Walking super close to ancient chinese tombstones, even stepping on them...this was what I did today.


Hopefully the spirits will bless me, not come find me o.O

It was interesting looking at all those humongous tombs of our forefathers, when today you will most likely get cremated and be left in peace in a small little urn. Yea, pretty cool.

Also interesting was the API people. They are brothers. Dedicating your time to map out the long-forgotten cemetery, is pretty amazing. But something I don't have to courage to do so, especially when they explore it at night too (creepy).

In the afternoon, I went for some fengshui tour, looking at the UOB (or OUB?) building and then the suntec city. And since fengshui is a pseudo-science, its just super smoky. It pretty much how you argue, using subjective 'facts' instead of objective ones. And its quite cool, cos you get to make your own interpretation. So when they told us to analyse some building layout, Hui Jun, Soelwin, Zheng Wei and I basically smoked our way through.

Yea, thats basically my whole saturday.

The opposite gender is just weird and incomprehensible.

A team comprises of individual who are not equal in talents, experiences, knowledge or education but equal to commitment.

What makes us Singaporean?

I went for some DMP named 'More than the Singapore Story', which I didnt know what it was all about before I signed up.

Anyway, it got me to think what to be truly Singaporean truly means. What represents us? Many would definitely jump to say that we are multi racial, mutli religious society, but will mosques, churches or temples cut it? They might represent that particular religion, sure, but they do not represent us as a whole.

So what abt the merlion? A social construct of 'practical people', from some poem in some notes I got, it seems to supposedly represent us. And it is of great success, at least in terms of bringing tourists in. But in Singapore, response is lukewarm. The legend about the merlion going to sentosa every yr to look after Singapura, then a storm ravaging sg, then it using magical powers to stop it is totally FALSE, something we created.

But then again, does it really matter? Its lion head represents our roots (Singapura), and the fish tail our port origins. Perhaps it also sheds light on what Singapore is, an artificial construct. The whole city is artificially created, with only 5% of forest left today, none of it untouched. Without technology, we can say goodbye to Singapore. We get our water and food almost totally from overseas, even our exams is based on the UK cambridge N, O and A standards ( I think)

So what is truly Singaporean? Singlish? ugh. Merlion? o.O... What do you think?

Think before you look before you look before you leap.

I just learnt a little more about my dad today. he great at carpentry. lol. He's gonna make a sort of make shift altar for my grandparents so my parents and my relatives can pray and present offerings to my grandparents at the columbarium. It quite basic really, just foldable legs with a wooden platform.

But I admire his way of improvisation. When we were about to put the screws in place (I was sort of observing/helping), we found out that they were too long for the board, so they would stick out. I thought of buying smaller screws, but then my dad decided to dismantle a wooden box he found somewhere in the house to so that we add additional layers of wood at the legs to match the length of the screws. and it worked., of course.


I was thinking about red cross in the morning while sitting in the car, which was going to the epson repair centre cos my printer died. And i rmbred Deo saying that the other schools had imba cadets we cannot match. And I agree. I can't speak for the rest, but I was a downright lousy cadet. I didn't really speak up, didn't volunteer myself much, and yea. Basically a shadow unless being forced to participate. So I don't know. Maybe the whole 'everyone can be a leader thing' in RI has lead to us not being good followers. Cos to me a good cadet is ultimately a good follower. Or maybe it is just me that got affected.

Life is just unfair. Some things you really want to get, but always seem just that bit away from you. and some things you don't even want, yet keep coming back to you.


Why did I take RA? Till this day, I'm not that sure. We take the same paper with RP for goodness sake. But I guess at least having a slack teacher allows me not to do homework, which is great.


I really need to know more people. Confining myself to RI and Red Cross is just making it such a small social circle...

I just found out that there is something called blogroll in the design tab. lol. so i added some connections. after so long.

with 3 links, thats pretty miserable. But i guess I'm just too I too ask for others to link me.


People might be thinking that I will post abt FAC.

That would be right. We screwed up, but I think the problem stemmed from how we conducted trainings. I think its time to change it a little. Hopefully the change my batch brings will solve the problem.

Hopefully.