be tutored for subjects in which I can do acceptably well, I meant seriously, everyone I know has tution for subjects which they don't need to be tutored in, even those guys in junior college still have tution on a weekly basis. You know what this proves? That Singaporean mothers are so nosey and are so scared that they wouldn't allow their sons SA scores drop by even 1%. If the marks increased by 10%, they'd still demand more from their child. Christ, that just pisses me off so much, my mom thinks its not needed, she only gets me tution for those I really am failing in. Its just bull shit that all my other friends have tutions on Fridays and weekends.
Sure, my personal schedule is tight, but at least I don't keep it full with revision and studies, these tutions are most of the time useless on those who don't need it, the children have no idea what they're studying and couldn't care any less. Whats up with that? I meant, what, we fill the years which they can play and have fun fully with studies? Its alright to make them study here and there, but Singaporeans are just so scared that we're not facing reality. Come on now, is Singapore just another huge sweat shop where we can't live? Stressing our children with the idea that if they don't study all day and all night, they grow up to be bums and losers.
Its a bad concept, we shouldn't just spend our days working and studying all the time, live life a bit, find time to relax and stretch your legs here and there. If you can afford one, go on a vacation once every while and don't go on tours unless its really what you like to do. I hate those bloody tours, all they do is just bring you around the place and when you actually find somewhere interesting to shop at or something nice to look at, you have a time limit before you have to return to the tour coach. Life shouldn't be that rushed, our childhood is the time of our lives where we relax and rest before we eventually get ready for reality. I mean't, it'd be like telling convicts that they were going to hell and had to get ready for it. Its better to just keep quiet and let the children figure their way out of life, all we should do is give advice when they need it.
I love my parents, they are always patient with me, they don't care if I don't get to my prime immediately, they just pay for my education, get me what I need to get my life going, they don't choose how I live my own life. Affection is usually shown around my household, with me, my parents and my brother. Oh yeah, my brother's coming back during the 13th of January, thats this saturday. He's been studying hard in the states, actually he barely studies, but he pulls through alright. My brother might be shallow-minded and might hardly grow up, but he's an inspiration to me, everything he does has style in it, every shirt, jacket, jeans, pants or clothing he chooses has taste. That metrosexual brother of mine is someone anyone can look up to and respect. Anyways, I'd best be off.
Tim, Cheers. | | |
| Right, so yeah, today was just another day, another day of the 365 days of the year, where we slowly and barely improve, life's too slow.... and yet its too short, we've been wasting half of these days of our lives resting and doing absolutely nothing. We really should explore the world or go to places we've never set foot before, explore other cultures, since Singapore's has no culture at all..... I meant seriously, how long has this boring little fishing port been in existence? We date back to around the 1400s, but only as a good trading port, explains our obsessions with money and our unwillingness to let go of it. Singaporeans say that they experienced hell during the Japanese occupation, but what we experienced could perhaps be just.... a taste of what other countries had seen and been through.
A lot of people think that Singapore was "officially" founded by the sinister, cunning and "brilliant" Lee Kuan Yew, or Harry as he might be known, and some people believe that this country of ours would not be modern had it not been for him, but I have my doubts, maybe Singapore would have survived under David Marshall, maybe if Lee Kuan Yew did not exist, a huge impact might be made on Singapore, positive and negative. Its the theory of the butterfly effect, where even one small thing, for example, hands clapping, might cause something disastrous somewhere else in the world. Maybe just playing one note of a guitar might inspire people into music.
I'm not here to talk about Politics, but rather about the fact that one small thing can affect things in a huge way, maybe if I hadn't seen the name Muse being a favourite band from somone's Newgrounds profile, I wouldn't have ever known about them before they released their current album, and maybe if I hadn't listened to Muse, I would have never turned towards the guitar, maybe if I hadn't learnt the guitar, I wouldn't have experienced some of the things which I had experienced. There are lots of maybes in the world, I'm confused as hell. Maybe if Adam and Eve chose not to eat the fruit, we would all be naked, without any acknowledgement of it, and we'll all be in eden, heck, maybe we wont even exist, maybe Adam and Eve will just have Abel and Cain and thats all.
If Singapore had never been founded, would we still exist? Can we say that by the grace of God that we exist, or do we thank our ancestors for blessing us with this gift of life? If they chose not to migrate to Singapore, most of their children might have not met and might not have given birth to our great grand parents or something. We usually remark about how our lives could have been better, or how we could have been born somewhere else, but the truth is, the world owes us nothing, its by luck that we exist, by pure luck that we're given the right to live our lives. All we can do is rely on this luck to push us forward in time and live ur lives working to support our loved ones. We have no reason to exist, we just do, its our decision to make about how we choose to live our lives, about what moral codes we follow.
