open up your eyes

i dont know if anyone notices this but after watching IRON MAN with apple today at the cinema… i realised that singaporeans are littering A WHOLE LOT worse than before.

i dont remember people littering as much 4 years a go in cinemas. they usually carry our whatever trash they have with them to the bins to be disposed of.

buttttttt in recent years i’m observing more and more rubbish being strewn all over the flood and cups left behind. after tonight’s movie i saw the entire carpeted floor dirtied with popcorn as if it were confetti left overs from a party or smth. im wondering how those people ate the popcorn. it’s as if they were feeding the FLOOR. or maybe they had holes in their mouths.

the theatre was almost full house… so were the litter left behind..

it just makes me wonder why doesn’t the LITTERING law take effect in the cinema?! IT SHOULD RIGHT? i mean if everyone consumes their chips and popcorn properly (wow i have to go to the extent of mentioning eating “properly”. it’s as if it wasn’t normal to eat with food going str8 into one’s mouth)… and place their cups in their popcorn bags and then carry it out and throw it after 30 steps.. it would be so much easier on the management.. but in this case im assuming that their priority would be to save on labour costs and increase profits earned. but still! even if the management wants to provide jobs (singapore has a very high in supply when it comes to jobs availability) to maybe unskilled employees… singaporeans/movie-watchers should be more responsible when it comes to their garbage.. im sure they don’t litter so extensively anywhere else including their homes right.. so just try and make their surroundings cleaner la! some people have warped thinking that they pay $10 and are allowed to do whatever they want while watching the movie… goodness. what’s happening is outrageous.

ok fair enough, if you leave your popcorn bags and cups behind… but just  keep the place clean.

yeah so my point is why isn’t the littering law enforced in cinemas… it’s kinda weird… in fact it has become a very negative culture among youths nowadays. it has become a NORM. an unhealthy norm and habit which we ought to change and kick respectively!

the perfect guy?

my family celebrated an incredibly happy occasion yesterday, where my eldest sister’s boyfriend proposed to her, in the spa.

wow.

i was really impressed how he managed to surprise her. the ultimate wellness spa (i think that is what it is called) at the civil service club was so beautifully decorated. i felt like i was in bali or some 6 star spa resort. he made a reservation for a private spa room.. it had two beds for massage.. an area where you can sit and chill.. and this huge toilet with a gigantic jacuzzi bathtub plus an area with a hee-uge shower head (my fav) to shower after the massage. it was amaaazzzingggg and jaw-dropping! he pasted hundreds of photographs all over the private spa room he had booked, and also made a few very sweet photo albums inside. upon turning to the last page of the album, there was a question made to my sis that was written in it – will you marry me?

haha… that is one of the most romantic ways of proposing to any girl!!! i think my sis is one of the luckiest women in the world.. and i congratulate her with all my blessings.. hanmao is very sensitive and ti-tie (in chinese).. how do i say it in eng? i can’t remember what the word is. in any case… they understand one another and are like one of the most perfect couple in my eyes.

sometimes i really do envy them… and i seriously am impressed by hanmao’s patience and understanding towards my sis. my sis is one of the busiest persons i’ve known… she’s a teacher. she holds two leadership positions in soka (our religious/peace/edu organization) where she is in charge of all the students from SMU who are in soka, as well as a district leader where she is in charge of members living in a certain area in bt timah. meanwhile, she is also an eldest sister, a daughter, a 24/7 2nd parent to all her pri sch kids. teaching pri sch students isn’t as easy as it seems. times have changed. she gets calls all the time from parents and students who bug her constantly. parents are so paranoid is so annoying these days. yet she still takes it so positively and says that it’s ok. she’s wakes up at 5.30am daily, ends school after 6pm (she also has a CCA to be in charge of). after 6pm, she goes for soka gatherings/meetings and such. she has planning meetings also, since she hold 2 positions. she comes home at 11pm.. sometimes after midnight after a looong day. sometimes these meetings are held at the HQ, which is at tampines. it takes almost 2 hours for her to get home. if she’s really exhausted, you would know. because she’d then take a taxi.

she returns home… positive.. smiling.. sometimes she frowns and gets upset because she has a lot of work to do… few days ago she had to stay up til 3am to complete her marking.. and slept for only 2 hours..

teaching pri school kids takes up so much energy, yet she still is able to stay positive.. and hanmao is able to understand that… he has in recent years began to practise with us by going for prayer meetings and such.. he comes over to stay and accompany my sis.. help her to mark when she’s too busy… and is just so incredibly understanding (sorry i can’t help but keep repeating this) towards her… haha..

i believe my sis has found the right guy.. in 2010.. they’ll be going to America as he has to take his PHD there.. my sis will be accompanying him.. how awesome..

i would also like to have an understanding husband in the future.. who would know me inside out and understand me… so be there for me.. and just to be able to communicate effectively and stay happy. our life may be simple and not so extravagant.. but as long as we are happy together, that is all that matters.

i am the walrus

i actually planned on having iamthewalrus.wordpress.com but to my surprise, someone else had already taken up their name for a blog. haha how popular can that song be?

actually i think, very popular.

been mugging at home lately, it isn’t very condusive, but i guess it’s really up to me whether i’m able to focus or not. distractions are just external disturbances which one can easily ignore, as long as one is disciplined enough. today is my 4th day studying at home and it seems better now.

during my course of intense revision, i have come across many terminologies and concepts which i find very interesting. i never knew, also, that geopolitics can be that intriguing. (i was thinking of the right word to describe the subject). sooo.. yes, it is. and i am very glad that i took up this module.

o’tuathail is a very famous professor/geopolitician/writer and he has come up with many interesting articles and journals with regards to this subject. my professor, grundy-warr is also incredibly intelligent and has conducted many fieldwork and completed journal articles especially in the context of southeast asian landscapes. i love it. his work on the mekong river especially was stunning.

i’m just thinking… during the course of my study… how minute my world is. my world revolves around my family, my boyfriend, my friends (pri, sec, jc, uni, soka, etc.)… and i do travel.. maybe once or twice a year with my family to places that i don’t have a say in.. and the purpose of our trip would be for leisure and recreation. on the other hand, my professors probably have met people from many parts of the world, whom he has impacted and undeniably.. people from these places who have left a deep impression in him. he goes to places to STUDY and conduct research – hopefully to bring about a better place by exposing the truths, while i go to these places to bring about more economic revenue by shopping, eating, and sleeping. (i think sleeping costs a lot. one night could cost up to US$100+++)

i dont just want to be the walrus, nor the eggman.

i want to be someone who can do things like that.. to help.. to change (for the better).. to connect.. to create exposures… to educate.. and to facilitate..

this sounds like a dream i’ve been having since i was younger.

there is a saying that goes – ‘if you want to change the world, u have to first change yourself’. i don’t quite believe and agree with this quote. you can always change the world, and in the midst of doing so, learn things about yourself which you never would’ve known, which later translates to enriching of oneself, thus changing. or it could be… after the entire process… then a person changes. it does not necessarily mean that if you want to do something for the world, you have to first change yourself. (absurd saying. haha. no offense but it doesn’t make sense to me unless someone else can explain it to me clearly why this is so)

OKAY! enough ramblings for now. i have wasted about 1.5 hours thinking about how i can be a better person and what i want to do in the future, but my conclusion is, give me more time. i have an idea. but the specificity of it has not be finalised happy mugging!

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I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like lucy in the sky, see how they run.
I’m crying, i’m crying.
I’m crying, i’m crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the english rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don’t you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I’m crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.
Elementary penguin singing hari krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.
Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob g’goo.

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