Saturday, April 08, 2006
have a bit of quite weird and random thoughts these days... Was just reading the online ST abt fairer sentence for the mentally ill. Thoughts on that aren't really related actually. I was just thinking what if for some reasons I got myself landed in jail for 10 yrs or so... I'd probably think my life is gone just like that... 10 yrs of my precious time spent stoning behind the metal bars... All my dreams, all the stuff I wanna do and learn, all the good things in life, will be gone at the very instant the judge strikes the hammer (or wadeva you call that wooden crap) and the guards go weiiii-wooo... Life would be bad... so yesh... never ever do anything bad... I still want my life! Army has already been bad enuff in terms of confinement and stuff... No more of that!

yeah, also I came across this article about yet another change in the singapore education system. Previously there's this huge buzz abt project work thing and what not... then comes this direct intake to college stuff... now this... I guess I'd probably missed quite a bit of stuff in between. yeah anyway, that reminds me about the time when I graduated from JC... I didn't really think that things would change that much till the time i become a parent with kids... I thought things would probably stay more or less the same, if the system is working and is good... and if there're any changes, they'd probably not be so different... But I was wrong... Before I even get to graduate from college, everything from Pri to JC have changed... whatever successful tricks I learnt from my parents when I was schooling will no longer be directly applicable to my kids anymore... and that means i have to come up with the tricks myself to point my kids in the so-called "beneficial" direction... When i was in sec sch, it was quite direct... either Clit, Elit or History. Bio as the 9th subject was definite, as it's a bonus on top of the other 8. Now, there's econs and computing in sec sch... this only means that our children have to decide on their future career at an age as early as sec 2!!! And if they can't decide, it's up to us parents to do it! It's no longer as simple as the old times when nothing really matters anyway... Things only start to matter a little when choosing classes in JC (for eg, taking bio in JC isn't really beneficial for, say, electrical Engineers). But times are different now... If you did not decide on econs in sec sch, and want to take that in JC, you're going to lose out by a really huge margin. It's already quite bad for a triple Sc person like me to take EE in college cos I lose out on the math side and I had to really work harder than others to make up for what I have missed. Imagine missing out on sec sch and JC econs and you take up an econs major in SMU... arrgh! That thought sux... Making wise and informed decisions aren't going to be as easy for the next generation of parents... But the good thing is that the next generation of parents are supposedly to be more educated on average and be able to make better decisions... oh well... I guess probably the ones who'd benefit most from this would be the tuition centers... haha~ bigger market now...

On a totally different note, even though I know I'm supposed to be mugging for an exam, the idea of googling friends' blogs struck me as something interesting... haha~ One fine day I decided to google for some of my friends' blogs. So I typed in stuff like " Madison Sihui Blogspot" and I discovered something interesting (other than finding the blogs, and I still remember Sihui's blog ahha~ even though she doesn't want us to read it... I respected her decision on that though). More often than not, we do not write our real names in our blogs... At most, we divulge some of our personal particulars like which school we are studying in, the interesting that happened and what not. yes, and so googling for someone's name and blog normally ends up with search results that are not the subject's blogs but the subject's friends' blogs which have the subject's name in them... yeah and from there you link to the subject's blogs... and yes... as a bonus, you know the subject's friends' blogs, which are likely to be your friends as well, if you type in stuff similar to what I typed. yesh... variations on what I have googled gave me some interesting statistics... 2 of the 6 searches have their own names on the blog itself. 1 of the 6 used her name as the url!!! 2 of them used their email as their url (just like I do, so it's not that surprising). One of the blogs was tricky... I linked to it from another friend's blog, after having seen these words on the tagboard - "Jo, So what's your blog name again?" " Oh yes, now I remember." haha otherwise, I'd really have no clue in searching for it... yeah... but i didn't add them to my favorites... I just searched for the sake of searching... and it proved how easily your so-called "private" blog can be googled out online. It's really no wonder how my blog was found out by the online spydogs in S... A... F... Just key in: WO Dog and viola, there's my blog at the top of the search... Oh yes, and if you are lucky, you could use the "I'm feeling lucky" search tool and probably my blog will just appear directly on your computer screen. haha~ just kiddin abt that... but probably my blog is the only blog that used to have good relations between WO, Dogs and Tamil Tigers... hahah~

Alright... Gonna studee... see ya!!!
posted by Juxling at 10:21 AM

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Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.
Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.