初章。。。
First thing that came to my mind when I decided to start this blog is... why? Do I have a need to tell the whole world about myself? Can't I find something else better to do? Especially when the exams are coming up in about 3 weeks time... ... maybe its a moment of weakness... a certain thing is stressing me out this few days and it probably won't be resolved as quickly as I hoped for... but I'm praying for a positive outcome... begging would be more right since the certain deity that I’m comfortable with would most probably see ??? at this English post... For someone that had never written his personal thoughts down before, this exercise on the keyboard came surprisingly easy...
maybe its just because I need an outlet to release everything's that bottled up... more on these stuff later....
Speaking of languages, I found it perplexed, if not surprised, at the Singaporean blogs I've visited... Agreed, that English is the more common medium of communication among the net yuppies but what about Mandarin? Or all Mother Tongue for that matter... At least to me and most friends around me the most comfortable language we converse in is Mandarin, albeit it’s the singlish version... So why don't I see anyone writing their thoughts in Chinese? Granted the typing is hell... and the truth is most Singaporeans grasp of the language is at the most superficial level... but I think the same applies to English... people may be more fluent in it but how many are there who can really take the further step and express themselves in the language? Maybe it’s just me but I believe to be able to say that I'm proficient in a language means you must at least have the most basic literary mastery... otherwise isn't it just a tool like hand signs? Just much faster.... Think I'm rambling too much about this and I'm sure lots of people don't agree with me.. This whole paragraph is just to explain to my readers...if there are any... that I may write in Chinese occasionally since I feel that I can express myself in it much better... and it’s a beautiful language after all... This blog would not be regular I think... it may have entries everyday or between weeks.... it all depends....
Ok now that the housekeeping matter's over, ( I don't know why I need to explain all these stuff since this blog would most probably get few visitors... but its just my nature haha...) let's talk about stuff. Something that I've been thinking before the school semester and that’s sort of creeping back now is the aim in life... this may sound very philosophical but really, what is it? Here in Singapore, most of us have been doing the paper chase for as long as we can remember and while learning is good, it’s only partially the reason we do it. People tell me a degree's good to help me land a job and with a good job come the means to support myself and blah blah blah.... But before all that, what's our purpose in life? The guys who played mahjong with me (yes...I play mahjong...and I think about stuff ok?) may remember me uttering the phrase生无可恋。。。 Of course, I don't have any suicidal intent... what I meant then was there's no specific thing I can affixed my purpose in life to at that point in time...( see the beauty of Chinese words? haha...?) I used to think that being the only intelligent species on the planet, there must be something that we are suppose to do instead of arguing among ourselves and fighting all the time... ain't there a higher purpose to life? Are we just suppose to just live out our lives and that’s it？I found that rather unsettling and till now I can't find something that really fits my idea of life's purpose..... so settling for something much less dramatic, I'm thinking of making that impact someplace else... maybe in the teaching realm.... Think I will touch on that and other stuff some other time.... Don't wanna bore you people with all the things in my head at one go.... .... this is the easiest 1000 words I've come to in my whole university life... why can't writing papers be this easy.... Y.T.
生活平淡 渴望激情
激情日子 向往平淡
平淡激情 属我为何？ 映之心影
maybe its just because I need an outlet to release everything's that bottled up... more on these stuff later....
Speaking of languages, I found it perplexed, if not surprised, at the Singaporean blogs I've visited... Agreed, that English is the more common medium of communication among the net yuppies but what about Mandarin? Or all Mother Tongue for that matter... At least to me and most friends around me the most comfortable language we converse in is Mandarin, albeit it’s the singlish version... So why don't I see anyone writing their thoughts in Chinese? Granted the typing is hell... and the truth is most Singaporeans grasp of the language is at the most superficial level... but I think the same applies to English... people may be more fluent in it but how many are there who can really take the further step and express themselves in the language? Maybe it’s just me but I believe to be able to say that I'm proficient in a language means you must at least have the most basic literary mastery... otherwise isn't it just a tool like hand signs? Just much faster.... Think I'm rambling too much about this and I'm sure lots of people don't agree with me.. This whole paragraph is just to explain to my readers...if there are any... that I may write in Chinese occasionally since I feel that I can express myself in it much better... and it’s a beautiful language after all... This blog would not be regular I think... it may have entries everyday or between weeks.... it all depends....
Ok now that the housekeeping matter's over, ( I don't know why I need to explain all these stuff since this blog would most probably get few visitors... but its just my nature haha...) let's talk about stuff. Something that I've been thinking before the school semester and that’s sort of creeping back now is the aim in life... this may sound very philosophical but really, what is it? Here in Singapore, most of us have been doing the paper chase for as long as we can remember and while learning is good, it’s only partially the reason we do it. People tell me a degree's good to help me land a job and with a good job come the means to support myself and blah blah blah.... But before all that, what's our purpose in life? The guys who played mahjong with me (yes...I play mahjong...and I think about stuff ok?) may remember me uttering the phrase生无可恋。。。 Of course, I don't have any suicidal intent... what I meant then was there's no specific thing I can affixed my purpose in life to at that point in time...( see the beauty of Chinese words? haha...?) I used to think that being the only intelligent species on the planet, there must be something that we are suppose to do instead of arguing among ourselves and fighting all the time... ain't there a higher purpose to life? Are we just suppose to just live out our lives and that’s it？I found that rather unsettling and till now I can't find something that really fits my idea of life's purpose..... so settling for something much less dramatic, I'm thinking of making that impact someplace else... maybe in the teaching realm.... Think I will touch on that and other stuff some other time.... Don't wanna bore you people with all the things in my head at one go.... .... this is the easiest 1000 words I've come to in my whole university life... why can't writing papers be this easy.... Y.T.
生活平淡 渴望激情
激情日子 向往平淡
平淡激情 属我为何？ 映之心影
posted by yingtong at 10:49 PM
1 Comments:
Yo, Guobang here... haha never knew u actually think and worry about such things.... u always laugh it off when i talk about such things.... haha well do something then haha. I learn lots when i play mah jong with u guys... risk managment and guts and stuff and most importantly life is unpredictable. Well, i think life is still long for us and hopefully we can all acheive somehing we cherish.
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