I have realized that the world spins forward. Not round and round on its axis, that's just a lie. The reality is that the world, on no axis at all spins forward, at such great a speed that we do not notice we're moving forward, until someone shouts "Halt!" the world's spinning forward and I need to do something with my life!"
Well, halt! I need to do something with my life!
Three things have made me come into this realization though, and lists are always good. so...
1.
I, have been for the first time defeated by meritocracy. I always knew, in a Singapore dystopia that I'd be beaten by the A plus and A star people in job opportunities and whatnot, but sigh this is too soon. Because limpeh never stardy mecks, lim peh had to go maths re exam (like those computer upgrading night courses) and thus lim peh cannot become OGL because no point. Or rather not enough point. So much for peer appraisal rankings. Ah well, beggars and blue collar workers can't be choosers, and I heard the council (opposition) fought hard for our rights..so.....don't comprain lor! Just hope your lift got upgrading next time.
Come to think of it is this even meritocracy? hahaha
2.
www.ns.sg is the shortest url I have ever seen. But therein contains the longest two years of my life. I signed up for deferment today (sounds so cool eh) from national service, following the steps laid out in that bright orange letter from Mindef, the Ah peks and twenty something yuppies sitting around the library where I was looking at me figure my way around with much amusement and "ah he kena liao" eyes. Reservist tinted eyes, I must add. The world spins forward.
Left, right, Left, right, Left-
I don't like letters from Mindef very much.
3( in relation to 2).
It looked like any other ordinary surprise birthday dinner at fish and co for a bro (happy seventeenth marcus low). But the conversation at our table, for the majority of the night centered around our duty to our beloved country and the ills, thrills and spills attached! How can one!Whatever happened to boy talk? :(
I swear at this rate I'll eventually start talking to my rifle and make crude jokes about how the other shoots blanks.
The end.
Oh on another note, we should have saw it coming. It was there on BBC radio, it was there in print, it was there on our theater screens for goodness sake. Douglas Adams is a genius. He did have it figured out. Either that or he's psychic. Or he works at IBO.
I mean, how can you not be the above....
if you realize, comprehend and declare ....
that the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is goddamn 42!! (45 if you're nervous/Singaporean)
Delivered at 12:02 AM;
KENNETH
Name:Slumber
Born:16th August
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Him.K.anglo-chinese.music for the passionate.marvel.gunners.
Orange.debate.
long bus rides armed with an eye and a pod.74.
philosophizing.dystopia.
coffee.Rove.Health.Famary.
Buddies.
writing.1984.
expression.Italian food.
journeys.teh-peng.
stream of consciousness.
witty play on words.musing.
accents.the heartrands.performing.
being a closet connossieur.
a point of view.vigorous
interaction with spherical objects.
irony&pathos.yum.
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