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Friday, May 16, 2008
blind
1:35 AM I've just been put in a not-so-good mood for bed. I just listened to a friend rant about the gov, which eventually ensued to singaporeans being the cause for the f-ed-up-ness of how our entire country functions. Not exactly the most sleep-inducing bed time chatter. Are we too comfortable in our own lives? Too caught up in our own failures and successes to care about the world beyond our 9-5pm job? Too jaded by the demands of society since we were wee kindgergarten kids to open our eyes to the suffering that takes place around us daily. Maybe the average singaporean just lives too good a life to know what suffering feels like. Good food, a safe home and comfortable clothing, we have it all. We're a generation which has been accustomed to living in comfort. Maybe instead of having school excursions to the science center, its time we brought the school children to experience living in conditions where air conditioning doesn't exist, beds are mats laid out on hard ground and PSPs, XBoxes and Wiis were unheard of. To be perfectly honest, I would say I'm a perfect example of the Singaporean education system. Went to respectable institutions, graduating and about to enter into a stable job. Went through all that studying day and night, sitting for countless exams and placing any other interests at a backseat. I haven't had a childhood shadowed by hardship, haven't been exposed to the fallacies of the perfect singaporean education system, or NS for that matter. Fallacies which have been debated over and over in the forum, in the ministerial meetings, but which eventually, somehow still exist. Except now its been accepted, and placed at the back of the mind. Overtaken by more "important" issues affecting our economy and very importantly, the wealth of the country, such as the IR, the F1 race, price of rice, so on and so forth. But who really cares whether the begger on the street can even afford his next meal as the cost of food goes up. But really, I'm not judging. I'm guilty of all above as charged. I just wonder why I've become such a person. So devoid of empathy, so blind to anything I don't wish to see for fear of it reminding me that suffering still exists in this world. Or I see, but I do not feel. I guess if I had felt anything, I might have chosen a different course of study other than accountancy. And I feel ashamed. My life is too good. And I'm too caught up with living the good life. And it took a good jolt from someone really disbelieving in the s'pore system to make me look outside my beautiful snow globe. there are many more threads of thought swimming in my brain. I want to be a better person... I want to care, and care from my heart. and lets hope I don't fall asleep tonight and conveniently forget everything I've felt in the last half an hour. but how, do you strike a balance between your life and caring for the world beyond you? 0 comments |
ely belly Welcome to the drunk mootoo tiger's blog. This is the blog of a nonsensical 22 year-old. All posts are true accounts of misadventures in my life. misadventurer
I'm a shopaholic, a chocoholic, an alcoholic, a clubbaholic, an eataholic, a music junkie, a traveler.
I love crying in the movies, love cookies and popcorn, love lazing at home and love making people laugh.
I'm addicted to Johnson's Baby lotion, to my mom's cooking and to sinful desserts.
I cannot multi-task, I cannot drive, and I'm afraid of heights but I enjoy rollercoasters.
I like to be around people with whom I don't have to care if they think I'm crazy drinking bak kut teh from a straw.
I've never taken the reverse bungee, never been to the US, and never dyed my hair pink.
And I want to go on an misadventure once in my life.
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