THIS IS: Tim, Signing Off. | | |
| I bought two tickets to the Muse concert at Fort Canning Park on the 16th of January, next Tuesday, I'm a big fan of them and had never believed that they would come to the rather unimportant nation of Singapore. Most likely, it will be the only time they will ever play here. I want to pursue a career in the musical arts, its a decision I had made just recently, I want to live my life playing music, not because of the money, or the life style, but because I have a passion for playing music.
I encourage everyone to do what they see fit about their personal lives, as long as it does not do any harm to anyone else which you come in contact with. Don't let anyone, whether or not its your parents, your friends, your teachers or anyone for that matter, discourage you from doing what you want with your life. Its your choice, you must not accept what people say you are, you are what you think you are. If you think you're someone willing to risk his life to make a difference, then thats what you are.
People can call me childish about wanting to live life the way i want it, but I really shouldn't care, I meant its alright to be realistic about things, but if you really have a passion for doing something, just go ahead and try it, even though you know you are not going to have much success. The odds are always against you in life, you just have to rely on your luck to pull you through, and the only way you can bolster your luck is to work hard and to do what is needed to be done.
Some of the world's most renowned and iconic people were thought of never to succeed, one fine example is Einstein, whom teachers said was a slower learner compared to the rest in his school. What happened to this drop-out? He became one of the world's most famous scientists in history, he discovered the theory of relativity. What I'm saying is, everyone has potential for what they do, even if they're not prodigies, they'll eventually find their position in life, if they work hard. We can't sit around, do nothing and hope that the knowledge we seek would just turn up on our front doors the very next day.
The world is full of things which seek to hinder our progress, we must ignore them, but do understand, some of these things might be to protect us from certain things like power hunger and etc. If we reach our pinnacle of knowledge and power and we still want more, thats when we really should stop and lie down for a moment before we turn to crazy or inhumane methods of obtaining. I do encourage unorthodox and creative thinking in which we think differently from the rest of the world, that makes us unique, but do realise that this excludes certain things such as the law, unless you have the right to change it, you shouldn't break it or anything.
This Is Timothy, Wishing You A Good Evening. | | |
| Didnt really have the time to write in this blog, so I'll do so now. School's reopening tommorow and I'm pissing all over myself in anxiety and excitement. Came back from Wisconsin yesterday, the flight was the most uncomfortable thing I've experienced, its like hell except youre up in the sky where hell isn't supposed to be. I'll go over the details of the flight, we left Wisconsin roughly around 8.45 am on the 31st, and we took a hours flight to Mianapolis, there we waited for roughly 3 hours, which was at that time 11am-1pm, then we took of to Narita, Tokyo, which was about a 10-12 hours flight, im not too sure, the time was confusing as hell.
The most annoying thing was this ABC (american born chinese) baby sitting right next to me with this mother who didn't care less about it crying when everyone else was asleep. it was okay when it was quietly awake, but when it cried, it was hell. My music hardly drowned out any of the audio torture. It was so bloody noisy that even if I had any Slipknot songs (which i didn't) I'd still be awake. It was bloody irritating, the mother didn't give any concern to whether or not it was fed. Apart from that there was this ABC college or university or high school or whatever guys in the back who talked smack for the whole flight, and even when everyone went to sleep, they still continued with their chit chat, the world is really full of irritants. That was one of the worst, wait cancel that, the worst flight one could ever have.
I was so relieved when the flight was over. We waited at the Narita Airport for about 1/2 an hour, but it was quite fine.From Tokyo to Singapore took like 7-9 hours, the flight was definitely better than the earlier one. Everyone was quiet, and people just shut their bloody mouths and minded their own bloody buisness. There was this cute japanese boy in front of me, he was quiet throughout most of the flight except for take-off where he started making noises like "shoo" to make it seem like he was flying the plane. When we were at the airport, we followed the usual procedures and took our baggage and we were picked up by our driver.
Well the holiday was fun and all, but I don't want to discuss it here. Maybe if youd bother to ask me personally, I'd be kind enough to tell you fun Chicago was, and how much we bought, and how much weight i gained, well actually I gained a kilo. Moving on to the current matters at hand, school's re-opening. Everyone's pissing in their pants, everyone's thinking what teachers we're going to get, whether maybe deep within our school system, the governments choosing teachers specifically trained to brainwashed the students. Maybe underneath the political skins of our government is a power-hungry dictator willing to sacrifice his people in order to win the favour of the others. I shouldn't speak anymore, before I get arrested for false information or anything.
I'm not worried about that, all my past year friends were split up, so I wonder who I'm going to get in my class this year. Maybe my class will be full of wanna-be gangsters, maybe full of nerds, maybe full of phonies, maybe full of sportsmen who dont do anything but exercise and breathe, I really have no concern. I'm going to play my cards, increase my guitar playing skills and attempt to go into music. I will put my primary efforts into my studies while i use music as my personal leisure and past time and see how it all unfolds, but I know its fate for me to rock the world.
This is Tim, Signing Off. P.S. Birthday's on January 8th, next monday, Cheers. | | |
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